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ton of the Central Uruguay railroad
and some business buildings. including
the market and hospitals as we'll as the
great university. which is national
institution. The stock exchange is an
old building but it is good of its kind.
having cost about half as much as the
Soils Theater. There are also large
banking buildings. most of them be-
longing to the great financial institu-
lions Of Europe, which do large part
of the business Of the South American
continent. In addition to these is the
bank of the republic. which belongs en-
over s20,000.0O0 authorized and more
than $1l,000.000 paid up. 1t has the
right to issue notes and its currency
now out amounts to about $25.0G0.0G0.
This bank has branches in all the
leading towns of the republic. Its
president and directors are appointed
by the government and it is to a GER
tain extent government institution;
Nevertheless it is run at a profit. its net
gain last year being over '2'ooo'ooo'
Among the great private banks there
are four belonging to the British, one
belonging to the French. another to
the Germans and one each to the Span
ish and Italians. In addition to these
there are new banks known as the
French Bank of the River Plate and
the Bank of Galicia.
Some of these banks have consider
able Uruguayan capital Among the
British banks the London and River
Plate Bank is the oldest. Its chief
offices are in London. but it has
branches throughout this part of the
world. 1t has a capital of about S14.-
100000. and in 1912 it paid a dividend
The British Bank Of South America is
another of these big institutions which
gets fat off of our sister continent.
1t has capital of $10,OOO,00O and a
dividends of ~ per cent and a bonus.
And then there is the London and
Brazilian Bank whose net profits in
that on a capital of about $4,000. 900.
and last is the Anglo South American
Bank, whose capital is $25,OOO,00O and
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Says Montevideo Is Rich, Live and
Up-to-Date City-Its Seaside Resorts and
How They Compare With Atlantic City
and NeWport-The Casino Where Gam
bling Is Conducted for Charity and Thou
sands of Dollars Change Hands in a Night.
The City Has Shape of Great Horn.

river and the frequent rains wash the
town clean. According to the statistics
the place is one of the healthiest
among all the worlds cities and it
stands high in every department OF
sanitary work.
We shall start on our trip at the
Plaza Independence. This is in the
heart of the downtown business sec
ton. 1t covers something like ten
acres and it is filled with gardens of
shrubs. flowers and palm trees. Upon
it face the government house. where
the president has his Offices. and the
national museum. There are stores
back of the arcades that run around it's
sides. and the great Soils Theater is
off at the right. Over the way is the
street called Sarandi, that runs along
the roof of the tongue of rock down
to the ocean, and on the opposite side
of the square is the Boulevard Eigh-
teenth of July, that follows the roof of
the tongue in the other direction. divid-
ing the business part of the city al
most in half. This boulevard is one
of the finest in the city and it has many
large stores. 1t is named after the
date on which the constitution of the
republic was adopted, and it is des--
tined to be the chief business street of
the capital
Today there is more trade upon the
upper part of the Sarandi than in any
other section of the city. ] refer es-
pecially to the narrow extension of
that street which joins the Plaza indie
pendencia to the Plaza Constitution.
This is the fashionable street and a
fashionable shopping crowd walks
through it every afternoon from 5
o'clock until dark. In this respect it
corresponds with the Gale Florida of
Buenos Aires. although the crowds
are much fewer and the promenade
consists of a very few blocks. Never
theless. here are the fine jewelry shops.
the great millinery establishments, the
art stores and other places having
beautiful goods. The price marks are
on the articles and I can see that most
of them are far above their cost in our
country.
A look at the crowd on the streets
will show you the reason. The people
are rich and they have money to spend.
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position he held until he took Office a.
chief of the bureau August 4, 1913.
X
Prof. Marvin has designed and i'm
proved many Of the instruments used
today by the weather bureau. In adj
dition he has conducted important in
vestigations for measuring the mois-
ture of the air. for deriving the veloc-
ity of the wind from the indica tons
of thermometers, and for the use of
kites in obtaining records of tempera-
ture, pressure and other conditions in
the upper air. Improvements effected
by Prof Marvin in the construction OF
kites and the recording instruments
used on them have been employed IN
Europe in upper air observations.
