The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-04

tuG dSStSldHl Cashier, ana MS dSStSl-
ant and so do other assistants down to
a remote degree of cOnsanguinity. In
about three hours, if you are prodig-
iously lucky, you hear a voice call out
your number. You blithely respond
and at last you get your money. If
you want to purchase a draft on New
York, say on Monday, you pay your
money in and about Thursday you get
your draft. l have known of a rush
order of unusual Importance getting
through by the late afternoon of the
following day, but that is positively
reckless speed in Brazil and they don't
do it except when the circumstances
are decidedly out of the ordinary.
No Ice Used in Country.
a feature of Brazil that amazed me
was the total absence of ice. The
country is so big that it has climate
of every kind, but some parts of the
republic are intensely hot practical
ly from one end of the year to the
other. Yet it is impossible to get a
cold drink On the hottest day the Bra
lillian drinks hot coffee. If you offer
him beer that is even cool hell wave
it away and ask for. warm beer. Once
an American company thought it saw
a fortune in soda water stands in Bra
Zil. Stands were established i'm all the
principal cities at tremendous expense
but the enterprise failed because the
Brazilians would not patronize it.
A German corporation spent $780,
900 in the construction of an ice and
cold storage plant. 1t went to the wall
for the same reason. This failure was
partly assisted, however, by the refusal
of the government to deViate from its
stringent law requiring wholesale
butchers TO kill only such animals as
could be sold within twenty-four
hours. After that period if any meat
is left over it must be destroyed. The
meat in Brazil, it is hardly necessary
to add, is not good.
Without ice or cold storage il would
seem impossible to have milk in Brazil,
They do, though, and they manage IL
in a highly original way. Your milk
is brought to you in the original pack
age, being drawn from the COW or the
goat, as your preference may be. before
your eyes. The milkman arrives with
his live stock at 6 O'Clock in the morn
ing. You tell him how much you want
and if there isn't enough in one pack
age he tackles another. The system.
you think, assures you good, pure milk
It doesn't. The best you can say
for the milk is that it is fresh. But
before your very eyes. unless you
watch with exceeding closeness, the
gentle native will make your milk half
water, though apparently filling your
rail direct from the cow. Under his
cotton blouse he has rubber bag
filled with water. A tube extends from
the bag down his sleeve and to a small
bulb in his hand. By gently squeeZ-
ing the bulb and the cows teat at the
same time he makes two quarts of
milk to grow where less than quart
grew before.
An American Settlement.
One of the most interesting places
in all Brazil to me was the Villa
Americana settlement, about 100 kilo-
meters from Sac Paulo. A little more
than forty years ago, when Grant and
Lee agreed upon terms of surrender
beneath the famous apple tree at APP
pCmattox, some sOutherners felt that
they couldn't make it unanimous. The
state Of Sac Paulo was chosen as the
site for their new empire and the Villa
Americana was organized.
From their old homes the coIonists
brought cotton AMI within a few years
they had established a considerable
cotton-growing industry. 1t looked as
II they might prosper tremendously,
ana eventually grow into a great col
ony under the old patriarchal southern
system. But disease and death have
thinned out their numbers Not one of
the original settlers is left, and their
descendants have intermarried among
the Brazilians to such an extent that
their identity has been al, but lost.
Still, every time Independence day
comes around visitors to the Villa
Americana see the stars and stripes
float above the little group of build
ings, and from the plaza comes the
sound of patriotic music, mingling with
the songs OF the south.
Sac Paulo is the great coffee state
of Brazil. 1t is full of great fazendas
or plantations, some of which employ
$500 men the year round, and two or
three times that number in the busy
season. The total coffee crop of Brazil
is in the neighborhood of 1900. 600
sacks or more than a billion and a
half pounds. And a large proportion
of the total comes from Sac Panic
Some OF the fazendas contain $1,000
acres, and fazendas of from 10000 to
$4,000 acres are not at all unusual.
l well remember my first trip into
the coffee district. We took the 'cof-
fee railroad, a line that hauls nothing
but coffee in the way of freight. 1t