The Republican journal., 1905-07-20
e Dazzling Metropolis
of Argentina.
= Week of Steady Sightseeing

has Week of Steady Sightseeing.
...l correspondence of The Journal]
= PLAZA, ARGENTINA, June 10,
p. few more words are necessary
.nug this brilliant bankrupt of a
,lo,e financial ruin was wrought
/. H, inception by the prevailing
-, +3r DONG things on the biggest
,.. scale. The tourist in Argen-
tcessantly urged to 60 out and
.f marvellous city; and he goes,
.,si "a later Arrived at La Plata,
.,.f almires and wonders at the
.,r-a vast pile OF Immediately
~ ,.utco with marble-paved halls
; rg.ng galore. Then he goes to
...lg>, in the Cafe de Paris-a SPLEEN
U-al-neW hotel, whose immense
.. u,om IS adorned with super
-. .n.e Of mirrors and stucco orna-
.-. nl whose elaborately-painted
.s, 4re supported by marble col
.. rortifed by the best that
49,. l.I Italian cooks and caterers
4. sallies forth prepared for un-
,..3 surprises. He finds the town
. iu squares and stars, with
A.. nets and wide avenues, beside
.I o~e OF Washington, d. c., 1.-The
..t MAGNIFICENT Distances dwin-
M. .,,igullicance-all lined with tall
.uga poles and taller masts for
.,5 zhts: traversed by innumer-
i. norway lines and bordered by
..s,s palaces, all spick and span
-. ,nt.rss stucco. How different
M Old Lima, or Santiago do
ortuguese Rio de Janeiro.
u. rs the spirit of the medic
.ar lstadores and that of the bus
D.. listing, gaiety-loving builders
ta 1t takes at least week of
... seeing to see La Plata's
4.l .dlaces, public and private;
a.tas and so public schools and
,-.-- comments, statues, foun-
e.. a.l lower gardens; its magniti-
.-.. .,- m and astronomical ObServa-
.l aational college and public
..-. IL, six enormous hotels and
=. -s.n4v stations, and two theatres
a-aozen daily newspapers and
r ..,r nj It's marvellous attractions.
4-ss- makes La Plata preeminent
Iii. ara. is the public buildings, the
ss-- " The provisional government
-rs tht Ministers of Public Works,
.-- finance, and Prefecture of
- ljlector-General of Schools,
r1 III + Deputies, Senate, Courts
Tist.f banks, Governors Palaces,
/ -...sss knows what else-each
..- 'ri.ng in the midst Of beau
.,u surrounded by statues,
and flowers. The law
us IS line as anything in the
tr. elnisphere. Its Judgment
- more like a monarch S
.c. nu than a Judiciary bench,
Fl e. waited dias gorgeously up
. Il crimson plush and gold,
.-..s and carpets and cushions
Nuse OF Windsor state apart
-1 At the public buildings have
r. ,qacious entrance halls, white
81. saIcases, long marble CORR
, -'l ID glass windows, sumptu-
49, ned offices, and tessallated
Hi0rned with palms and
A.yen the fire brigade has
and its corps of forty young
elaborate uniform, with
+.- 10 and a good salary for
The funny thing about it all
We say the pathetic thing
.. ody can be persuaded to live
Fly in La Plata, though with
..~ rown in, rent free. At first
.a assures were designed to com
lolrs of the provincial govern.
- 70 stay here. The measures
N -tfectual, and now the night
a loUmg trains carry backward
a. ward the government clerks
a l.. employees of the govern
-3l Nv Buenos Ayres, the local para
IT, \Q ATgentlan will wander farther
"a an help from the alluremen,
--e ALE Florida, Palermo and the
rs-lcl-O True, many of the highe.
.--.s En splendid residences in TX
.'.a U they have other houses il
'N"' capital, and spend most O.
.r me IN the latter city. But 70
Instance the Great Southern
-F would have been insolven
"a" and the Ensenada Railroad
i Hobably never have paid divi
-a E5Where, not even in London
-raHlprence between the night an,
.r 4ai population So marked as in Ii
.''i N hen the last vestibule trail
-e D-d away just before sunset ant
''-H wi the "functionaries" back t,
's 4a{siles of Buenos Ayres, the shin
., %" eapital shuts up shop, SO t.
1s'l Notwithstanding its immens
'- -'iFrous, but empty. opera hous
' GO unused places of Amusement
'- goes to sleep instead. Yet ever