| Show I I I I Across South America by Rail i fh > Orool TrnsAndoan Railroad Which Will Connocl tl10 Atton tlo and Pacific I I 1 It Hon Acre Chile nnl the Ae1 tIne nil II MlMn Ttttf > I1I > u f C n > plllit Jug 1 l hi fee iocnIens 1 raillnttiw II liusl hot the totionn Cied Ct hem 0411 150cC inst a rennl Toter 1111 Neuet rootIlo leeS f tt jlrnnraia lh Illflimt SlttnnUlnnrt Our IIrstsitnrrlJne trainer ofr H ntlnt lUtlttMil lhillillnfll Mofkinrn snt 1 lluw lhry I tesTh l IrvtUlon f ir or M irorvrr < > n flhh5neuiht l an < nit C call tititl l4nJ mt litre It Main I tlnri Itsios Iit I Mendoi Argentine Itepuullc Dec U IIM Acrom Houth America by l 1 rtllronil climbing aver the And on Iron trackst pulled through the roil pampa of Hit Argentine by n lo tomollVF Joining hi Atlantic ant IA 4 life 1 > r an Iron bandlhl is I the problem prob-lem the completion of uhlrh it I now glinting the Argentine And Chill It In I I l problem almost old Ttse clouds nf war u to Die boundary questIon bv cleared away hulk tountrlc eve now nnanclally In A better ronllllon I iSiS they wilt owl he money tat pub tie Improvement Chili U I Mpcclally inilou that the road shoutS he com pleled anl inns told at Hantlago that almost any rcttonellile American eOn i2 dilate can gel the Job with H panty Bf t ier i cent and n fair thieve for a big interest on IK Imetmcnt roitxr MIUH virr TO iiunn I Al U is I the railroad U I almost competed com-peted There ant tees I than forty mile I > II to biilll I when Ihre will to an Iron teach from ocean to ocean Th railroad rail-road rein Mrndou to Homo Ayre In I cirellcnl allhoimh the cllnlam is I til mile There li I also a fairly good line frosts her almost tot he top of the Ar I gentln And I traveled upon tIso I I irark from Valparolpo Chill on the Iarinc to very nearly the Argentine I boundary lii In I writ Inilll At resent trains are running over the whole rund Hire tunes every week travel Ulnir taken over the unlln lined hart In a slay on mule ur In carnage Kven itt iirvpl and llttl j Ihlllrrn inch the IMP without much loronnln ant storIng the ummr ttuT l 5 ilonty of tratrl With lIe II stale It requIre now only four day turrets Mouth AmrrlcA by this line tnd when th lint link U I jnlnnl I am fold that ho I tilt from Valpamlxi In I jiUetos1Irra Mill bo mad In twenty nln hour IT WILL COHT TIIHII IIILION IIOLLAtitI I I III The actual oust of the completion of I th road U I nllmnlM at about lhree million ilollara I undtnunl that this I waa the > um of which W It llrar A t ru or New lurk uirrreJ in nnlih II or a Ionic limn II WM thought thai Ih Chll11 conmnl would award I 1111 the centred but for Mm season sea-son or othrr the heal rell Ihuh Whit I eras In Hanllum I h1 renter sutton will irnmlnent mIlielalstiose 1 In Ih > rr ldtnl who told ole that time m > rrnrnrnt wan cntn to an offrr anl I that II would probably Kunrnnlf i i a err tain rat 1 n Ih IlUI requllvd I nlo told that an American ynl tl would probably get ih prefer In wotun TIII ISOAII I I IAV I i Th rvad lIn uy trry will Whrn lonsiletet It will I Jul nlu ci Inlt I is rem New York to tisii5ss jot I tutu reduce lbs sties betnei I t alIoraiu I 11 I i tenlon hy tour than tw week It k Mill get all the lrael which now gne from thus wen conn around the Htralt of Magellan In IMnip and u linn uf phite Iwturert Valparaln and Abs ItII Kill toe otabllphed 110 that Aiintmllan laiienger tutu romp from iuroi In lIoness Ape and thence g < i ncro In Vatpnralpn II now lake thirty even day In gn from the i hlef I port sf I hlle I to Curop I CIa Ike strait I of tlagillan II requirea bulll ohioen Ini 10 einstsn frnrn valparaliy toTiueno1 jI IM and rnln lIulIO Ayrt lu hivrvuosi It I IIb1I1 Itnl shsys Iomsrs io 1 Ih align un1 ono can ali-gn aernea the continent In lea I than Inn day