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Conger Reynolds newspaper clippings, 1916-1919

1918-09-05 Clipping from The Sentinel, ""The Boys in Service"" Page 2

[handwritten on the side] I couldn't let a 3 cent stamp carry any thing to [your French home?] without having a hand in it myself, hence these clippings

the Temple of the Sun, Cuzco.
flower-filled square, more than eleven thousand feet above sea-level, the semitropical sun shedding its warmth radiantly upon your head through the thin, transparent, cloudless air, you find yourself wondering which way to face lest something of the strange ever-unfolding scenes escape your gaze. One side of the square is lined by a row of little shops filled with 57 varieties of merchandise in which predominate gay-colored saddles and diverse accoutrements for the burros and pack animals, with profuse decorations of red and green and blue wool; before these shops sit Indian and cholo women holding in their hands spindle spools which they manipulate dexterously during the intervals of trade, spinning the wool and weaving it into the poncho and caps and full shirts of the native dress.  
Above these quaint places of merchandise in the top of these two-storied houses that spread out over the sidewalks are homes with elaborately carved balconies overhanging the street in old Spanish fashion, and with red tiled roofs that glitter in the bright sunshine.
     Cathedral and Fortress.
On another side of the plaza stands the ancient cathedral, built as one is told of the famous Inca stone and containing the brother of Pizarro and that Spanish conqueror's partner, Almargo. On the doors of the chapel of Santiago, adjoining the cathedral, one can read the legend preserved in archaic sculpture of St. James coming down visibly on his white horse, standing with lance in rest, turning the tide of battle in favor of the Spaniards, thus noting the last throes of the famous Inca empire.
On still another side of the square, you can study the remarkable facade of the old Jesuit church and the ancient University of Cuzco founded in the sixteenth century, which buildings are said to be connected by an underground passage, associated with many an historic intrigue in the days that are dead.
There great piles of ancient masonry look straight away to the east where the great megalithic fortress of Sacsahuaman, that cyclopean structure often called the ninth wonder of the world, tops the hill 600 feet above the city, and where one climbs to behold the rock remains which guarded the aboriginal Inca empire of Manco Capac. On the summit stands a cross bearing the inscription to the effect that he who climbs the hill kisses the crucifix and says a prayer at the foot of the cross, to him a hundred days of indulgence shall be granted

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[handwritten on the side] I couldn't let a 3 cent stamp carry any thing to [your French home?] without having a hand in it myself, hence these clippings the Temple of the Sun, Cuzco. flower-filled square, more than eleven thousand feet above sea-level, the semitropical sun shedding its warmth radiantly upon your head through the thin, transparent, cloudless air, you find yourself wondering which way to face lest something of the strange ever-unfolding scenes escape your gaze. One side of the square is lined by a row of little shops filled with 57 varieties of merchandise in which predominate gay-colored saddles and diverse accoutrements for the burros and pack animals, with profuse decorations of red and green and blue wool; before these shops sit Indian and cholo women holding in their hands spindle spools which they manipulate dexterously during the intervals of trade, spinning the wool and weaving it into the poncho and caps and full shirts of the native dress. Above these quaint places of merchandise in the top of these two-storied houses that spread out over the sidewalks are homes with elaborately carved balconies overhanging the street in old Spanish fashion, and with red tiled roofs that glitter in the bright sunshine. Cathedral and Fortress. On another side of the plaza stands the ancient cathedral, built as one is told of the famous Inca stone and containing the brother of Pizarro and that Spanish conqueror's partner, Almargo. On the doors of the chapel of Santiago, adjoining the cathedral, one can read the legend preserved in archaic sculpture of St. James coming down visibly on his white horse, standing with lance in rest, turning the tide of battle in favor of the Spaniards, thus noting the last throes of the famous Inca empire. On still another side of the square, you can study the remarkable facade of the old Jesuit church and the ancient University of Cuzco founded in the sixteenth century, which buildings are said to be connected by an underground passage, associated with many an historic intrigue in the days that are dead. There great piles of ancient masonry look straight away to the east where the great megalithic fortress of Sacsahuaman, that cyclopean structure often called the ninth wonder of the world, tops the hill 600 feet above the city, and where one climbs to behold the rock remains which guarded the aboriginal Inca empire of Manco Capac. On the summit stands a cross bearing the inscription to the effect that he who climbs the hill kisses the crucifix and says a prayer at the foot of the cross, to him a hundred days of indulgence shall be granted