Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-03

10 get to and from their business They
do not seem to mind 1t. used to wonder
riding down to the city and watching the
cloud sea below the mountain peaks. how
they could be so Indifferent to that splendid
sight and spend the time playing chess or
reading commercial reports. But probably
with that panorama spread before them 300
days of the year 1t had caused them to
lose some of the sense of natures spien-
doris
There is no longer any fear of yellow
fever in Rio Janeiro since the harbor i'm
provements and the municipal works have
been finished the streets laid with as
phalt and modern sanitation installed. SO
there is no reason why the sessions of the
conference should not be held in the city.
The public buildings are not particularly
imposing, but they are spacious and there
are ample quarters for lodging the delegates
in some of the fine suburbs. The most
beautiful of these suburbs is Batofago,
which lies along an arm of the sea. There
are also plenty Of attractions without going
up into the mountains. One of these is
the botanical garden, which was the pride
of Dom Pedro. The royal palms In this
garden have been frequently celebrated by
prose writer's and poets for their stately
beauty. but to my mind the avenues OF
bamboos are finer
The Brazilian government never does any,
thing by halves and 1t has prepared
splendid scale of entertainments for Secre-
tary Root and for the pan-American dele
gates The functions will be carried on by
the administration of President ROdrigues
Alves Vice President Parma was elected
president some months ago, but his inau-
guration will not take place until Novem-
ber
Though the sessions of the conference
will be held in a country whose language is
Portuguese, Spanish will be the medium
most spoken because, with the exception OF
the United States and OF Hayti, 1T Is the
language of all the other countries repre-
scented in the conference. Those who speak
Portuguese can understand Spanish. and
vice versa, since the two languages are SO
similar. but all educated Brazilians speak
French, and they may prefer that medium
don't know Just how the Rio Janeiro
newspapers are going to handle the pro-
ceedings At the Washington conference
the sessions were private though publicity
was given to the most important acts and
discussions. At Mexico, owing to the de-
sire of two contending factions to get their
contentious fully before the public, the ses-
sions were open to reporters of the press
associations It is not expected that this
course will be followed at Rio.
The. Rio Newspapers.
The reports of the routine proceedings are
not likely to concern the Rio newspapers,
which will be satisfied with long editorials
and reviews the very important ques-
lions that will come before the conference.
The Brazilian newspapers are much given
to articles of this kind. One of their edit
ors explained to me that they were ahead
of their constituency in the matter OF news,
and they found 1t necessary In the process
of popular education to devote a great deal
of space to literary and scientific topics.
They have very good cable news from Eu-
rope and South America. and also excellent
European correspondence Heretofore they
have not printed much from the United
States because there was SO little in the
United States to interest their readers.
Most of the newspapers are of the blan-
ket size with broad columns. They devote
much attention to shipping and commercial
intelligence, which Is natural In a port OF
the importance of Rio Janeiro- They also
print very many contributed articles and
letters. and the long and wide columns are
very comforting to the old subscriber who
wants to get his views before the public but
who can't begin to turn round in the 300
words which an American newspaper would