This picture gives a glimpse of only the business section of the magnificent "city of palaces"--Mexico City, the capital of the republic. It is located in a Federal District, similar to our District of Columbia. The population of the District is nearly a million of which the city proper claims 633,000. This city was the capital of the Montezumas and probably had a population in 1531, when taken by the Spanairds as large as at present. It contains noteworthy structures of ancient days as well as beautiful modern buildings. Its cathedrals, its museums, its floating gardens, are of profound interest to travellers and scholars.