He was chosen chief of the bureau in
an unusual manner. The National
Academy of Sciences, at its meeting in
Washington early in the adminfstra-
ton of President Wilson, suggested to
the choice of head for this eminently
scientific bureau. The President &C
guessed. Thereupon the academy ap-
pointed a subcommittee to consider
the matter. -. &c..
This consisted of Prof. W. W. Camp
bell of the Lick Observatory. DR..
Arthur L. Day, home secretary Of the
academy; Prof. E. l.. Nichols of Cor
nell University, Prof. E. c. Pickering
of Harvard, DIR. Ira Remsen of Johns
Hopkins, Dr. Elihu Thompson OF
Swampscott, Mass; Prof. c. e. Van
Hise of the University of Wisconsin.
DR.. William H. WEIGH. president of the
academy, and DIR. R. S. Woodward of
the Carnegie Institution, Washington.
Twenty-siX names were considered by
the committee, of which four were
selected. OF these Prof. Marvin finally
was chosen. the choice meeting the APP
prevail of President Wilson, members of
the cabinet and the members of the
National Academy.
ASHNITN BROWN
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real beasts Here stone sheep appar-
emily feeds upon the green grass near
lambs that bleat at them and there
stone dog sits on a rock in the bed of
a lake while stone and iron birds are
scattered around among their live fell
lows of the animal kind. The zoo has
many ostriches brought from the pam
pas and African ostriches in cages be-
side them. 1t has lions and tigers and
elephants and also cows, goats, sheep
and dogs.
The live animals are. however, COM
paratively few in number for a large
city institution of this kind. But there
is one RESPECT in which this zoo is diff
ferent from any others of the world.
This is in its cemetery for dead ami
mails. The owner is SO much in love
with his beasts that when a favorite
one dies he puts up monument to it
and he has one part of the garden
shut off from the rest by a wrought
iron fence inside Of which lie his ia
vorite dead. Each beast has it's own
grave and many of the graves have
baskets Of flowers and wreaths of
flowers lying upon them. Over some of
the graves are monuments OF the dear
departed. One, for instance. represents
two monkeys cut out of stone. They
are dressed in the clothes of men and
women and they stand upon a granite
pedestal, apparently discussing the flu
ture A the foot of this monument Is
a wreath of immortelles and it rises out
of garden of roses. Behind it on an
other pedestal of white marble is the
bronze statue of poodle dog, with its
name, Ali, and the date of it's death
carved in the stone. A little further
over is the grave of a parrot whose
name was evidently Pedro, for that is
the inscription on the stone pedestal.
A likeness of the bird is shown by
stone parrot, which stands on the top.
L
Among other monuments I noticed
those OF a tiger, of lion. and of deer.
bears and wolves. There are many
monuments to the favorite dogs of the
owner. One of these represented
bulldog and the others were the stone
images of two little black and tan
terriers. Their grave was surmounted
by a pedestal of bronze and a marble
column broken in half stood at the
rear. On the pedestal 1 read the words:
To our Perita Mignon. November l.,
1900" and under the inscription l saw
five baskets Of flowers. Nearby was a
hound which died in 1908, and next
it a great marble slab concentrating
the death of a rooster. This last was
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night in the height of the season.
There is another bathing place at Ca
purro on the west of the town, about
which they have a beautiful park that
is converted in the winter into a skat-
ing rink, where social Montevideo takes
part. The view here is fine: one can
see the port and whole town from over
the sea. The fashionable days are
Mondays and Fridays, and also Sun
day afternoons, when there is always a
concert.
Outside Pocitos the biggest resort is
the Parque Orlando, where are the
Parque Hotel and also the Casino. The
latter is gambling resort after some
what the same plan as that of Monte
Carlo. 1t runs its regular tables
throughout the summer, and the major
ity of the men who reside at the hotels
may be found betting upon the roll of
the marbles in the roulette wheel or
upon the croupier's turn-up of the
cards. A large proportion of the Wis
itors are rich estancieros from the
River Plate basin, and the amounts
won and lost are enormous. The bank
gets a profit which is perhaps 10 per-
cent of all that goes over the table.
gains were more than S1s6,000. If am
fight in my 10 per cent conjecture this
would mean that almost 100000 were
played on the tables during that time.
