Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-28
SOUTH AMERICANS
To FOSTER TRADE
New Commercial Route with Di-
rect Cable Service Will
Be Established
RECENT GROWTH AMAZES
Representatives at Transmits
sissippi Session Tell Of Co.
Operation Plans
RECENT GROWTH AMAZES
Especial to The HERALD

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Nov. a.
The annual session here of the Trans
mississippi Commercial congress, with
representatives from the South Ameri-
can republics and Mexico has brought,
in surprising fashion, to public notice
the great development of the sister
continent. This session, being in the
nature of a Pan-American congress
and quasi official, since it was fos-
tered by the state department at
washington and the Pan-American
union, will do much, it is predicted, to
strengthen relations between the two
continents. 1t has become apparent
that South America Is being rapidly
Amercani2ed. The Pan-American con-
ference recently concluded at Buenos
Ayres, followed by the convention here,
will tighten these bonds now in process
of formation.
At the Buenos Ayres meeting the
plan already in progress to establish
tive steamship lines giving regular
communication between ports in the
United States and South American
ports on both the Atlantic and the
Pacific coasts was indorsed. The
commercial congress has been fighting
for the passT 80 of the Gallinger sub
yention bill for years. The action or
the pan-American conference in agree
ing on definite plans to bring both
communication with the United States
through an international agreement
will no doubt aid in influencing the
congress of the United States to put
through this highly important meas
ure.
PLAN NEW TRADE ROUTE
At Buenos Ayres, Lewis Nixon of
New York served as chairman OF the
committee on ocean communication.
Henry White, former American am
bassador to Italy, also attended, and
Europe was represented by Clemen-
ceau, the former French premier, and
Senior Signor Enrico Ferrie of the
Italian chamber of deputies. 1t Is pro
posed to create new trade route with
direct banking and cable service. A
common system of weights and meas
ures will be adopted to avoid loss OF
time in handling freight, mail and
passengers. Though the plan, as out
lined, of the Buenos Ayres convention
is broader than the definite fight or
the Transmississippi Commercial con-
gress, the lines Of mall and passenger
steamships desired by the commercial
interests of the United States, and pro-
vided for in the GallnGer bill, VIII not
confuse, but will be q part or the gen
eral plan.
At the San Antonio meeting. when
representatives of the twenty one
told of the riches, natural and other
wise. of their respective countries,
there Was considerable surprise, and
the statement was made that Ameri-
cans are woefully ignorant OF the
southern half of the Western Hemi-
sphere. Argentina, in several lines, is
weather. than the United states.
GREAT WEALTH OF RIO
Brill is a larger republic than the
limited States, and its chief city, Rio
de Janeiro, with a population of nearly
one million, is a city of great wealth
and luxury, q western Paris with
great boulevards and theaters, with
few in the United States more beauti-
ful. Today American merchant yes
sells are rarely seen in it's harbor the
most beautiful in the world, beautified
nv the expenditure Of forty odd mil
lions of dollars. One fifteenth of the
railroad mileage of the world, of forty
thousand miles, stretches across South
America. The first transcontinental
railroad, from Panama to the straits OF
Magellan, has been half built In Chill
and Peru, and three-tenths of the dis
tance to be traVersed in Argentina. 1t
is 1898 miles in length, and by piercing
the Andes connects Buenos Ayres on
the east with Valparaiso on, the west.
English and American capital are
strongly represented in the building
It climbs to an altitude of 10000 feet
where it crosses the continental divide.
Its tunnel, 1O,3S0 feet, or about two
miles in length. how permits winter
travel Heretofore the journey was
made over the Andes in caravan
which wound it's difficult way over
mountain trails, closed by snow
throughout the winter season. Now the
tourney is made across the continent
in a luxuriously appointed railroad
train in thirty hours and the passen-
ger sees some of the finest mountain
scenery in the world.
An international celebration at the
opening of the Panama canal, which
will bring closer the United States
( markets to the Pacific and Asiatic
markets. and will stimulate, not only
! trade conditions between the northern
and southern continents, but will
bring to fruition plans that will work
out, after the meeting of these two
significant Pan-American conventions,
was indorsed. At both meetings the
comparatively near completion Of the
big ship ditch figured among the most
important topics and trade relations
were given direction that will result
in well defined policy upon the COM
pletion of the canal