The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-12

ness blocks in the heart of the city and constructing a boulevard at the cost of $6, ,000, coo, which it proposed to present to the city.
 The club owns the Hippodrome which Is the source of it's marvellous revenues. The Argentinians are born gamblers and they have been known to wager $26000,000 | in American gold in one year upon the Hippodrome races. This represents per | capita of $50 in Argentine money for every citizen in Buenos Ayres. The Hip podrome will accommodate 50,000 people and the races are run on Sunday after moons between noon and o'clock. The Jockey club room is centrally located. possesses marble stairways and is equipped with luxurious baths. fencing rooms dining halls, reception salons and bewilderingly decorated rall room.
 After the races the world and his wife trundle in auto cars and conventionally equipped equipages to Palmermo park, where they spend several hours in re- viewing the passing throng.
 The corner masher Is also in evidence with his regulation mustache and ubiqui- tous cigarette.
 Moving picture shows are prevalent and the Merry Widow" is familiar to all. The latter Is the same fascinating crea- ture whether we find her flirting in French German, Spanish or Italian. The Teatro Colon is the largest opera house in South America; it is subsidized hy the government and it's seating capac- l ity is enormous | La Escala Is the favorite play resort of the gaucho, or cowboy of the pampas who frequents it In unsophisticated clothes, but the Argentine ladies accord it wide birth.
 The famous cathedral of the city Is modelled after the Madeleine of Paris, | xf 4fo great dome bears close semblance to the capitol building at Washington. The llt- ter was some 13 years in course of erec- ton and was completed at a cost of ! $S, ,000, 600.
 An odd feature of the place is the reser- voir, which is located in the center of the city, yet it is quite an embelishing orna- ment, for 1t resembles a magnificent pal ace being faced with decorative brick and terra cotta at cost of d million dol | lars.
 Paris is France and Buenos Ayres is l Argentina. It's population Is one-seventh ol that of the entire country and it is an expensive city to live in. It Is cosmo-
 polltan, for there are as many Italians
 there as are to be found in Genoa, as many Spaniards as compose Toledo and large colonies of English and Germans. A visit to the Bolsa. or stock exchange, 1 is well worth the while where the chatter and babble of so many foreign tongues is deafening and strangely suggestive of the primitive confusion of languages recorded l in Holy Writ.
 1 All of the merchants speak several lan- guages and the wealthy spend much of their time in visiting Europe | There is an almost universal sentiment in Argentina that we of North America ] are too conceited. They dislike the dis | crimination of terms north and south and claim that we all should be known as Americans. They point with pride to the fact that but three cities in the New | World are larger in size than their capital and while the Buenos Ayres is lacking h. skyscrapers (the talest building being
 not over eight stories in height, subways and similar features of civic advance ment 1t Is the boast of her citizens that there Is nothing in the way of culture, lrxury and comfort that cannot be pro- cured in the city, provided. of course, | that you have sufficient funds to pay for | it.
 | With excellent colleges, up-to-date play houses, Parisian styles, modern journals. | q trade in touch with all the world land of luxuriant fertility. the second large st river system of the globe and most saluburlous climate which Is reflected In | the name of their capital the Argentin- | ian is justly entitled to resent our north-
 ern appropriation of all that goes Tor ad-
 vaneement. progress and civic exceilenee. We have sharp. shrewd, inViheiple Yankees north of the equater but there i are men just as sharp. just as shrewd and | just as invincible that live on the south ern side of the worlds central circling belt, if we only knew and appreciated the l fact.