Opinions of Great Papers on Important Subjects. T
THE PANAMA CAUAL.
the four years since the act \vas passed
"to provide for the construction of a canal
connecting the waters of the Atlantic and
Paeific Oceans" so many problems have
arisen in relation to the Panama Canal , and
so many persona have expressed opinions
about them that fiome one has recently said ,
"We are getting on well witFX the Panama Canal our
writers are steadily at wo.rk oil it. "
Where to build the canal , what kind of canal to build ,
now long it ought to take , how mu. h" it ought to cost ,
whether the United States government is competent to
build it , whether this or that offie : il is doing his work
properly all these things , h&ve Loan abundantly dis
cussed.
To the ordinary citizen one thing 1 s evident : the prob
lems of business , of politics and of engineering in the
construction of the canal are so groit that only those
who have full Information and are < port in these and
kindred problems can form an opiu. : i worth consider
ing. The enterprise is tremendous , : . id the corporation
that has undertaken to perform it. ilie American gov
ernment , has never before attempt ! anything like it
The canal cannot be built without pc : laxities , delays and
blunders seen to be blunders a goo . . Iiile after they are
committed.
The sane American , while be c" raises his right to
receive and deliver opinions with jjmocratic freedom ,
will remember at the same time th t those who are in
the work know more about it than most of those who
* are not The administrators , legisl lors , engineers and
others in authority are probably di .ag their part with
skill and integrity , and the part cc almost every one
else isto trust them cheerfully an 1 wish them well in
a stupendous task. Youth's Companion.
A DEFINITION" OF UCiZ33.
URING commencement season , when so much
advice is tendered the graduate and so many
definitions are given the word "Success , " it
' is worth while to quote the definition made
by Richard Le Gallieire : "Success consists
in getting out of yourself all the good there
is in you , or out of life all of worth there is
In it for you. "
That is comprehensive. Let us note where the em
phasis is placed : Success consists in getti-ng out of yourself -
self , not all that Is in you , but all the good that is in
you. It consists in getting out of life , not all there Is
In it for you , but all of worth there is in it for you. First ,
get -tfut of yourself all the good there is in you. That Is
done by education. For the real meaning of education
is in the meaning of the word from which it comes
educate which means to draw out You are to draw
out of yourself all the best that is in you You may be
educated , in a sense , and draw out of yourself all that is
bad within you. You can sharpen all the faculties of
shrewdness into rascality if you so desire. Trickery ,
hypocrisy , deceit may be helped by education. Or you
may draw out of yourself the inherent goodness that
abides In honesty , decency , sympathy.
The education that is merely mental may be a curse
rather than a blessing. And so of the- success that comes
of getting out of life what there is in it you can get that
which is unworthy if you desire. You can get those
exterior things which your real self will one day declare
to be false and cheap. Those things are unthinking wor
ship money , position , place may become the most mis
erable baubles with which the soul has stilled its ache.
Success. What a glittering , fascinating word ! What
TH
A PERILOUS EZCTTESIOU.
'I know of no spot more beautiful
than that which we must pass this
morning. But our path is no ordinary
one. The journey can be done only on
foot , " said Padre Giulo , who -was the
companion of Reginald \Vyou in his
journey to the source of the Cierna ,
over the border from Montenegro , In
"The Balkans from Within" Mr. Wyon
describes this perilous excursion.
"Go carefully ! " exclaims Padre Giu
lo , as 3 come slipping and sliding after
him. "Look ! " and seizing me firmly
by the hand , he bids me look beneath
me. We are on the brink of a preci
pice the sight of which makes my blood
run cold , so suddenly and abruptly
does it sink from the curtain of bashes
before us.
Very carefully we proceed , slMing on
the slippery grass and clutching at the
bushes. No need to adjure me to cau
tion after that terrible glance into the
ravine.
The forest breaks off suddenly , and
brings us face to face with the source
of the Cierna.- Out of the living rock
a rush of creamy water plunges into the
steaming depths. A little higher a
streak of silver comes down the precip
itous mountain. Shelves of pine-glad
rock rise in ridges , until the final bar
rier of native cliff cuts into the blue
sky In a wild , Jagged outline.
It Is romantic and savage enough to
characterize its mission as boundary
between two nations who have lived in
blood feud with one another for more
than five centuries.
