| Show arm fin lit tn 1111 M MI Mm r I r UTAH PARTY T IN MEXICO EXICO j m o In Urn tho Land d ol of tho 5 I Dy Uy N boker IId Gowans J 5 1 to H II ri 1 fl LI N 1 1 I I t I Ti II Il ri I n i M n n n n n n n n I NuLl Noble Charlus Gow aris and lion Aqulla AQuila are ru now 1101 In Mexico Investigating th country for or Utah who sho aro nIU lu in cane and rubber plan Flu following Is Ia the first t of or a an n of loiters letters which will be publish published ed oI In the tho News on their experiences and lolIs City of dt Mexico March goIng goUig from Snit Salt ak Laka City to 10 the City of Mexico ono one travels for or a while through familiar em past mountains not un those of If Utah through win canon join nough to be b our own on ov O oye Q r as ns n lI as the alkali be beyond yond tho thU lako lake Northern Mexico re reo Texas with willi till Its low hills Its lis sandy wastes and antI occasional i The towns ar are tent scat tho tha Is III I unique and I arc iu There Is l a IL port Fort of monotony nO not OilY about It II until ono one reaches roaches Call Coli thu Hot of or Mexico a II noted for the aristocracy of the tue T TI city Is I ruthar rather pretty III lu luan an On Oriental vity ny AY with Its III It long lonu of ot oti i lat Hat el houses and the Iho d and dro of several laig i ge the tho th streams of t valor through the streets tho shaded parks and avenues wi h an ati going multitude of whit robed beings At thin point one begins to In that he ln Is U I a u stranger In a strange land Aguas A alJ Is I 3 tho home of Mex Mexican ex lean ican a Jt article of which tha tIo and In III Ilu of 01 Mexican women have l brought rou ht rem centuries gone On Into tho thie modern world I of machinery and aini factoring lI A t number of ot people in l tItle thU country k their hir t living IMn I I a out OUI ou I of ot the lie th of If drawn work lIck urk In n many man of tha th u thaw Iho conducted by llY tile the got gov go for children na as n asas well wella us as a In III ill all II of HID thu th kind und under r Catholic control In the the th art artof artof of 01 drawn walk It l I taught In III the Iho Girls Urine In III Iu the City of at Mexico hun nd d g dEot a Urge large of ot their lions to this art luul tine lino linon n Hut nut the place where whore the tIne people milk make drawn of if their own oln sword where In their thelt lieu homes home honi they de tie vito the Intricate patterns unit and tha Iho with nith M III and Il ne U la tufts A u nt 4 r Homo luwe taken years tarl In tho the study and ond work upon them I have been Iwen told 1011 that private families here In the thi capital pieces of ot the thu finest linen finished tIti Ih the tho most elaborate anti and de dt d nl which have occupied from 10 to 10 a IL half halt century In the tho work What WAil to the women of tl middle apes n rs drawn dra 1111 work ork Is to the of Mexico When one otie the Tula TulL Valley alloi Is le more mora attractive anti and Inter on I t In the trip It le aroused At Jt they th y bo bonet st of strawberries eVery day Ir k I the Ille year Oranges and un fruits aro are offered for tor wile eale nt It station anti and the ho shrill pry cry ry of ut the ertler erder mingled with Ith the sun of too beggar Is 19 l ringing ring lUff In the travelers long lony Ion after he reaches hl hi destination Through the canal of or N tl thit train winds Into Inlo the great upland valley of vf Mexico leo otto one of or the mot moct I In fit and spots on ott th thc globe lubo It Is le a 1 circular basin about 3 in Ics In diameter e two fair lakes and land Bolh and dra ditches are aro to success successful fill ful iii of the soil tolI which Is Ic ex cx exceedingly ri lidl ildi h and supports A i 1 population tion of ot The rho rh climate Is le I delicious and nov that the thA drainage lne m IH III about complete re Is Iii no nu reason why shy Mexico M should iol be bp the t city In th the world Instead of oC having a n loath death rate nta almost i The t In t 70 a i winter In lii net nel the year ear Is In rainless October to tn Juno JUliO TIll The city li I L built buill upon a lake occupy occupying ing In III part port the Iho ancient of ot o the thenet net which wits than thOn urr by hr vuler uter except for or tho the ever teI which led leti his hJ Intrepid free freo In the hand bend to hand bent which resulted In III n the lI of ant tho tle down Mi