The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, August 30, 1906, Image 6
CHARACTERISTIC
SEA
Valparaiso, capital of the province
of Valparaiso, is the principal city on
the South American west coast. It is
Chile's fortified seaport and has a
population of about one hundred and
fifty thousand, having grown from six
thousand in 1826. It is one of the
most progressive cities of South
America.
It is connected bv rail with Santiago,
the capital, sixty-eight miles
distant.
Paralleling the Chilean coast of
twenty-three hundred miles is the
same mountain chain which lies at
the back of the State of California.
and through which the earth's tremors
ran which so completely transformed
San Francisco.
There are two sections of Valparaiso,
one devoted to commercial activity
and the other to domestic life,
that part of the city fronting the
water, on which immense warehouses
and spacious docks and quays
are built, having been in the early
days of Valparaiso the centre of its
thrift. As Valparaiso began to grow
there was a gradual movement lack
from the shore front, until to-day the
slopes leading to the heights are occupied
by magnificent residences, the
homes of the big merchants of the
city, all built to endure, and forming
one of the show sights of the Chilean
city.
Of course, the streets in the old
quarter are crooked and narrow, but
the enterprise which struck the city
three decades ago .'s seen in the regular,
wide and perfectly equipped thoroughfares
in the Almendral. In a
southern direction from the city run
the Nuevo Malecob and Gran Abenida,
joining out in the country in
what is known as one of the best
thoroughfares in the world.
Valparaiso's harbor is protected on i
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three sides by steep hills, which rise
> a height O-T700 feet, and are terraced
by rows of wooden houses. The
finer buildings of brick and stone, are
situated below on the level, which is
.practically all made ground.
The harbor is open to exposure
from the north, and is .a dangerous
-anchorage for vessels at all seasons
of the year. In ordinary weather
% there is always a heavy surf, and
wnen a storm occurs vessels are ire-quently
torn adrift from their anchorage
and dasheu to pieces on the
i beach. The Chilean Congress recently.
decided to have a breakwater constructed
to protect the shipping at a
cost of $20,000,000.
There are several wharves on the
neater front where ships of small tonnage
can go alongside, but the larger
steamers have to anchor in the bay
and discharge and load their freight
by lighters. The principal steamship
line to Valparaiso is the Pacific Mail
Steam Navigation Company, which
cperates a service from Liverpool via
the Straits of Magellan and a coast
service between Valparaiso and Panda.
The town section of the City of
"vaiparaiso i: called the Almendral.
In it the principal business houses,
the Park, and the Plaza Victoria are
situated. The streets are broad, reg
Sotomayor Square on Water Front.
tilar, and well built. One of the finest
new stone houses in this section is
the five-story building erected and
owned by the Mercurio newspaper.
The terraces on which the wooden
houses are situated are reached from
the lower section of the city by means
of electric elevators.
To the northwest of the Almendral
is the quarter known as the Puerto.
in which the public buildings,
warehouses, and docks are situated.
The streets in this older section c:
the *?'ty are narrow and crooked and
the majority of the buildings old in
;:'-ucture and design.
The "Puerto" has three famous saIsn't
It the Truth? j
"Say, paw," queried little Tommy
Toddles, "who are the city authorities?"
"The city authorities, my son," replied
Toddles, Sr., "are officials who
-claim to have no authority when the
dear public wants something done."
-?Chicago News.
Few Diamond Weddings.
Only one couple in 11,000 live to
^celebrate their diamond wedding.
: VIEWS IN VALI
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AREOrXDWUS REPORTED PI
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loons which have been known to
sailors of nations for oyer fifty
years. They are called the "Foretop,
"Maintop," and "Mizzentop,"
respectively, a-d a4i still frequented
by the crews of sailing ships in the
harbor. Valparaiso is one of the
few remaining ports where sailing
rhips can be seen in any numbers.
The majority of them are engaged in
the nitrate carrying trade.
The town is situated in what seismologists
term the "earthquake
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VALPARAISO.
belt," and has always been subject to
shakes more or less severe. Several
shocks have been felt in Chile this
year, and have caused considerable
alarm to .the inhabitants. At one
CALLE BLANCO,
own, Rancagua, there were thirty j
istinct shocks on the night of March I
7, and a violent shock was felt at I
GENERAL VIEW OF COAi.uc,*^
IDENTIAL
Who's Hoosier.
