The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-05-01

vehicles could not pass one
another without running up on the narrow
to the. peril of pedestrians. Most
of the public buildings and commercial
houses are ugly and unpretentous, built IN
the old Portuguese style OF broken stone
and mortar, plastered on the outside or
faced with illuminated tiles. There is no
government building in Rio. either mon
Rrchial or republican, which begins to com
pare in elegance with hundreds of the
private residences The senate and cham
Der CT deputies occupy separate
buildings. both old and uninterest-
ing. The Senate convenes in small house
on the eastern side of the Praca d'Acela-
macao, and the same room Is used for the
ceremonial opening of each legislative ses-
sion. The chamber of deputies faces the
Rua de Misericordia, occupying an angle
between the old palace and the department
of agriculture. In the colonial times 1t was
used for a city hall and jail. Perhaps the
finest public buildings in Rio are the post
Office and the government printing estab-
lishment. The first is a subdepartment,
under the general control of the minister
of agriculture, and is situated in the Rua
Prlmeiro de Marco (street Of the 1st of
march,, near the custom House. 1t occu-
pies only half building, the other half
being the Caixa de AmortizacRo, or sinking
fund and RECEPTION bureau of the treasury.
The new and handsome
TYPoGRAPHBA NAcIoNAL
(national printing Office was begun in the
summer of "a, and finished within three
years, at cost of 81, 900, 592, including its
now machinery. The main building is
radical departure from the styles of archi-
lecture most employed in Brazil, its IA
cade being ornamented by symbolic designs
in relief, and the statues of Fust, Guten-
berg, Coster and Schoeffer. The com
modious offices are provided with machin-
cry for type-founding and stereotypiug;
the large halls on the upper floors are used
for lectures and exhibitions, and one on
the lower floor is given over to lottery
drawings. Never was government print
ing Office so important in a financial point
of view as this because the infant repuD-
lie having little use for its presses, amuses
itself with the costly toy by putting out
new issues of bank notes every few days,
with truly infantile regardlessness of the
proportion of notes to coin reserves. When
| went to the money changers Office, to
get some English sovereigns converted
into Brazilian paper, the obliging clerk
asked me if the bills were for immediate
use. and advised me
TO GET RID OF THEM
as quickly as possible, because counter
erDment frequently orders out of circula-
ton certain issues that are found to be imi-
tated, thus rendering valueless both the
good notes and the bad. The first printing
press in Brazil, after that imported by the
Dutch, and used by them during their brief
occupancy of Pernambuco was set up in
Rio in the year lS0S, by ID. Joao VI. for the
publication of a royal gazette or court
journal. A few years later a second one
cnr IN, IN, Rohi
the only ones in the country until the
present century was one quarter gone.
Now that the press enjoys rather more
liberty than formerly, there are a large
number of private printing Offices. The
best newspaper in Rio, the Nelrs (printed
in English), is owned and edited by an
American, Mr. A. j. Lamoreux, who halls
from St. Louis, think. Though
Rios streets are not much to boast
of it in the way of width or paving, their
nomenclature is striking, to say the least.
There is the street of Good Jesus, :" "John
the Baptist Street" Seventh of Septem-
Der Street." street of Sac Sebastiao''-
named in honor Of the young King of Port
ugal rather than the saint, and several
as. Joaos' Saint Johnsl and I'D. Joaos, -
the first Portuguese Emperor of Brazil,
( father OF Dom Pedro l. The Wall street OF
! Rio is the Rue Dineta, and during the
morning hours when the coffee exchange is
open it presents an animated appearance
/ One may hear nearly all the languages OF
The world spoken there, as merchants
planters, spectators, commission men and
agents Of transportation lines wrangle over
! business. Speculations are chiefly confined
! to coffee, and the buying and selling of ex-
change on London.
About o'clock every afternoon and
again in the evening, ''every body as i:
anybody" HES to the Rua do Ouvoidor
narrow alleyway in which two meeting
carriages could not possibly pass, were
carriages allowed in that street-whicl
they are not. Like the portales of Lima
the Alemada of Santiago, the Plaza Vic
toria of Buenos Aires and La Independent
cla of Montevidio, it is
THE FASHIONABLE PROMENADE
and beauty show of Rio, where f1irtation
are carried on and matches made between
the 'gilded YOUTH and dark eyed Gamsel
of Portuguese Spanish-negro blood. Dur
ing fashionable hours the Ouvido
is literally packed with people, no
only from end 10 end, but frou
wall TO wall-for the middle of the stree
is as frequently patronized as the three
foot-wide sidewalks. Here new dresses
direct from Paris and ''creations" in bon
nets are displayed for the first time 10 tn
admiring populace; while officers of tn
army and navy, in all the glory of gold lac
and gaudy uniforms, and officers from tn
ships of every nation anchored in the har
Dor, add bcilliaucy to the scene-the Who'll
watched over by the mullatto gendarme
that constitute the police of Rio, in thei
ludicrously elaborate costumes. The da
mond dealers and other principal mer
chants, have their establishments in III
Rua Ouvidor, and so have the curio col
lectors, and the vendors eff those exquisit
feather flowers made by the Brazilia
nuns.
AS in Buenos Ayres and Montevedio, tn
principal streets are spsnned by ges-jet
set at frequent intervals, for illuminatin
the city on feast days-which are as man
and merry in Rio as elsewhere in Sout
America. Every house has its flagstaff
projecting over the street. and on all occa
sons of religious or patriotic rejoicn
everybody runs up the ugliest flag O
earth-the bilious looking green and vel
low banner Of Brazil There are tramway
of both broad and narrow gauge, runnin
in every direction, and the cars, which ar
open at the sides and drawn by mules, ar
universally called "bonds,'' though thei
proper name of CARO- is painted conspicl
ously upon them. Ask for street car an
people would stare at you in establishment
ask for ''bond" and anybody can direC
you. IL happened in this way: When tn
modern innovation was introduced into I'll
ANTIQUE city, bonds were issued to pay fc