Author : Southern Pacific Company
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN 13 : 9781230128498
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (284 download)
Book Synopsis Vamos 'a México by : Southern Pacific Company
Download or read book Vamos 'a México written by Southern Pacific Company and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ...Spanish matador Bernardo Gavifio when he was killed in the ring at Texcoeo. The collection of this bric-a-brac was Don Juan's hobby; but another and more philanthropic pleasure of his was the care of children of the poor of La Viga, and from his savings he established a school for them, where they were not only taught but clothed and fed; he was known as the "father of the destitute." The school still exists and will be shown in one of the rooms of the hacienda. As you enter the bright little beneficiaries of Corona's bounty rise in salutation. The school has not the ample means it had in the life of its founder, and any offering made will not only be acceptable, but is a tribute to the memory of a good man. The Paseo, or, to be explicit, the Paseo de la Reforma, is the drive of the city. Carriages are necessary to the proper seeing of the Paseo and to save a walk up the steep hill at Chapultepec. It is about 2% miles long, reaches from the city to Chapultepec, and is a magnificent boulevard, where the bun to/tare pleased to drive every afternoon from four o'clock till dark, when the magnificent procession of fine equipages files down San Francisco street and disperses. The carriageway is broad and shaded by great trees, two rows on each side, between which is a wide promenade. At regular intervals the Paseo widens into a glorieta, a circle 400 feet in diameter, where there are stone benches. In three of these circles are to be placed statues of the nation's heroes--that of Charles IV, said to be the largest bronze in the world, is at the entrance, and ColumbusandGuatimotzin farther along; Juarez and others are to be placed in the other glorietas. At the farther end of the Paseo rises the hill and Castle of Chapultepec, ...