THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: OCTOBER 27, 1912.
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Central America at the Seaside : Punta Arenas' Hotels
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(O-pvrlsht. 1? by Prank G. Carpenter.)
VNT.V All KN Aft Costa Rlri -I
lia'-e comr over the new
railroad down the mountains
of Costa Rica to the Pacific
i-Ti-ffif ocean, ana I am now ai me
liul,Uiil chief part on this side of tho
cirtlicnl awaiting a steamer for Nlca
lamii Tho port la named Punta Arenas.
Tit wcr a mean Sanday Point, and there
s c .loviKh sand hore to plaster the locks
the Panama canal. Kveythlng Is sand.
' roads are of a black sand and the
h ia covered with sand ot a somber
I
It
u .t Arenas has about 6,00!) popula
n It la built on a sandy spit of land
i boidcred on one side by an estuary
i i r.i!c long, tip which one can no Into
ifco interim- of tho country. Thl part of
i't-a il-a Is heavily wooded. It has
t rts of color, cocobola, mahogany and
'l r hard woods, and on my way over
railroad I passed many little sawmill
i ' h wits cutting timber for shipment
e ' id 1 passed also the road to the
,1 ngsrez gold mines, which are located
ro Tic distance away In tho woods. Thoso
tr nes belong to an American company
t nd It la taking out something like $99,009
forth of gold overy month. They have
(Lamp mills and are now employing over
13,0) men.
A Cnstn Hlrixii Ilraort.
Punta Arenas Is somctlmea called tho
Atlantic City of Central America. Dr.
Franklin, the American druggist hero,
says It deserve tho name, but I havo yet
lo find any reason for thu statement.
Atlantic City has white sand nnd It Is
comparatively clean. Tho snnd of Punta
Arenas Is a black na your hat and It Is
mixed with tho debris of the eastern Pa
cific Tho bathing Is good a Atlantlo
City, although now and then thj water Is
cold, The pea hero Is aa warm as board
ing house soup and It Is so Infested with
sharks that ono Is lucky not to lose n
leg while swimming. Indeed, there Is
only one place that Is safe. This Is In-
Fide an Inclosure where the sea Is fenced i
around by a woven wire fence so fine
that the sharks cannot get through. In
fide the fonoo Is a public bathhouse with
steps leading down Into tho water, Tho
bathhouse haa union suits, which It lets
for 12 cents a swim, but these suits ore
fo poorly knitted that If you get near tho
wire fenco you may break a, thread and
be unraveled to nudity before yon get In.
Moreover, the dark sand discolor the
water, and when the tide comes In It ta
somewhat like swimming through mud.
Punta Arenas, llko Atlantic City, ha a
promenade walk with concrete seat on
each side and a bandstand at the end.
It is about ono-flftloth as long aa the
walk at Atlantlo City.
At the Central Anicrlcnu Seaside.
This town I nothing like any of our
American seaside resorts. Take the
hotels. The ono at which I am stopping
is called "La Kuropa." and it Is about the
best In the place. It is a two-story build
ing mado of wood, with a roof of gal
vanized Iron.lLast night we had an earth
quake, which made the wook crock and
the galvanized Iron rumble like so much
stage thunder, but otherwlso no damage
was done. There la no plaster on the
walls to fall and none on the celling. The
walls consist ot plain t?arda nailed to
studding about four feet apart, and the
celling, which 1 fifteen feet high, ha a
lattice work around It about ten feet from
ih floor that ths air may blow through,
There ore no window In my room, which
face the Paolflo ocean, but there is a
lattice work higher up. It 1 only when
the door la open that I can look out on
the sea.
The dining room of the hotel extends
out over the sea, and the maid sweep
the dirt and dropping right out Into the
water. The floor Is of rough lumber, and
there I a low fenco along the side which
faces the ocean.
The hotel I dignified in that It hat
two stories. The other building are
mostly of one story, with rooms looking
out on the street, so that one frequently
sees the people dressing as he goes by.
