The Republican journal., 1905-06-29
If CITY OF GOOD AIRS.

c,t4v-Nine Hotels, All "First- Glass;"
-. IA Mention Innumerable French and
',,;.n Pensions and Spanish Casas
Apusblaeas'
.... Jurisprudence of The Journal.]
....>.> AYREs, ARGENTINA, May
.,t Buenos Ayres is built upon
Ground, and occupies a good deal
f.. .a,,.dering that its population is
u.1a0. 1t has a river front of
miles and extends back about as
..ra- as before mentioned the east
.rs limits" are fifteen miles out
d. e,rr. With one or two excep-
. -Le streets are only forty feet
h sidewalks CORRESPONDENCE
.Mt ID dirty and ill-paved. They
.. ,4iequate to the traffic of a
Wn that blockades are of
u.lrrence. Twenty times a
.. ,st a long string of tram-cars
.. of the street at stand
- APPS half an hour, amid hun
...t arts and carriages, crowded
l7 able confusion. In this lati-
.. deal of rain falls, and after
, vi the roadway is converted
>h. Little lakes of water
The holes and ruts of the
cement and along the tram
.ssIng wheels bespatter the
. and shop windows, and the
. rcuon for pedestrians is that
,ats and mackintoshes. I'M
d. Of no use, the sidewalks
arrow that two persons walk
-t occupy the whole width.
.-r.. IS are laid out at right angles,
.~, or squares, of uniform di-
u accordance with the pre-
-..- ri the 'Layes DIES Indias,"
s-. rom the Esturlal in the Fiji
u Jury. Each square covers
.-. four and one-half acres, as
.7as lie Spanish vara can be re-
st uglish measurement. There
MS method of naming the
.,> 4 long Gale street. running
fu vest through the center of the
he dividing line from which
ST. inning north and south change
p ..ues on either side; and from
IN 81. numbers begin and run in
0rections. Having once got
ss--M well in your head, it is easy
ate the distance to given
Ials Gale Florida, the principal
.-- rreet, when it has crossed the
/. rect, called Rivadaria, con-
-- -nthWard under the name of
NE facades of each square,
by two on each side of the
mprise one hundred numbers,
-Ide. The first Cuadra con-
aers from one to one hun
-ec0nd one hundred and one
glred; the third two hundred
ID three hundred, and so on.
..-.e lJr example, 1901 must be
ltl-irst square. There is a
- -1ateS' street and a New
.t"t: and as the names of no
-u countries are represented,
I feel proud of the distinc-
in the northern and newer
-.- city have the old contracted
been changed, and while
GUAR system OF quadraS is
-E maintained, the width of
-Afares has been more than
Ind sAade-trees planted in
SIS along the fine roads, after
.u Of the boulevards in Paris.
. Ire boulevard Corrienties.
e- 'Roderiguez Pena," "Bel-
'l "Cullaeo," the "Avenida
.lQ.ica," etc. In all these, the
. tramWay runs up one
l down another, the narrow
majority not permitting
If rails. The noise is deaf
om the rumble of heavy
+-' eIts and wagons, and the in
..t laSsing of horse-cars, one close
3 mother. But the gathering Of
+, 4m, rolling of wheels on the
slanlte pavements are drowned
lo'Eotten in the shrieking of tram
Hlus In front of each car, hung
ast within reach of the drivers
Is COW horn, upon which he
-l3.Iy toots with interchangeable
switch forbids rest and peace
H.. and murders sleep of nights as
H7.ly as Macbeth's conscience.
"i the tIam-cars are open vehicles
Aaarican make with reversible
They are conducted by seedy
R # all nationalities, while the
.-s17ed native horses are driven to
il y he most cruel human bEutes.
.oarishing capital boasts of fifty
trss class hotels" not to men
ununerable other places of enter
meat for man and beast. Resident
shers, wise of long experience,
n That it makes little difference
.1qne of these the stranger selects
Wl. he sure to wish he had chosen
.4ei and he might go the rounds of
u aH with the same result. The