The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-05-18


In Peru or Bolivia or Chile.
In each of these three countries
there is scenery grand in scale ana
different In type from what any other
part of the world has to show IN
PERU and Bolivia there are also the
remains OF Il primitive civilization,
rcarty. no doubt, but all the more at
tracttxe because they stimulate rather
than satisfy our curiosity They
speak of antiquity, and indeed all
three countries have n flavor OF an
tluu,ty. though Chile has scarcely any
relics coming down from 1t.
But in the River Plate regions
there is texcept along the Andes ana
In the far northl little natural beauty
and nothing that recalls the past All
ia modern and new; all belongs TO
the prosperous present and betokens
n stu more prosperous future.
Argentina is like Western North
America. The swift and steady in
crease in its agricultural production
with an increase corresponaihEiy ihrRe
An means of internal transportation,
- what gives it's Importance TO the
country and shows that 1t Will have
a great part to play in the world. III
liz the United States of the southern
Hemisphere
Not even the approach 10y sea TO
Alexandria or to the mouth ~ the
HQ0ghiS below AatSbtta LIZ AuitFt N"i"+i
tnst TO Buenos Aires.
Before land Is seen, the vessel en-
sers a. muddy. reddish brown sea- and
presently the winding channel. marx
ed for "A long way by bqoys, shows
how shallow fl the water on either
side. This IN The estuary, two nun
bred miles long and at this point about
about thirty miles broad, OF the hlo
i de la Plata, formed by the union or
the great river Uruguay with the stiil
greater Parana, streams which be
tween them drain nearly one-fourth
part of the South American continent.
A City That is Hid From View by
Sea
Approaching the Argentine shore,
one sees few masts and many nun
ne1s rising above the tall hulls OF
steamships, locked In lines alongside
huge wharves Beyond the open
space Of the wharf runs row of Of
fices and warehouses, but nothing else
il seen nor can one tell. except from
the size of the docks and the crowd
III vessels, that n great city lies be-
hind Nothing can be seen, because
Buenos Aires stands only some thirty
feet above high water mark In per-
fe,tlv hat aIluvial plain, with scarce
" ang rise in the ground for hundreds
of miles and not a rock anywhere.
ON entering the city one is surprised
ta find that with Il boundless prairie
all around, the streets shonid be so
narrow that in most of them wheeled
traffic Is allowed to move only one
way. one great thoroughfare. the
Ayepftfa de Mayo, tr3Vcrses the cen
ter Of the city from the large plaza
al In which the government buildings
stand to the stlli larger and very
handsome plaza which liz adorned by
the palace of the legislature. For
funately it is wide, and being wen
PLANTED with trees is altogether no
Bile street, statelier than PicCadilly in
london, or Inter den Linden in Fer
lin. or PENNSYLVANIA avenue in Wash
ingtun.
I'm the newer parts Of the city more
Width IS nnN being given to streets rs
- ttIry are r7UTU Time 10 time lald ouN
But the congestion OF The nucleus II
4er3ous obst2sie to rapid locomotion
sshieh ~ otherwise we'll provided foA
ns numerous electric ear lines NC
North American city has better cal
service.
Though slyscrapers have scarcely
yet made their appearance, the houses
are much higher than in the Yves
coast cities, because earthquakes are
not feared: and many mansions IN th'
residential quarters, built IN the mou
ern French style, have architecture
merit SO, too, the numerous SINAI
plaxas. usually planted with trees OF
ehrubs and furnished with seats, part
IL atone for the want of space IN the
streets
4 CITY That Deserves Its Name.
Ruenos Aires deserves It's name. fol
its air is clear as well as keen, there
hsing no large manufacturing works
to poIiute i, with coal smoke, Ths
streets are well kept; everything u
fresh and bright. The most strikint
buildings besides those of the ne"
Legislative cham bers, with their tai
and handsome dome, or the opera
house. the interior Of which equals
any in Europe, and the Jockey club
whose scale and elaborate appoint
ments surpass even the ciunhouses o.
New York.
Ruenos Aires is something between
Paris and New Yoxk. 1t has the busi'
ness rush and the luxury OF the one
the gaiety and pIeasure-loving aspect
Of the other. Everybody seems tC
have money, and to like spending II
and to like letting everybody else
know that it lis being spent
Betting on horses is the favorite
amusement. and the races the great
ct occasion for social display. An i'm
5nenss concourse gathers at the rae
ing Enclosure and fills the grandstand
The highest officials of State and city
,sr- are there, as wen as the world OF
wealth and fashion. The ladies are
decked out with all the Partisan finery
4 and jewels that money can buy, and
although nature has given TO many oil
Il thesn good features and to the nps'
of them fine eyes, custom seems &c
prescribe that natna shall not be left
10 herself.
On the afternoons there lis won
derf1l turnout of carriages drawn b,
handsome horses, and still more O
Y costly motor cars, in the principa
avenues of the park; they press 81
thick that vehicles are often Janmet
together for fifteen or twenty min
s utes, unable to move on. Nowhere II
the world does one get stronger i'm
n preston of exubefant wealth and e&
trAvagance.
A Great Artificial Ocean Harbor.
As the opera house and the race
Il Rsad the park show one side of tn
s activities OF this sanguine community
81 70 the docks and port show another
Twenty years ago sea-going vessel
I'M had to lie two or three miles off Bue
n nos Aires, discharging their cargo b,
ri lighters and their passengers parti
Es ~ small iaunces and partly by high
wheeled carts which carried peopl
h 1rum the iaunches ashore through tn
NJ shallow water. Now a long, dee
E Ghannei has been dug, and liz KEEP