An Indiana woman has just died
at the ripe old age of 112. It is unfortunate,
if true, that she has left
no written record of the Indiana
poets and novelists she had met.?
Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Not All of Life.
The young have to learn to live;
the old, to die. It is difficult to decide
which is the more disagreeable
process.?London Truth.
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Arica, one of the seaport towns, on j
May 5. Prolonged and severe shocks {
were experienced at Valdivia April ]
24.
There is about $60,000,000 of for- (
eign capital, mostly German and Brit- i
1 ish, invested in various industries in i
Chile. A few years ago the capital j
was principally British, but now the r
Germans predominate. The Valpa- I
raiso electric street railway system ]
was constructed by a German com- 1
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A BIRD'S-EYE VIEW
i pany, but it is now owned by a local j
Nj concern. ]
About 20,000 persons are employed i
J in Chile by British companies in the :
extraction and preparation of nitrate 1
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of soda for export. The late Colonel c
North, who was called the "Nitrate I
King" in England, was one/ of the t
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PORTION SHOWN ON HILL AT TH
Profound Observation of a Traveler.
If a man had to wait half as long
for his dinner at home as he does at the
swell city cafe he would do things c
that would give the neighbors some- (
thing to talk about for weeks.? 1
Washington (Kan.) Register. 1
Remembers War of 1812.
Mrs. Ruth Allen Smith, of Putney,
Vt., who is in her 102d year, *
distinctly recalls the departure of *
her brothers to the war of 1812. .
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first to open up the nitrate trade In
Ohiie, and made several million dollars
by it.
The Chilean Government owns and
operates the railroads, which are bong
extended in all directions. The
nost important line in course of construction
is the Trans-Andean Rail oad,
which will, when completed, ena)le
persons to travel from Valparaiso
passengers to travel from Valparaiso
:o Buenos Ayres in forty-eight hours
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md bring Chile two weeks nearer to
Europe. It is eipected that the line
will be opened toward the end of
L 90S, Another railway is being
milt from the Peruvian frontier to
he Straits of Magellan, with branch
ines to coast ports, mining districts
md. agricultural centres.
Chile has been visited by severe
earthquakes about every sixty years,
n the last severe earthquake, in
L835, the Isle of Santa Maria was upifted
in three "different localities,
eight, nine and ten feet, but all this
and subsided a few weeks afterward.
At the same time two great
waves rolled over the town of TalcaLuano.
Valparaiso's chief manufactures
.re cotton goods, machinery and iron
foods. Much mineral water is botled
there, while the sugar refineries
md the brewing and distilling interists
are large. From the cHy are extorted
nitrate, in which millions are
nvested, grain, wool, leather, guano,
aitpetre and copper, although this
nineral has not been developed to its
ullest extent.
Valparaiso suffered a disastrous
arthquake in 1855, it was bombardid
by the Spanish in 1866 and suf
ered from a terrinc tidal wave on
une 30^ 1899, which wrecked the
ailroadjand did a great deal of damge
in other directions.
Chile threw off the yoke of Spain
n the early part of the nineteenth
entury. It consists of twenty-four
trovinces and territories and conains
290,829 square miles.
rvlXG TOWARD THE BAY?RESE
RIGHT.
King Carried Joy to Newcastle.
King Edward didn't carry coals to
Newcastle on his recent visit, but he
jarried joy. Heretofore Newcastle's
:hief magistrates have been plain
mayors; henceforth they are to be
ord mayors.
Prince and Pauper.
Most any m^n can mate a iooi 01
limself. It is where he wants an eligant
job and doesn't care for the
ixpense that he gets some woman to
ielD him.r?PucI"
BOOST FOR BRYAN
Will Be Inaugurated on His
Landing in Gotham.
OPENS THIRD CAMPAIGN
Many Thousands Will Crowd Madison
Square Garden to Take Part in
Great Public Home-Coming
Welcome.
A New York special says: Tlie
home coming of W. J. Bryan, after a
tour around the world, promises to
inaugurate the opening of the ""Commoner's"
third cammpaign for the
presidency.