For some hundred feet we descend
steeply , and the gorge surrounds us like
the walls of a prison. A thread , scarce
ly more than a foot wide , skirts the
bare rock- , and disappears round the
bend of a cliff , the summit of which
overhangs the base. At least we can
walk upright This Is no place to con
template the roaring cascnQe. The cor
ner is passed , the cliff has receded
Eome\vnat from our path , which Is ,
however , stiirupon a steeply slanting
angle.
"It wgs b.ere that a woman fefl last
year , " explains the padre , and- scarce
ly hare the words left his lips when we
round a bend , and fin'd an old woman
and tfro young girls staggering under
huge loads of wood. They are stand
ing helplessly , and as WIT come up to
a cruel farce It sometimes plays in the hearts of men. If
success , be fairly won it may be known by the peace it
brings ; if unfairly won it becomes like dead ashes to the
lips. When one gets a large measure of good ouc of him
self and of worth out of life he is hero conqueror ; when
one got-a large measure of bad out of himself and of
unwortmness out of'life he is cheated in the end.
Galliene puts the standard high necessarily but not
too high. .None of us 'gets all the good out of himself , or
out of life , but the necrer we come up to the standard
the more nearly do wecome to success : Indianapolis
Sun.
THE PRESS IS THE HODEBff SEARCHLIGHT.
i HE English army , which for centuries has
been fighting inferior races , has a new
weapon against the savages. In fightinjf
the Zulus it has been found that the search
light comes In handy. When the light is
turned onto their camps in the night the
frightened natives fancy the eye of God is
upon them and they fly in dismay.
Modern civilization has also its searchlight : The press.
The limelight of publicity is the great discoverer and the
great deterrent of evil. The old scriptures are true to
day as thousands of years ago "Men love darkness rath
er than light because 'their deeds are eviL" And when
the searchlight of the newspaper Is thrown upon their
deeds what a scatterment and a terror !
Especially within the past two years has the search
light been efficient It has been turned on evil in high
places and has sent guilty wretches to suicide and exile.
It has condemned the mighty to wither in the sight of
men o'r die in shame. The searchlight is turned upon
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the predatory raldof the millionaire and he quails be
fore it It flashes Into the light of public scorn the loot
ers of great insurance companies and blasts and ruing
whole families. It throws its beams upon the people's
representatives and each man stands revealed. And new
it is turned upon the corporations that are monopolies
and now upon the graft and corruption of the railroads.
All hail the searchlight ! No danger of excesses so
long as the press confines Itself to facts. Let the truth
appear though the heavens fall. And let the potential
wrongdoer who contemplates new robberies stand In ter-
ro'r of the light More power to the rays of the search
light St. Louis Chronicle.
INTO DEBT.
T has been said that next to death or serious
illness the most distressing thing in the
household Is debt. The general thrift of the
members of one of our most.highly respected
religious societies is doubtless due to the
fact that they are enjoined to live within
thelr means. With this sect prudence in the
expenditure of money Is rightly accounted one of the
master virtues. The secret of the rise of many in world
ly estate is to be found in the , undeviating practice of
spending less than Is earned. This may involve Spartan
sacrifices Jin some instances , but it comprises the art of
getting on in the -world. The maxim , "Spend less than
you earn , " is easily understood , yet the majority of per
sons , heads of families , are so constituted that , no mat
ter what the earnings may be , the standard of living rises
with the financial resources of the family , and at the
end of the year the debit and credit sides of the domestic
account balance , or , perhaps , the household is grievously
in debt The piling up of debt for domestic expenses Is
inexcusable , save in cases where no amount of prudence
will keep the wolf from the door. Philadelphia Ledger.
them the woman and a girl lie down
on the upper side of the path to let us
pass , and we see the second girl in a
terrible predicament
Her foot has slipped over the lower
side , and she Is balancing between life
and death. The load upon her back Is
too heavy to permit her to rise , and the
loose earth on the shelving bank allows
no foothold.
A grasp of a hand , and she Is up
safely once more on the path , smiling
gayly , as it were a most common acci
dent
BERLIN IS MACHINE MADE.
Writer Calls It Stiff ,
Rectilinear and Only a Village.
Was Berlin made last year or the
'before ? It is impossible to say
from looking at it Some of the trees
'n ' the streets look at least tea years
oJd , but they must have been planted
long before the city was thought of
the houses and the streets and the lamp
posts and the statues ure all much too
neat and new to have endured the rains
of more than one winter. It is all , In
fact , quite too new to be comfortable ,
One feels afraid to sleep In any of the
houses lest rheumatism should be lying
in wait in rooms where the plaster has
not bad time to harden.
