Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 16, 1881, Page 3

I~ 4 ig . of Vera Cruz is one of the ' spray MEXICO AS IT IS. Vera Crug in a Norther—-The Chief Harbor of the Repub- lic ~A Riden the Interior. Luxuriance of Vegetation - A Trove ioal Village -The Noble House of Lara. Special Correspondence of the Globe: Democrat VErA CrUR, November 20, 1881, — We are in the city of Vera Cruz—-H. Vera Cruz, or the heroic Vera Cruz, as it styles itself—and we have come down direct from Mexico by special train on Sunday, to reach the heroic city on Monday and take the steamer for Minititlan on Tuesday. But as we come into open plain there was something windy in the flight of the buzzards hovering over our heads and in the swift w?:irl of the ducks and pigeons, and I asked the guard if there was any wind in Vera Cruz ‘‘Si Senor. The norther has been blow- ing for two days, and as it is the tidal norther, it is probably y{wd for three days more.” This settled the ques- tion of our leaving Vera Cruz, or while the norther blows, blow it ever 80 gently, though the ships lie sunk at anchor, noses windward, in the narrow gut they call a harbor, be- tween the city and the castle, they can neither load or unload cargo or engers, nor even clear nor enter. n last week's norther the City of Nankin, of the Alexandre line, from New York, came in and lay under the ice of the island of Sacrificios untila lull in the tempest tempted her cap- tain to try and make the harbor. In a half an hour he would have made it, but the storm caught him ina half a minute, bumped him on the reef from from which he got off by leaving half his cargo and three blades of hisscrew; when he got to his anchorage his ship was not as pretty as it used to be, but the captain, a veteran of the gulf, knew more than he did an hour be- fore. Such is THE CHIEF HARBOR of the republic, and while our bag- is going to the hotel at New Vork prices, we walk down to the custom house mole to inepect the har- bor. We inspect it at a distance, for the mole, an absurd little sea-work of stone sticking out a hundred yards into the gulf, where it has gathered a shoal all around it, is washed by the breakers that come in across the path of commerce. Not much use for the mole to-day; no lighter would dare to tempt that sea for love or money, and no Jrow-boat has any business out there. Yet it is only an ordinary gale which is blowing; the open sea is not dangerous —only the harbor. Alltold, thero are some thirty craft, steamers and barks and smaller vessels, lying at anchor before us, every one of them fit to face the 700 miles between here and the jetties at Fort Eads, but not one which can send a message across the 700 yards of soapsuds, churning and dashing between us and them. Decidedly, among the im- provements which Mexico needs, a harbor improvement is not the least, and the improvement of this harbor enter- prises which are to occupy our atten- tion, To build a sea wall or dike along the two open sides, will take a matter of a couple of hundred thou- sand cubic yards of stene, and it is a question where the stone can be found. As we can neither have the harbor nor study it while the norther blows, we will take two days to ex- amine a quarry which is satd to exist some twenty miles up the coast. The only way to reach it is by horseback, and as we can not go and come in a day, we make two easy days of it, starting at 10 o'clock, after a late breakfast. Our party consists of four persons, the colonel, who is an expert in stone quarries, but not in Spanish; myself, as interpreter, a polite young clerk from one of the business houses as escort, and a mozo, or hoy, to take care of the horses. The horses are hvely and fret and prance until we have crossed the railroad track which marks the northern liniit ot the little city, and are out, ON THE DEACH, where we give them a canter to quiet, them. The beach is our only road for half the way, and we cantor in the teeth of the north wind. and amid the roar of the sea. As far as the eye can see the gulf is a massof tumblingfoam, wave rolling over wave, and sening its in our faces. Welcome the wind, if it blew twice as hard, for