The buildings are mado of boards and
rpofed with red tiles ending In a gutter
which ha a pipe extending out over the
sidewalk. It rains now and then, and
the water from the roof pour down
through these pipes upon the middle of the
pavemtnt so that one hah to shy In and
out to keep from receiving a cetaract
down the back of hi neck. ,
I wish I could show you the streets) of
Punta Arena. They ore unpaved and
heavy with the dirty black sand. Some
ot them ore lined with coooonut palm
and there is a beautiful park tn the cea
ter of the city which is filled with tropi
cal vegetation. Hero the band plays be
times.
The store are scattered throughout the
town. The merchants are. chiefly Costa
lUcans, and In most cose they have large
stocks ot goods. This U the b urinous con
ter of Pactfia Costa Rica, and the -mer
chandise is .carried from hero ut the
river and to the settlements along the
coast.
The harbor ot Punta Arena la excel
lent, and when the canal I completed It
Is believed that this port will have a con
siderable trade. Tito town 1 now on tlia
boom. The price of real estate have al
ready Increased about 1,000 per cent, and
the people expect groat things when the
steamers from the Atlantlo shall come
across the Isthmus to them.
Hovr One Uvea at the Seaside,
Rut let tne tell you. how one Uvea here
at this Costa Rl can'- resort. Take the
Hotel Kuropa, which, as I havo said. Is
bout the beat here. 1 have described
the bare walls ot my room, and it out
look upon the Pacific The only furni
ture 1 on Iron bed, a wuslistand and two
. ckety chairs. Upon the waahstand Is a
tolltary towel. I liave a right to one
) On,irh.e. 2tfexr Trans- CoixusxLaly w
I Railroad.. It cozxnfcte t2u?y 4Siteax.,
JL3M4.rju lit" "---- 0?Jr ,P. tiJ.iBlPlfc
towel every day It I so demand, but no
change Is made unless on request. My
water pitcher is of about the size ot a
largo beer schooner. It may liold one
liter, but U. In not always full. I am al-1 The country Is now producing nbout K.
lowed u napkin a week, and this has been j 000,000 pounds every year, nnd tho bulk
ot this goes to London and Paris. The
people hero say their coffco Is too rich
for American blood, and that they can
get several cents more a pound from the
Kuropeans than from us. The coffes
trees nro descendants of tho Arabian
plants, and some of the beans look Ilka
Mocha, although the average Is larger.
Most of the crop is raised on small
farms, ranging In size from forty to fifty
distance back from the coast, and will over the world, but those of Costa Itlea
probably be opened up to settlement when are different from nny I have seen in
mo canal is compieieu. i nave aireauy irozii, jhviv or cisewnere. ine young
written something of Costa Rica coffee plants aro set out In the shade, and
bananas and other trees are cultivated
changed only upon my request. There
seems to be a constant mix-up of napkins,
and I am now protecting myself by writ
ing a great C on the knot In which mme
Is tied at each meal,
The eating hero I awful. The regular
breakfast, which 1 take at 7 a. m., con
sists of a cup of black coffeo and hot
milk, with some crusts of dry bread. Rut-
ter is furnished, but this is so unapeak-
ntilv tinri Ihnft T 1n nnt 0.t It. TV cm nrft
on extra and I pay 12 cents for each one' ucr" u' lo lw utro''' " 13
I order. They art. ot tho sorambllng va- -r tne ncn man 10 own nis uwn
Sanatorium
This lBstltutioB fi tba only ob
Id the central west with separate
buildings -situated la their own
Ample grounds, yet entirely
distinct and rendering It possible
lo classify cases. The one building
being fitted ter and devoted to the
treatment ot noncontagious and
nonmental &leasa, no others be
ing admitted. The other Heit
Cottage being dealgBM for and
devoted to the exclusive treatment
at telect meats I casts, requiring
tor a tlm'i watchful care and spe
cial Burning.
rlety. It is risky to try them soft boiled.
I piece out my breakfast with some Jam
which I buy at the store.
