Evening star., 1915-11-14

temperate zones. The gardens are
beautiful. the rose trees vieing with
the palms in their splendor. The city
has over fifty parks and three public
gardens
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Sac Paulo is growing faster than any
city Of this continent. Just before the
war in Europe made times tight they
were constructing new houses at the
rate of four thousand a year, and COM
panies were being formed to develop
the suburbs. One of these had it's Of
fees in London and its capital was ten
million dollars. The city had only &c.
900 about forty years ago. 1t now has
over half a million inha bitants and 1t
is believed that within the next fifteen
years it will double in SIZE. In addi-
tion to the increase by immigration,
the birth rate is thirty-nine to the
thousand and the death rate is low.
1t has now been decided to build a
two-million-dollar cathedral and there
is a hotel company that expects to
build two hotels at cost of more than
Sl.60O,O0O. AT the same time the town
is improving it's roads. system of
highways is to be constructed going
from here to different parts of the
state. and concessions will be granted
to motor car companies giving them the
passengers over such roads. These con-
cessions will last for thirty years, but
there is provision that the conces-
sionaires will rebuild the roads at the
close of that time and that they shall
maintain and keep them in order dur
ing the term of the concessions
And this brings me to the traffic of
Sau Paulo. The city is one of automo-
biles and taXicabs and motor trucks.
/ rode in taxi from the railroad sta
much legs than l would have had to
pay In Boston or Washington. On the
way l saw an automobile fire brigade
go flying past me. The hose cart had
a half dozen men on it dressed in fire.
mems uniforms and wearing helmets
trio street lamps. Behind came the
motor engines with brass shining like
the golden chariots of king. and still
farther back was the ladder truck.
ed by motor ambulances and by motor
trucks for carrying away the debris of
the fire.
Among the cars I see on the streets
are hundreds of our best American
makes. and 1 might say almost thou
sands of a well known cheap machine
that is shipped from Detroit and sold
all over the world.
There are few cities in the United
States that have Il better street car
system lnan tTdI OF sac fIulO. 1nlS is
owned by American and Canadian CAPT
tai. and it is managed by Americans.
Many of the cars come from Philadel-
phia. others were built in St Louis.
The wires run on overhead trolleys up
held by great iron poles in the wider
avenues and stretched from building to
building across the streets in the bust
ness section The power comes from
the River Tietc. which has falls within
thirty three miles of Sac Paulo esti-
mated at $4,000 horsepower.
The same company that operates the
Sac Paulo tramway and light power
is the owner of the street railway sys-
TEN of Rio de Janeiro. 1t is a company
well known in the United States, being
organized by DR.. +. S. Pearson of New
York. and having among its chief direc-
tors Alexander Mckenzie of Toronto
and Percival Farquhar of York, Pa,
and New York city. The street ears
here have some features different from
those of the United States. Nearly
every line in Rio has it's baggage de-
partment. and there is a parcel delivery
that is run in connection with the street
cars. You can go to the market and
send your purchases to any part of the
city at reasonable rates. In Rio the
company has a large central station
and fifteen receiving stations. The
packages sent are of all sizes. You can
forward a pound of butter or ton of
iron. The cars are used by companies
and factories and stores for carrying