The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-08-05

LETTER FROM
So. AMERICA
YOUNG AROMORElTE STROllING
ABOUT AMONG LATIN AMERl.
CANS WRITES TO A FRIEND IN
THIS CITY.


Ardmore, Oklahoma.
Dear Mr.. Osborne:
AS ! promised to write you when |
arrived here, | will now fulfill my
promise.
left Ardmore on april the 2Sth
and went to Kansas City, st. Louis,
Chicago, Detroit and New York City.
On May ! took passage on the Ten
nyson, one of the Lamfort and Holt
steamers which was to sail for South
America. After leaving New York, We
were out of sight of land for fourteen
days and nights, our first stop being
at Pernambuco, Brazil, the most east
ern city in the two western continents.
Pernambuco is an old city of about
250, 900 people, but it does not look to
be city of more than $4,000 from
here our next stop was Bahia, very
beautiful city having splendid nat
ural harbor and many public buildings,
old cathedrals, plazas and parks. Our
next port of any importance was Rio
de Janeiro Brazil. We thought Bahia
had beautiful harbor until we saw
Rio Then we forgot about Bahia's
harbor Rios being so much more
beautiful, with the high peaks of
mountains almost so lofty that the
snow is continually on the highest of
names of various kinds. | only re-
member the name of one that was
called the Sugar Loaf" 1t resembles
in shape one of your chocolate drops.
| went to the top of this by the means
of a cog railway. 1t takes an hour
and twenty minutes to make the as
cent. Rio de Janeiro as a city | do not
like it, the streets are very narrow,
the houses are built on the tops and
sides of the mountains, and it is very
hard to get around. However they have
one very nice street, the Lavinida Cen
tral. This is the "Broadway' Of Rio. 1t
is a very wide street, beautiful palms
grow in the center of this street, and
traffic goes on one side one way and
returns on the other The people of
Rio and all Brazil take things very
easily. They never seem to get in a
hurry and are very accommodating
and courteous. There are hundreds of
coffee houses here where coffee is
served at 200 mil reis the cup (equal
to about II cents gold bread and but
ter is also served with coffee at this
price. The coffee is very fine. They
give you about one-third of a cup of
coffee, and the balance milk. This
makes it fine. ! do not drink coffee
at home but have got the habit
now, it's so good | cannot resist. Ev-
eryone drinks coffee and smokes Gig
arettes, this latter habit | have not
acquired yet. There are many Burr
heads (colored) in Brazil, and there is
not any class distinction between
them. All are classed by the size of
the bank account they carry. ! do not
like Brazil as a whole, or its people.
Montevideo, Uruguay is nice city
of about 100000 and is the capital
and principal city of the little repub
lie. Uruguay has very fine class of
people, and is noted for its many beau
tiful women. The climate is very nice
as it was in Brazil, as winter is just
coming on in these countries, you
know. We made a stay of two days in
Montevideo and landed here in Buenos
Aires, the Queen City of the South"
on June II. Since my arrival here ]
have been knocking about the city,
visiting the principal parks and
places of interest. ! find that there is
somewhat of a crisis on here, and they
are crying hard times" but I think
there are great opportunities here, If
a fellow will settle down and get busy
However, | am going to take a few
months time to make up my mind in.
| find that candy is not eaten here
very much, and what is on sale here
in the shops is of very poor quality,
mostly caramels and candies wrapped
in paper. Most all of it is imported
from England. Chewing gum is just
now being introduced here by the
Spearmint people. l should think you
could make success here in making
a nice line of Chocolate and your "Os-
borne's famous Peanut Stick" You
also might manufacture a line of chew
ing gum.
Well, ]. T., old friend, please over