La Europa serves luncheon between 11
and 12. This consists of a soup, a fish
and a beefsteak, with rice and potatoes,
or one can have egg) without extra
charge. Between 6 and 7 o'clock In the
evening they havo a dinner which Is
much like the second breakfast. It con
slat of sbup, of fish, some meat and a
dessert. The desiert always consists of
preserves. Tho country Is full of ripe
bananas, pineapples and oranges, but no
fresh fruit Is served, except upon order.
I buy some In tho market and bring my
own fruit to the table.
The Ubiquitous Uussnrd,
In fact, there is about only one thing
which Is freo in Punta Arenas. This Is
on hand at all meals and I might say at
all other times. I rofer to the ubiquitous
busxsrd or vulture, which Is the scav
enger ot Costa Rica, I met him first In
the capital, where hn walked Into mj
room at tho hotel and pecked at the sofa.
I have seen him everywhere else, and
here on tha sea coast his name is legion.
I can see forty vultures roosting on tho
root about me fin I am writing this let- i
tor. They sit on the fenco a I cat myj
breakfast and their dead, ricepy r,ycs
soom to be weighing the meat oil my
bones and wondering how It1 would taste
If served In true vulture fashion, a trifle
high.
I verily believe there are a many
buzzards here as there are people. The
great birds aro protected by law and
they take tho place of the garbage
wagons of Panama. I do not llko them.
They carry me back to Rombay, and the
great white towers of sllenco, upon which
the Parseea lay out their" dead, where
upon, theBe birds pick the bones clean.
New TrniisFuntlnentnl, Ilntlrond,
I came to Punta Arenas Upon tho new
est .of tho transcontinental railroads.
There aro now lines connecting the
oceans, all the way from the a rand
Trunk Pacific, in Canada, whloh ends at
rliiCQ Iiuport, to that which Joins Buenos
Aires' to Valparaiso at the southern end
ot the hemisphere. The shortest railroad
our line at Panama, and next, per
haps, that at Tehuantepec This new road
In Costa Rica, which was comploted last
year, connect with the Atlantlo railway
at San Jose, and run down her to tho
Gulf of Nlcoya. It makes the line from
ocean to ocean a little over1 ISO miles
long, and It Is one of the scenlo routes
of the world, I have already described
the tropical beauties of the Atlantlo slope
between Lemon and San Jose. They
compare with the Himalaya mountains
and the jungle 1 quite as luxuriant.
On the western dope the land Is now as
dry almost as the Rockies. The fields aro
parched and brown, and the railway winds
about over dry gorges and skirts thirsty
canyons, some of which are 1,000 feet deep.
Approaching the iVclflo the rainfall In
creases and within a short time the land
1 Jungle again. The treealare magnlfl
cent, and among them are mahoganies,
which are being cut for our furniture
markets. Now and then we pas an
orchard ot oranges or a field of bananas
The .fruit is brought to the stations and
Vo can buy seven oranges for S cents of
our money.
This road to tha Paclflo belongs to the
Costa Rlcan government and it Is oper
ated at a considerable loss. It Is poorly
run and the cars are uncomfortable.
They were probably made In Costa Rica.
for they look as though they were cut out
with a hatchet. The distance from Bun
Jose to Punta Arenas Is sixty-nine miles
but the train was six hours on the way
making an average ot less than twelve
mile an hour.
plantation and nearly every ono of the
well-to-do of San Jose has a country
estate tho main crop of which Is coffee.
He has his homo In tho city, but after
tho winter holidays takes his family and
goes to his country home for January
and February, during which tlrpe he har
vests the crop. Tho labor Is done by
tho natives, who work for about CO cents
a day, and these, together with tho fore
men's suffice whllo the master Is not pres
ent I havo visited coffee plantations 'all
with them, (hat they may keep off tha
sun. Tha business Is scientifically car
ried on and groat care Is taken in se
lecting the seed. Tills is from the best
plants and the best beans of those plants.
The beans are sprouted In seed beds
which, have been prepared beforehand.
