The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-07-21
VISIT Of PRESIDENT
ELECT Of BRAZIL
Coming Here Next Month to
Study Conditions in
United States.

dSuiuStOn, July Ll.-Au event
of Importance will be the visit to
this country next month of Marshal
Hermes da Fonseca, president-elect
of Brazil. Marshal da Fonseca is a
nephew of that Manuel Deodora da
Fonseca who was the first president
of Brazil under the Republic, and
who retired amid a tumultuous out
break shortly after his accession
Like his distinguished uncle, he has
been military men, going through
all the steps to the highest office in
the military establishment. His rise
has also been similar to that of Pres
ident Taft, who came to the presi-
dency through the office of secretary
of war. Since the first president,
Brazil has chosen her chief eXecu-
tives from civil life, and under their
guidance she has made great strides
commercially, industrlally, and in
every field of education, art, science,
agriculture and general development
The new president is a man of great
learning, progressive and enllght-
ened student, and possessed of an
ambition to see his country maintain
leading place in the affairs of the
world.
Marshal Fonseca VIII be accom-
panied on his trip to this country
by DR.. Jose Carlos Rodrigues, pro-
prietor of the leading journal of
Brazil, ell Journal do Commerce..
The party will sail from Liverpool
July 80 on the Mauritania and will
arrive at New York August 5. The
itinerary for the stay in this cOun-
try has not been mapped out, but
the party will remain here for IS
days, and Will visit number of
large cities, perhaps extending its
jOurneyings as far as the Pacific
Coast. Marshal Fonseco will visit
the president and secretary of state.
The latter Will direct the general
official ceremonies in honor of the
distinguished visitor. John Barrett,
director of the Bureau of American
Republics, has been in communica-
ton with Mayor Gaynor of New
York, and the mayors and chambers
of commerce in a number of other
cities, regarding the entertainment
of the BraZilians. AS Mr.. Barrett
will be in Europe when the uarty IS
here, he will not have any personal
connection with the visit
Visit of Dom Pedro Recalled.
The forthcoming visit of the next
president of Brazil naturally recalls
the visit Of the last Emperor of that
country, Dom Pedro ii. From
chronicles of the time, it is noted
that the Emperor, the Empress and
their suite, leaving the Princess I'M
perial to act as regent of the empire,
sailed for New York on the merchant
steamship Hevelius, arriving at New
York April Is, 1876 The Emperor
was the only monarch who had ever
visited this country up to that time,
and his grandfather, Dom JOao of
Portugal, was the only legitimately
crowned European potentate who
had ever placed foot on the CONT
nent OF America.
AS in his European trip, which he
had made a year or two before, the
Emperor travelled lncognito as a
private citizen, coming, as he said,
as 1.-The first citizen of Brazil" to be
present at the Centennial EXPOSE
ton which was the celebration of the
close of a century of freedom In
great constitutional country, and to
aid in representing the products and
the industries of the second nation
on the American continent. Indeed,
he felt that the representation of
Brazil at the great exposition was
of "far more and exceeding" import
ance than demonstrations to the
monarch Of RraZil