Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-05-09

patloS are fast disappearing, plate glass
windows have driven the iron bars to
the rear. and the senorita has become
an up-to-date Notwithstanding maid
en- Nevertheless. four-f1fths of the
houses of Euenos Aires are still of
one story, although there are streets
lined with siX-story palaces, and sky
scrapers are going up facing some OF
the parks. Many of the people now
1--we in apartments: and many build
1nss have shops on the ground floor
and apartments above. There is extern
slVe fiat building. and in certain quar-
ters great palaces, each of which cost
more than 100000 to build This ia
especially about the Plaza San Mar
tin. upon which the Plaza Hotel and
our American embassy are situated :
Buenos Aires is rap idly increasing the
area Of its plazas and parks The old
CITY was crowded together without
breathing spaces. The new has as large
lungs s any municipality in Europe
and everything has been done to add to
the health of the people As result
tine death rate has decreased At the
time of my last visit it was thirtv-three
to the thousand. 1t is now only ff-
'eeh. he1ng lower than the death rate
OF Ne" york and among the lowest Of
the great cities of the world. The city
mas already about one hundred parks,
promenades and pla zas and it is max
ing arrangements for more. Some of
the hhest OF the new parks have been
made by cutting out buildings. and
there is one in front of the houses of
congress that was formerly devoted to
vineyards. Palermo Park is one of the
hne parks of the world, and the auto
mobile throng which goes through its
pI;,ncipal roads upon Sundays compa res
with that of the Prater on the ed ge of
vienna. The city is fond of sporting
1t has grounds for tennis, foot ba III
and golf: and at the races beyond Pa
iermo Park you may see from ten to
twenty thousand people any Sunday or
Thursday. The most of them bet and
thousands of dollars change hands on
each race. And then there is the Tigre,
the island suburb of the Rio de la Plata,
where you may ride for hundreds of
miles in boats among homes which re-
mind you of Venice. There they have
yachting. canoeing and water sports of
all kinds.
And now let us turn the x-rays on
the harbor. Buenos Aires does more
shipping business than any town on
our hemisphere outside New York, and
1t now ranks eighth among the great
ports of the world. It's foreign trade is
rapidly climbing to a thousand million
dollars a year, and 1t is already ahead
of Bremen. Calcutta. Singapore, Genoa
and Sydney. and is surpassed only by
New York, London, Hamburg, Liver
pool, Antwerp, Marseille and Havre
Between thirty-flve and forty thousand
vessels annually call at or depart from
Buenos Aires, and thousands Of these
are from over the oceans coming from
every part of the world. There are
altogether something like thirty thou
sand coasting boats.
The city lies on the right bank of the
Rio de la Plata river about 200 miles
from the open Atlantic At this point
the stream Is over thirty miles wide
and the great mass Of silt which it
carries down to the ocean has neces-
STATED the building of docks and the
deepening of the channel at a cost of
many millions of dollars. About gem
Grafton ago there was a great mud bar
in front Of the city. and the anchorage
was almost twelve miles away. All