I drove from the station in a "drosh-
kl" with a monstrously old horse. Time
had bent bis forelegs into a very good
imitation of a swltebback railway
and as we plodded solemnly along the
l rand-new asphalt roadway , with the
brand-new houses on either side and an
wcasional 'brand ' > new electric car , with
a brand-new driver in a brand-new uni
form , I found myself wondering what
that old 'horse must think of it all. One
day he nwy have been grazing in an
open field and when he passed that
way a week or so later he found a new
broad boulevard , with hotels and shops.
mid churches and great blocks of flats ,
all sprung up like mushrooms.
Berlin , then , is a great deal < too per
fect to oe satisfactory. It is the ma
chine-made , not the hand-made article
it was very decidedly made , not ( born.
There is no spontaneity in it , no life ;
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compared tosay , London ; it Is like 'a
beautiful marble statute to a living
*
woman.
Berlin Is , in fact , an nwful object-
lesson to emperors and others ovho try
to make * a capital , city out of respec
table village. It is easy to put up Im
posing buildings if you hara the
$ >
money and to cut out broad tree-lined
roads and have everything neat and
nice and fine but you only make your
village < bigger and finer withcnt making
It any the more a capital city. There
Is no getting away from the feeling
that Berlin is a village a big village
a beautiful , rectilinear , new-out-of-the-
bandbox village , but a village all the
same. London Chronicle.
True Joy of Autoniobilingr-
"I want an automobile , but if I
thought it would save me car fare I'd
be ashamed to have one. I'd" rather
ride in one of these 5-cent automobiles
with a pole on top. Surer to get 'there , "
says a writer in Everybody's.
"What makes it desirable is that it
is an advertisement of the fact that
you have so much money you don't
know what to do with it The steam
yacht used to be the best for that ; but
the reason why the automobile has
such a vogue is that with it your ad
vertisement , for less money per agate
line , gets a top-of-the-column , next-to-
pure position in -medium witii as
much larger circulation than the yacht
as roadways all over this broad land
are more populous than the vaterways
round the elges of the broad 'land. It
beats getting your wife all sleety with
diamonds and planting her in a box
at the opera ; beats it to death , for
there's only one genuine , yellow-label
grand opera in this country , and there
are roads almost every place ; the
opera is only seventeen weeks at best ,
and the program of the Metropolitan
Opera House , with its list of box-hold
ers why , for all folks know , you
might save up for that , whereas the
automobile is a continuous expense ,
winter and summer , week in and week
out. "
Itfancliuria'M Soil Products.
Millet , Indian corn and wheat are
among the chief farm produces of Man
churia. Apples and grapes do well , al
though the native apple is soft and
laoks flavor. Tomatoes grow in great
abundance , particularly in southern ,
Manchuria , where asparagus also flour
ishes. All vegetables , as a rule , can be
grown In abundance.
When the men angels get together In
heaven and tell each other what -they
hated most on earth , they will say :
"Having our engagements announced. "
Some men are -so mean tBey don't
like a love story that comes out all
right In the end.
SAFEGUARD RED CROSS EMBLEM
Geneva Convention Urges Itn Sup
pression for Commercial Uses.
Antiseptic barber shops , pharmacies
and patent-medicine manufacturers
throughout the United States will bo com
pelled to cease using the red cross as a
trade mark , if the convention agreed upon
at the recent international Red Cross con
ference in Geneva is lived up to in every
detail by this country. This convention
provides that each of the signatory coun
tries shall do all in its power to bring
about legislation preventing the use of the
Red Cross insignia for any sort of com
mercial purpose.
It was suggestqd at the convention tliat
such laws be put into effect within five
years. When the reincorporation of the
National Red Cross was effected in 1905
the act passed -by congress provided that
no person or corporation not lawfully en
titled to use the sign of the Red Cross at
that time should thereafter 'be ' permitted
to use it for the purpose of trade or as
an advertisement of any article. Consequently
quently officers of the American Red Cross
say that the use of their insignia by per
sons or corporations which were not au
thorized to use it in 1905 is in direct
violation of the law. The punishment for
the offense , the act provides , is a fine of
not less than $1 nor more than $500 , or
imprisonment for not more than one year ,
or botli fine and imprisonment. All lines
so collected are to be paid to the Ameri
can National Red Cross.
At the time of the reincorporation of
the American National Red Cross it was
not thought advisable to attempt to en
force a retroactive act which would in
terfere with the persons or. corporations
then making use of the symbol of of the
organization for commercial purposes.