it blows from “God’s country,” and the salt of the sea is sweet in our mouths with the savor of home that lies be- yond. Overhead is a leaden sky and off to the northa low bank of dark clouds lines the horizon; out. of theso comes the norther, and it is good for all day and all night. Buzzards drift and soar in the upper air, as if they lived on wind, while lower down in- dustrious pelicans, with & business air, haunt the brakers in search of more substantial food. Flecks of little sandpipers flit across the beash after e :ch succeeding wavs, and goggle-cyca crabs hurry and skurry betwee: our horses’ feet in search of their holea. We meet pilgrims going and coming, bare-footed and often bare-legzed, but with their heads carefully tied up in red handkerchiefs and their ponchos wrapped abcut their upper story, They are neither on foot nor in vehi- cles, but up in the air, perched upon a nondescript load of crates of pottery, or bales of garden produce lll!; gourds and calabashes and paniers, and poul- try wrapped around with withes, as if ready for roasting, with the feathers on; while lower down the long ears and small feet of the padent ass indicates the present Mexican solution of the great problem of cheap transportation, This is all the life we see for ten miles, as we pick our way amid the driftwood on the bench, between the salt wayes on our right and the sand hills on our left. The driftwood was all swept down to sea by tropical rivers before it was washed on the beach, all but the spars and cabin doors of a clumsy white schooner from Maine, that came ashore last year, and that weeps copious brine through the seams and ports of her melancholy hull, e ride in silence, for the noise drowns speech until we come to a point where the louder roar ot surf and thicker flight of pelicans and sea gulls tells us of THE BAR OF ANTIGUA. Outside of it is a Ewilder waste of foam, with the breakers yellow with the sand of the bar; inside 18 a green, quet river, ruuning parallel to the to the angry sea, from which it is separated only by a few yards of sand dunes, At the angle of the meeting are a few desolate huts of fishermen, and the fishermen are standing bare legeed in the water with nets, which they throw like lassoes over the pass- ing fish. Sometimes the fish waits to be caught—most frequently he de clines. There are more skiliful fisher- men in the air. A huge pelican, al- most over our heads, shuts his wings and drops down as if he had beon fired out of a gun, beak foremost, into the water. He is up again in two seconds, and the contrast between the suddenness of his fall and the lazy, contented flap of his wings as he soars away tells us that he hasmade asquare meal and thete is one fish less in the Antiqua river, Our quarry lies on both sides of the river, some ten miles further up, and as we leave the beach we plunge first amid the sand hills, which the wind piles up and blows away, and then through chapparal and through the harvest of the nopal or prickly cactus, The nopal is blazoned on the coast of arms of Mexico, as the fabled bush on which the eagle with the serpent in its mouth indicated the site of ‘the Aztec capital. It is highly prized as one of the resources of the country, for it bears at every point a fruit called the tuna, the shape and size and color of the fig. Under the thick skin is a blood-red pulp pret y well filled with seeds, aud on this the poor are said to live when out of wcrk. Its nutritious value is about equal to that of the papaw, its flavor poorer than the per- simmon, and as it is highly diuretic I should say that a poar family » ho had to choose between dying of starvation and living on the tuna, would be placed between the devil and the deep sea. As we leave the sand hiils and the chapparal and the nopal we gradually enter the TROPICAL FOREST. Although the soil beneéath our feet is mere sand the vegetation on either hand is 8o luxuriant as to form an un- broken sheet of verdure above and an impenetrable mass of stems and thorns below. An occasional clearing of a few yards shows us a hut with walls of cane, about as substantial as a fence of fishing poles, with a thick thatch