The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-11-25
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Conn., CONGRESS
BRINGS INTO PUBLIC NOTICE
THE GREAT OEVELCpHEsT or
THE SISTER CONTINENT.

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z--a representatives, from ne South
Ame-aa1 Re21blcs AMI Me1lco has
brought. iu 51-p-is.lg fashion, 70
public notice the great dese,oplel.
os he s.sser Continent. This ses-
sion. icing T. --e nature q q Pan
American co1gresz and cuasiotflcisi,
since g vas t9s-e-ed b. The state de
ra-uent .. Washington and the Pan
A1e-.cau union. w.u % much, ir is
Dred.c-ed. 70 s--erz-hen relations b.
tween ne two great continents. II
aas become apparent that South Am
erica IS being rapidly Ame-ican.zed.
The Pan-Aalerican conference recent
ly concluded a. B1enos Ayres follow
Cd by the conYention here T1ll tighten
these bonds now il process Of for
nation.
A. The Blenos Ayres meeting the
plan already IN progress 70 establish
five steamship Tines giving regular
communication between pors in the
U1l-eI states and South American
ports On b0.h the Atlantic and the
Pacific coasts vas endorsed. The
Commercial Congress has been fight
ing for the passage Of the Ballinger
ubyention bill for Years The action
Of the Pan-American conference in
agreeing upon definite plans to bring
both shores Of South America in d.
rect communication with the United
States through an international agree
ment will no doubt aid in influencing
the congress Of the United States TO
put through this highly important
measure.
At Buenos Ayres, Lewis Nixon OF
New York served as chairman OF
the committee on ocean communica-
ton; Henry White, former American
ambassador to Italy, also attended
and Europe was represented by NJ.
Clemenceau, the former French pre-
mier and Senior Signor Enrico Fer
rie, of the Italian chamber Of depu-
ties. It is proposed to create new
trade route with direct banking and
cable service. A common system Of
weights and measures will be ad-
opted TO avoid loss OF timein hand
ling freight mail and passengers.
/ Though the plan as outlined at the
Bucnos Ayres convention is broader
than the definite fight Of the Trans
Mississippi Commercial Congress, the
lines OF mail and passenger steam
ships desired by the commercial in
terests Of the United States, and pro
yided for in the Gallinger bill, VIII
not confuse, but viii be a part of the
general plan.
At the San Antonio meeting when
representatives of the twenty-one
south and central American republics
tolI 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 Hemis-
phree Argentina, in several lines,
is wealthier than the United States,
and its wheat and hides, in volume
and revenue, even surprising in this
respect the United States are sent to
Europe Brazil is a larger republic
than the United States, and its chief
city Rio de Janiero, with a popu-
lation OF nearly one million, is a city
of great wealth AMI luxury, a west
crn Paris with great boulevards and
theatres, with few in the United
States more beautiful Today Amerl-
can merchant vessels are rarely seen
in its harbor, the most beautiful in
the world beautifed by the expend-
i'ure OF forty odd millions of dollars.
one fifteenth of the railroad mileage
of the world, of forty thousand miles,
stretches across South America. The
first trans-continental railroad, from
Panama to the Straits OF Magellan
has been half built in Chill and Peru,
ana thrcetenths of the distance to be
travcrscd in Argentina. II Is S,SSS
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
of this line.
It climbs to an altitude Of 10000
feet where il crosses the continental
divide. It's tunnel, 1O,3S0 feet, or
about two miles in length, now per
mits winter travel. Heretofore the
journey was made over the Andes
in a caravan which wound it's diff
cult way over mountain trails, closed
~. erg,u- throughout tho winter sea