of 0 hU hl tI empire uro III the landmarks of that civilization which Europeans dl on their I Invasion of th the land centurion HBO 1110 I The population of or Mexico City cell estl at something like people over a large area arm The Thu nr tire low 0 anti and with a aBrest great Brest many litany structures Indi Indicating eating cating taste huh and wealth One thing which contrasts strangely with our plans leng In the states Is 18 the lark lack of or Ion between the residents noe Hud cut quarters Shops hopa stores ore are scOt scat scattered everywhere and the continental custom of having abodes abode above thorn thom H HIn t I tIn In vogue OUI The tIM Hat angular monotony observed ob In various e Is II broken here and there by market squares teeming with life lite anti trade by hy plazas covered with semitropical semi tropical vegetation lion and by domed and ana pinnacled cathedrals In the city as nil throughout the tho republic lie lic the most macel Impressive ore oro i thrice e made by y the III structures roared reared to tn reunion religIon Tit Tho ho Spaniards WHO were the worst I of ot tho the urn era of ot relli I loin lotis bigotry No ever yer planted so Mo many crosses In III BO so many lunds Their Theli faith fulth was lIa the of their courage With the cross In on one hand hant tat the sword In the other oIlier they sailed culled over unknown senn pushed across cay eav age ae wilds hewed their way through ti multitudes leveled temples of ot other oIlier races nut anti planted the tha symbol or f Christianity on the lie ruins From the he pyramid of ot whore now a 1 shrine of ot Catho Catholicism rests reste upon foundation laid laida III III a 1 thousand yours ago ngo In 11 honor of at nu an number other god one may count the anti and towers tower of ot 50 60 The rIngIng of tha M h heIl lII for fir or early mum some caine near neill some Morne far anti farther yet yel tho the slumber of the newcomer at dawn down Tho The city Is I awakened men mon and omit wonton women be to begin gin to In hurry to their heir work on the th W wa at nt some pOOle favorite shrine s whore high nd a d low rich anti and poor the wor WOl kneel together on time the hard harti stop stolle fJ fore time the Images haag of or their The l Ph hl Giand Cathedral Is probably abl the most mont imposing of worship on the w h rf It Is la a II of ot architectural grandeur without sad and the dream of or an au artist as viewed within JIll Its massIve gleaming with gold the great pictured domes domell through which lie light conies comes mellow upon uron walls of ot paintings anil ai te leH of ot statuary tho the solemn coleman pliant chant of many priests the Die deep deop tones tonell of n a 1 giant organ orIn and nn tho lie plaintive tM ot of the choir the clasped hAnds hand lifted eyes mul auel anc silent moving of the he supplicants make maken n a combination of sights and younds ono on cannot banish benish from tho the mini No on one ran enn outer inter the Orand Cathedral of Mexico without II a sense Hense of ot reverence c The ot Of harlle harle r lu lit our o lr party part y ls Is hushed within I ii In Hi its It And QuI Mf 11 It makes g him him feel teel like his lile mouth shut One Ono of ot the HIP tim most features of the Iha city Id lit J tho th lie con can by liy many to be tho timO most beautiful street In the nc new worM world worMIt It I Is certainly till the mo mot t historic Here flero trod In III solemn procession tho thu priests of ot the sun here litre stood tho the hl of A 0 1 powerful raco now iio extinct whore records on ell shafts unit tablets ot of stone Indicate 1 flU that hat t tier t lived I a wrought and nut thought and wrote In lit ages when lien Europe was i 1 it land l of hero here marched the legions of at the ItO Monte hero clanked no steel shod eliot mInIons of or Spain Salti rite Tho blood of at van vanIshed nn peoples peopled have hare washed Its cobbles mimi tho the smoke of or ns have hayt stained Its willis walls Its lis histories nh tra cover COer 12 1 centuries c and the In III Inscriptions on Oil monuments and temples now crumbling into ruins have con ron convinced vinced some Rome writers that tills lent land Is 3 quIte as all old as The Tue de tie Reforma IH In about three mIles long alit leads from tho ho national Palace erected on time the site alto of the great of the Aztecs to tilt the of ot time the hull of