The gambling house is licensed by law
and the owners receive only so per
cent of the profits, while the balance
goes to the city and to certain chari-
ties. The city gets IS per cent and the
charities fifteen. In other words, Of that
$4,000 the share of the hotel was
$4,000, while that of the city was
about $65. 900 and $4,000 went to char
ity. Indeed. these people seem to be
trying to tickle the Lord Almighty into
pardoning them, by giving profit of
their gambling business to benevolent
work.
They do the same with the lottery,
which is another public institution
backed by the government. 1t is
known as the lottery of the Hospital
Of Charity and it's receipts are enor
NOUS Within thirty years from 1878 to
1909, it brought in more than $4,000
600 to charity. and this represents 10
Fer cent of the earnings. OF the bal
ance % per cent goes to the administra
ton and the pay of the commission OF
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G. Carpenter Visits the Capital of Urugua3

carved with the has relief of crow
ing cock. which made me think OF the
play 'Chanticeer." and it evidently. re-
led below. The cemetery has also
statue of Brer Rabbit. 1t represents
the cunning animal in stone standing
on a block and pointing to a slab at
word "Silencio. The rabbit stands
with his fingers on his nose and his
ears towards the skies. The bunny
below and l see by the inscription that
he died just fifteen years from the date
of my writing.
In addition to these resorts is the
of the town. 1t has extensive lawns
and trees. with beds of flowers and
shady walks and drives. This park is
rolling and the landscape gardeners
cal climate to give 1t both the temper
ate and tropical trees 1t has lofty
palms: feathery bamboos and flowing
shrubs Of many varieties. There are
lotus flowers upon the lakes and you
may walk or ride for miles about
through the green, finding new beau
ties at every step or turn of the wheel
Near the most of the parks are beau
tiful villas surrounded by gardens. and
there are long streets OF fire resi-
dences, some Of which cost as much
as a rich mans house in the states
The architecture OF the city is in gem
erai after that of the Spanish. but
many of the new buildings are French
or rather European in style.
The business parts of Montevideo are
composed of buildings of two and three
stories. There are no sky-scrapers and
few very large structures. Outside and
in the poorer quarters there are many
one-story houses and not a few large
one-story buildings built around pa.
tics. Many of the houses are made Of
stones quarried nearby. Some are Of
brick covered with stucco and painted
in the brightest Of colors. The public
buildings are of good size and the same
is true of the theaters: The Soils The
alter. for instance. will seat 5000 spec
tators and it has an area of almost two
acres. 1t was built more than forty
years ago and among those who have
played or sung in 1t are Sarah Bern
hardt, Patti. Caruso and others. The
tours across the Atlantic to South
America, taking in Rio, Montevideo.
and Buenos Aires. Such events bring
very high prices and the dressing is
even more elaborate than that at the
American houses. Every man in the
orchestra circle will have on white kid
gloves in addition to the ordinary dress
suit. and the women all wear evening
gowns and their necks and heads
sparkle with diamonds. 1t is COM
mon tslng for the men to rise in their
seats between the acts. and, using their
opera glasses, to stare at the women.
The latter do not seem to object. The
people are fond of the theater. At the
several houses of amusement over 1000
shows are held every year and these
are attended by 100000 spectators.
50
Among the other fine buildings are
the new penitentiary, which is a model
of it's kind; a new legislative palace,
which is now going up; the great sta
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which has branches throughout Latin
America.
quay. this is the only country l have yet
visited which is on solid gold basis.
Its currency is always up to par and
its dollar is worth about cents
cannot get more than 81 cents for
one of our dollar bills here. and in
cashing my letter of credit to the
amount of thirty pounds yesterday Il
over $139. The same draft in the
United States would have brought me
$145 and had ! cashed ii at Asuncion.
Paraguay. l would have received $1,000
of their debased currency. The Para
guayan dollar is now worth between
5 and 6 cents. When i was there II
cost me $50 a day for myself and
similar amount for my stenographer at
the leading hotel. Street car fares cost
us a dollar and upward. according TO
distance, and postage on letter to
the United States was IS cents per
parts of the Argentine. the dollar is
worth 40 cents of our money. In Bo-
livia the dollar was worth about 40
cents. while in Chile it was worth only
about 20 cents of our money.
