. Where to spend the winter months. A birdseye view of a trip to Mexico, via Havana . entsthat which the past has consum-mated. The Mexico of to-day,is our present subject. Thispromised land of our Americancommerce embraces an extentof 856,000 square miles, equal toFrance, Germany and Austria,added together. Its populationis 9,000,000, its resources inex-haustible, its climate diversifiedand its commerce restricted tothe limits of a small carryingtrade. When railroads have been laidthroughout Mexico the exportsfrom that country will surprisethe world. Within a few yearsonly have the Mexicans s
. Where to spend the winter months. A birdseye view of a trip to Mexico, via Havana . entsthat which the past has consum-mated. The Mexico of to-day,is our present subject. Thispromised land of our Americancommerce embraces an extentof 856,000 square miles, equal toFrance, Germany and Austria,added together. Its populationis 9,000,000, its resources inex-haustible, its climate diversifiedand its commerce restricted tothe limits of a small carryingtrade. When railroads have been laidthroughout Mexico the exportsfrom that country will surprisethe world. Within a few yearsonly have the Mexicans showntheir disposition to embark large-ly in extensive pursuits. Thevalley in which the city of Mexico stands is 45 miles long, 35 miles wide, andcontaining 700,000 inhabitants; the temperature fluctuates between 70° to50° Fahrenlunt. The longest day is thirteen hours and fifty minutes; thepopulation of tlic city of Mexico is 250,000. Let us take ourselves to our Hotel, after making a change in our ap-parel and refreshing oursfilves as best we caii,^a|stroll down the Calle Plate-. WAITER. •29 ros may not be uninteresting; this is the Broadwaj ot Mexico, and we would add that it resembles the New York Broadway in one particular alone, which is, that the way is not broad at street leads from the Al- meda to the Plaza llayor, there is at nil hours great activity upon this thoroughfare, on either side of which very irregular archi-tecture is spread from the aris-tocratic mansion blue-tiled, gold-balconied, scarlet-blinded, to the dingy flat roofed, two storied stone front. Each block has a different name. The Calle Pla- teros or rather the street which bears this name and a thousand others in company is lined with stores, which have a second class Parisian appearance, the goods exposed therein bear the French trade mark in a majority of in-stances. Here we find the Cafe Concordia^ the Delmonico of Mexico; we stop a moment to ;:^^ refresh ourselves with a sorbet or a cob
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