Arizona republican., 1914-02-07
PHOENIX BOYS
 IN ARGENTINA
Joint Letter to Friends ill This City Tells of the Trip and of What the Adven- turers Are Seeing in South America

Friends of Clarence Herwig and Marshall Broadway, two Phoenix boys who left for South America some five or six months past, there to take positions with the Unlon Telephone company. will be pleased to learn that they are already in their new homes, becoming acqualnt- . ed with their surroundings and are really in love with the new country tbey have found below the equator. They have written several of their friends in a joint letter, part of which is printed herewith.
 Their present location is Cordoba Argentina, where they have been stationed for the time being by their company Later they will be trans fcrred to Buenos Ayres, the most beautiful city of the republic and the desired home of all sojourners in that country.
 Excerpts from one of the letters follow:
 Tt seems like years since l board ed that train in Phoenix which launched me upon a journey of thlr- ty days and carried me through two hemispheres, and though in that time I have seen many grand and beautiful places and many strange and interesting cities have seen ncne that compare with Phoenix picturesque on it's desert, sleeping at the foot of rugged mountains.
 After leaving New York we were out of sight of land for fifteen days Then we touched at Bahia, the sec ond city in Brazil. with a population of about 200,000. mostly black. The building is all on the old Portuguese style: the streets are narrow, hilly and crooked and the whole city is extremely filthy and infected with the fever The children to the ages of ten and eleven run about the streets clothed in a shine only, so we shined our shoes out of sympathy for the little beggars
 After leaving Bahia it took us seven days to reach Rio de Janeiro. It is distinctly opposite Bahia. don't believe there is a more beauti- ful spot on the globe. The ship sails in narrow pass through rugged mountain coast and all at once finds itself on a peaceful lake surrounded by mountains and with the city sloping up from it's edges Nature was more than kind to BraZll when she gave to her Rio de Ja- neiro The streets are beautiful; the toulevards are the finest money can build; and streams of high powered cars are continually gliding up and down them. The buildings are all of stone and artistically designed.
 And last but not least. the women. Carramba man, but they are beau tiful: pink skin, black eyes, and blacker hair. We spent the evening at a cafe on the Avenue da Central, where the tables were placed on the sidewalks and where We could sip the best of coffee while we watched the promenade. Here the women wear hobble skirts and Xray gowns, etc. just as in Gods country, and should Johnny Moore have to pinch all who here show more than small shoetop, he would have his hands and jail both full-to say nothing of his arms.
 Hello to everyone. And tell them to write. A letter sure looks good to a lad 5000 miles from home.
 Herwig gave the following address, which for the time being will reach him: cIo Union Telefonica, 70 Alvear Calle, Cordoba, Argentina Rep, South America. It is almost impossible to get it all on one envelope, but a squeeze and a small script will do it according to some who already have replied to the letter,