The great populai reception to the
Nebraskan will be held at Madison
Square Garden under the auspices of
tne commercial lra^eiera auu-husi.
League. Mayor Tom L. Johnson of
Cleveland will preside at the reception,
and Mr. Bryan is expected to
make a two hours' speech and to address
one or more open-air meetings
in Madison Square. The Madison,
reception will be but the beginning
of a series of similar affairs on a
smaller scale, which will end with a
big public meeting of welcome, when
Mr. Bryan reaches his home in Lincoln,
Neb.
On the day after the Madison
Square Garden reception, Mr. Bryan
will leave for New Haven in company
with a large delegation of Connecticut
supporters. In New Haven he will be
the guest of New HaVen Democratic
Club and will deliver an address "It
the open air. An interesting feature
of his visit there will be a conference
of leading democrats from New
England, including candidates for governor,
mayors of cities, democratic
state committeemen and the New England
democratic national committee.
This conference, it " is announced,
is for the purpose of agreeing
on a common basis for campaigns
of- this year and of two years hence.
rroiu i>ew navtu, .au\ Diy<au wm gu
to Bridgeport, where he will deliver
an address in the evening and on the
following day he will address a meeting
at Jersey City. On Saturday night
he will be the guest of active newspaper
men who cover political assignments
for their papers.
While the reception to Mr. Bryan
. will be the most remarkable popular
demonstration to a plain American citizen
ofrer seen in the country, and
while New York City will be crowded
with more visitors than at any one
time in its history probably, no difficulty
is apprehended by the managers
of the entertainment in caring for the
throngs of strangers. Of ..course, fiyerybody
will not be able to hear Mr.
Bryan's speech in Madison Square
Garden, but every visitor will be able
to see him during the parade in the
afternoon and at night in Madison'
Square Park.
Mr. Bryan will land at the Battery
at 4 o'clock in the afternoon,
where he will be welcomed by as
many people who can crowd into Battery
Park and the streets in the vicinity.
A sufficient force of police will
be on hand to preserve order there
and along the entire route of march.
Mr. Bryan will ride in an open carriage
with Governor Folk of Missouri,
and probably Acting Mayor McGowaa.
An escort of one of the city troops
urUl ha nrnvl^isil anH If la AnHnnal
with visiting delegations to follow on
horseback or in carriages.
Simplicity is to dominate everything
about the reception, at the request
of Mr. Bryan, and the procession
up Broadway will be without music
or <5ther accessories of a garish nature.
As Mr. Bryan is to be welcomed
merely as a distinguished
American In private life, who has attracted
worldwide attention as one of
the greatest men this country has produced,
the desire is to avoid the trappings
of political demonstration.
THE THIRD IN TEN DAYS.
Another Lynching Pulled Off in South
Carolina by a Mob.
Will Spain, a North Carolina negro,
21 years old, was shot to death by a
mob near St. George, Dorchester county,
South Carolina, Thursday after-1
noon. This is the third lynching in
South Carolina within ten days.
iSpain was detected trying to enter
the room of a white girl through a
window. After his capture by a mob,
the negro did not protest his innocence,
but admitted that he Had gone
to the residence with the intention of
entering it, but for what purpose he
did not say. j
PLUNGED THROUGH TRESTLE.
Freight Train Thrown Into River.
Two of the Crew Killed.
A Bristol, Va., dispatch says: As a
result of a washout, a freight train
on the Virginia and Southwestern
railway ran off a trestle at Moccasin
river at 2 o'clock Friday morning and
the engine and eight cars loaded with
coal were plunged *nto the river and
two persons were killed and another
seriously injured.
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SERIOUS OKMTMK AVOIDED.
Unqualified Oocoesi of Lydla X. Pink*
ham's Vegetable Compound la the ^
Case of Mrs. Fannie D. Fox.
One of the greatest triumphs of Ljdia /'rV
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is * >1
the conquering of woman's mead en*
emv, Tumor.
The growth of a tumor is so sly that |?
frequently its presence is not suspected
until it is far advanced.
