The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-11-20

S4S AOl Spanish, not rTeHCu, not
Italian, not Anglo-Saxon. They are
evolving combination Of all these.
Win the Latin strain predominating,
just as IN America we are forming
type with the Anglo-Saxon strain In
great aScenoancy. I think, however.
Ihat our type Is far superior to any
tnat can De produced here.
Inc change IN the Argentine goes on
very rapidly AT the beginning of this
century the old families were Spanish
ana portuguese. Since then they have
Deen lnternprrying with the English,
scotch, Germans and Americans and
1taIans. You can see this in the names
OF the distinguished Argentines. Ad-
m1ra4 Brown, one of their famous ma
val officers, was of English extraction.
The Livingston family, whose ladies
are noted Tor their wealth and beauty,
Is IN the fourth generation from the
LiVlngstons Of New York. Pelligrine,
FORMER president, and one of the
most able men Of the country, has
English blood in him. The grandfath-
er of the chief Of police of Buenos
Ayres was an American. The father
or TornQuist, another prominent Ar
gentlne, was a New Orleans man, and
there are many leading families in
whose veins flow rich strains of Irish
and Italian blood.
Already the Spanish type has been
materially modified. Indeed, with its
Fargo percentage of foreign born, this
country is today as cosmopolitan az
any country Of the world. If you could
be blindfolded and upon one Of the
magic carpets Of fairyland transported
IN the Winking of an eye to the bust
ness parts Of Buenos Ayres, you could
not tell where you were by looking at
the faces or dress Of the people. If
you should be dropped into the stock
exchange, for instance, you might, if
you were deaf, imagine yourself in
New York or London. You could not
imagine yourself in Buenos Ayres. If
your ears should be suddenly opened.
you would still be at a loss. The cries
OF the brokers would be in Spanish, but
from all around you would come a
DaDel OF Italian. French and English.
II you went outside. your situation
would be even worse. You would hear
the street sweepers swearing at each
other in Italian, English merchants dis
cussing trade in Anglo-Saxon, and
groups Of Basques on every street cor
ner Cabling at each other in Spanish.
Hou would hear much French, and
you might meet with Russians, Poles.
or even with Turks
AN UP TO DATE COUNTRY.
This large mixture of foreigners
keeps the Argentine up to date. New
:,
and the latest Improvements are to be
found. Nearly adj the towns have more
or less electric lights, many have good
streets, and there are excellent rail-
road connections with the leading CEN
tiers. The Argentine now has 5000
miles Of railroads, with a capital of
half billion dollars. Buenos Ayres
has trains by which you can go to
any of the larger cities in a night s
ride, and there are sleeping cars ON all
the lines. This city Is as big as Bos-
ton. Rosario, the next in size in the
republic, is 10000. You can go to bed
in the cars in Buenos Ayres and awake
in Rosario. 1t is the same with Bahia
Blanca, the metropolis of the south
Argentine. The Tucuman trains have
sleepers, and in a short time we shall
be able TO cross the continent from the
Atlantic to the Pacific without stepping
outside the cars. as
The steamship accommodations are
equally good. came here from Monte
video in steamer like the Puritan and
Pilgrim, which run between New York
and Boston. I went to bed on the ship
and awoke at the Buenos Ayres docks.
The fare was S., and 1 think the Ar
gentine steamers gave me more for
he money than l get at home. I had
good state room. The ship was light
ed by electric lights, and the passen-
gers were served an excellent dinner,
with good claret and a buttonhole bou-
quet without extra charge. In the
morning e steward brought to my cabin
a cup Of coffee and Ia rolf, and more
than that, carried my baggage out to
the custom house. If remember
Alright the meals are charged extra on
the New York and Boston boats
There are several mail steamers a
week from here to Europe. There are
others which go south through the
Strait OF Magellan and about the west
coast. There are ships which will take
you 1000 miles on the rivers into the
heart of interior Brazil, and twice a
week you may ride up the Parana to
the capital of Paraguay
ARGENTINE TRADE.
-Four. thousand vessels engaged In
foreign trade go In and out of the ports
of the Argentine every year and the
volume of imports and exports in 1896
amounted to more than 227 millions Of
hard American gold dollars. One
fourth of this commerce was with
Great Britain, the country that does
more than half of the whole ocean
carrying trade of the Argentine She
sent 40 per cent OF the imports, Ger
many coming next and Italy next
After these came France and Belgium
and then the United States In things
bought of the Argentine France comes
first, Belgium second, England third,
| Germany fourth and the United States
fifth. Our purchases amount to about
six million dollars year. and our for
eign trade is just about per cent of
! the whole. Nearly all of the business
| Is in foreign hands. The capital of the
/ business houses and companies
amounts to hundreds of millions Of dol
| lars, and their establishments are run
| on business principles. The foreign
! banks alone have a capital of twenty
FIVE million dollars, and am told that
nearly all Of them pay big dividends
| INTELLIGENCE IN ARGENTINE. +
The Argentine people are up to date
! In an intellectual way. The govern
ment spends 100000 a year on its
schools. 1t employs 5000 teachers, and
1t has over a quarter of million school
| children. There are a number of high
schools, three universities, two schools
| OF agriculture, school Of mines and
| thirty-five normal schools. Both girls
and boys attend these schools. There
are women teachers, some of whom
came out from the United States years
since to inaugUrate the normal school
When Sarmiento was president of the
Argentine Republic. decade or so
ago, he made a study of the public
school systems of the world, and de-
cided that that used in Michigan was
the best. He imported a number of
high bred Yankee schoolmarms, and
now the Argentine is raising first-class
schoolmarms of Its own. Its normal
! schools are producing more of the ma
tive variety than can be used, so there
is no opening here for additional Y an