Field Notebook: Mexico 1906
Page 59
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"This afternoon walked from the hotel to Chapultepec castle and b[reell]. This walk was down J.-Jr. through the 'Paseo de la Reforma' one of the widest and some day to be finest of any Avenue. Many new houses of the wealthy are now going up on this fine avenue but it-\nruns the castle for a long distance than are no houses nor on the sides of the street finished. At the head of the avenue stands a monument of Charles IV, in the first circle one of Columbus in the second circle one of Cuauhtemoc the lasttec king following Monteguma and who opposed Cortez. In the next circle there is a tall stone block building for another monument and then comes the orrder dices with the castle of Chapultepec on top. The parks all around are very fine, trees in such abundance to lead me to believe himself in some other country than elevated Mexicos.\nThe stable at the base of the castle is being extended, the debris being done in the old formation may all the dirt being carried away in baskets on the raells of the motors past a bridge across the forehead. Have four photos of this. The dirt