Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-13
irden and with palms and Towering

garden and with palms and Towering
trees.
Buenos Aires has nearly four square
i,miles of park system within its city
limits. including nine parks, fourteen
houlevards, thirty-tive squares. ten open
spaces and nine hospital gardens, and
there are eight additions in construction.
Outside of parks the city has planted and
cares for 150.SI5 trees.
Transformation of Rio.
The work Of capital building done in
RIO since 1907 Is even more impressive
and Inspiring Before that date Rio con-
sisted OF series of disconnected villages
stretched along Il narrow shore strip and
creeping between steep hills which here
approach close 10 the edge Of the bay
which constitutes the city ; harhor. As
a General result of tie rebuilding cam
pa!cu these disconnected villages have
been united. Hills have been removed or
cut through. whole blocks Of squalfd
tenCm.nts have been leyaled. narrow
streets nave been hroadercd. great ave
uUcS have been made and tined With tine
buildings. and a new Rio has been Great
I'd, harmonious. homogeneous, one of the
most beautiful capitals in the world. The
city in plan and execution is made worthy
of its location on a ma gniti"ent haN. pic
turasqIe III its environment Of green hills
and yellow curNing coast line, attractive
IN the islands with which it Is adorned
and in TIE ldNurlance Of tropical vceeta
tIpn which covers both ulis and islands.
az" :" EXTENSIVE" IN area A. +" Furnish
utty miles 81 harho,
among III" features in detail Of tile Rio
improvement plan Were the construction
Of a quay following thu shore line t~o
and one-SiNth miles long costing from
twenty-five t" foTty-twu millions accord
ing 20 varying estimates: q broad avenue
Parallel with the quay and of the same
length. rectitication AMI prolonSation to
the sea Of tiic Alanqtc canal. With
avenue on either side nearly two miles
in length and III feet in breadth: eieNa-
tioa If steam railroad beds. enlargement
of City's water supply and revision Of
sewerage system construction OF bay
side drive four and one-Aalf miles long
and H., feet wide. the beautiful .tvenlda
Reira Mar rhe Massachusetts avenue or
18TH street Of Rio>. boulevard lined
with artistically designed residences set
IN gardens of palms, hamhoos and bright
flowers. and a driveway unsurpassed in
the whole world for picturesque beauty:
The broadening with the result Of de
stroyinS Leo houses. tmbellshinS and
repavinS with asphalt. multitude oi
old streets and avenues. and of especial
interest to Neutrality-suspicious. The conStrtic-
ton Of the great Avenida Central uhe
Pennsylvania avenue of Rio,. one and
miles in length lts feet broad.
running m q straight line from sea to sea
anu serving rs the principal outlet OF the
business section. especially OF
the quaN and the river front. over 900
buildings wrre demolished in preparin.
tn" Way .;.'3H, lab0rerS working night
and day. ltS construction was con-
menced November II. 1906. and completed
in twenty-five months at cost Of about
81 1.dntsat which covers clearing of the
ground. paving. construction OF electric
lighted buildings. and opening Of avenue
{" traffic. Among the buildings on this
iusde-to-order avenue arc the Municipal
opera House. National Library. National
school of Fine Arts and the attractive
Monroe Palace
Eio expended SH1Gnp On model homes
for laEorerS. Between 1894 and l:Hsi il
made large expenditures in municipal
The great period Of pulling
down and rebuilding was between l.s4
and 1905. when on those TWO objects $50
'NoI1 We're expended THE total eX-
penditure will, it is estimated amount TO
as much as S2'n.tsr1nn.
Compare these vast works so rapid V
completed. with tn. neglect Of Washing
tons original magnificent plan. and of the
city itself for thiee-fourths of a century
and with the delays Naverincs and oc-
casional plcaNune methods OF dealing
With the problem OF Transforming and re-
creaIng Washington even today. when
tile nation is under the partnership obli-
cations n capital building imposed by
the equitable agreement Of ISIS and
when the whole American people are at
pdt9lN prDui Of he pafiop'S