New-York tribune., 1903-07-05

A writer in The Boston Transcript discussing
the harbor of Rio Janeiro and the plar to spend
S42 900 in providing dock facilities says;
He thought he saw an elephant
Upon the mantelpiece;
He loo ked agaIn ain and nd saw VA. IL Mas TaS
Thus Lewis Carroll. And in similar vein might
my own inner consciousness have burst into non
ago. the report that the Braziii4n Government
ng ms Se Se epss f ft Rio anee This at rt glance
seemed Outlandish the playful elephant on
the story seemed true-could, indeed, be nothing
but true for it is an official report from United
ment at washington. A wfe's first husbands
haye paSed % 2S the So loan the bonds are to
be sold at 80 per cent and bear per cent interest,
merchandise Mi Thompson tried his best 10
that the contract for building the d9eks1they are
got into American hands. but he failed entirely.
Now it happens that for o Whole yearthe
est year Of my fe-my window looked out n6sr T6en
rather curious circumstances, the hartors Of
in a position to grasp the significance of the un-
expected engineering enterprise upon which the
Brazilians about to embark.
BEAUTIES OF THE HARBOR.
You will sometimes hear the. harbor Of RIG
Janeiro called the most beautiful in the world ana
perhaps it is Richly wooded mountains ssI e!uSte5 yo
saw the entrance to the bay the red, bald cone
to ordiy height in the FAR distance you behold
the tattgred outlines Of the faint blue oTgaR b s6p
ships at whose maintrucks float the flags OF all
there the ARE None Your Steamer anchors well out
from the shore and you have plenty Of M t9s 6 70
of tropical verdure, as your oarsmen pun 3oa
At Bahia it is the same story. so far as landing
is concerned, and the slight lading of new freight
Ths means that all your fellow voyagers have Wis.
ed s r the o maTKd 3d a af there eTe back to the ship
proud posseSsors OF numberess N.Y. I'VE paPff0 fter that
you may well imagine. ,-. .u,,.
But at Pernam6gc2 the discreet go Weather
didn't. The waves ran something mRe I've tWehCSf ~
stairs GOWN the Steamers Side, and the rpwboats
that came out to us up ana 6 o8W fe Wrches
who had to land climbed part way down the stairs
a wave they jumped into it. moments hesita.
on meant drenching, perhaps worse eo a. tba hss H
beheld the remarkable embarkation of the ArmlesS
peFormr TRR6 wh6se e had to do
things that arms @ and es fbe berefore rsged block
the yardarm, slipped noosed rope thr9pghI Is II.
Wonder. With the moose drawn tight around his
%as hauled FPqs5 Nns as ovef ee he the Ps
CONGRESS OF PILOTS RUNS SHIP ON BAR.
When we passed the nghtshfp the mouth Of
the Para River seven pilots came aboard Wlthlh
a few hours that congress of steersmapsh1p naq US
hard aground on a sandbar, right in the haroor OF
Para and there We lay stranded day and hail.
while all our cargo being got out of the hold
and loaded on lighters. Then big paddle WneeI
steamer came and dragged us OFF the bar so thaI
after another day and half consumed In In putting
And now do you wonder that a very pr0nounceo
{hf m eM 9I 6ck for Rio WRy bless You there
docks at all in Brazil and there hane fe
permanent and so bound to tradition that the f SUD
zhans still import all their potatoes from Portugal
just as in days past though the Irish variety has
2iIians are forever waiting for something to turn
motto TRe IS Padenzs acre HeF Books % though Brazil needs
docks more than any other naon N M tne t woTiE eIv "
TO get them. Harbor improvements of any sort
ashamed of Para, and if seven pilots stuck you
a sandbar the Brazilians congratulated you on
Brazllians nave Way of patting themselves on
!fs Prde GeeS mine io ho2or nobesse obge This you
T94 nS Ill Of Hss R spirit has
come over from the world Of bTag to the world OF
plea for activity, modernity. progress, And the
false pride Of the old order becomes he a1t1HS G
Rio have docks and an improved harbor but docks
an improved harbor costing s42,Cj00oO!
RIO AHEAD OF LONDON.
Strange that this enormous undertaking should
be begun before the of London is freed OF the
abuses OF Trinity House In London they are still
arguing that docking facilities mean everything to
a shipping company, that the quicker steamer
can get rid of one cargo and take on another the
more money she earns, and that she is paying
investment only when under way, and "eats her
head off While IN port HeTHdpS III d lS" SSsilS
the docking facilities Of London will be partially
reformeG meanwhile Rio is to become one of the
finest ports in the world. Moreover, one cannot
help being amazed that the BraZlians. who have
hitherto half-sti1ed their commerce by exorbitant
import and export duties, should take so long and
so sudden a stride toward commercial emlnence.
Evidently there has been profound stirring OF
national ambition. would say, else this could
never have happened.
Perhaps however, the project has political
significance The anxious Turk has found that by
borrowing vast sums of money in various European
capitals he can a body of official sentiment
strongly opposed to any movement likely to do him
harm. And. really. the Brazilians feel almost as
insecure in their position the Turk in his. They
imagine that the Kaiser intends to rob them or
their southernmost province, and they regard our
Monroe doctrme-fools that they arei-as step
toward benevolent assimila ton How natural
then that they should erect financial buttresseS to
their safety. and by placing large loan in Eng.
land gain possible diplomatic ally IN case or
future trouble,
Be this as It may, the $420C0Go is got hold OF:
the harbor will be improved, and the wonderful
docks constructed. The industry and commerce
of a continent will grow apaCe. The remaining
question: then, is simply this: VIII the Brazilians
pay back the money? If they do not promptly we
may another Venezuelan case. Let us hope
that that day another Minister Bowen will be
deck.
NAGLE NOT TO OPPOSE HAVERON.