Nearly all other countries have carefully
safeguarded the insignia of the Red Cross
and me United States is said to be the
chief offender in the miscellaneous use
of the emblem created for the special pur
pose of protection in time of war to those
who are caring for the sick and wounded.
ROOT VOICES SENTIMENT.
Assures Argentine President of
"Uncle Sam's Friendship.
At the official banquet given in Buenos
Ayes at the Argentine government house
by President Alcorla in honor of Secre
tary Root , to which |
only the diplomatic |
corps and high offi
cers of state were
invited , the secre
tary made what
was considered the
most important
speech he has deliv
ered while on his
tour.
ELIIIU BOOT. Rising to tender
the secretary an official welcome , and pro
posing the health of Mr. 'Root , the Presi
dent traced the similarity in the constitu
tions , progress , and success in overcoming
obstacles , of North and South America.
He dwelt especially on the mutual ad
vantage of closer friendship between th i
races.
Mr. Root , in replying , thanie * fee Pres
ident in behalf of President Roosevelt
and "the millions of citizens in the United
States. " Then he said :
We inherit the right to be interested in
the Argentine Republic. From the time
when Benjamin Rush was fighting , from
the day when James Monroe threw down
the gauntlet of a weak republic , we were
then in defense of its independence and
rights , and from that day to this the in
terest and the friendship of the people of
the United States for the Argentine Republic - ;
public have never changed.
I deemed it a duty to come in response
to your kind invitation to say this and to
say that there is not a cloud in the sky
of good understanding.
We make no alliances , but we make 't
an alliance with all our sisters in send- '
ment and feeling in the pursuit of liber
ty and justice , in mutual helpfulness.
A portrait of the late ex-Speaker Thos.
B. Reed -has just been hung in the state
louse , Augusta , Me.
Mayor Fitzgerald of Boston has notified
the 'foremen ' of the various city depart
ments that loafing must not be tolerated
) n city work.
Col. Andrew L. Harris , who 'became '
aovernor of Ohio through the death of I
John M. Pattison , is a total abstainer ,
islng neither tobacco nor alcoholic
iquors.
Mrs. Hannah Sharp , a candidate for '
jounty recorder at Des Moines , Iowa , is <
naking a stirring campaign , accompanied -
> y a glee club. She is the wife of a ]
Jnion soldier who was disabled in the ,
var. ;
So far as is known there is not a sin-
1
; le photograph of Senator Kittredge of i
South Dakota ha Washington , D. C. He I [
rannot be induced to sit , always excusing j J
limself on the ground that he is too '
> usy. 1
Congressman Gamier of Texas repre- 1
ients the greatest oat raising region in
he world. There are more than 300,000 : i
'Nannies" and "Billies" in the twenty- jj
wo counties composing his district , j
Jvalde county alone has 80,000.
Fifteen men are known -to be still alive
rho served as Confederate Congressmen :
'ohn Geode and Roger A. Pryor , Vir-
inia ; A. S. Colyar , J. D. C. Atkins , Jo-
eph B. Heiskel and John V. Wright , '
rennessee ; Hiram B. Bell , Georgia ; .
lenry C. Jones , Florida ; James L. Pugh ,
ilabama ; S. B. Gallahan , Indian Terri-
ory ; J. A. P. Campbell , Mississippi ; S.
I. Ford , Kentucky ; W. H. Tibbs , North
Jarolina.
Ex-Gov. Bradley of Kentucky , in a re- :
ent address in Louisville , Ky. , advo- l
ated "graft" as a study coursp in the j (
chools of the country. j 3
Jonathan Bourne , Oregon's Senator ,
epresents a new order of things , both in i
is State and nation. He is the first Sen- ' {
tor ever elected by a popular vote. He
5 a millionaire. I
Ex-Senator Chandler was asked by a i
oung woman : "Don't you enjoy going '
a to the country in your automobile ? "
Yes , " answered Mr. Chandler , "but the *
leasure is.nothing compared withthe s
atisfaction of getting home safely. " ' i
CHILE GETS SHOGI
Earthquake Wrecks Valparaisi
and Other Cities ,
HUNDEEDS ARE DEM
Fire Follows Quake and Victims An
Roasted in Demolished Homes.
JOIfmster Similar to That at Sai
Francisco Befalls Port and Cnpi
tal of Southern Republic Tida
Wave Leaves Trail of Disaster-
Miles of Pacific Coast Line o :
South America Wrecked.
