SECTION III.
The City of Mexico and Environs.
Population of the capital in 1883, according to the best estimates, 225,000. Elevation, 7,347 feet, or 2,240 metres, above the sea-level.
Hotels.—San Carlos, Iturbide, Gillow, Comonfort, Guadiola, Nacional, Europa, Del Bazar, Universal, Espíritu Santo, Gran Hotel Central, Ortega, San Agustín, and several others.
Mesones (inns).—De San Francisco, De la Estrella, De San Antonio, Del Picadero, and many others.
Restaurants.—Iturbide, De la Concordia, Café Anglais, Maison Dorée, Café de Paris. (Fee in restaurants, one medio (6¼ cents) for each person.)
Post-Office.—In the Calle de la Moneda.
Telegraph-Offices in the railway-stations. Central office of the Government telegraph line in the Callejon del Espiritu Santo No. 5. Office hours, 8 A. M. to 8 p. m.; on feast-days from 9 a. m. to 12 m. Office of the Vera Cruz Commercial line, at No. 14 Del Refugio. Office of the old line to Jalisco, in Los Bajos de San Agustín No. 2.
Express-Office in the Hotel Iturbide. Wells, Fargo & Co. have also an agency in the city.
Theatres.—Nacional, in the Calle de Vergara; Principal, Calle del Colisco ; Arbeu, in the Calle de San Felipe Neri.
Baths adjoining the Teatro Nadonal (the others can not be recommended).
General Diligence-Office, in the rear of the Hotel Iturbide.
Carriages, first, second, and third class.—First class, carrying blue flags, $1 an hour on work-days, and $1.50 on feast-days. Second class, with red flags, 75 cents and $1 on work-days and feast-days respectively. Third class, with white flags, from 6 a. m. to 10 p. m., 50 cents, and from 10 p. m. to 6 a. m., $1 an hour on all days. Public carriages have their number and a tariff of charges printed in Spanish posted in a conspicuous manner inside. The driver is obliged to hand the passenger entering his carriage a paper containing the tariff, his name and number, and the place where he belongs. In hiring a vehicle, one quarter of an hour is the minimum that can be paid for.
Saddle-horses, $2 for the afternoon.
