| Show special notes from brazil july 1 advises advices form peru under date ath received today contain the following mr georee C power of chicago and M A schreiber of new orellana Or eleana ro presenting the illinois central kail road have been in lima for the pact week working up an interest in the projected line of steamships between new orleans and colon to run in connection with their railroad the gentlemen met with a cordial reception from the business men of lima and the new line is warmly welcome here yesterday a meeting was held at the american legation which was attended by a number of americans peruvian and english business busi nees men and mr schreiber explained the purpose of the new line it is expected that tha line will be started within a year when undoubtedly a large portion of the european travel from the west coast ul south america will go that way as the present accommodation furnished by the pacific mail steamship company via new york are execrable special efforts will be made to diverL the stream of travel between america and chicago during the columbian exposition the mere mention ot an opposition line to the pacific mail steamers is grasped at eagerly by the and wast coast people from lima and schreiber go to panama and clience to bogota in columbia where they expect to interest the columbiana columbians Columb ians io th liaa which will also touch at in northern columbia mr george A of the peabody museum cambridge massachusetts chu has I 1 arrived here to commence his labors the archaeological aal museum of the worlds columbian exposition in chicago mr dorsey is sent here by direction of prof putnam of harvard college superintendent of the department in the worlds fair and he will remain here a year making original investigations among the prehistoric remain of the old inco civilization with a view to furnish a section of the museum at chicago with a complete act of mummies articles of ancient pottery gold silver and copper tools textile lovrics and other relics of perus former greatness fur this purpose he will visit ancon camac africa tio ayacucho Ayac ucho trujillo ciura piura cuzco lapaz lake Titi caca and arequipa ei a force of laborers in exea vatin t and will make the faist thorough oi these regions so rich in an tiou arian lore mr dorsey is a graduate of harvard university and an assistant in the museum at cambridge so he id thoroughly competent for ane important undertaking u |