The bank notes of Uruguay are about
two-thirds the size of ours. They are
of brown and blue color, and fairly
well eHSTdNcu, put tiSs are NV So
beautiful as the American bank note.
nor do they compare in their artistic
effects with the notes of Paraguay, Ar.
gentina and other countries, the most
of which have their currency made in
New York. These notes are manu-
featured in Germany. AS to the
smaller denominations of money there
are notes for so cents and silver dol
lars and half dollars, as we'll as nickels.
about the size of our quarters. In ad-
dition to the five-cent pieces there are
two-cent pieces and one-cent pieces,
and the prices in the stores correspond.
There seems to be no favorite division
by decimals and a thing is just as likely
to cost s cents or IL cents as cents.
Is cents or a quarter. ] know a res
taurant, for instance, where you can
get a good cup of coffee for cents
and a plate of soup for IL or "a.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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lions in far-off Alaska the navy wire
less transmits reports
Forecast centers. in addition to
Washington, are maintained at Chica-
go, New Orleans. Denver, Portland.
Oregon and San Francisco, each center
embracing several states in its terri
LAS the basic information pours in it
is charted for study by the trained
forecaster in charge, the chart giving
him an accurate picture of weather
by the reports. From these data the
forecaster, by comparison with preced-
ing reports, is able to trace the paths
Of storm areas from the time of their
tion and approximately determine and
forecast their subsequent courses and
the attendant weather conditions
Z x
Formerly the forecasts prepared at
the Chicago and Denver districts were
sent out only in the morning. This has
been changed, SO that these districts
now issue night forecasts also. Imme-
diately on the completion of the fore
cast the results are telegraphed from
the forecast centers to about 1900
principal distributing points. where
they are further disseminated by tele-
graph, telephone, wireless and mail.
About 10000 addresses are reached
daily by mail, and the forecasts also
are available to more than 100000
telephone subscribers within an hour of
the time of Issue. In addition the
newspapers spread the information
widely.
For maritime service. as have said.
the navy and private wireless give
practically instantaneous delivery In
to- .Ha~ rAn
by flags in day time and lanterns at
night, the shore stations signal the
storm warnings to all vessels not
equipped with wireless. On the great
service Is of vast Importance, for on the
lakes the danger is even greater than
on the ocean. for lake craft are navl-
eating in more confined area. De-
of storm forecasts in the lake region.
Every step that human ingenuity can
suggest is being taken to insure speed
and wide dissemination in delivery.
States move in approximately the
same courses. For example. we look
upon the region of the West Indies as
the breeder of hurricanes. for from
that region they move up the coast.
Indian stations and the steps we take
to obtain information from ships at sea.
Land storms over the greater area
of the United States as rule are first
reported in western Canada in the
plains country east of the main range
OF the Rocky mountains. They sweep
down in a general southeasterly di-
rection. These daily weather maps for
a week in July, for example, will show
the course of the recent storm that
swept down from Canada. traversed
the upper Mississippi river valley on a
curved path. and returned to Canada
by way of western New York"
Medicine Hat, famed in story and
newspaper report as the breeder of
storms. was the initial spot on the
map for the appearance Of this par
ticular storm.
Prof. Marvin exhibited one by one the
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maps covering the days of the atmos
pheric disturbance.
do all of storms in this class come
from Medicine HAITI was asked.
"None of them starts at Medicine
Hat" said Prof. Marvin. Medicine
Hat gets it's fame as a breeder of
storm merely from the circumstance
that it is on the margin of our map.
II we had stations farther up in the
course of the storm We would note it
that much earlier.
"As a matter of fact we would be
much better off If we could secure
data on the circulation of the atmos-
0here over the entire northern hemis-
phere, and prepare a complete wealth
er map daily for that hemisphere.
weather is made by the circulation of
the atmosphere on this terrestrial
body, not by spots on the sun or other
remote causes, and weather predic-
lions are based on information re-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-08
PROF. CHARLES r. MARVIN,
Chief of the United States weather bureau.

garding the activities of our atmos-
phere.