of cocoa-tree leaves settling down on it like a very old man’s hat on a very spindled-shanked boy. In front of the hut are a few turkeys and chickens and dogs and babies, behind it a gar- den of green banana trees or towering cocoa nuts or monstrous sugar cane. 1 figure out that the whole outfit would be worth in the market, say $2; cost of getting it to the market, $3; and I ride on much impressed with the boundless wea th of the tropics. At one hut where we stop for a glass «f water, a colred gentleman epeaks to us in English, and T ask lim if heis not from the States. Yes, he came from New York, Las been here five years. “‘Isn’t New York good enough to live in?” “Isn’t it good enough to live in? Why, mister, wouldn't give de dust what blows roun’ de streets in New York for dis whole country.” Alas for the wisdom that comes too late! Nevertheless, this were a_land not to be laughed at, if we would only find arace of men to till it. The soil is mere sand, but warmth and sunshine are the great fertilizers, and the growth is only too abundant. Beside the cocoanut and sugar-cane, and banana, which cultivate themselves, there are rubber trees, which are not cultivated, and coffes, which only grows wild, We catch persumes of balsam and vanilla, or oranges and lemons, see wild coffee growing on trees, zapotes with their wealth of mameys and their richer timber, fustic and bergamot, and heaven knows what not, but all nncared for; even the one great corn-field which we saw fenced in was overrun with weeds. The tropics need improvement, and they need it badly, So we trot into SAN FRANCISCO, not the capital of the P slope, but something like it was forty years ago, o half a dozen nuts grouped around a corner bar-room. Here a dame smokes cigarettes and seils uguardiente and Anheuser’s beer. We are to tleep (after dinner) at a fanch across the river, and while the old dume is telling us that she don’t know how one can cross the river, the ford being fully 200 yards from her bar, a party of engincers gallop up and exchange salutations in Spanish. One of them had so beautiful a Corkonian mug under his battered sombrera that I talk to him in En- glish and ask him if he is the chief engineer of the new narrow-gauge road which is coming up that way with a subsidy, There is no change in his expression as he sits down on the bench beside m s and says: “Iam the boss chain-dragger, and hard work it 18 through the divvel's own roads about here,” “‘Chapparal and sporia and pica- pica?’ 1 guggest. “‘Worsen that, width the wood.lice and ticks, and dhere's the bugs they call the carappatics; oh, thim’s the divvels. We do sit down for two hours at night a-scrapin’ thim off our legs. Wan o' thim gets in‘o yer leg and he'll make a Lole there Il kill a horse.” Llook encouragement, and ho goes on, It burries in there and feeds and grows; shure there's wan o’ the byes in Mexico now—that Mr. Waellington sint him there - widh a hole in his leg you could put your hand into 't.” Ireceive this horritle story with stoical composure, and he continues: ““He will lose his leg; the flesh about it has turned quite green: if ‘indade he don’t lose his life. Bad luck to the country.” Here he obligingly picked from his neck & specimen of the Carapato, which Las the body of the Cinex lec- tularius, or boarding house bed bug, enlivened by the legs of the Culex irritans, or wicked flea, As Itook my seat at the other end of the bench the senior from Cork added: *‘Yis, you're betther where yc are now. Are yc an ingeneer!" shiui THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY DECEMBER 16, 188i better. A gentleman whom 1 left aix months ago head waiter at the Con. cordia ealled to seo me a few days ago in Mexico, and told me he had been surveying for Grant’s railroad. He said he never knew he was an en- ginecer until he started, but when he saw the other fellows he thought he was a pretty good one. 1 mod- estly admit that 1 am an engmeer; T am going up to La Pena to 1ook for rock tor Vera Cruz barbor. “Divil the rock'll yo get as big as yer lat; shure it tepetate you'll get, and nothing more.” Tepetate is the inside filling of a young voleano, the stuff