The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-05-18
IN BUENOS r
Strange Features of the Great Capital OF lhe
Argentine Republic
Argentine Republic

RepuDn
The number of people who pass back
n forth is m The croWd Is
always moving, n it goes on and on.
1t will keep going until about 8 O'CLOCK
when Of a sudden it will all disappear.
Then the shops will be shut, lrOn cur
tains will be drawn over the windows
and Florida street will look like a we'll
lighted alley in the vault of a bank or
safety deposit. 1t will be like a city
of the dead, as far as business is CON
cerned, until morning.
The most of the night life of BuenOs
| Aires is confined to the The
great white way is the Avenda de
Mayo, that runs from the president
house to the capitol building. The dis
lance is little more han a mile, and it
comprises the new business blocks, in
Guiding many of the largest hotels and
the chief cafes of the city. The ave-
nue. is more han 100 feet wide. 1t has
broad sidewalks, which are half ov-
cred at night with tables like those on
the boulevards of Paris. From 9
o'clock until midnight the street is al
most as thronged as the ~boulevards,
and the scenes are much the same.
Men, women and children are out
walking, or sitting at the tables lis
tening to the bands playing at the
cafes within. Here is a beer gar
den, there a restaurant, further on a
vaudeville show, and there are NOV
ing picture exhibitions galore. In
the plazas at the ends of the street
you have see children Of three and
four years out with their fathers and
mothers as late as IL o'clock at night,
and the whole city seems to move
more rapidly as midnight approaches.
1t is the same in other parts of the
town. Everything opens late, and the
moving picture shows do not close un-
til midnight. The dinner hours at
the hotels hardly begin until 8, and
the theatres are not opened until 9
o'clock.
The street noises are many and they
multiply as nightfall approaches. In
the older parts of the city the road
ways are so narrow that the autOmo-
biles have just room to pass. AL
vehicles must blow a horn at every
; street crossing, and his continual
honking keeps the air in vibration
!, Mixed with this is the cry of the news.
!, boys, which is a sing-song verse con.
tanning the names of the papers ant
, in the early morning I hea the ped
5 dlers and hucksters as we'll. So far
however. my sleeping has OF beer
disturbed by the Growing of roosters
as in Lima, La Paz and Santiago d,
Chile. These people do not keep thei'
: chicken cOOps on the roof.
: Buenos Aires has a great deal o
club life. The Jockey Club has Ion,
o been noted as having the finest club
house of the world. but it is plannin,
!, to build a new clubhouse, which will
! be larger and finer. This will stan,
r on the Plaza San Martin, where a 10
has been bought at a cost Of 50,
a 100000. The Jockey Club has an imi
. ~tiation fee Of $500, and its dues ar
g enormous. The club has 1000 mem
. bers, and at the above rate it mus
have taken in s2,5OO,O00 in initiatio
fees only. One of the specialties G
the club is horse racing. It owns
race track and grandstand known a
- the H1ppodrome at Palermo, Whic
r were built at a cost of more tina
a million dollars, and the races hel
!, there are under it's auspices. They al
SO we'll patronized that they pay a bi
T. dividend.
u Buenos Aires is a city o: clubs. ]
addition Of the Jockey Club it hi
s others Of every description . Tt
s. Buenos Aires Golf Club has grounf
= granted by the municipality. TT
~ course covers ten acres. It has eig
teen holes, and the distance betwee
them measures over three miles. Boz
men and women now play golf, al
many of the girls can swing a cit
Justify. There are also foot ball team
o. The Foot Ball Association now nur
at bers $4,000 players, of whom 80 D
cent are Argentinos. Foot ball w
introduced by the British, and it
en- played English fashion. At some
,ie the matches as many as $4,000 a
TN present, and considerable betting
as done.
Big --
We The Argentines are now going in f
OF yachting and canoeing. There is
q suburb of Buenos Aires known as t
an Tigre, which a canoe clubs a
ne yachting clubs and where seven
llo eight yachting clubs compete at
OF bi-yearly meetings. The Tigre is o
of the most interesting parts
III Buenos Aires. 1t is a suburban 81
Tor ton built upon Islands in the Rio
eat Ia Plata. 1t is some distance FRI