Sight-seeing in South America . with advertisements of an Italian factory. To these points of interest we were accompanied byDr. Lester, for thirty years a missionary in supported by the Presbyterian Board, is pastor of a Union Church. His is the oldestEnglish-speaking church in Santiago. It is incorporatedand independent. Another missionary who tendered his services was He has charge of the Presbyterian BoysSchool, which corresponds to our high schc^ol. Half ofthe faculty of twenty-five are Americans. All modernlanguages are taught. The classics are om
Sight-seeing in South America . with advertisements of an Italian factory. To these points of interest we were accompanied byDr. Lester, for thirty years a missionary in supported by the Presbyterian Board, is pastor of a Union Church. His is the oldestEnglish-speaking church in Santiago. It is incorporatedand independent. Another missionary who tendered his services was He has charge of the Presbyterian BoysSchool, which corresponds to our high schc^ol. Half ofthe faculty of twenty-five are Americans. All modernlanguages are taught. The classics are omitted. Organ-ized thirty-five years ago, the school is, to-day, self-sup- 138 Sight-Seeing in South America porting. The property, valued at one hundred andtwenty-five thousand dollars, belongs to the Board inNew York. Fifteen nationalities are represented in the studentbody. The gymnasium, costing thirty-one thousanddollars gold, is an appropriation from the Kennedy school building is four stories high, including the. -By I. C. Mo The Chile basement, and is all of brick. The girls school is incharge of the Methodist church. Santiagos Medical School is one of the best in SouthAmerica and is well equipped. Everywhere we were well received and there was noevidence of ill feeling toward Americans. At the con-clusion of an address delivered to an assembly of Chil-eans by one of our passengers, a man came up to extendinfinite thanks in Spanish. The man arose and made a Santiago 139 few remarks which were interpreted by Dr. [e said: Many of our people view with alarm the com-ing of North Americans to Chile. We think they want tobecome our masters. All South America fears NorthAmerican aggression. But 1 wish to say for this audi-ence that we extend to you a hearty welcome and appre-ciate wliat you have said about our nation and our flaj-.
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