One of the worst earthquake disas
ters in the history of South America
occurred in Chile , with the City of Valparaiso
of the calamity
paraiso as the focus point
lamity , according to cables from Valparaiso
raise , Buenos Ayres , aud other SoutL
American points. Advices are to the
effect that a large part of Valparaiso
has been blotted out , with an appalling
loss of life and the destruction of mil
lions of dollars' worth of property ,
while frightful damage has also been
caused to other towns and villages for
hundreds of miles up and down the
coast in Chile asd Peru , by the suc
cession of earthquake shocks which
wrecked the entire Pacific coast line
of South America Thursday night
So widespread and so great is the
disaster that it was impossible as yet
to gather more than the most frag
mentary details , but enough is known
to make it sure that the catastrophe
ranks second only to that in San Fran
cisco. As was the case in San Fran
cisco , famine threatens the tens of thou
sands of survivors of the earthquake.
The earthquake caused such terrible
immediate damage that all communica
tion was stopped between Chile and the
remainder of the world. The most ter
rible rumors were afloat in Argentina
and Brazil as to the extent of the Chi
lean disaster , some reports being to the
effect that not only , has Valparaiso
been largely destroyed but that the
earthquake has caused sweeping loss in
life and property from one end of Chile
to the other. According to some of these
reports , Chile is said to be a land of
kvreck , desolation and death from the
southern to the northern boundary.
Ships Lost in Harbor.
Following the first shock , which came
vithout warning and wts of terrific
'ores , a tidal wave swept in from the
) cean. Many vessels were borne aloft
) y it and hurled high and dry ashore
vheve their wrecks are now lying. Just
ibove the city one steaxiship lies near-
y a half mile inland , her plates rip-
> ed and torn by the rocks and her hull
mlf buried in the sand.
The damage to the shipping is be-
* end computation. At the time of the
latastrophe the harbor was filled witi
ihipping from all ports of the world
nany of the vessels being laden witl
ich cargoes. More than half of then
ire ashore and most of the latter it
nil be impossible to float again. Scores
if seamen l st their lives as the great
idal wave swept the vessels ashore ,
ind for miles along the coast in the
ity the beaches are strewn with dead
> odies and all kinds of wreckage.
The misery of the Chilean inhabit-
.nts is almost indescribable. It must
ie remembered that it is mid-winter
here and that the rigors of the climate
dd to the suffering of the thousands
rUe have bceii made homeless.
Two Severe Shocks Felt.
There were two distinct shocks in
'alparaiso , the second one causing
uost of the damage. Scores of houses
rumpled up like so many card struc-
ures , while others ware engulfed by
be chasms of the earthquake , and hun-
reds of men. women and children
; ere blotted out of existence. The city
ecame a raging sea of flame , fires niak-
iig headway in a dozen different sec-
ions , most of the city which escaped
tie earthquake's ravages being doom-
d by the flames. The fire-fighting
Drees of Valparaiso were powerless
gainst the tremendous extent of the
ames and little could be done to cjieck
lieir onslaught
An extremely large number of per-
3ns in Valparaiso who were not killed
istantly by the earthquake's effects
uttered injury from tumbling walls ,
nd the list of the maimed and wound-
1 will probably run into the thous-
nds. The scenes in Valparaiso have
robably never been approached in the
estern hemisphere except at San
'rancisco ' , the city being an utter in-
jrno of death , suffering and desola-
on.
Crossed the Antics.
From the few details of the earth-
uake obtainable it appears that the
isturbance passed south along the Pa-
fic coast and cross the Andes at
uenos Ayres. During the night the
) lcano of Tupungato was heard roar-
ig , and the people fled to the churches
> pray for safety. At San Juan , in
ie Andes , high winds accompanied the
jocks.
The shock around Los Andes was
svere , and it is feared that the town
is been destroyed. The shocks also
iriously affected the towns of Rosarlo ,
ranas , Rioja , San Luis , and Tucuman.
HAVOC WBOITGHT BY QUAKE.
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Two of the largest cities of the conti
nent and one smaller town are believed
to be practically demolished by the
earthquake and the conflagration that
followed it. These places and the jx > P-
ulation are :
Santiago 275,000
Valparaiso 143,000.
Los And J5,000
The loss of life is estimated at hun
dreds , the number of the injured at
thousands and the value of the proper
ty destroyed at millions.
Although the main commercial cen
ter and the seat of government of Chile
seem to have "suffered most severely
from the disturbance grave alarm is
felt for the safety of the inhabitants
of scores of other places along the
coast , as the whole lower Andes range
was severely shaken.