IIMH or HTONI KNOW HIIHDH A 0 II iunow I I am told that Ih rd Is I proniablr during tile ummer nirnih notwllhilandlng Ihe enormou roil of Irs OIorlo lion between the II octllon When U is I completed trifle can be I carrle1 on ihmuihuqt Ihi ycar As It Is I now during the heavy now tolls In lisp Anle paeptngtn love In Malt fur loyitoneeisle or tIc other Tnt Kill Iw I ohvlaled by the now hrll whlrh are being cut lIst of thin anlhl mrk INI that the car can gn through u hither II mion or not There are forty 1 mile oC wooden now hed on on cf mir mad In the Ituckle ttenesloiseIrcln wIll lam I nhrsinr Th lanAIII1I rout I hnxetrr will mil neeil I no many nor nlll It hnte uch heavy nor inch long tailing moo > TIII ANuim VM TIII IIOCUIKM Tho nonIng of the 5oslrs her to I nol A CreaSer 11 l > lhat Ih cropping of the Itorkle Th mere fact that It I 5 Ih A Anle has naggeraled the illtnciillle but Ih truth I thai Ihe hlghe1 hInt of IhIe real when corplrleii nlll Ix nliut two hundred feel loose than Marahall hos l on Iho hinter and 11I0 llrande and tess than le liurlrl feet higher than Ixaihlll lime pnnllnln Tap where Ih road 1 CIOK lIme mountain moun-tain Is I U0 feet high but the tunnel whlfli losses through this nlll Iw only Salt fret nlme theme It nlll W I al nio1 n mil looir than lee tunnel Ihrough ilounl ililg on lise I tnllroad which Roes arrop ike Antis lunk of Urn lire and more thiin three utoorlerent n mil ion rr Ihon tue sall rciad 1 ton the era up lo Iko Tlllcanl on ttsn Ikillvlan plateau The building ot Ih road I briny 1 n Iontlnr oC mommmey II hates nrnIor dlfllcullle whlrh cannot b eailly piir nwiinle1 although he Andea ire trry sleep Just al ihl < point making leers oary illltclclil klohst Inert In get over them tise commIt w III IH > rh1 by I n racked rail In Ih center of Ih traik She car bring hauled ny loco I molltni on coggeil car tubscia which work on Ihsne rack The track nlll h I alHiiu the ramc I undenland 0 thai nn Mount Unphlnitlon and line on likeS leak and Ih Illghl Hlmllar rmhsretlmsacsI in climb list nyse lotneollilashi bark uf Hanioi and 1 hIss JOIII A great objection II ermes lo ne In thl mountain lln In I that U I a narrow nar-row sauCe while boil lisa Ihlelait and the Argentine rallriudi Mhlch cnnL wilt II arc broad gauge Th cog lln I a only three feet three Inche wIle 1 nnd Irnnffm will hat to be mad at 101 hendn f II M that all < i ether the plan of 1onntructlon ceemi bad Timers ehnuld In on gouge from mean to ocean wi that Rcmda can Ie I taken from Ih Inn L u rmaln on Iht can until they ar lande on tle Atlantic and tic terra Acnoss TIII ASDIM nv flAIl ThU railroad when comlleled nlll bon b-on of ihn CresS nicole rallroada of lhnorll 1401soc tee cross ike conll menl by II We utart at IIInU i > lhe nrrat waport or i hill on his 1a cine It haii loonxi leslIe and Ha h smut re arms hocus tho e of any Kuro he n trniMrt They me built In lee I cures luring 5 ocainus another In the thai of an amphitheater around I a mauWflcent bay 1 Iher arc green tree alnonK them Mild tha flowers blnom all ftc year rounl tWesleprsut of the bnalii onto nlon nhnrteii and am taken Ir a arrMx In n flue two > lory > ion > ulallnn There are walllnn snows for lint nnd FreondclaM PHI Mnitri and we nl lbS I a row In rath I plareii 1 W i nk for our ticket but art told thai It is I yet an half hour before the trnln rlarta 1 and thai no ticket will IM old unlll fifteen In Itti ice later At iretliel I A I lmrier of an hour factor leaving lime the client len lla win dow aol Kite snsm my tlrket Wr try In check our bur but an told thai we nll1 10 1 eipreM I mire on cter C IKIUII and that nolhlnK Is I free W ml n rccrliU howetrr and then cross o < er Iimr link to rebel Ilia car We Rich down In do lhl for Ih track a cccliv hen and the plnlform ar