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

the wrong side of the street are my authority for
calling it real city. Yet this isn't the season,
and the Four Hundred, or whatever is its equiva-
lent in the metric system, is down at Mar del
Plata. getting sunburned while business goes on
untroubled but somewhat less officially speedy in
their absence and the ninety-eight different troll
ley lines bang right on, also on the wrong side OF
the street. and the cigarette posters scream their
message to the city-bound plebeians. Buenos
Ayres is not defunct yet.
There is one hotel Of metropolitan calibre, and
t is not the Savoy, as decided after waiting an
hour and fifteen minutes for breakfast 1t is called
the Plaza and it is run by the Ritz~Carlton peo-
ple at Ritz-Carlon prices, and gives courteous
and attentive service. It has grillroom with
la carte food, which is diversion in the round OF
good restaurants, such the Sportsman, and OF
French pastry joints, and which is preferable to
an American plan hotel with an endless pro-
gramme OF undesirable courses.
ARGENTINE WAYS THAT SHOULD APPEAL TO
LANGUOROUS TEMPERAMENTS.
The Argentiaes are also slow about getting to
work in the morning. Ten o'clock is reasonable,
and is preceded among the natives by the custo-
mary light breakfast. Breakfast at noon Is
function and long afternoon makes q real work
ing day last until or later, particularly among
the hides men, whose exchange does not open
until 1. Dinner occurs at 8, and you get to bed
some time the next morning. For diversion IN
the evening there are three odoriferous vaudeville
performances, numerous movies, and few mid
night dancing palaces where you may sit inside
and drink champagne and see an Argentine tango,
or sit on the terrace outside and drink beer and
see an Argentine tango. Whichever you do, you
al ~ koa Us IN Germ
brewers in the Argentine, and the tango is very,
very poor The opera has not yet started, as the
season is not on, and 81 30 throw to hear good
principals and adipose support is dampening to
musical ardor.
As for work. The commercial traveller can DO
no better than TO present himself TO the CONNER
cal attache OF the Department OF Commerce, DR..
Albert Hale who will learn his mission and place
him as soon as possible in touch with prospective
customers Dr. Hale has both a sound knowledge
OF trade conditions in Buenos Ayres and the con-
hdence OF men with whom he has dealt. He is
there 10 help American representatives TO find
buyers, and he does il. His efforts, and those of
the North Americans 10 whom The average COM
mercisl traveller has letters, will furnish the trav-
eler with the information on which ne can make
start. There two hundred North Americans
working in Buenos Ayres, eighty Of whom are in
positions OF responsibility, and with some OF them
he can deal in his own language and his custom
airy way. With the Argentines he will find a
more tedious programme OF introduction and re-
peated interview necessary, encountered by the
medium OF an interpreter II he himself does not
sTeak Spanish, and enhanced by the pleasant rela-
tons rising from the innate courtesy OF the Latin.
The Argentine will not have the law laid down TO
him by comparative stranger, he will return an
inconsequentisl smile TO trade bullying" he will
lose his temper last, II at all. He will not accept
the North American socially as he receives him
commercially for several reasons, race and the
glazing dishonesties OF certain North American
expariates being two OF list which is too long
to enumerate here and which is the subject of
endless query and speculation.
NOT A SINGLE FLY-sCREEN IN ALL THE VAST
COUNTRY.
The commercial traveller for any manufacturer
in the States has difficult problem before him
You can read between the lines all the personal
experience you think best) II his product is
known and liked it has perhaps been anticipated
by English or German lines longer established