The ordinary seed bed Is perhaps a yard
square. Tho beans aro only half cov
ered with earth. -Indeed, they are set tn
by hand so that a half ot each only
Bhows above ground. After a time from
the top ot the bean comes a sprout and
from the bottom shoots down a root Into
the oarth. Tho sprout grows into loaves,
and when the plants ore a month old
they aro set out In the nursery In rows
about six Inches apart. They grow there
for a year, and are then transplanted to
an orchard, where they aro to stay. Tho
plants are now about six feet apart.
They are carefully cultivated and are
kept free from weedft They begin to
produce fruit at three years, and will
yield a full crop at five. Iri Costa Rica
a good yield per tree Is about one and
one-half pounds. ,
Tho harvesting reason begins along In
December. The coffee Is then ripe, and
tho trees ore covered with berries much
like red cherries. These are picked off
by girls and carried to the factory, where
the flesh Is taken off by pulping, or by
running the dried seeds through tho ma
chinery. After the beins have been
pulped they still have two thin coats of
skin. These are taken off by machinery,
nnd pa cited up for export.
Hoik- merlrtirt Planters.
I find many American coffee planters
down hero In Costa Rica. I met In Ban
Jose a banker who has an estate of 400
acres, and I saw several other Americans
who own estates on the railroad between
Ban Joso and the Atlantic ocean. I found
a big coffee plantation on my way up
Mount Poos. This belongs to tho British
consul, Mr. Cox, and a young American.
Jerorrie B. Clarke. It Is one of the best
managed coffe estates In tho country.
Tho owners are mixing their work with
brains and aro ijdaptlng modorn' agricul
tural methods to the raising of coffee.
They cultivate the trees so as to con
serve the moisture. They use artificial
fertilizers, adopting tho some formulas as
thoso used In Hawaii. The effect of this
j, work is already shown In their trees and
j in their crops, and people come from far
and hear to see tho results,
i The coffeo plantation of Cox ft Clarko
now consists of 2S0 acres, which they have
J chopped out of the Jungle, It Is as clean
as a Dutchman's flower garden, and the
' trees aro wonderfully thrifty. I asked
Mr. Clarke as tn his labor. He tells me
that the ordinary wage is w cents a uir,
but that he finds It better to contract for ,
his work by tho piece. The contractor
labors with the men, and In this way Is
able to get much more work done. Mr. i
Clarke has also a coffee-drying entab-'
llshment and a lumber mill, connected
with which Is a factory for making Jx
carts.
Thin Man flrowi Oranges.
Among the other American planters I
have me herei Is a Mr. Meigs, tho son
of tho Callfomlan who built so many of
the South American railroads. Mr. Meigs
has an orange oatato on the Atlantlo
slope, which he Is cultivating after mod
ern scientific methods. Ho Is also raising
grape fruit. He has now about 10,000
trees, and they are Just coming Into bear
ing. His fruit will go first to Port LImon
by railroad and thonco direct to Now
York.
Speaking of American institutions in
Costa Rica,. by far the most Influential of
all Is the United Fruit company, the
Costa Rlcan moonger of which Is now
William 13. Mulllns. This company lias
millions Invested In Its banana Industry
and In ranches and railroads. It owns
tho chief transportation lines and has one
of the leading steamship lines of the
Caribbean sea. It has done more to dor
velop Costa Rica than any other one
thing, and It is today the chief Influence
In behalf of tho prosperity and progress
ot tha country.
We ii't Fix a Watch
onco in awhile on the contrary, wo havo a force ot skilled watch
makers in our own shops, who nro kept busy the year 'round, and
our circle of operation extends over several states.
Any man who wnnts to sit down at our benches must have spent
Bomc year3 at the leading American factories, besides taking post
graduate courses in Zurich, Munich or Berlin.
That is why wo can give thorough satisfaction in regard to
fine Swiss watches and French clocks.
Every piece ot repair work becomes a solid link in our well
established reputation, and, while tho scopo of our business makes
prices the lowest, yet our guarantee is as true as a gold band.
The watches that guide the great train systems-of the Union
Pacific and tho C, St. P., M. & O. R. R. havo for years been In
spected and regulated by our staff.
