The Washington herald., 1907-12-10
AT THE HOTELS.

we are strong believers in the Monroe
doctrine, and agree with you that
America should be, for Americans said
/ Col. Zacarias BOrba dos Santos. OF Rio
de JaReiro. Brazil. an officer OF the
Guarda Nacional. OF his country, at the
I New Willard last night. The Brazilian
is accompanied by his son. Zacarias
! Borba. and explained, that. being deepiy
/ interested in the Na,iC.laI- Guard organi-
cation OF his country. ne has Travelled in
the various States Of the United States
with a view. 10 gathering data to be ap-
Piled to an improvement OF the Brazilian
system
Col Borba Is the proprietor Of extern
sive coffee plantations. and a raiser~of
cattle and horses on large scale. He
does large export trade IN coffee. and
has branches in almost every important
commercial center Of the world
i have written home 10 my people and
! the papers to visit the United States II
they want 10 learn for profit. This IS the
/ country where activity is the motto. Lon
/ don, Paris, Berlin, Vienna are all beauti-
/ ful cities. but they lack the business
spirit which one meets at every turn IN
America
I'VE have very little trouble with our
/ negroes. Foreign immigration Of our
] Southern States Is very strong. particU-
! larly from Italy and Portugal The lower
/ class Of these two nationalities frequent
/ y internarries with negroes and the
/ course OF assimilation gradually produces
a race that is neither negro nor exactly
white. but which has lost most all the
.-rn.aEs r-.r-
man objects.
Our financial system IS managed By
I European banking concerns. the ROths-
childs. and under the arrangement we
are operating on such a thing as a
/ financial panic is practically impossible
Rio de Janerio the capital OF Brazil.
has L1000 600 Inhabitants, and is a modern
city IN every particular The climate IS
ideal, and streets and avenues are wide
and clean and well kept, with parkings.
and the street car system IS up-to-date
in every respect"
I Col Borba and his son will call on the
/ Brizilan Ambassador today. and have
engaged passage on the LUsitania 70 the
other side.
At the New Willard is T. c. Crawford,
a weIl-known newspaper man, formerly
stationed In Washington. ar present a
resident Of London. England, where he
hopes TO be in time 10 eat his Christmas
dinner Mr. Crawford now has wide in
terests in various parts Of the world. and
has just returned from a hurried visit %
! Nevada, where he has copDer-mine prop
erty that is developing rapidly. He has
! interests. also. in Southern California.
which are al present being looked after
/ BY his son. and he has a share in some
Mexican mining property which promises
well He hopes next year 10 visit North
/ ern India. Mr.. Crawford's hobby is the
/ collecting OF antique pottery. furniture.
and pictures. and his business travels
through England and through France
and South Germany give him many op-
] portunities OF picking Up rare bargains
IF you ever happen 10 run across q
] Chinese vase Of black porcelain. made in
/ the sixteenth century" said he. get hold
OF IL If you can. You VIII find i viii be
worth at least ES 000 10 $1,000 in London
I The last one sold al Christie's brought
l &l2. 90 II requires some knowledge, how
I ever. 10 pick out genuine antiquities. as
nothing ever existed which the French
are not duplicating. and so successfully
( that many an expert has been deceived"
Mr.. Crawford tells Of a bargain he got
in small English village. There was
/ a secondhand furniture shop there and
he asked the proprietor II he had any
thing very old. he was taken 10 the at
tic and there he discovered a set Of
twelve genuine Chippendale chairs. They
were scratched and marred. the uphol-
stery was IL rags.
] nss
l he asked the man. "Oh. sir the vendor
replied. they are not worth anything.
/ I'd almost give them 20 you for the cart
/ ing away But say two shnhngs apiece"
| The chairs were bought. renovated. re-
I polished and restored and turned out TO
I be worth so pounds apiece.
At another time Mr.. Crawford dlscov-
| cred a genuine Chippendale table in a
+ little cobbler's shop. The cobbler and his
\ father before him had used the table 70
cut leather on They were glad to ex-
change the old thing for a new pine
table which answered their purpose bet
ter The Chippendale was worth over
$500
Edward c. Eliot, a prominent attorney
OF ST. Louis. No, is in this city in con-
nection with business before the depart
ments- Mr.. Eliot is at the Shoreham-
/ IN reply 10 a question as to the pros
/ poets Of Taft for the Presidency. Mr..
Eliot said he was not in politics. and
l took but little interest in the campaign
Mr. Eliot said. however. ne believed that
Missouri viii try 81 the election 20 re-
main in the Republican column. He said
/ Taft was very popul4r. and that ROose-
IL
allow the use OF his name in the conveE-
ton in connection with the Presidential
nomination.
/ Speaking about the introduction OF pro-
/ hibition in the District Of Columbia. Mr
Eliot said he thought the question A
purely local ore. and that Il should be
leff TO the inhabitants of Washfnrtnn