Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1913-09-05
After Personal Investigation
Sioux Cityan Suggests Closer
Study Of Latin States-Fine
Field for Young Men.

STUDY OF Latin States
Field for Young Men.
An uneventful run of 16 hours leaving
Rio de Janeiro May 9, at s p. M. we
anchored at another sea port town, the
passengers being awakened by the
riotous excitement and QUO eXclama-
ton of seeing mountains when we
rounded from the broad Atlanta into
the mouth of the Oura Pretoo river
and whiting five miles of one of the
most active, wide awake cities of Brazil,
with a population they claim 20O. 1000
people. Little city? We'll yes-when
compared in population with it's two
big neighbors, Rio de Janiero and Sac
Paulo-but ever at that the amount OF
territory 1t a to draw from is as large
as the giant of all republics. the
United States of America.
However. the impression made upon
the tourist is that there is nothing
small, about the largest sea port ship
ping town OF Brazil, Santos Its fine
substantial houses are large, it's streets
are wide as Sioux City and we'll paved,
and its parks and plazas are beautiful
and spacious, while the liberal hospi-
tality of its people shows their hearts
are large and we'll.
The city has an Ideal location on a
fine a the eastern side facing the
Atlantic and the southern fronting the
Curitiba and was the first landing
made on u journey that We were able
to pull our steamer into dock which
saves us a great of being
transported in small boats and launches
from the ocean to the city proper.
1t is built IN a peninsula that juts
out into the waters and forms the east
ern extremity of this semicircular bay
which forms III actual port. while on
the ocean side the coast sweeps directly
north for quite a distance and 1T Is here
that are located the fine bathing re-
sorts of entire Brazil, for in season
from June 10. to October, daily excur-
sions are u from every city, village
and hamlet to Santos. II these bathing
resort: or the writer might say the
mountainous city of a Paulo, 1T would
be one of the finest summer resorts in
entire Brazil or even South America
for Sac Jaulo has ideal climate
Before attempting to describe what
the writer saw in the short stay at
moment on the sturdy and interesting
large country and state of Sac Paulo Of
which Santos is third important in size
and volume of business.
Wheat. III oats, flax, barley, lin
seed. canary seed, alfalfa, etc, are
I1IOl lax IA
One OF the finest bathing re-
sorts near Santos is "Praia
Garjua'' about 5 miles from the city.
IN the writer. having been at Allan
tic City. Long Beach, Cape May and
Coney Island, in the states. they are
only second class as compared to this
wonderful resort. where not only the
elite of Santos c~ongregate. but also
j where many of the first families OF
Sac Paulo and Rio de Janiero. and I
Paris, Buenos Ayres. New York and
Boston. who come here to enjoy the
sea breezes and line bathing beach
during the warm season of the year.
The hotel is one of the finest in South
America, for there is nothing in Rio
de Janiero thai can come anywhere
near it. being patterned after our Amer
lear hotels. and the service is extra
fine. In addition to the hotels there
are many handsome and artistic villas.
mostly owned by the COM
pany. and are crowded during the sum-
mer.
Service for Bathers.
A feature, which attracted attention,
was the use of the little bath houses
on wheels. These stand in long rows
on the beach on either side Of the pier,
which projects some distance n the
water. The bathers enter the little
houses and after having donned their
~ cAi NAA
who then bitches a horse to the wheeled
room and draws it out into water of a
convenient depth and leaves it. The
occupant. sometimes a mother with
several children, descends by mean of
the little steps to the sea and. when
through with their swim the at
tendant returns with the horse and
draws the vehicle back to Its place on
the beach. Thus a modest woman may
enjoy a privacy unknown to our North
American resorts.
Another South American custom is
thai of segregating the sexes to quite
an extent, by r%eserving one side of a
pier for the women and children and
the other for men and boys.
We saw no evidence that there were
any fair nymphs who frequented "Praia
Garnja" for exhibition purposes only.
as seems to be often the case at the
so-called swell resorts of our w
country. where the law must step in
occasionally to the rescue of modesty
and restrain the inclination OF fash
ionable beauty to exploit it's charms on
the crowded beach. undampened by the
waves of Neptune's realm. and I'M
daunted by the general public's gaze.
The president of the state of Sac
Paula has signed a decree authorizing
the secretary of agriculture. com
merce and public works. to ope a spe-
cial credit of 0.000. 900 reis (about $685.
900. u. S. currency for expenses con-
nected with the development of navi-
cation and m of the port OF
Santos. According to consular ad-
vices. the export from the port OF
Santos increased from $92 941.7s7 In
Of the imports in 1912 was 7s.134,1 2z
as compared with SAG, 04S. 4O4 in 1911. The
number of vessels entered at port OF
Santos during 1912 was 1884 with q