leirl wllh the for of the car WlIo Or wall for the train let Os make n not of Ihe Ian > enicr licll m eeisoslsayoin C Inallh ilrl mIlk IO < h1 l tMM > fc under her arm ansI Iht rear re-ar lnullth and Herman merrhnnt who ar nalllnit for lime train for Fan UK There ate ChllenM wllh big hat And poncho who hat com in from use ionntry and Chilean nomen who hate Ihelr fare coale l with puwder I They Ik lbs more ithamly from Sims black miawl 1 on Ihelr head There young InteSte In blatk hal and blank miwna nhlrh reach to theIr feet Thorn Thor-n Chilean military onircri In gay uniform and blarkcyd sobs ne going In chool from their home In the Interior consTiir HCINIH IN TUP ANDIIH A tell ring at the notion Wfora the train Hnrt W eklrt tln harlnr pan Ihrollih Iho well auhurli of Vina del Mar und then com alinot at one lo lise font hill of the AnSis WtO pan pa-n en toning In lhse Held dragging wooden ploni through the furruni by n pole fattened I la n yoke on their head I Wr KI by great tineyard lemon lem-on orchard ant ornng gropes ant now and then flop at A Illagsrntit smt n1 obelmrf I bese iCe I455 n1 noe low rldg after another rlplng higher each time unlll we sime lo Hit gial valley III which Hmllnti lise atHal of Chill llo U sito through I Ihl I all I day All Ito n oInIke the econd rang of ihn And wllh tIme hlghet peak on our hemlipherr rl lng stone u That Ink Is I Aconcagua It Ia I al 1 moil nw feel high and It louche thin > ky further alxit the lea than also peak mOltIsIs I tue Himalaya 115 top is I ctAered nllh tierpetuai r mow The lsemopn I upon II miIes never melt and lh nlnl which blow oter It In their evcrUHIng march from ocean in ocean hot I nl time Ills lion chrlekt of Ilse damned We flop oter night at hub Ache a town In I Itin valley of Ih Aconcagua river lilies about Ccw IoI mpl an 1ul Is I turmunde1 by orchanl or tulle and leach tree wIll rich I Irrigated garden gar-den lying high up In 110 I I mountain Ir oul IrhI W i rrom isnre w go lo the nation where we lobe mule or itagra lu go aver Ih mountain The cost 1 or I lie road is I about as high aa the 101 or Ml Waihlngton and from there on Iho nay ha l enred timaly aIrCI 1 1h sOoiey in I toIIl In the eutroioe Sloth h smf hiss IIIunlln ire nolhlnll but a < hoseri 1 ot rock nnd 0050 Inhabited oiny by cinder with her and there aCm a-Cm sOut 5 soortnfa i ecle of will t llninn You eismme thu Iurnla del Inca a wonderful natural Isnhd geousr which there are hot iprlng or crynlallln WA ler and go out Into Ihe Valley I nf r Delation oIU Valley nhete there are rkeleton or mule and oien whlth Isave dropiwit nut < > t lIme drovr whlrh lo thus number of its aunsn is are annually ilrlvn arrof the mountain Ai ooni e higher ftlll 5 osoare for Itinato If you do not hat > oroch nr mountain ulcknre and you are gild when you hav lone ml 1110 cnmnr or commIt and ire on Ike railway which Inke Initlss son lu Mendoid In Ih Argentine ACItOKH TIM IAMIAR IN A hAll IIOA1 CAll Irum Menlo III Uno Ayres he I shoot as far ne franc New York to Itrlnol ke car ore Oot uncom forlabl 1 hey are built omewhat nr tir Ihe Mann tmudolr order I with n lot I or little apartment running through Ilse car ached Isysnstolenuislsie I Kach aturtment ha rour berth 1 Iwn upper nnd tno loner The utper lerthn nrn put up during nIttme and you 11 facing your Mlox lomenger on the I lovirr benrhe Al night Ih tied dliiK ho I brought Into II tnr from lbs baigar coach I 0l5IO5o nnd your nI I Html of the oleppeee liat Irntellng I bar nn them 7 All hind ot Iliuorn I are heIst In Ihe Iungagnsrar ant I nlren gel alhlnlt from hnllUno ls snsf nac and from atmlllnarl In I her tiy ordering or-dering It Ther Is I a little dot In thIs car uinn which Iha porter I make NIT And bring II In I you In Ih morn ice liefor ou Ar out of bed IIe