New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 31, 1928, Page 19

1 VOLGANS To¥ Anciest Spanish Town Thrice Has Boen Destroyed Washington, D. C.. Jan. 31 — Guatemala City is not of the New World, says a communication to the National Geographic Society describ- ing the first of the capitals which Lindbergh visited on his good will tour through Central America. Guatemala City belongs te Old 8pain,” continues the communica- tion. “It is a city suggestive of the Moora, with narrow streets, varicoi- ored houses, deep-set, barred win- dows, bright patios, porticocs, and colonnades. Guatemala's capital has always been Vulcan's plaything. He aken it down, even destroyed it. d has eeen it rise again on threc diffarent sites and under as many rames. Take Engulfs Old City “In 1527 Pedro de Alvarado be gan the first city on the lower slopes of Agua. ] night of torrential rain, lightning, thunder, and earth rumblings, then a territying shudder. The crater of Agua was torn apart and the lake which filled it rushed down to over- whelm the city. “A new capital, built a few miles te the northeast, ona of tha most imposing vities of the New World, with splendid pal- aces and more than 60 impressive church buildings. The old city was but @ memory, earthquakes were forgotten, and all seemed well the new capital grew vicher and mors powerful “In 1717, with Fuego, came an earthguake an eruption of that has | In 1541 came a! of Santo Domingo, and a cheap theater is in another dignified re- liglous edifice. “The central plaza is not beauti- ful now. The earthquake partly ruined the imposing cathedral to the east; the Chiness, a8 & memorial, have built a number of pagodalike bulldings to the north: the digni- fled Centennial Bullding occuples | another side; and the Portales, with little one-and-two-story shops, com- plete the quadrangle. It is a curious picture of ruin, dignity, tawdrincss, | and pagodas. | *“More intcresting than the hodge- podge plaza is the old fruit woman who sits under a canopy on the cor- ner of the square, with hcaps of oranges, mangoes, aguacates (avo- cados), papayas, and melons piled | about her, hobnobhing with all who | pass, the people who for years have been her customers and friends. City Has Many Autos | “Tne street paving is beyond men- | tion. The best is like our old cobbled | variety and the worst stops just short of the impassable. The four- | wheel coach, drawn by two dejected till the usual mode of conveyance, although the city is full of private motor cars. “Guatemala City needs paving, waterworks, and sewers, but o would any town that had passed through the ordeal that came to this cerital in 1917, and steps are Leing taken now to remedy these conditions. The city has many fine shops, comfortabla clubs, at least { two good hot-ls, and inevitabla mo- | tlon-picture theaters, where dani- in time became | aged American films are shown, and | —marimba bands. | “The marimba, that queer Afri- | can instrument whith Guatemala | made its own, has deep. Tich tones, |and produces profoundly stirring music. When one stands elose by, the sound comes soft and mellow, | but not lacking in volume, and when ene hears it from afar there is the |same surging. welling volume of NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1928 " GUATENALA OV [z L1TNG GOSTS TO0 | HIGH FOR BEGGARY They Are Being Driven Out of Angora Angora, Turkey, Jan. 31 (P—The high cost of living here, twice that of Constantinople, has driven out professional beggars, who cannot thrive because their earnings arc not sufficient to purchase even the | | nocessary daily chunk of bread and I rind of cheese. | Mendicants overran the strects ' of Angora seven years ago when the nationalists fires came to town, but the capital now boasts that it lis the only Turkish city with no {begzars. They have all migrated | |to more profitable pastures or 1e- | | maining here, have changed their profession and have gone to work. | The capital also boasts that it| | has less crime than any city in the ! | world and points to ite record dur- |ing the last four years of only three jor four thefts and murder an [ually. This virtuous record ean | |be attributed largely to the fact | | that in Angora there is no place for |a criminal to hide. There are no | stuma and such is the housing short- | age that every cranny of every shack | |is filled with deputies and other gov ernment dignit: ries, lsaving no room ! for the shelter Qf would-bhe thieves jand thug; | Bridgeport Girl Who | [ Ran Away Is Found | | Albany, N. Y., Jan. 31 P — A story of an attempted elopement of | Rridgeport, Conn., girl and of | three weeks of masquerading in bov's clothes was told by the girl o police here last night. The travels of | Marjorie Seward, 18 years old, from Jeveld the city. Again it was built [harmony, eften wildly barbaric, but lone pawnshop to another as she at and again shaken down in 1773, the year of the Boston Tea Party. Rebuilt Since 1917 “The capital waz again trans- farred, this time 30 miles away to the site of the present city. lite of the peopla moved on until in 1917 eame a serles of tremblings that first cracked the thick adohe walls and then them ‘o crumble. Sine> 1917 the capital city has again been practically rebuilt thus illustrating the tenacity with which people cling to homes that have baen erected where the shad- ow of some volcano falls. “Tha population of the present capital is mora than 100,000, Th» city, set in the midst of the Valley of the Rio de las Vacaa (Cow River) 18 hemmed in by low mountain caused canoes. Tost Office in Monastery *At one time the church and the elergy dominated the capital ity and the monastic ordera built many | always denoting some deep, | dreamed primitive emotion | “T do net belieye that any other rational instrument so complately | exprosses the sonl of fhe people and the | Who make it and play it aa does| ! it the Indian of musical ex. tha marimba. In | Guatemala. finds the | pression of his race. | “But Guatemala City is fo me not | a placa of churches, plazas, build | and patement. Its overtones are 1 by a little group of v. hites and mestizoz (half-hreeds), hut ifs dominant mnote comes from the In- dlan masses. “The streets of the city with steady processions of | carriers, oxcarts, trains. | Indian is the burden-carrier, | threng Tndian The the | Mixeo, live the Indians who each day carry to the capital the food- | stutfs which its pecple buy.” Ofl extracted from the faws of half- | ox-driver, the muleteer, the servant. | ridges and a group of imposing vol- | Ten miles away, in the village nvlrm,“ ST lven tempted to sell a coat fo raise need- |ed funds finally attracted the atten. | tion of a policoman whe questioned | the girl until she admitted her identity. | Taken before the polica chiet, she fold him of eloping with a 17 3 old Bridgeport boy and of futile at. | tempis to get a marriage lieanse Meeting with failure in the first stages of their elopement, they sep: arated, she said, after she had bor rowed @ st of his clothes for dis guise. Police satd they found she {had been roaming the highways for mora than threa weeks whila her parents conducted a search for her. LEXINGTON LODGE INITIATION | Lexington lodge will open its de | gree work for 1928 on Thursday | evening when a class of six candi-| tha initiatory | degree. The first, second and third | | degree will be conferred on these ! candidates on February 9, 16 and {23. On IFebruary 16th the usual re | ception to new members will ba held | really magniticent structures. The | porpoises is widely used for lubri- | with lunch and a social hour. orders were banished, however, and the post office and customhouse now occupy the Monastery of San Fran- elsco; the Nationsl Inatitute is in cating the mechanissm of watches and clocks. A fathom fs six feet. Tt takes one minute for all the blood in the human body to pass | through the heart. | 600D NEAL FOR %5 CENTS EXPLAINED Narshall Gollege Dean Tells How It Gan Be Done Huntington, W. 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