or tho tIme nine mos before Leore tho the coming coining corn In of or Cor I It ItIs ItIs ItIs Is certainly a n beautiful driveway more like an elongated park studded as un It ItI I li II with statuary lined lineal with and bordered In the he thed hen d oi n i mul orchards whore fill the time air with melody uini Ut uIt It WItH willi perfume ThU hIs Is thu tho way to anti who viii olin can d It Tho charm of ot the castle In is not nol In Its Ha commanding site nor In time tho exquisite beauty o ot of Its Ih setting Nor yet vet Is Iii I It to be found foun In th the of ot till Its which In is Ina isit a it marvel of ot taste elegance It lies rather In the time spit It of bt the time place Thero Theio Is Pm poetry and In Iii limo tho nil air Ev Iv Every I v very ery cry rock Is la a 11 record mid at every step ono one treads upon historic ground Ono may limay look across neross tho the valley from Crom the tha tur turrets turrets or sit sll upon the thu he wide verandas and andIo view Io the tIo city with Its houses anti and dinned cathedrals his attention Is 15 drawn to landmarks of ot history anti ot of the tho past last There stood I ho temple which tho ho Spaniards sacked To Jo the tho left Is 19 a n Hold bit where Juarez massed lila patrons In time till final struggle pie gle of or state against priest rule To 10 Toh h west Is U the battlefield b of Molino Molina del dol Hoy Ho Kotow nolo Is whore where Oil fell elt the tho cadets of ot Mexico when Scott time the heights and amid raised tho start stars and stripe above n ove Down among the giant Ilant cypress trees some om of which h are arc 50 fO feet In circumference In ages gone gono were wort camped the Iho bodyguard of or the tha On time the lull hill above tho tIme white palace lames of the romantic viceroy of ot Spain WIll was reared upon the he of other dynasties To this were costly additions made for or the tho unhappy whose proudest and saddest day m were wro ere spent here It Is now noli the tho residence of at President Wax one of at tho time greatest tc t lenders leaders Mexico ever know ami alit In some respects the tho moose mose remarkable man loan of ot his hI day a Here Hero tIm the traveler must pause pauso and dream or 11 practical there Is In Inthe Inthe Inthe the history of ot Mexico and amI omit to sot act n a man to thinking Visions Vis lOlls of history will wilt rise before him nis ItIs sense Of or Justice jus lice will Una In 11 tho reflection Unit that native blood lood line has Teas rena sorted Its lis rights to time the sol Boll Juarez Juares wn wall v an on Indian of thu blood of DISc Is that of or his Aztec ancestors Many of time tho trading leading characters character of or the republic are of oC Indian descent rIme Tho Indian character Is developing in qt cation Industry It h ort off the yoke yoko of ot Spain anti separated church and 1111 1 state TIme The o of the thu Latin conquerors Is departing The rime people 1 are antI their thell no liS well as that of Ir the tho country Countr has bus Improved wonderfully during time the 25 2 years that hat President Diaz has hils been be n at nt the tho head hend of ot I allaire I are so ito many things of nf f which to 10 I In III Mexico It Is la n a wonderful land lamiti of or marked contrasts contrasta Time Tho north Is l so batten barton mind and time the south so productive the Ito mountains rise from groves of at or I nn ange e trees cocoanut palma and banana I to peaks meaks of perpetual snow Time Tho rich are aro always displaying their wealth and amid j the tho poor pOOl their poverty It is a land of boundless unities fur for yoting men muon for tor men of moans or for or development TIme Tho ho soil loll and climate of tho lie tropics need neeti n ett only the Iho direction of at Io enterprise energy to make a plantation au nl productive as aa a n Califor ala nia gold Koht min mimi Some Somo sections are arc better for ono timing thIns timid and some come SO 0 for tor or another We WI o leave kavo tomorrow for Cor ou tho time Isthmus of ot Whore where vegetation lit is I very ery luxuriant w lOon It climb cilia among th tim trees and omit birds of at untidy plumage lilt among the th Jungle lowers it 11 prom isa to 10 by bo an In trip trill slid and 1 I shall bo be glad Iad to furnish your readers with an a account of ot our experiences and amid lm un as opportunity may ma arise to forward them r |
