The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1905-06-22
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,.- AYREs, ARGENTINA, May
Whether you come straight
...m New York to this port, or
aa hemisphere to reach it, you
.,ebarked at Montevideo, the
If Uruguay, instead of Buenos
o,ll the 100 miles wide mouth
ro lie la Plata between. 1t is
-5tts trip across in small and
Nh ,icky floating palace" SINH
..,s4 on Long Island sound and
,,at.au river; and having safely
shed this, you find that your
s.sl- iust begun. In any other
-.y ere you buy ticket to a GER
... .ou reasonably expect to be
4 where near the point nam
not SO in Argentina. You
..l much about the S20,000,0 900
we're years in progress of
...t.a and you naturally antici-
..a.- ashore in fine style. But
.-. honed without your host
case is the 'pampero," OF
.. that on six days out of
sing such a rumpus in the
uoI that vessels cannot APP
aguifcent new dock. The
-..- tf BuenoS Ayres reach fiji
-. .at III the river, and there
... is compelled to transfer
lis belongings to a little
.... The tender takes him to
.. niles of the dock, where a
raft with tapping sail
-- between a mudscow and
lim up. If the tide hap
gin and the wind low, the
but if, as is generally the
EDITIONS of wind and tide
...- the ScoW bundles him into
.m. l0i running the surf. By
ordinary tourist is past
u0iunary things and feels no
So who'll, instead of being carried
vide anding stairs of the new
delivered into a rude cart
81. arther passage of perhaps half
ezra tirma.
rs, water carts, by the way, are a
. Buenos Ayres. They are
.yl-sssly for the deep sands of
- and have heavy wheels seven
-.ss. often when half a mile
r- only the heads of the horses
se one in the shafts, the other
3us .ong chain ahead. If the
.vs several horses are hitched
~ fashion to the four corners
5 The short trip is rarely
without more or less of a
tue surf, and if the pampa-
To is usual temper the con-
ant are sure to be drench-
-E-a i'll Argentina improve
tle order of the twentieth
fpFmerly all passengers had
felr trousers or hold up
ss and wade ashore, or be
~ato on the backs of wild
Early naked roustabouts: and
were inclined to halt midway
a5 and shore and threaten to
Edeu into the water unless
slGed fee was doubled.
-"tlne government prides it
on having had the enter
" d those splendid docks, and
.t-ity to pledge $50, 100000 to
..m but it does not appear to
'e to the task of making the
|.55lt 10y keeping the twelve
e of approach dredged out.
..y it still happens that
teen out of twenty of the
HeTs having business at this
as of yore from ten to fif-
away, and unload their
3 means of lighters after the
ated methods. To this day
.t-t 10 ship anything from Ar
.-a ION a tin box to a yoke of
e obances are that you will
up ii into a water-cart, from
10 lighter, and then call a
l4e and haul the lighter along
steamer, which tedious pro-
Dives an outlay of patience
~, cut of all proportion to the
a Tie article shipped. To the
7e mlnd it seems strange, indeed,
.aLon which has for many years
VEG toreign commerce exceeding
..p per annum-Which loads at
F'F aione an average of eight
.4 ocean steamers and as many
{ t~Ssels every year-should not
$500 ave devised some better way
.o It its products.
-arllest impressions of the Ar
t' fApital are a bewildering mix
big appointment, admiration and
'' Your initial disappointment
Tiff aTer itself, into which, as be-
stated, the city limits extend Is
"aose chocolate-hued, vile-smell-
"4lsHt bears no resemblance to
.e4ouS River of Silver" which
b.al de Soils, Sebastian Cabot
@'rT explorers so glowingly de-
Ills miserable harbor is always