Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1914-08-03
LARGE FACTS ABOUT A LARGE CITY
The Pan-American Union

What the names of the three largest cities
in the western hemisphere About 100 of every
100 well posted citizens of the United States would
promptly answer-New York Chicago, and Philadel
pha. And. according to communication just
ceived by the Pan-American Union, they would
wrong This message states that the corrected
returns of the recently taken show that the
population of Buenos Ayres has grown to 100000.
thus passing Philadelphia ard crowding her out Of
third place.
The growth of the Argentine capital has been
phenomenal In 20 years it has almost trebed its
population and become the largest city in the world
south of the equator the largest Spanish speaking
city in the world the second largest Latin city
Paris alone ouranking itand the third largest city
in the western world. immigration is, of course.
largely responsible for this rapid increase, but the
citys birth rate BAL per thousand has cut consid-
cradle figure
Some more interesting questions, the
which not very generally known, might be asked
in this connection. For instance where is the finest
Jockey club in the world Where the most expen-
sive theater in the Americas? Where the most
markable newspaper building in the world? Where
the deliberately housed municipal water works
station? Where the most intellectually artistic
business street? And the answer to each is Buenos
Aires.
few other noteworthy facts relative to the
Argentine metropolis the following: Not only is
it the greatest South American seaport but in point
OF entrances and clearances OF vessels engaged In
foreign trade it is ahead of New York, while
in tonnage and value of foreign commerce it ranks
to New York in all the Americas. 1t is the
turns showing that it has crowded Sydney. Austria
lia out of first place. In exports OF frozen and
chilled beef Argentina leads the world; next to
Russia it exports wheat than any country in
the world; in the production and export of nseed
it leads the world while in the export of corn it
than trebes the United States. and of course,
leads the world.
Relative to the newspaper building mentioned
above, in descriptive article in recent issue Of
= the Monthly Bulletin of the Pan American Union,
Edward Aces writes
The building the Avenida de Mayo, not
far from the plaza, and is said to have cost over
49, 900 900. In addition to the newspaper plant, the
owners of La Prensa (The Press) maintain at their
own expense free medical dispensary, able ply
scian and assistants who prescribe for and attend
charity PATIENTS a law office. where the poor may
go for free legal advice; free library. and free
employment agency. A. large concert hall, beauti-
fully with paintings and frescoes is main
tanned for it's staff of employees, who also have a
gymnasium and private restaurant Finally suite
of rooms is maintained. consisting of banquet hall,
smoking ROOM ladies' boudoir, reception room, and
sumptuousy furnished bedrooms. for the accommo-
dation of distinguished visitors from foreign coun-
tries guests of the nation in general and OF La
Prensa in particular These apartments are not in
feror in their furnishings and artistic decoration to
many of the renowned palaces OF European royalty
Incideptly the paper claims to have the most ex-
tensve foreign service of any paper in the
world
1.-The Avenida de Mayo is unquestionaby one of
the greatest horoughfares in the world 1t is about
100 feet wide and nearly mile and half long, ex-
tending from the Plaza de Mayo at the lower end
to the plaza in front of the capitol at the up
per- Along the middle suspended from ornamental
iron posts, double of lights. and on each
side the curb of the 20-foot sidewalks, is q
row fine extending the entire length of the
street. The main feature which strikes the stranger
however is the uniformity in height, and the fine
architecture of the buildings. The municipal gov
eminent offers an annual prize for the most artistic
building erected the several business streets, and
supplements this prize by exempting the building
from taxation for a certain number of years. Again.
under the building regulations. each new structure
harmonic in architecture height and material
with its neighbors Thus no one and two-story cheap
buildings are found the general effect the
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