New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-29
THE CALL OF ARGENTINA.
Nations Look and See Giant Where
Dzcarf Recently Stood.

All Ruenos Ayres has gone to celebrating and
gone at it with all the broad-shouldered pride
Of it's growing, boastful industry and all the
breezy lightheartedness of the Latin-Amer1can
blood. Argentina is always ready for a cele-
bration, especially when it brings chance to
boom business. This year Argentina has two
excellent excuses for this is the centenary Of
the great revolt which shook the nation free
from SPAIN and this spring-t this fall
south of the equator-the first tranScontinental
railroad of South America was thrown open and
the countrys capital linked with the cities
of its neighbor Chill the other side of the
Andes
When the United States celebrated it's CEN
tenary in 1876, the shipping at Buenos Ayres,
such as it was lay at anchor in the River Plate,
and took its cargoes on board from small boats
which piled out from the shore. There was
shabby, rather dirty seaport town of twenty
i've thousand people, made up of mean, badly
built houses large church or two and some
warehouses; There were public buildings
worth mentioning. To-day the traveller lands
tn a city about the size of Philadelphia, a great
modern capital, well planned, well built, fuIl OF
a Joyous life that loves horses and chatting IN
ddewalk cafes, where the talk is all about the
opera and the races and the latest news from
Rome and Paris. The town has an atmosphere
all its own, half cosmopolitan, half the hall
fellow we'll met air of a big, new hospltabIe
country The great piers for three miles
along the river with railroad tracks running
close to each ship The university has as many
utudents as Princeton and Leland Stanford to-
gether.
The celebration centres in the Maldonado
quarter where a fair ground of twenty-five
acres has been built up with exhibition pa
viIions and decorated with gardens This area
Is for the International Exhibition of Railways
and Land Transport, which is to recall to the
natives and bring before the eyes of the for
oigners the commercial progress of the republic
But all winter long, from May to December,
while the main exhibition is in progress, half
q dozen other fairs and gatherings will be car
rfed on each one of which will be forceful re-
hinder of the rush of prosperity
Seven nations besides Argentina will have eX-
lbits in the fair, the United States, Great
Britain. Germany, Austria, Belgium, Italy and
France All these have great trade interests
tn the country. This nations trade with Ar
xentina in the first six months of the year 1909
amounted to $305S1. 1888. The United States
stood fifth among the nations exporting to that
country and third among those importing from
It during that period.
The Argentine is as ready to fill the stranger
with figures about his country he is to show
him the spendors of its capital. He is coming
to resent the nickname the Canada of the
South" which was given to Argentina by those
Of Northern blood who felt it to be the greatest
Of compliments. He says Canada might better
be called the Argentina of the North
The Argentine will remind you that although
the population of the two countries is practi
caly the same his land is growing more than
four times as fast; that while Argentina has
doubled it's population in the last five years,
Canada has gained only 45 per cent in the last
ten Then he tells you that Canadian railroads
grew in the five years from 1902 to 1907 from
1900 miles to 22.50O or Is per cent, but that
Argentinas mileage jumped in the five years
from 1905 to 1910 from 49, 600 to 1900, or 80
per cent: and that Canada's imports and ex-
ports were $32OOOOOOO to Argentina's $780,
100000 in 1900 but in 1908 they totalled $6O4,
100000 to Argentina's $63S 100000.
Il is only natural that the central feature Of