ehnrlrshrs almui i renta of our money fvr A cup oC cotTce a little butler and a bliruli whlrh la I timed enough for the aertlr The molt of Iho meal nre taken al the rtntlon Ahmit thirty mlniileii lieing Allnwfat for breakrakl or Ion h And a tt < ilnt ringing a bell s0000ve Ira Ihe lnrlnff or the irolrt Tise oollnor roust nre enre Ilnl fsr sIsiseh hen 55mm nlld hloddlolll is nol 55 cool Tiirv ftciiATon Tin MIIUJOIIH WITII DIAXONDH In to00sr hog Uhnlil lbs lurk or fine furniture on day im lngllih railroad I nmnager told 0e that lime cnmpanlca found that It 111 not ray In make en triunpuit car for It Cuaenu dltncull lo keep them In order Sail he You would he urprlned at Ihe wanton wan-ton damage that to don by iApenacr Olsoy sf threes 0irgenitoie as ImorlI I Iconoclail They stIll writ on Ike mlr ron wllh Ihelr diamond And fcratrh their name on the i > laIr gla > n Union Solo W Ih rich rciloo from the I country coun-try think nothlnv of getting Into bed It llh their muddy Imota on and mm I me ftIl in ttse ssirerne sie kane ho svnIk I thilnos tecy eloly i fur Ibsey nec 1In sr lroirsuyol Wise tie have h1 toauengec Ihrmv blanket nul of II lIe window Ju1 l fiirfun and we lmaCe In I mak n caieful IMIy ot our lock at time lion of every run Tin UAIIUOADH OK Till AIKIKX TINU And fllll the Argenlln is I on of Ito lesS salIrsost oollntrl In culh ml ta It 1 lsaa 11I0 sallreists Simon any other country and II Is I non building many new line Thfre are liooa mllea of railroad In miration Thoo > enn agn there ner not tony than low The road 1 an growing better every hear They are chleny In I tise hand of Id tat i trtlet and the goterninent is I citIng up Ils Idea of controlling them III I different In chile where the road are alfn goo although they aye not more than cinelinn no eitendv In length of line The Chilean govern menl seems to iss kradually acquiring I tise road and itt I aim I bulging tsnw There 15 no tlaci Inth world I where iLl I enler In bulll a tool than In 115 AfKcnllne immiwiB The track II ofor I hundrnl of ml ensne r lintl which In I lerfeclly Inl l and 001101 that but lit II ballpl H I ersInI hoe of Ih thief eupcnpc I In the mailer of lie Ther accost Ire on Itss nimpa nod alt I kind of lumber mutt Ie Imported Th moat of Ilsr lies com down mba I arnna river from Paraguay Th faorlt kind ii I of quebracho or other hard wowS v hlrh were p heavy that n final fin-al tie will often weigh Wl pound I The wood is I so hard thai pike cnnnol he drlten Into II without first boring hole for them After 1M tallsnrcsoce fixel II Is I ImpuMlbl to draw th pike lot Sunk II soreteeyen ynistlir p0 mmh P0 Ihnl lbs Houthern railroad not long ago tried to experiment of Importing Im-porting II lest from Auttrnlla leinOee Ih evere rlseeper then he lanRuy lie HOW MUM10ADH Alti IIUIIT Th m1 of ike railroad ar In hhe hand of ihe lnglph Home ha been bulll much like our road 1 at Lome cult a heavy capltilUallon and with I their aus 1 and sloe nn Ibe nock market It to I PIfc In at hnwetcr lhat more than half a billion lollstee hoe been actually pent In I conplructlng railroad through ICe Argentine In 1154 l the IillIul shock uf Ih esoasis Coool1 rnil > oooixxAnd Ihelr gron recrlpli were mar thin 111 OOOOoo while the eipenr were not more limn lUOoonoo Thl made a i tear prom ot IISoooon gold during that year TIc mol of Ilse road are ingll > h broad gauge or wller thin any of our road al I home The rail now being auil by the Houthern railway rail-way weigh mourn nlrou imund lo Ihe anl 1 They aye of tel They see Imiiorled from llngland from wher most or the I rating lock hes been brouuhl although now the chief com niChes hove their own tock and are making car There are a few I intU In and Itoger nglnei but thru are chIefly on tle t tern meet line Italian are