Sight-seeing in South America . - the great earthquake of .\ugust16, 1906, when a thousand people were killed and a 150 Sight-Seeing in South America hundred million dollars worth of property was about four months after the San Franciscoearthquake. Valparaiso was reduced to a mass ofruins, but due to government help and the peoples enter-. Jiy I. C. Moore Double-Deck Street Cars prise few evidences are seen in the city of the widespreaddestruction. Among the striking features of the business portionof the city are the two-story electric cars with womenconductors. These conductre
Sight-seeing in South America . - the great earthquake of .\ugust16, 1906, when a thousand people were killed and a 150 Sight-Seeing in South America hundred million dollars worth of property was about four months after the San Franciscoearthquake. Valparaiso was reduced to a mass ofruins, but due to government help and the peoples enter-. Jiy I. C. Moore Double-Deck Street Cars prise few evidences are seen in the city of the widespreaddestruction. Among the striking features of the business portionof the city are the two-story electric cars with womenconductors. These conductresses represent the survival Valparaiso 151 of the homeliest. The pretty ones quickly marry. Theyare quiet, obliging, and very satisfactory. They wereemployed first during the Chilean-Peruvian War on ac-count of the scarcity of men, and were liked so well thatthey have been retained. In broad Brazil Avenue are statues of Lord Cochrane,of the American, William Wheelwright, of Massachu-setts, the father of steam navigation upon the Pacific,and a triumphal arch of Italian marble, surmounted bya British lion, and presented by the British colony at thecentennial celebration of Chilean independence. TheChileans are highly complimented when called the Eng-lish of South America. In the Plaza, at the landing stage, is a statue of ArturaPrat, Captain of the
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