As at San Francisco , famine threat
ens the tens of thousands of survivors
of the disaster , and an appeal for
world-wide relief is expected iron the
devastated republic.
Historic Earthquakes.
Year. Place. Victims.
343 B. C. Duras , Greece , .
buried and 12 cities destroyed
in Campania Thousands
137 Asia and Macedonia. . .Thousands
557 Constantinople daiuaged.Thousands
742 Syria , Palestine and
Asia , 500 towns destroyed. .Thousands
115S Syria 20,000"
12SG Cilicia 60,000
143G Naples 40,000
1531 Lisbon 30,000
1G2G Kingdom o Naples , 30
villages destroyed 70,000
1G93 Sicily , 54 cities and 300
villages damaged 100,000.
1703 Jecldo , Japan 200,000
3731 Pekin , China 100,000
1754 Grand Cairo 40,000
1755 Lisbon 50,000
1S29 Spain , numerous vil
lages destroyed G,000
1S37 Calabria , Italy 10,000
1SG3 Manila , Philippine Isl
ands XOOO
1SGS Peru and Ecuador 23,000
1SS7 Southern Europe 2,000
1S91 Japan 4,000
l)0o ! ) Calabria , Italy 500
190G San Francisco 2,500
The disturbance was felt at same points
in the Argentine republic.
The earthquake occurred about S
o'clock Thursday evening , and it was
of such tremendous violence that the
seismographs in Washington , Balti
more and other American cities regis
tered the shocks plainly. In Baltimore
the needle was thrown off the register
ing cylinder ,
Is in Earthquake Belt.
Valparaiso is in a marked earth
quake belt. The city was partly de
stroyed in 1855 by a seismic shock , and
many people lost their lives. In 1SSO
another earthquake visited the city and
caused considerable damage , though
the loss of life was Insignificant
There have been shocks of less violent
lent nature in other years. The recur
ring disturbances have caused some of
the residents of the city to build with
a view to earthquake resistance , but
in the main the town's structures cut-
side of the business center are frail.
In one densely populated section the
streets are tortuous and narrow and
the dwellings are so built as to offer
weak resistance to an earth disturb
ance.
In view of the visit of the earth
quake so closely following the San
Francisco disaster M ; is interesting to
note that the formation of the land
and the surroundings of Valparaiso are
similar to those of San Francisco. The
climate also is almost identical with
that of the California city.
In addition to the fear of earthquakes ,
the Valparaiso people are in constant
dread of storms , which sweep in sud
denly and frequently from the sea.
Some of the most violent storms have
been coincident- with earthquake
shocks , and the possibility that the two-
disturbances are allied in origin \ a
matter in which science is interested ,
GREAT COMMERCIAL PORT.
Valparaiso In the Metropolis of
Western South America.
Valparaiso is a fortified seaport of
Chili and the most important commercial
town of the western coast of South Amer
ica. It has a population of 150,000. It
is the capital of a province o the same j
lame and is situated on a large bay of
: he Pacific ocean , seventy-five miles west-
lorthwest of Santiago , with which it Is
connected by rail.
The bay of Valparaiso , which is well
sheltered on three side.is bounded by
anges of hills rising to from 1GOO to
1,700 feet high , on the slopes of which
i considerable portion of the city of Val
paraiso is built. On the south side of the
> ay are the spacious suburbs o Nuevo
tfalecon and Gran Avenida , from which
lass out one of the finest of the thor-
mghfares of Valparaiso , the Avenila De
Las Delicias. The lower central section
tf the city is constituted by the Almen-
Iral having regular and attractive
treets ? nd containing the principal busi-
LCSS houses the park , the plaza Victoria ,
ind the National theater.
To the northwest o this section is the
[ uarter of the city known as the Puerto-
or port ) , in which are situated the great-
r number of the public buildings and the
ast warehouses which line the quays and
"
locks. In this portion of the city" how-
ver , narrow and crooked streets are still
feature , but the newer sectiQns of Val-
iaraiso have an attractive , modern ap-
icarance , the buildings in the business
uarters being massively built.
The city contain * a. numerous foreign
olony. composed ehiofiv of .British , Ger-
lan and French merchants. There is a
ustom house wharf , alongside of which
teamers of ordinary tonnage can moor , * \
ut most of the loading is done by lighters '
com a quay surrounding the town. The
arbor is defended by modern , well-mount-
i batteries.
Severe storms and a tidal wave at Val-
araiso June 30 , 1899 , wrecked the rail-
oad and did great damage to the city.