AT THE SIGN OF
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UP WE GOLDEN STAIRS
Design for Iowa's Allison Monument
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DESIGN ACCEPTED BY THE COMMISSION FOR THE MEMORIAL TO BE PLACED IN HONOR OF THE LATE
SENATOR W. B. ALLISON OF IOWA.
Kdgar R, Harlan, secretary of, the Alli
son monument commission, nas an
nounced that tho design submitted by
Mary Evelyn Beatrice Longman Is the otto
selected by the commission as the me
morial which will be erected to Iowa's
distinguished statesman, the late Sen
ator William R. Allison.
The monument was selected from the
fourteen of which models were submitted
tn the formal competition. Artists or
note from all parts of the country wore
entered. The choice ot the commission
was unanimously In harmony with tho
advice of art experts who wero con
sulted In making tho choice.
General Orenvllle M. Dodge of Council
Bluffs, chairman of the committee which
raised funds for tho memorial, Hon. B.
F. Carroll, governor ot Iowa, and lCdgar
It. Harlan, curator of the state hlstoi
leal department, constituted tha porsonnel
ot the commission which made the award.
In consultation with them, wero Charles
Qraofly, one of the most prominent sculp
tors of the country, and Emmanuel Louis
Musqueray of St. Paul, architectural ex
pert and designer of the buildings at tho
8L Louis exposition. Both artists were
nominated by the National Sculpture so
ciety as men who would afford Indisput
able opinion on the art quality of tho
monuments submitted,
Tho successful Bcjuptreas Is a native ot
Ohio. She formorly was a pupil of and
assistant to Daniel Chester French and
a student under the famous St. Oaudons
as well. She studied at Olivet college.
Michigan, In 1K-5-18W1, and at the Art In
stitute of Chicago In 1SSS-11W, graudat
Ing with honors. Since 1DO0 she has
worked in New York. She ia a member
of several important art associations and
has won numerous honors tn competitions
In art.
In tho monument chosen the artist at
tempts to express symbolically as well
as by portraiture the character and In
dividuality ot Senator Allison as required
according to tho program originally an
nounced by the commission. When
erected It will be thirty feet high and
sixty-nine feet wide in the diameter ot
Its base. Upon tho front of the pedestal
Is a portrait of Sonator Allison In bos
re-let flanked on either side by groups
which represent the high civic Ideals for
which he stood.
The artist conceive Senator AlllBon as
a national figure, and works her concep
tion Into the memorial. Seated on the
pedestal, crowned with laurel and holding
In Uio left hand a staff surmounted by
the American eagle, and In the right a
sheathed sword. Is the statue of the re
public. On one sldn of tho monument Is
tho group representing the Victory of
Peace. Peace bears her ancient symbol,
the palm, and leads Humanity, symbol
ized by the mother and child. Labor,
bearing a sheaf of wheat and the scythe,
follows. Tho Victory of Knowledge, pre
sented In a group on the opposite side ot
the pedestal, shows Knowledge carrying
a torch and a sphere, Wisdom carrying
the books ot law and tho Roman fasces,
and Financial Prosperity bearing the
horn of plenty filled with coins.
An Inscription which the commission
will later select will bo inscribed belb
the portrait and below both will be the
motto, "Good citlserishlp l the founda
tion of a nation."
The monument is not a fountain, but is
designed for a water setting. All the
subject to modifications and elaboration
In accordance with the suggestion ot the
expert committee. Tho commission prob-ably-wlll
ask the. artist to strengthen the
portrait and possibly to design tho figure
of tho republic standing Instead of seated
Secretary Harlan declared that the com.
mission, supported by the opinion ot the
expert committee, feels that the highest
expression In form of the character and
Individuality ot the subject has been
reached. It is believed that there remains
only one problem to be solved tn making
the memorial one of tho great expressions
In American sculpture, and that is the
problem ot finding a place for the monu
ment
Three years ,have been apportioned for
Uie selection ot a site and erection of the
memorial. Its cost will bo slightly over
150.000.
