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Title: In foreign fields; sketches of travel in South America and western Europe
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Wing, Joseph E. (Joseph Elwyn), 1861-1915
Subjects: Sheep Sheep
Publisher: Chicago, Breeder's gazette
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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tly located.Life there was quiet and comfortable and not ex-pensive—$7 per day in Argentine paper. An Ar-gentine hotel differs from an American in that thereis usually no lobby or large office. Chacabuco Man-sions consisted of several floors, which we reachedby aid of an American elevator. Each floor wascomplete in itself and had its little sitting-room orparlor, dining-room and bedrooms. The floors wereall of handsome tiles; in fact, wooden floors areseldom seen in South America. They make therefine and often beautiful mosaic tiles of cement andvillages even will have their little tilemaking fac-tories. In the Mansions there were but two rows ofrooms; one looking on the busy Avenida and theother out over roofs at the back. The building ap-peared a palace from the Avenida and was largeenough to have contained 300 rooms, or more, inNorth America. I think it had about sixty rooms,on all its floors. Naturally it was more comfort- TRAVEL SKETCHES BY JOS. E. WING 173 a omo l-H SS- ©; oa
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174 IN FOREIGN FIELDS able than had it had 300 rooms, for as a rule theywere of good size and airy. HOTEL LIFE IN BUENOS AIRES. Each floor was a little community unto itself,with a few small Spanish maids to keep it in order,a boy porter, a small dining-room and tiny Spanishwaitresses. The kitchen was somewhere aloft andthe little seiioritas called their orders very audiblyup the dumb waiter shaft. The manager was an oldGerman-American who kept himself considerablyin the background, although he was successful inmaking the hotel run smoothly and orderly. It wasat first a wonder to me where they had secured somany maids and all of them so diminutive. I havenot traveled in Spain, but I assume that there mustbe a good supply of rather short, prettily formed,but undersized people there, since I saw many ofthis type in Argentina. They had very good man-ners and lacked the crudeness that one so oftensees in North American girls in similar occupa-tions. They could some of them read, and I use

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