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partnent OF public service-the Assist
amelia Publica-are partly national in
character. These institutions will be-
examined later
How the City Is Governed.
The city, municipality itself, is d.
vided into 20 parishes (parroquias)I
corresponding to the wards of a
North American city. From these par
ishes, on basis of population, repre-
sentatives are chosen by ballot of the'
citizens to form a body called the
ConceJo Deliberate, corresponding in
most details to our common council
These officials serve without pay for
term O. four years, one-half of their
number being elected every two
years, however. This so-called DELHI
erat1Ve body chooses from among it's
members president. These off Gals
serve as provisional substitutes for
the 1ntendente whenever occasion re-
quires
The great departments of the NUM-
clpal government may be classified as
follows: Finance, which includes the
functions usually understood in such
department; public works, having
charge Of municipal buildings, water
supply sewers, streets, paving, re-
pairing and opening of streets and al
legs, administration of building laws,
control of public markets, bridges,
parks, squares and monuments; Sc
curity and hygiene, giving particular
attention to buildings like theaters.
Where public meetings are held;
street cleaning, food supplies, regulaI
tlon OF weights and measures. certain
authority over hospitals and asylums.
prevention or control of epidemics and
the municipal side Of the public relief
service. Rules for the preservation of
pubic morality are enforced through
| this department. A law department is
| also maintained.
Buenos Aires is about equal in size
TO Washington, D. C. (Which in this
respect Is coextensive with the Dis
trlct OF Columbia), but smaller than
London, Marseiiles or Manchester.
Greater New York, New Orleans, Phil
adelphia and Chicago, and larger than
Paris, Berlin or Vienna. Ample prep
aratlon has been made for future
growth, because the open spaces, ex-
elusive OF an extensive park system,
will permit much greater population
than lives at present within its con-
fines. In the city ten years ago there
were $4,000 houses; $4,000 building
permits were issued since then to
1906; and in 1907 there were 14,4S9
building permits issued which is the
highest figure reached in tile city's
history. A:.
The city is laid out on the rectangu-
lar plan, each square measuring 1870
meters (almost 400 feet) on. a side.
The rectangular pattern is more evi.
dent away from the older portion Of
the city, where, despite thes radical
improvements within the past genera
ton, some irregularity was unavoida-
bly, left. Every corner of street inter-
sections is marked in clear letters by
the name Of the street, easily readable
| by the foot passengers; street mum.
boring is on the century system. AZ
the end of 1907, 100000 square yards
of pavement had been laid, the most
generally used being granite blocks
with mortar foundation, stone, wooden
blocks, macadam and asphalt.
Over 800 Streets.
The nnmber of individual streets
passes the 300 mark, but some of the
longest have separate names for sep
arate sections. If extended In
straight line they would measure
about 600 miles. Many of them are
fine, broad avenues 100 feet or more
in width, only a few of the narrow
passages Of the earlier city being left
after the reconstruction Of the city
from 1889 onward.
The municipal revenue Is derived
from many of the same sources that
| furnish funds to all cities Among the
I! sources Of revenue included under the
tax lists are imposts upon street cars.
carriages, dogs, theaters, billiard hallsi
! telegraph and telephone messages.
| the use Of spaces beneath city streets.
on provisions and wagons conveying
A them about the city, peddlers, hotels
and such public houses, cellars, etc,
Such special taxation as cities IN
the United Suites impose upon what
are here called saloons, the intent Of
which Is often quite as much for the
I purpose of prohibition as 1t is to raise
4 revenue, is not applied Ia Buenos
Aires, because the people are. in the
main, temperate. and the business Of
\ dispensing beer, wine or stronger ali
cohoAc drink Is not SO specialized
! therts, Many shops sell drinkables.
but saloons or barrooms are to be
found only in the congested center Of
the! city, where foreign habits have
J,opularized themselves In cosmo-
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