Ihe chief railroad workmen work-men Th loon k I sslosse by contract one Itallin taking a gang and dulhg hit nork by sue Job or Ih > nrl Tile rap loin ot etch gang Is I called n capital and he I reppnnilhl for Iie work fIll f-Ill men lNin a road In lalagonlit which I tUliod I founl tnenty gang each containing ten 1 men laying track They were gtten ms much ITI mil The workmen lltnl In lenin which they put III along Iho railroad and they were uipiled with provldon from A provision car A nitKiuY HTOIII ON winiw Thli rotlilon car of lisa ArgentIne Is A curlou railroad Intltullon which i lseie not ace n rlienhere II ha I calle a lroldln ansI II I lq I foci A IIH1 grocery AI 1 led nIt 515su n wheel Th car tt I fittest up I spIlls rhelto ulon which ire clothe to Kirm I ll > iuon gtoeerlon and In liort rtrrylhlllg that lIme men tan h HOIDlbl > want II Isne a stare keeper In It who furnl hc KCMKI In Itss railroad men al II lowest ivifilbl rule Th comt > any upplle lImo gosls 1 and less all Ike bill II keep about tmO i nil worth of good In lock and erlle them In It I Islurt ut filch ralea tml Iii I mnta are al > out 3 per cent It put the gunhsatsiic h prlcca that tue men know ihey can buy inure cheaply of lIme pro tllerla than at the lore For Intance gond Italian win is I old for nUnil III cnl of Argentln money a iiuarl Thl Ic I leos I than Ik reds Amerlian fleet sushi about 4 rent of niji money H jiound ant cloth log U I proportionately I cheap I Among the curloui thing I aw In one nf thepemtcneo nrre lonI1I Jimnnd Indian In-dian chutney I aw olltv nil macaroni and all kind if cncker I wa IntrreMed in tha track layer ansi vllle1 them In Ihelr camiK I tess shill thai A man could lit ssn about n cent of our monry A da > and listS tiis avcrag man nYrlted alxmt I2S gold n inunlh and atd almt V rent a day out nr hIs wage Time mon cnmplalnpd that Ihelr tenl wren Ion mall They were ut Ilse A than MI mile that only four cola could be placed 1 In each tent IPJt Sv men were nllolled to n lent had lo Iceen on this and 0 oM man ground FWIinllT CAIIS WITH BAII8 Among Ihe dlnromfort of railroad riding In Ihe Argentine arlho cWhich com from Ih wind II blow on th pompal at time with all laS force of n Inn Mlnanl 1 am loll t that whit the road from lluenorf > Ayret to Shell blllhllnlt the rare Were some d ioOa was tlnrs blocs Tr rrSffSStKW II tolls on time wn cuternary In put a freight ltslei not nllow lime wln1 10 01 I Ihens oh ongovee the raIl ThIs linwetcn 1 4 1 I doubt 55 I am prune in ilo other I doyle Ssslt Isece In IbIs land ot lu ur > lslhter5 and lIes WIIKIII IT IlAISrt JIUD t d not doubt however liis dorIes 55 la lhn dupt There Is I no land where Ike dupt blow mor than It doe here Th dun ptorm are thlrker tlinn now Hotnip They onmellme 101 > lbesuni OIling the grade ont cutting me that you need a plow In get through During Dur-ing a norm n few etes ngn It look iooo men a week lo clear 1 the rack of evr 01 tie reel misick ul unS0s ms oesolnee se lhn esn nll1 It A raIn romce whIle tIms I clunt li I III Ihn nlr It bring dmtn a hotter of mud which paint the houi and fence and everything with A tlcky mar If Ih rain continue Ihe wood If I fcourrd clean by the mud but If not U la I left In a moil drplor aid ronllllon I hose heard nf host tnrmi tthlrh hots tilled She floor of lbs car the iluit being nn floe that It wrnt through lImo window and ilor and I know Inn my norrnn lhat uch a torm will mat your fase and clolhea In ten 1 minute tu Iii h a thick < nat of Ilrl and mob while man and Indian African and CaiicafUn nf Ih eteine ray completion complet-ion It will eat your HIM to crack aol coal your tongu sS Ihnl jou feel 1 as though you had bn Idling Intn on if Its ahsislen oC Mlom ansi had gotten therefrom a mnunthful of nhe riiANic u CIIINTIII |
