Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-14
Finds South America of
Q. Henry in Six Months
Trip Through Countries

The South America of O. Henry,
with its barefoot-soldier. revolutions
ard yellow fever, and the South
America 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 return
ed from a 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
follow to establish a good, friendly
footing 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.
"Y our Frenchman, Englishman or
German goes to Buenos Aires or Rio,
and makes his home there. He be-
comes a 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, Buenos
Aires and Montevideo, who were as
tonished to know that there was such
n thing as a cylinder motor
car, or that America produced motor
car that surpassed the cars made in
| Europe.
"Since the beginning of war, prac-
| tically no high gradecars 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 ears for high class usage"
| Cardway was accompanied on his
trip by Mrs. Cardway. They were re-
especially in Brazil, which has the
friendliest feeling for the United
States. Government officials were eX-
ceptionaly kind and made it point
| to make their visit pleasant. They
were given a short undersea voyage in
a Brazilian submarine, and We're
taken for a flight over the harbor at
Rio de Janeiro in a 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-
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the Andes and reaches an elevation of
$4,000 feet, far above the timber line.
They stopped for a day at Callao,
Peru, and made trip inland to Lima,
the capital. There they obtained a
number of Incas relics, some of which
Cardway values highly. There, also,
they found revolution in progress,
and got into the yellow fever zone.
Their return was through the Panama
canal to Colon and via Jamaica, to
New York.
A monkey and two parrots that
were presented to them in Buenos
Aires was included in their return
luggage.
D'Orey & Company, bankers and
steamship agents in Rio de Janeiro,
were appointed Packard dealers, and
in Buenos Aires a company was form
ed to handle the American car. Louis
Mitre and his brother, publishers of
La Nacion," the foremost newspaper
of Argentina, Carlos Alfredo Turn
quist, a banker, and Gustavo Landivar.
manufacturer of the famous "43"
cigarets, are the chief stockholders
in the company.