it produces before it gets old enough to erupt lava It is harder than clay to cut, and when cut is no use for filling or for anything else This not encour- aging as the reward of our ride, but we propose to look forourselves in the morning. This MEXTCAN FROM (ORK I afterward found out was a Senor Murphy, one of the celebrated char- acters of the coun‘ry, where he has re sided for nearly t irty years. He was formerly driver of a stago coach b tween Jalaga and Mexico, and amass- ed a comfortable competence from the peculiar circumstance that his stage waa never robbed. People who had special reasons tor objecting torobbery would pay £500 for a ride on Murphy’s coach in preference to paying 850 to the rival line. He says that he has often charged an ounce of gold, $16, for guaranteecing the delivery of a let- ter in Mexico, when every mail was certair to be robbed, but he has never told how it came that robbers who would stop every other coach day after day would a low him to go on un- molested. The secret. of course, is that he has made his bargain with the brigands like a sensible man and col- On the principle of the dog who was supposed to be a good coon dog, 1 suppose I am an engineer, 1 have taken brevet rank as an engineer since I came here, and why should I not! The fiest chief engineer of the road was a physician when he landed, but became an engineer because it paid lected the toll from his passengers, but nobody has ever got him to admit that he had ever seen a bri- and or knew one of them by sight. o is living now in comfort at Jalapa, near which city he owns a fine farm, and at present is engaged in showing the railroad engineers the paths and passes, and winding ways through the mountain gorges and ravines, by which he used to make his way un- scathed to the capital in the troubled days of the empire. His long resi- dence in Mexico had not worn a bit of the Irish off of him, and he was as bright and clever as if he had just landed from an emigrant ship at Cas- tle Garden. His information about where we would find stone, and where we would not find it, proved more accurate than any we had received, as we found out after leaving him and making our way to our sleeping quar- ters. For this night we will sieep in the rancho of our friend, Don Antonio de Lara, ocr ss the river. * * * * * We slept on cot beds, without mat- tress beneath or blanket aboye. In the night the nerther came inland and whistled northern airs through the chinks and crevices until I wondered how soon the old house would go. Its timbers, however, were fastened by lariats, which refused to give way, and the house lasted until dawn, when we eaddled and started out for our quar- ry. We found that our Hibernian friend was right, and the quarry was a myth, and eo far we had had our ride for nothing. Not alt . gether for nothing, though, Before starting we had a breakfast of fish from the river worthy of an epi- cure, and we had seen something of Mexico, We had seer the richness of nature and the poverty of man, the luxuriance of tropic growth and the lifelessness of life in a tropic village; and as we trotied back through the forest and across the sand-hills and along the beach back to the city, with the north wind blowing on our backs, we agreed that a great many things needed improyement before the mag- niticent possibilities of the czuntry be- come soberactualities, J.A D L3 is to be found in Buroock’s Broob Bir- teis, Asan antidote for sick he dache, female weal oss, biliousness, imdigestion, constipation, and other diseases of a kin: Gentle Women Who want glossy, luxuriant and wavy tresses of abundant, beanti; Hair_muast uso LYON'S KATHATRON. 