The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-11-27

to architecture and man. AS to man.
1t has people of nearly every race
Three hundred thousand of It's resi-
dents are Italians, 10000 are Spanish,
about 10000 French and the remainder
German, English and Argentines. The
AIgentines proper do not probably
number over $1,000, and they are the
only real citizens ipss the sense that
they vote and take part fnsthe govern
ment The rest prefer to keep out of
politics and the army, for the foreign
resident here has every property right
of the citizen, with none of his mill
tary obligations.
Most of the foreigners stick to their
nationalities, although some Of them
would not dare to go home to vote.
The Argentine is one of the few coun-
tries which have no extradition treaties.
Criminals from everywhere have taken
advantage of this, and 1t Is said that
that there are more men living under
assumed names here than in any city
OF the world. This is especially SO as to
the emigrants from Italy, and until re-
Gently ii was so as to some Of those
from our country.
HAD ONE STATE LEFT.
year or so ago, 1t is said, four
Americans were chatting together in
one of the cafes, of Buenos aAyres,
when three of the crowd began for
some reason to Jeer at the fourth. He
grew angry and said:
well, gentlemen, you may sheer at
me If you please, but I want you to
understand that there is at least one
of the United States that l dare go
back to without fear of the sheriff. 1
know none of you can say as much"
This, however is rather hard on the
Americans. Years ago, before we lost
our merchant marine, the Americans
were among the most prominent of the
foreigners here and those who have
been coming within recent years are
men Of high standing. Some of them
have large interests here, and at pres
ent the Americans as a class are much
respected.
FROM THE HOUSEHOLDS
Alphabetically Buenos Ayres is a
patchwork city. 1 have rooms high
up in one of it's biggest hotels. They
are high in price, as we'll as in altitude
They cost me eight Argentine dollars a
day. 1 am on the fourth floor, and
from my balcony l can see over most
of the roofs of the city. Step out of
| the window with me and take a birds
! eve view of Buenos Ayres. Below and
above us lies a vast ragged plain of
| one and two-story houses. whose fiat
roofs are made of bricks or brick tiles
| or corrugated iron. Some of them rise
! high above the others, and the whole
! looks like lot OF great store boxes
| jumbled together along narrow can
| yons, which are the streets. Away to
! the south you see few smoke-stacks,
! the masts of ships and big warehouses.
That is Barracks, the part Of the city
where meat, wool and hides are pre-
! pared for shipment to America and
! Europe To the north there is a spot
! of green woods. That is Palermo park,
where all the swells go to ride and
drive every afternoon. You may see
a thousand carriages there at time.
To the east beyond that thicket of
masts and spars lining the docks, ex-
! tending on and on until they meet the
horizon, are the muddy waters of the
| Rio de la Plata, which connects
| Buenos Ayres with the rest of the
world. The river here is twenty-eight
miles wide and in the foggy. misty air
we cannot see its opposite banks.
Buenos Ayres is only forty-eight feet
above the Atlantic ocean, and back
around and beyond it extends the vast
plain of the valley of this river, as
rich here as that of the Mississippi.
1t is cut up by railroads and spotted
| with farms, some of which support
cattle and sheep in herds of thousands.
AS you look more closely at the roofs
! below you you see that many of them
surround little courts or pstios. This
is the Spanish style of building There
are no gardens in front or behind the
| houses. and the masses here live with
out plants, flowers or trees. There are
no chimneys. The Argentines do not
think fires healthful In their living
rooms You see here and there a black
stoveripe coming up through the roof
Those pipes are connected with the
kitchens, not with the parlors.
THE PLAZAS.
There are a few open spaces in the
city of roofs. These are the plazas
or parks. There are twelve in the city
varying in size from four to twelve
acres. That one near the river is the
Plaza de Mayo. 1t is the ecclesiastical
governmental and financial center OF
the city. Upon 1t face the cathedral
the presidents house, congress, the
courts and the Bolsa or stock exchange
into it run some of the chief bushes: