Show P W I 1 ON daros ce SIP r M J ak residence of the archbishop of peru in lima Wre prepared by the national society 1 D 0 1 UNIA capital of peru ieni seen e of 0 a LIMA la recent governmental change clini ige li Is a modern city but it I 1 ahna Is not to L lost its reminders lem lnders of tit alio historic past and of 0 pizarro ri the conqueror who founded it on one side of the plaza stands tho the stern old national palace its lines as uncompromising tin and ns as inn firm ns as were tie me deeds and purposes of the man of blood and iron who planned it As one faces tile tha palace the anthe liL dral danl and tile the archbishops arch bishops residence occupy the right bide aide of the alie plaza and in 1 I the arcade of the scribes the left what stories of men of action in the joys of triumph and the sorrows of defeat in the exultation of pomp and the dejections defections deject ions of disgrace center there I 1 falth faith and treachery honor and duplicity courage all and cowardice applause and hatred nil all the contrasting characteristics of human nature tilt nil the quirks and turn of lifes fortunes run through the theme of ll 11 limas haq life ns as the woof runs through tile tho warp of a tn restry and give it both color and pattern to tile tho site bite of iian SOS yours years ngo came Fri incisco lie he who had boen a foundling upon the steps of n church in the 1 city of trujillo then a humble hog herder tn in estrema Est remu turn and tater nn illiterate adventurer at it panama Inn ninn hut finally lie ho was grim leader who deflected the course ot of history tit nt gallo th the e triumphant conqueror who mastered the inca inan warrior lost host nt at cajamarca the modern midas hildas who made ande tits his indent ancient prototype turn over in nn fin envious grave and lie he was laden with the bloodstained treasure which paid tor for the freedom rec dorn never received treasure amassed by pizarro Pl gold I 1 what uncounted gold lie brought down to finance the building of ills new capital I 1 had not tile the inca monarch so BO desperately desired his liberty that he undertook to fill a room 22 hy by 17 feet with it t as high as lie he could reach and had not pizarro smiling grimly chalked his tiptoe reach tit nt nine feet and silver I 1 ies yes the f inca ca lindbeck lindbe cn BO eager to meet tile filgon highest est dream of Pl Pi avarice that he offered two roomfuls room fuls of the white metal for good m measure pizarro indeed had exacted the greatest kings ransom in history it was so BO much that eliat even the humblest cavalier rec received alved in terms of american money for his fits share in the exploits of cajamarca so BO time dimmed records tell us cuzco then even as now was no place for a capital of a country that needed contact with the sea ben tt ft Is far up in the bleak and frigid puna region with nn an attitude of more than two miles tin and with mightiest ramparts of tile the andes isolating it from tile the ocean so to tile the site of llma lima pizarro en m to build tits his capital the onetime one ono time swineherd imd had lived to he be tile the first farst great city planner of the antipodes nor have four centuries sol lived to reveal a etter lt ter site than lie he selected for tile the capital of peru ecru san lorenzo thrusts its island heights boldly out of the sea shutting out the long lone pacific rollers and making it good harbor hard by on ft a coast peculiarly lacking inciting in safe havens for ships san cristobal ns as boldly rears its great crent head out of the plain find makes it a magnificent sentinel for the lie city that nestles beneath its shadows tile tho alluvial valley round about drinks lit in tile the water of the and flows with the milk and honey of truck and market garden products though midway between the trople tropic of capricorn and the equator the climate tins has few of if the attributes of the torrid zone for the cold brought up lip out of tile the antarctic regions and delivered there by tho the great ilum hum boalt current tempers the hent heat of coastal porn in the rame fame way that the hent heat brought out of the caribbean and gulf of fit mexico hy by the gulf stream tempers tile the cold breath of great britain and ireland so tile the mighty curtain of the cordil leras shuts out the hot humid rains of the region beyond while the mountain n ramparts and tile cold current join forces to form vaporous clouds alin screen the city from a too sun city of the kings founded epiphany sunday in the year 1 dawned und and amid tile the reverent re jo icings of that backed day Ili announced the site and christened his fits bo be cluan I 1 de los heyes city of the rings the reference re ferenc being to the he three wise men alen of the east a suggestion tinn that still finds perpetuation lit in tile flag of lima iima tho the onetime one time f foundling oun citing allowed that