South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-10-30
Great Cruise is Arranged to
Link North and South A merica

America, the length of stay in each
port 30 be determined by its com
mercal Importance.
Leaving Baltimore. the home port
OF the enterprise, on Jan. %, the Fin
land Will reach San Juan or Feb. >.
Her route viii be thence down the
east coast of South America, through
the straits of Magellan. up the west
coast, and back home through the
I Panama canal. There will be five
stops in Brazil. giving nearly 20 days
on shore of which one week VIII be
at Rio de JaneriO. At Buenos Aires
there VIII be eight days on shore.
/ The next stop will be at Montevideo.
where there Will be three days OF
shore leave. Comparatively few peo-
pie know that Montevideo. the capital
of Uruguay, is the sixth largest ship
ping port in the world. while Buenos
Aires the capital of Argentina, is
thirteenth Of the great capitals of
the world, with a population of near
I ly 1,560, 600 in 1912.
Buenos Aires also has the distinc-
tiOG OF supporting one Of the great
est newspapers of the world, La
PTensa, the office of which is not
equaled in either Europe or America
as a show place or rendezvous for
tourists, where the news is bulletined
s.nd the workings of the press dem
onstrated.
After Montevideo the next stop will
be Punta Arenas. the sOuthernmOst
town of the western hemisphere a
thriving city of nearly 10000 popu-
latiOn, which is the center of "A rich
grazing, cattle and agricultural coun-
try largely developed and financed by
North Americans.
Following up the west coast, stops
will be made at Valparaiso. the me-
tropolis of Chile, where a four-day
stop will give opportunity TO visit
Santiago, the capital: at Antofagasta,
MollendO and Callao. CaIlao is the
chief seaport of Peru, where a stop
will be made long enough to permit
a visit to Lima, the capital.
Three days in passing through the
Panama canal Will give opportunity
and inspection of that great engineer
ing and commercial achievement.
Kingston and Havana will be visited
on the way home, arrival in New York
being scheduled for May IL.
Incidentally Ii may be remarked
that the period Of the trip is the sum-
mer season in South America.
While the trip is in no sense Of
fetal. arrangements will be made for
the tourists TO meet all official and
commercial bodies in the ports visited
This part of the scheme will be in
charge of a man who is known per
sOnally in every capital and business
center in South America through Of
fetal connections in the past.
Doubtless also the various coun-
tries TO be visited will send repre-
sentatives to instruct and explain re-
garding their own peoples and re-
quirements. There will also be on
board expert credit men and bankers
and commercial authorities and men
to lecture before arrival at the va
riOus stopping places.
The generous cooperation of the
diplomatic and consular officers Of
the United States government has
been assured by the state department
Previous publicity of the enterprise
will be gwen in the centers to be
visited through the American con-
suls, the press and the pan-American
union. Interpreters and stenograph-
ers will be provided, as we'll as ac-
commodatiOns for the exhibition and
demonstration of goods, which will
convert the Finland into a gigantic
floating exhibition Of things made
in America" social committee will
provide entertainment and amusement
on board and at the ports of stop.