Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-04-21

: The South America of 0. Henry,
with its barefoot.soldier, revolutions
and yellow fever, and the South Ann
erica of wondrously beautiful cities,
rich in art and culture and splendid
architecture, peopled with diplomats
and genteel folk, were found by Fred
Cardway, who has just returned from
six-months' visit.
His trip was made in behalf OF the,
Packard Motor Car Company, the
purpose being to discover methods
American businessmen would best fol-
low to establish good, friendly foot
ing of trade relations. ~ =.
/ Cardway says the American desire
TO make business dealings prompt and
entirely practical, from the American
point of view, will not do in South
America. The man who attempts to
sell goods in that manner invariably
fails, for the English, German and
French people who have extensive
trade interests in the South American
countries do things more to the liking
of the people. .,--:: -. - . =.
Your Frenchman, Englishmaa or
German goes to Buenos Aires or Rio
and makes his home there. He be-
comes citizen and takes an active
interest in the welfare of the city and
the nation" said Cardway. Yet there
is no doubt that goods Of American
manufacture will be welcomed in
South America. -.
Il found many of the wealthy. edu-
Gated people OF Rio de Janeiro, Bue-
nos Aires and Montevideo, who were
astonished to know that there was
such thing as a 12-cylinder motor
car. or that America produced a mo-
tor car that surpassed the cars made
In Europe.
Since the beginning of war practi-
cally no high grade cars have been
sold, because of the difficulty of get
ting them from Europe. 1t really had
not occurred to the majority of South
Americans to even consider American
made cars for high class usage"
Cardway was accompanied on his
trip by Mrs. Cardway. They were
received everywhere with, cordiality,
especially in Brazil, which has the
friendliest feeling for the United
States. Government officials were ex-
ceptionally kind and made 1t a point
to make their visit pleasant. They
were given a short under-sea voyage
in a Brazilian submarine, and were
taken for a flight over the harbor at
Rio de Janeiro in naval airplane.
/ On their return they Travelled from
Buenos Aires 500 miles across the
continent to Valparaiso, Chile, on the
new railroad, which has been complet-
ed only two years, This road crosses
the Andes and reaches an elevation
of $4,000 feet, far above the timber
line. - H.. ...
They stopped for a day at Callao,
Peru, and made trip inland to Lima,
the capital. There they obtained a
number of meas relics, some of which
Cardway values highly. There. also,
they found q revolution in progress,
and got into the yellow fever zone.
Their return was through Panama ca
nal to Colon and, via Jamaica, to New
York. >,
. A moneky aud two parrots that
we're presented to them in Buenos
Aires was included in their return
luggage. ~ ..-..,.- -. ~..srI
D'orey & Company, bankers and
steamship agents in Rio de Janeiro,
we're appointed Packard dealers, and
in Buenos Aires a company was form.
ed to handle the American car. Louis
Mitre AMI lbs brother. publishers Of
La Nachn ii. the foremost newspaper OF
Argentina; Carlos Alfredo Turnquist,