The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-16

and as I look at the signs I see that the big houses of London and Paris have their branches down here. Some of the shops are immense. Here is a jewelry store covering about half an acre, and on the opposite side of the way Is department store that would be large in New York It is one of the establishments of Gath & Chaves which have turnover oi many millions a year. They have shops for women and shops for men, and great shops for children and babies
 Now stop and listen to the people as they go by! The crowd is a lesiurely one and all have plenty of time The language is polyglot. It makes you think of Babel at the time of the confusion of tongues or Pentecost when Paul preached to men of different languages from all parts of the world. The bulk of this babel is Spanish, but mixed with it is Italian French, German and English The throng has faces from every country of Europe The humber of people who pass back and forth is enormous. The crowd Is always moving, and it goes on and on. It will keep going until about o'clock when of a sudden it will all disappear. Thene the shops will be shut, iron cur tains will be drawn over the windows and Florida street will look like well lighted alley in the vault of bank or safety deposit. It 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 avenues. The great white way is the Avenida de Mayo, that runs from the President S house to the capitol building The dis tance is little more than mile, and it comprises the new business blocks, in cuding many of the largest hotels and the chief cafes of the city. This ave- nue is more than 100 feet wide. It has broad sidewalks which are half cov- cred at night with tables like those on tfe boulevards of Paris From 9 o'clock until midnight the street Is almost as thu onged as the bouevards. and the scenes are much the same. Men, women and children are out walking or sitting at the tables listening to the bands play ing at the scafes within. Here is a beer garden, there a restaurant, further on a vaudeville show and there are moving picture exhibitions galore. In the plazas at the end of the street you may SC echildren of 3 and 4 years out with their fathers and mothers as late as II o CHUCK dt 'HlSHl ana tue WnOle clly seen to move more rapidly as midnight approa ches. It is the same in other parts of the town. Everything opens late. and the moving picture shows do not close until midnight The dinner hours at the hotels hardly begin until S. and the the atres are not opened until o'clock.
 The street noises are many and they multiply as nightfall approaches. In the older parts of the city the roadways are so narrow that the automobiles have just room to pass. All vehicles must blow "a horn at every street crossing, and the continual honking keeps the air in vibra- tion Mixed with this is the cries of the Iewsboys, which is a sing-song verse containing the names of the papers. and in the early morning I hear the peddlers and hucksters as well. So far, however, my sleeping has not been disturbed by the growing of roosters. as in Lima. La Paz and Santiago de Chile. These people do not keep their chicken GOODS on the roof.
 Buenos Aires has a great deal of club life. The Jockey club has long been noted as having the finest clubhouse of