The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-04-06

Aires and It's Curious Features
How the Italians Are GObbling n
Parana Basin--The Swallow Ina
MISUNDERSTANDING South Ameri-
ca-Thc Jewish settlements and the
Hirseh Fund-Argentina Lands and
Their Prices.
Copyright, 1915, by Frank G. Car
penter.)
BUENOS AIRES.
Argentina will make big bids for
the dissatisfied Europeans at the
close Of the war. 1t will compete
with the United States and will at
tempt to turn the tide of immigration
from New York to Buenos Aires. At
the time the war opened, foreigners
were arriving in this city at the rate
of n thousand a day. More than three
hundred thousand came in last year,
and the indications are hat this
number will be greatly exceeded as
soon as peace is declared. 1t is ex-
pected that the poverty caused by the
war will bring in a food Of new blood
from Belgium and Germany and the
countries of southeastern Europe and
that the number of immigrants from
Latin Europe will be increased. AT
present immigration is damned back
by the war. We are having no ar
rivals from Russia, Austria and Syria
dIIu tHOSt lToIli Italy dtld oPCIAil NAS
comparatively few. SO far the bulk OF
the immigration has been Latin. The
Italians began to arrive about sixty
years ago and of late years they have
been coming at the rate of from fifty
to one hundred thousand per annum
The Spanish immigrants have been
many, and today the Italians n
Spaniards are furnishing about two
thirds of the new arrivals. One-fifth
nf tho whole nnnn1atinn * Italian and
next come the Spaniards. After them
are the Russians, who sent tWenty
thousand last year, and then the Syr-
ians. who numbered nineteen thou
sand. The Germans arriving were
-four thousand and the North Anleri-
ms only five hundred.
From now on Argentina will be one
of the chief bidders for immigrants in
the markets of the world. Ii has;
been giving all sorts OF Inducements
In low fares and free transportation on
the railways of the republic. She has
n big hotel for Immigrants here az
Buenos Aires and another at Bahia
Blanca ard one at Rosario. At these
places the immigrants are kept until
they can be shipped to their new
homes. The government advances
money to them to send for their fam
lies or make such arrangements that
they can be brought across the Allan.
tic at less than the minimum fares.
The new immigrant Hotel at Bue'
nos Aires is one of the sights OF tf
republic. It stands on the banks o
the Rio de la Plata within a stone!
throw of the docks, where the immi
grants step off the steamer, and it.
surroundings are such as to max
them think they have dropped dow
into fairy-land. The buildings face
hNnltifrf rnrlx rlInI NTH ~uynr
and tropical trees, and in which foun
tains play. The hotel proper cover
an acre or more. 1t is a great BIZ
brick building of foul stories and ad
joining it are other buildings contain
ing hospitals and offices. The groun
foo of the hotel is paved with tiles
and its walls are paneled with glaze
tiles to the height or your head
Everything is as white as fresh snow
n the whole is clean and attractiv
In comparison with the steerage Of tn
steamers from which they have com.
The first floor of the hotel is give
up to the offices, reception and dinin
rooms, and to the reading room, til
bank and the kitchens. The secon
floor has the sleeping rooms, an
these are SO large that they will az
commodate 5000 nightly. The bee
are mattresses Of canvas, in berth
like those of a sleeping car, and the
are SO that they can b
cleaned every day. The rooms are S
disinfected that they are absOlute]
free from vermin. There are no smell
and all OF the arrangements are sal
itary.
During my visit I went through tt
great dining room, and watched abo,
goo men and women eat their Dime
Ihe tables for the men were at or
end OF h room and those for II
women at the other. The men kel
their hats on at the table, and mar
OF the women had cloths wrappe
around their heads. The dress of BIO,
sexes represented the strange co
TUNES OF out-of-the-way Europe. N
q few of the people were nice lookin
They were all happy, and the 70,
seemed to suit them.
Leaving the dining. room, I W
taken to the kitchen. This is abo
my feet wide and a hundred fe
long. It is walled and foored by m
Chinery. and much of it in great rou.