The Washington herald., 1912-06-30
EMPYREAN BLUE is ONLY
LIMIT IN BUENOS AYRES
Baltimore Prices Totally Ecipsed by Rates in South
American City-Bath Costs $2-W Washington
Couple Back from Long Trip.

Fifty thousand miles Of travel in four
teen months is the record OF DR.. ant
Mrs. W. E. Aughinbaugh, OF this city
who have just returned TO this country
from a trip which took in all parts o.
Central and South America, some OF The
West hides, and parts Of Europe. Il
was neither a new trip nor a strange
country for DR.. Aughinbaugh who haI
lived much IN South America. But Mrs
Aughinbaugh found much to wonder at
and the first sight OF modern Manhattan
and the good old U. S. !. brought a song
to her lips
The last trip was taken by DR.. Augh.
inbaugh in behalf Of American manu-.
featuring interests for the purpose OF
studying the conditions down there as
affecting the marketing Of some lines
g certain American products.
''Of course. in travelling down there you
get up against things you are not used
TO in your own country said DR.. Augh.
inbaugh. The ways are different The
,neans Of lOComotion are sometimes
strange, and when you get to the coun-
tres which pride themselves upon having
attained the highest emInence Of wealth
and culture living is pretty high.
Some Hotels Are Filthy.
There Is much business TO be done in
South America, but the man who goes
down there TO do IL must be able to put
up in some places with the rottenest.
flthiest hotel accommodations in the
world.
The hotel that stands out prominently
in my recollection is one in Iquique,
where even while you are sitting at the
dining table vendors come in from the
street to sell you food. At this place
they have two charges for baths, 81 II
you insist upon clean water and 81 II
you are willing to take a second go at
the tub.
Good hotels are needed in South
America Why. when I got to africa,
Peru, found that the hull OF the old
American man-o'-war wateree, which
great tidal wave years ago, had been
fitted up as a hotel and was being run
as such.
There are two classes OF Americans in
those Southern countries, the decent
kind and the man who can't come back
home. In some Of those capitals down
there you could get together a fine COL
lection Of murderers. bank robbers, and
Ilain thugs who hail from these parts.
Jim DuERn, Irish Consul.
Ever hear OF Jim Dugan. of Curacao
Well, Jim started a revolution in Central
America some years ago and was put
out. He landed in Curacao with a stew
and a S goldpiece. With the money he
bought a lottery ticket and won a prize.
While he still had tho money a man who
owned saloon and who was looking for
a sucker sold out to him. But Jim has
fiourlshed. He got hold Of a seal be-
longing to an American life insurance
company. and he stamps his letters with
that and calls himself the Irish consul
When was in to see Jim this time I
found that everything passed as currency
over his bar. He has a drawerfuI of
such things as false teeth and glass
eyes, and one morning I saw a man
come in and ask for liquor and then
calmly take out his eye and put # on the
counter.
But in Buenos Ayres there lives and
operates an American who is the proto-
type of ]. Rufus Wallingford. He makes
b speciality OF turning out old masters
and selling them at fancy prices to the
wealthy Argentinians, who like to blow
their money for works Of art This chap
got hold of q Frenchman that can paint
and he does the actual work, and they
dry them with electric fans. When was
there the electric fans were playing on
three Vandykes. There was an elderly