The farmer and mechanic., 1915-06-08
Paraguay in 1915
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The rest Of the people live in little
hamlets composed of thatched nuts
Of fifteen to twenty-five feet square.
The smaller towns have no modern
prOvements. Their streets are un-
paved, and the houses are scattered
along roads which are often as grass
grown as the fields.
The smaller cities have one or two
streets Of one-story brick buildings,
the walls of which are covered with
stucco and rooted with red tiles.
Along the river you now and then
see roofs of galvanized iron. There
are some houses with walls of stone,
which are rooted with palm bark.
The larger cities have parks or plazas
and ASunciOn is quite up-tO-date. 1t
has electric lights and electric street
cars. and some Of it's public buildings
are fine. l shall write further of it
in the future.
There are large parts of Paraguay
that have no inhabitants whatever.
More than half of the land still be-
longs to the government, which is
anxious to colonize it. 1t has been en-
deavoring to do SO for years, and
there are now a number of colonies
Of Italians, Germans and English
scattered here and there throughout
the republic. One German colony has
700 inhabitants. 1t is composed OF
Germans, Austrians, Paraguayans
and BraZlians of German descent.
Another colony is at San Bernardino.
This is the chief summer resort, be
ing situated on beautiful lake.
There is another German colony
about sixty miles from Villa Rica. A
little north Of here, on the other side
of the river, is a settlement named
after President Hayes, on account of
his decision of a territorial dispute
between Paraguay and Argentina in
Faraguays favor. The colony is call
ed Villa Hayes, but the words are
| through sugar mills made in Cincin-
| natl pronounced here as thought they
pronounced here as thought they
| were spelled Villa Eyes, for that is
| the way the Spanish pronounce
Hayes President Hayes ran a tenn
perance administration. and it will be
| remembered that he shuddered when
| it was proposed to put wines on the
| table at the White House. The city
| named after him has sugar planta-
tions about it. and it is now grinding
| the cane and distilling the juice
| into a rum that will kill at forty
| rods.
! Another colony of note is that
named '"rhe Twenty fifth of Novem-
ber." 1t is on some of the land that
| was originally given to the New Aus
| tralian Association. 1t has several
| thousand head of cattle and mules,
| and it's inhabitants are 5000 Para
| among them.
AS to the New Australian colony
| itself, that still has some of the orr
| ginal members who have come down
| to modern business principles and
| nave established a Sawmin and sew
| eral stores. They have a school with
| an English person as head teacher
and services are held at a central
point every week. The colony owns
about 10000 acres of land. 1t has
| four OR five thousand head of cattle
and something like / 1000 horses.
This colony was established many
years ago, by some Australians who
came to Paraguay to live together
after the principle Of the Golden
| Rule. They sold out their property
in Australia and put their money into
a general fund. They used a part OF
this to charter a ship, and saved the
rest to go into farming in Paraguay
In order to have the more money up
on landing, they concluded to do tht
greater part of the work on the SHY
themselves, and allotted certain dutie.
among the different members Of tn,
colony. They had hardly left Aus
| trlala, however, DeIOre ulSSauSIactlOI
arose, and the Golden Rule was kick
ell into the air higher than the top
Of the Andes. There was quarrelin,
from start to finish, and one Of tn,
recreatiOns during the meals of tn,
voyage was throwing the dishes Q,
the table at one another. When the.
got to Paraguay the land was givel
to them, but it was then found tina
no one wanted to work, and after
time the most Of them left l under
stand there are now about seventy il
the colony, and that they are working
; in harmony, the lands having bee1
subject to some subdivision.
= The government of Paraguay j
! | anxious for immigrants, and it
willing to sell its lands in large Q
+ | small tracts. I am told there ar
o | great opportunities for the purchas