New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-16

Buenos Ayres. April IS. 1878.
"ORa city OF million and half, Buenos
- Ayres is fairly hard to find. We
crossed divide eleven thousand feet
high and plain six hundred miles
wide to enjoy the sensation OF arriving in this
we'll known Paris Of South America and it was
Just about as exhilarating as crossing Iowa and
Illinois to reach Chicago. In fact its western
suburbs are not unlike Chcago's. There are
fewer tall buildings, and each dinky little
stucco house is set apart from its neighbors
by wall. but when the short twilight OF
Wednesday evening had faded and we had re-
covered from the excitement OF having
Bleriot and Wright pass overhead into the
sunset, we saw the lights OF real city ahead,
and the station we anticipated might just as
we'll have been the Chicago & Northwestern
instead OF the Buenos Ayres Pacific.
The transandne trip from Chill across the
Argentine is worth word or two a new
experience in life on the road. The train over
the mountains runs once week, during the
summer Git is now Indian summer, remember).
Leaving Santiago at $50 each Monday evening,
the passenger rides through Llai-Llai Ga name
which Hughey Jennings shouts every day from
the third base coachers box) TO Los Andes,
arriving there three hours later. At Los Andes
a satisfactory railway hotel. built Of wood and
equipped with plenty OF running water will do
for the night for reasonable price. The
passenger will be called carly and will fight for
breakfast, and the transandine train will back
down to the hotel for him
GRINDING UP MOUNTAIN SIDES TO
THE TOP OF THE WORLD.
The train is of narrow gauge, with regula-
ton double seats on the right, or uphill side.
and single seats on the left. We Communicated
two singles. The route follows narrowing
and tortuous valley up crazy cafe-au-lat
river and after an hour or so begins 10 shin
up the side OF the mountain, grinding over the
sleeper grades by means OF rack and pinion.
and putting hard until il reaches the top OF the
world. The constant changes in the view make
you forget your eardrums, and by noon you
reach d crystalline lake on the backbone of the
Andes. From there it is smoky few minutes
through a tunnel, and you notice that the uni
forms OF the gendarmes at the next station are
different and the soil is red, and you are in
the Argentine.
III IS seven HOurS GOWN, through TWO more
valleys, to the plain. The mountains cease
abruptly, the river the train has followed dis
spates somewhere in the distance cattle and
alfalfa grow more numerous, and at 7:3o you
shoot through miles OF vineyards to Mendoza,
the wine centre OF the Argentine.
Alexander and his ruler, laying out the route
for the road from Moscow to Petrograd, had
nothing on the Argentine surveyors From
Mendoza double track OF fivefeet-six gauge
rides into Buenos Ayres. One OF its tangents
is over a hundred miles long. From $50 Tues
day night until Wednesday morning we
rode the plains. 1t is Nebraska steam-rolled
smooth The only disturbing element we saw
was an occasional cassowary in the heds-ac-
oording to the primer the cassowary lives in
Timbuctoo. but he also follows the cattle in the
great stretches of Argentine camp"
The power OF the Argentine, the element
which is its salvation from war time depres-