So-called "wandering pains" may ~ ;^
come from its early stages, or the -r-^M
presence of danger may be made mani* ? 'i
fest by profuse monthly periods, accompanied
by nnnsnal pain, from the' ~
abdomen through the groin and thighs,
If yon hare mysterious pains, if there $'
are indications of inflammation or diiplacement,
secure a bottle of Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound right
away and begin its use. * ^3
Mrs. Pinkham, of Lynn, Mass., will
give you her advice if you will write . : ; ^
her about yourself. She is the dangh-..
ter-in-law of Lydia E. Pinkham and' ;\<Q|
for twenty-five years has been advising
sick women free of charge.
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:?
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the success I have had with your wonderful';
medicine. Eighteen months ago my periods A
a^Aruvw) fl^ar4lir effai* T falf sa Ka/llr fliai
I submitted to a thorough examination byva .V 'l
physician and was told that I had a tumor
and would have to undergo an operation.
' Soon after I read one of your advertise- "V3
ments and decided to give Lydia EL Pink- villi*
ham's Vegetable Compound a trial After C -l
taking five bottles as directed the tumor it'I
entirely gone. I have been examined by a
physician and he says I hare no signs of a
tumor now. It has also brought my
around once more, and 1 am entirely
well."--Fannie D. Fox. 7 Chestnut StreetL
Bradford, Pa. . ^
The Earth's Motion. . .
We have no direct sensation of the vy
earth's motion because of its absolute
smoothness and freedom from all
jar or vibration, and, as everything^i ^ |
land, sea and air?is carried along at ::J|
the same rate as ourselves, there i*. ^
! nothing to afford us any evidence that ?
j we are moving at all until we ?
I reference to something altogether ^
tacfaed from the earth?as suii, mooaf: . *
or stars?and even then, until re^J| Jj
soning and mathemethical calculation ^
are brought .to bear, it is these bodies $
and not ourselves which seem /
Gliding in a boat down a smooth
river it is often impossible to per- ps
ceive that we are moving except bjitc
reference to objects on the
j and even then it is difficut to. Jsegs^
! sist the impression that they are hi'';j
j motion while we are at rest. . -5J
! The mere .detail Of speed does not ' ^
i affect the question, and, although the vr?||
earth Is rushing tnrougn space at. ?*wr
rate of eighteen miles a second, th? y 'S
motion, infinitely smoother than that
of a boat on placid water, is
lutsly imperceptible. ? Y''':WS&
THE STARVING SAVANT. 4 :J|B
j A poet sat composing toasts
\ Before a fireless grate;
i A mangled pencil 'twixt his teeth, . ^
Upon his lap a slate.
While 'neath his ribs, his appetite ^?|
Bespoke an "empty" dread.
"Oh would," sighed he, "instead of
words, :Mf:M
These toasts were made of bread!"
?F. A. Brandt in Life. 4 ;
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GOOD NIGHT'S SLEEP.
j No Medicine So Beneficial to Brain 4
and Nerves.
I Lying awake nights makes it liard .
to keep awake and do things in day .
time. To take "tonics and stimu- v-'.'
lants" under such circumstances is.
: like setting the hoa^e on fire to See
if you can put it cat.
.The right kind of fcod promotes
refreshing sleep at night and a wideawake
individual during the day. \ ||j
A lady changed from her old w^y VjEIh
! of eating to Grape-Nuts and says:
"For about three years I had heen^vjgjH
j a great sufferer from indigestion. '
I After trying several kinds of medi- 4-?pli
j cine the doctor would ask me to drop
i off potatoes, then meat, aqd so on, u'-ggm
| hut in a few days that craving, gnawing
feeling would start up and I
would vomit everything I ate and SHI
drank.
"When I started on Grape-Nuts, Jjj&f
vomiting stopped, and the bloating <6%
feeling which was so distressing disappeared
entirely.
"My mother was very much bothered
with diarrhea before commencing
the Grape-Nuts, because' her - |j?
stomach was so weak she could not
digest her food. Since using Grape- ;iy|
Nuts she is well, and says she don't
think she could live without it.
"It is a great brain restorer and
nerve builder, for I can sleep as
sound and undisturbed after a supper
of Grape-Nuts as in the old days when
I could not realize what they 6'^gj
meant by a "bad stomach." There ; ^
is no medicine so beneficial to nerves
and brain as a good night's sleep,. " Sv\
such as you can enjoy after eating .
Grape-Nuts."
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich.
"There's a reason."