alflos
He
HigFs
Women who bear children and ro
main healthy are those who prepare
their syitema In advance ot baby's
coming. Unless tho mother aldi
nature In its pre-natal work the crlali
finds her syitem unequal to the do
xnanda made upon it, and she la ottei
left with weakened health or chronlt
ailments. No remedy Is so truly i
help to nature as Mother's Friend
and no expectant mother should fat
It relieve the pain ant
Indeed, the transportation methods all iTof f fifl,TTmaifni lTl
vet the country aro exceedingly prlml- "" u Jr
State Takes Spurt
over the country are exceedingly prlml
tlve. The most common means ot travel
Is on horseback, and much of the mer
chandise I carried on pack train. The
country 1 wild and mountainous, and the
The Taft campaign In this state has
soil U such that it washes easily and uken declded, nur' lnce the supreme
fall, off in flakes. During the dry sea- , ",0 , "J ,'
Jury Disagrees in
the Wallace Case
After having deliberated for twenty
four hours and having taksn alxty-two
ballots the Jury trying Deputy Sheriff
Mike Wallace on a charge ot vagrancy,
reported Its Inability to agree to Judge
eluding Grand Island. York, Auburn, Cen- I Leslie in district court yesterday and was
I am told that there are excellent coffee . tral cttr. Cambrtdgo and others, The i discharged. Wallace will be tried again.
lands in this part of Costa Rica. They J committee sot busy at once to supply ( The Jury stood sevsn to five on the
lie abut 8000 ftet abo.o the sea, some jsiieaker. Increased numbers ot Inqulr- i final ballot
son the roads are filled with clouds of
dust -and at the time ot the rains they
are rivers of mud. They are very much
the same as the roads of northern China
consisting ot ditches, cut by the wheels
Ui a depth of fifteen or twenty feet, wlth-
hlgh wall ot dry, soft earth on each
side.
tin M- Cof- I'lantnttoiiK,
Beginning a few days after that decision
was made known, the malls coming Into
state headquarters at the Paxton hotel
were a great deal heavier than they have
been at any time during the campaign.
Within three days after the decision
twas rendered tho headquavttrs had re
ceived-demands for speakers nt twelve
ot tho principal cities ot the state. In
figures in the model aro sketches and an, dUcomfort tra!n
the ligaments, makes pliant and elan
tic those fibres and muscles whlcl
nature ia expanding, prevents numb
nets ot limbs, and soothes the lnflam
matlon of breaat glands. The system
by Mother'!
les for republican literature came Good-,
lng In and the office was kept busy send-
Iny out copies of the republican plat
form, the Barthold reply to Roosevelt,
the prosperity cards and lots of other being thus prepared
material that has been dispensed regu
larly from the headquarters,
ANNOUNCEMENT!
Ill order to meet the demands of increasing business,
THE LION BONDING & SURETY CO. OF OMAHA
has secured much larger quarters on the 9th floor of
the new W. 0. W. building, where it will be pleased to
receive patrons and friends. :: :: :: ::
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Clarence E. Harman I
of Holdredgs, Nebraska,
For State
Railway
Commissioner
CANDIDATE
Democratic and People's
Ind. Parties asks
your support.
Pledged to you.
You need him. He needs
your vofce.
Right on public questions.
Not a fighter of sham bat
tles, but will fight for
the things you want.
Vote for him.
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may not be safely met Mother'i
Friend assures a speedy and complete
recovery for the mother, and cho it
left a healthy woman to enjoy tbt
rearing of her
child. Mother's
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trus stores,
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ant mothers which contains much
Taluable Information, and many sug
gestions ot a helpful nature
BlatFlELO REGULATOR CO., AtLata. Go.
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WM. J. BOEKHOFF,
SuaU Qsalsr.
Phones Dor. sts.
Voxi For
John H. Morehead
Democratic and People's Independent
Nominee
FOR GOVERNOR
Falls City, Ksb.
SI.SCTXOX HOTAS1BEB 5TH.
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