lie ile could build a n city na as well us its choose wisely its locution location iia began liln ills palace selected 11 sita for the cathedral lilt lold out the plaza do ii mid nl indicated broad highways highway il to tile mountains und and tile sea killke ai a a military precaution 1 ills grizzled warriors laid aside pow der and toledo blade lic linot and breastplate tp to take up hammer naw and trowel tile conqueror literally poured ills his wealth into the embellish mont ot of ills young voting capital its ills joy and lit his pride and with splendor of edt flees and pomp of gardens ilena it marched forward toward completion drenched wit with tile and blood of thousands of indian captives As we sit lit in the tiara plaza and watch the sundby morning worshipers leaving the cathedral memory harks back bacic to that other sunday in 1541 when tile implacable itada find ills devoted band swept across it to make iquio tiny iry a dramatic price for ills perfidy toward Ain ingro and to pre press ss to ills lipsi lips tavi bitter cup of death which lie had so forced both almagra and to drink to its utia ut fe ia most dregs na we leave the plaza and go eo into alio 0 cathedral it Is a magnificent structure much larger than pizarro built but still not so BO grand as the alio ono one erected during tile the early years of the regime find do destroyed troyed by the earthquake that wiped i ian tile the nearby near by seaport aport ne tile tho high altar Is of 0 massive stiver silver contal containing ning it Is asserted some of old very white metal wit with which vainly sought to buy tits ills liberty in tile alio chapel of the virgin Is a celebrated image presented by emperor charles V 0 of spain and in the chapel arcedeano Arced lono lano tit an orI original gInni painting attributed to murillo depre benting jesus esus and veronica here rests a glass and marble en ket which la Is most interesting of allt nil for it contains the half half I skeleton reputed to be the remains ot of the great conqueror ancient and M modern mingled leaving tile the cathedral we stroll out along the splendid co concrete merete nerete boulevard that lends leads up from magdalena pre inca ruins busy cigarette factories and ino fine modern residences share its bonier it wits was along this very highway that the first viceroy blasco nunez nune made hla his triumphal entry sent by his king to compose the internecine struggle that followed tile till ot of pizarro Pl everywhere one goes about old lima there are scenes reminiscent of those tremendous years of the regime of the tha Pl charros but except for the casket in the tile the city seems not notto to lime have lone done either cither tho the elder francisco francas 0 or the younger gonzalo the slightest honor what a contrast there Is between limas latest thirteen years find and that stirring first arst thirteen I 1 A new pra era haq hai dawned and a modern city not only la Is rising the old linin lima hut but even alie old city itself with nil all of its ita near ly four centuries of existence Is combining successfully the ancient and the modern the keynote of the new development Is the fine new avenue leading from I 1 lie ho old city to the suburbs un tit til a few weeks ngo ago lt it was named avenida lepulu for the man lias has held the file presidency for more than alian ft a decade since Le gultia deposition however lio wever the boulevard tins lins been renamed Aen Aven lda lla arequipa along the main avenue the traveler tra eler might compare it with one of those hose beautiful boulevards that ex extend tend from washington to its ita neighboring communities it tins has certain parking throughout much of its length ample to walks alks innumerable enric benches be riches and all a lighting system that la Is the last word in illumination bugl 1 As one drives down this thoroughfare over to tile the right la Is tile tha country club if a structure with environing golf I olo oli nelds fields tennis courts and swimming pool i lake it a bit of westchester county dropped drohr cd down in peru ieru and what if a site for tile the outdoor ufa life of the elite of the call capital tal it Is I 1 away to tile the south rises morro alorro solar cribs cross and cl clipp ili pel l crowned mounting p perpetual er guard over tile the of nf tile tha w mast est coast Chor chorrillos beyond stands tile the hold series erles of ridges that hint borders bordera the he fertile valley of the luran to iro the west tile broad dasliva aliea its white crowned rollers upon ahm level bew in andean and san lorenzo adds n glor glorious lous figure eguro to the marine to the east the rocky billows of the mighty cordilleras cordilleran Cordi lleras rise each luccese suc cese le alve reit airest above its rt et last lit in tile the blue ot of the distance tind and lie azure ayure of odthe alio sky earth carth ail aid air seem to melt into one |