THE more of the worlds surface we
can cover by reporting stations, the
better knowledge we will have of at
mospheric movements. At present we
are confined to the area l have men,
toned.
lone of the results of the present
war is to limit our information. Be-
fore the war began we were building
up a system of interchange with other
countries that was giving us the ma
terial for real northern hemisphere
map, but. because of Interruptions by
reason of the war, we have had to
suspend making that map. Then we
were receiving daily reports from the
Azores Islands. Iceland, the Farce Is
lands. Great Britain. France, Portu-
gal. European and Asiatic Russia,
China, Japan, the Philippines, Hawaii
and Alaska, but since we no longer re.
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An Edison Story.

A CCORDING to a friend. Thomas A.
~ Edison is of the opinion that II
was anger that first turned him toward
inventing the incandescent light. How
it happened is related by the friend.
who says:
THAT was. of course. in the early
days, and Mr.. Edison was then quite
the inventor that one reads of-poor.
enthusiastic. never sleeping. He lived
in a small house, innocent of anything
approaching a laboratory; scientific de-
vices were in every roc,,. and all the
money went for experiments. Then
one day came the crisis in the guise
of the collector for the gas company
He had been to the house often, but
Edison, hardly needing his calls, had
waved him away. saying, Don't bother
me-
"On this last call the collectors in
structions were peremptory. He must
turn off the gas.
but, man. protested Edison, L
can't stop this experiment tonight. Til
pay the bill, of course. 1 didn't know
about it, l must finish this work with
out interruption
But this appeal had no effect upon
the collector and the lights went out
THAT night, as l sat helpless in the
darkness says the inventor. L swore
that l would put the gas company out
of business l haven't quite done that,
but did the best l could"
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They are quite as we'll dressed as those
who parade street in Washington
about o'clock every afternoon and al
most as gay as those of Fifth avenue
in New York. Indeed, the men are
more so. They look as though they
had just come out of a bandbox, and as
for the women, they trot along on high
heels, many of them clad in costumes
polite. There is great tipping of
hats and of bowling and the etiquette of
the street is strictly preserved. The
men always walk next the curb, and the
higher the rank, the nearer the person
to the walls OF the stores.
Among the other fine streets of Mont
evideo are the Avenida de Brazil that
leads out to Pocitos, the wide boule-
by beautiful gardens from one end to
the other, and the great drive that
skirts the sea near the Park Urbano
and about the Rambla de los Pocitos.
The latter places are the great seaside
resorts of the city. They have mag
nificent hotels looking out on the
ocean. and people come here from all
parts of the River Plate basin as their
summer resort. The hot season is in
the midst of our winter. and during
it the great hotels are thronged with
a fashionable crowd from interior Uru-
quay and Brazil and even from Rio de
Janeiro and Buenos Aires and other
cities of Argentina. The living here
is some what cheaper CHdU MAR uel
Plata. the Atlantic seaside resort of the
Argentines: and Montevideo is also
nearer Buenos Aires, a comfortable ride
on the steamer taking you from one
place to the other. The beach here is
better, although the company, l judge,
is not quite so exclusive.
/ wish I could show you these Mont
evideo seaside resorts. They are moth
ing like as large as those of our coun-
try at Cape May. Asbury Park or At
1or h,,t ho INN
far more substantial and where we
walk upon boards, these people have
we'll decorated promenades of cement.
The hotels are right on the sea without
ragged boarding houses surrounding
them. and there are no merry-go-
rounds. candy-criers and noisy ped
dlers to offend the man who wants
peace. Indeed, everything is quietly
done and that in a style that would
hardly suit a North American crowd.
At Pocitos the dressing and undress-
ing are done in little lighthouses on
wheels. These stand in rows on the
edge of the pier, and the bathers enter
them and there change their clothes.
There is a house for each person. You
walk up steps at the back to get
in; and when you have your bathing
suit on, you signal the attendant. He
thereupon bitches two mules to your
house and drags 1t down into the
water so that you may step in the most
proper way right into the sea. The
house is then dragged back. to return
again when you are through with your
swim. These houses are about three feet
wide, six feet long and six feet high. They
look like gigantic dog kennels on wheels.
There are hundreds of them for hire.
and you can get a bathing suit and