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for their politics. He charged me 3 pesos an hour which is the tariff rate. [[red underline]] Very pretty park scrupulously clean [[/red underline]] recently built. Palms, pines, etc. all fresh looking. [[red underline]] Irrigation - [[/red underline]] An artificial rowing pond, with tribune for spectators in case of races had just been installed, everything well kept and well conserved regardless of money.
Visited [[red underline]] old town [[/red underline]] which has been [[red underline]] destroyed [[/red underline]] by Earthquake in [[red underline]] 1860. [[/red underline]] Most houses are [[red underline]] adobe [[/red underline]] so are the walls which explains why earthquake was so disastrous. But the bare ruins of the old church, made of brick
[[left margin in red]] Mendoza [[/left margin]]
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show that devastation was not limited to adobe. This old town is kept as [[?]] poorer quarter Big [[red underline]] rents in walls [[/red underline]] and curved lines of cornices and walls. 6 months ago [[red underline]] there has been a flood here in Mendoza [[/red underline]] the water rising rapidly for 3 hours, and breaking the [[strikethrough]] two [[/strikethrough]] feeble walls of the [[strikethrough]] cever [[/strikethrough]] canalyzed river, rushing thru demolishing adobe buildings etc. People everywhere [[red underline]] busy reconstructing That adobe should be used again shows that they take little consideration of tomorrow [[/red underline]]
At station the [[red underline]] impolite brusqueness of an italian looking Station master, [[/red underline]] when I asked him some information reminded me how our Italian immigrants at home are often rough handled