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This line I3 sepuippod 1w 1apso Westinghouse Automitic Air-trake nd Miller Platform Couvlor and Bulur; and for SPEED, SBAFETY COMEORT is unsurpassed, Pullman Slecping Car run throngh WITHOUT CIANGE between Kan | as C St. Paul, vie Council Bluffs and nion Pacific Transfer at Coun- Iy on arrival of Kanear neil Blufla train from joux City 11:85 p. m,, pot at SE. Paul at 12:60 3 H1% WNW AND CORRECT Mt CHICAGU & NG AT FeASONADT ANESTIOL FiaT NORTH-WESTERI: tor you 10 take when iraveling In mther ateaction * i it a1t of the Principal Points In the West, Norih and N ALY XA e this Map o this rond cago ant The Principa! Cities of the West ard Northw 1ta through tralng make €lose counections with the trets \ .v MOV ayten Al T s . RoL Y F§'~ Yoy % L p ICAGO_& NORTHWESTIRN WATL A e i e e e 4 ok THE CHICAGO & NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY Overall aftts prineipal Tines, rung each way daily from two 1o our or more Face oy e, Trains. 1 is the only road west of Chicago that uses the The Imperial Palace Dining Cars. Itls the only rand that runs Pullman Sleeping Cars North or Northwest of Chieago. Itbhas nearly -!‘000 MILES OF ROAD, Itforms thoe following Trunk Lines s i ‘ouiell Blufs, Dénver & Callfornia Line,” *Winona, Mininesota & Central Dakata HM: ‘Chlcago, 8t. Paul and Mlnnugouu Line. u "‘('“!f‘Nur.Nu\hmkn& Yankton L ; aut and Ml r{ [lwaukee, Green Ba ) e Ling by ail Coupon TIcket Agents fo the Ubited Biovos sod Xor. Iliinols, Freeport & Dubuque Line, Tickets over this road are sold by CRURAARG i aitie s . y Renmember to ask for Tickets via this road, be sure they read over it, and take none othes, MARVIX HUGHITT, Gon'l Manager, Chicago, s W. H. STEKABTT, Gen'l Pass, Agent, Chicage HARRY P. DURL, Ticket 9,0.'8 N. W, Rall iy, 14th and Faznham streets. D. B KIMBALL, Awistany Arent .8 N, W. lailnay, 14th{and Farnham streete! 3. BELL, Tickot Agent W. Rullway, U, P. R, R. Depod. QARG b AR WM. ROGERS Manufacturing Company, MAKERS OF THE: Finest Sitver Plated Spoons and Forks. The only tional plate that | original firm of is giving for u Rogors Bros. stanco a single All owr Spoons, Forks and vlatad Bpoon J4 Knives plated triple thicknoss with the yroatest plate only on of care. Bach the cetio s lot being hung st on a seale while where expo d heinyg plated, u to woar, therchy insure a foll do ' making a single posit of wilver or platedf&in oo them, We would call woar as long s 1 o triple plated especial atten- tion to our nec- e All Orders in the West should be Addressed to OUR ACENCY, A. B. HUBERMANN, Wholesale Jeweler, TEN 1JOURS IN ADVANCE OF ANY OTHES ROUT) &4 Romomber In wking the Sloux City 1o you get a Through Train. ‘Tho Shortest Ll the Quickest Timo and a Comfortable lide in Throngh « ars betwee NCIL BLUFFS AND ST. PAUL, ce that your Tickots read via the *‘Bloux Oty and Pacifc Railiond. 8, WATTLES, J. R, BUCHANAN Gon'l Puss. Agont. gt o Mi Tows. J. H. O'BRYAN, Southwoetern Agent, Counct Blufls, lowa KANSAS CITY, St. Joe & Conneil Bluffs 1 THE ONL) Direct Line to 8T. LOUIS AND THE EAST From Omahaand the West, No :hauge of cars botwoen Omabi and be. Louls, and bup ono botweon OMAHA and NEW_YOKK, Daily Pasgexn?erTrains EASTERN AND WESTERN CITIES with LKNF CHARGES and IN ADVANCE of ALL{ OTHER LINES, d with Pulim: This entire line 19 equ Palace Slovping Care, Talace Day Couchies, Mili Safoty Platlorm and , and the celobr Woatlnghouse Alr-brko. £478eo that your licked reads VIA nANEAF CITY, 8T, JOSI'Pi! & COUNCIL BLUFFS Rall. road, 'vis 81, Josoph and t. Louis, Tickets for sale ab all coupon statlous L 4 Wost. J. F. BARNARD, A CDAWES, Gen, 8 @on. Pase, and Ticket Agt., b, Josoph, Mo, ¢ | Axpy Bowowy, Ticket Alent, 1020 Faxnham streot, A, K, Bawnarp Genoral Avant, OMAHA, NE THE OCCIDENTAL | J. I. PAYNTER, Proprietor Corner 10th and Howard Btreets, OMAHA, NEB Rates, Two Dollarg PQ{“_DW' NEB, Opera House Clothing Store 0. P, ILOUNID 2|7 South 16th St., Under BOYPR'S OPERA HOUSH. MEN'S AND BOY'S CLOTHING, GENT'S FUHNISHING COODS, HATS & CAPS, TRUNKS, ETC. Large Btnck and New Goods! All Goods Msrk«d in Plain Figures! BStrictly ONE PRICE CLOTHING HOUSE. 1f Honest Goods, I ow Prices and Cour eous treatment will do it, all who call and see for rhemselves will be satisfled that the OPHERA HOUSE CLOTHING STORE is tke place to buy. M. ELGUTTER! Novelties in Children’s Novelties in Boys' Novelties in Youths’ Noveltios in Men's Novelties in White v Noveltios in Under Novelties in Fancy Novelties in Fancy Novelties in Holiday AANALL E E E EL! EL! T TBIOD DDDNLSEIEILE G G G LG G [H [H BELGUTTER'S MAMMOTH ‘CLOTHING HOUSE. 1001 Cor. Farnham & 10th St, 100§