The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-05-11

admire their SultOrS ana cast SheePS
eyes at them, but the bars were al
ways between.
Now the buildings have changed.
The patios are fast disappearing, plate
glass windows have driven the iron
oars to The rear, and the senOrita has
become an up-tO-date tWen~tleth-cen-
fury maiden. Nevertheless, fOur-rfths
of the houses Of Buenos Aires are still
of one-story, although there are
streets lined with siX-story palaces,
and skyscrapers are going up facing
some of the parks. Many of the peo-
pie now live in apartments; n many
buildings have shops on the ground
floor and apartments above. There is
| extensive fat building, and in certain
quarters great palaces, each OF winch
! cost more tina 100000 to build. h
is especially so about the Plaza San
| Martin, upon which the Plaza Hotel
| and our American embassy are Sltuat-
ed.
Buenos Aires is rapidly increasing
the area of its plazas and parks. The
| old city was crowded together without
breathing spaces The new has as
large lungs as any municipality in
Europe and everything has been done
to add to the health of the people. AS
a result the death rate has decreased.
At the time Of my last visit it was
thirty-three to the thousand. 1t is
now only fifteen, being lower than the
death rate of New York and among
the lowest Of the great cities Of the
world. The city has already about
hundred parks, promenades and
plazas, and it is making arrangements
for more. Some Of the finest of the
new parks have been made by cutting
out buildings, and there is one in
front of the houses of congress that
was formerly devoted to vineyards.
Palermo Park is one of the fine parks
of the world, and the automobile
throng which goes through it's prin-
cipal roads upon Sunday compares
with that of the Prater on the edge Of
Vienna. The city is fOnd Of sporting.
1t has grounds for tennis, foot ball
and golf; INC at the races beyond Pa
lermo Park you may see from ten to
twenty thousand people any Sunday
or Thursday. The most Of them BET
hands on each race. And then there
: is the Tigre, the island suburb Of the
t Rio de la Plata, where you may ride
l for hundreds Of miles in boats among
homes which remind you Of Venice.
! There they have yachting, canoeing
: and water sports of all kinds.
e And now let us turn the x-rays on
) the harbor. Buenos Aires does more
shipping business than any town on
u hemisphere outside New York,
{ : and 1t now ranks eighth among the
l great ports of the world. It's foreign
: trade is rapidly climbing to a thous-
and million dollars a year, and it is
already ahead of Bremen, Calcutta
s Singapore, Genoa and Sydney, and is
surpassed only by New York, London
j Hamburg, Liverpool, Antwerp, Mar
seille and Havre. Between %thirty-fve
e and forty thousand vessels annually
\ - -
l. and thousands of these are from oVel
# the oceans, coming from every par
G of the world. There are altogethe,
a something like thirty thousand coast
le ing boats.
Is The city lies on the right bank o
~ the Rio de la Plata river about 20
miles from the open Atlantic. A
~ this point the stream is over thirt
miles wide and the great mass Of sill
@ which it carries down to the ocea
- has necessitated the building q
- docks and the deepening Of the char
mel as a cost of many millions of dol
lars. About a generation G. Their
- Vas a great mud bar in front Of tn
- city, and the anchorage was almos
twelve miles away. All goods had t
be transferred to lighters or barge
TO obviate this a channel had to h
excavated and great dock basins bull
T9ese have been constructed at a
.es enormous cost, and today ships al
~ chor. as it were, almost in the hea,
he or the town. One series Of docl
Nv cost $37,000,000. and others a,
planned that will cost millions NOR
ct. The port has the fnao+ of 1,a;.
he and landing acilties II bas o 49,
II grain elevators with a. capacity of
million bushels Of grain in the bull
IS. ana granaries which will hold twi,
IRE That much in sacks. 1t has two gre
"a" nour mills, one Of which cost SO, 500
csc are mammoth mao4 eee4IL 49,
OF thousands Of cattle and sheep a
frozen each day and shipped to Il
| markets Of the United States al
OF Europe.
me harbor machinery is moved
electricity and it's electric lights G
nj able the work to 60 on all MONT =,