Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-12-20
COLBY WILL VISIT
/ SP0TSOF BEAUTY
Rio De Janeiro, City of Lure,
Terraces Up From a
Glorious Bay.

Rio de Janeiro, first of the three
South American capitals to be visite'
by Secretary Colby on his journey OF
courtesy to our neighboring CONT
pent. Is described as follows in a COM
rnunIcation from Harriet Chalmers
Adams to the National Geographic So
ciety:
This city of lure terraces up from
a glorious bay-the Bay of Guanabara
mountain-encircled, fsle-bejeweled
From the shore, where parks and
houlevards are fast crowding out the
old Rio of narrow streets. rise the
forested hills on whose slopes the
]ovelier portion of the city lies Place
your hands on the table, myers
spread. wrists appraised. Each ringer
represents one of Rios hills; each
. space between, canyon up which the
city climbs.
MANY of the new homes cling to
the hillside below the streets and are
entered from the roof. Others OF
these cliff dwellings perch high above
the thoroughfare and are reached by
a long flight of steps or by elevator
on an inclined plane. Some bear the
name of the lady of the manor over
the front door-ViIia Rosita.' villa
I.ucia'-and the dark-eyed lady her
self is often seen leaning from the
window.
yistax Unequaled in Beauty.
can any other city offer such en-
trancing vistas as those from the
mountain heights back of Rio? J
have travelled far and have yet to
find it Turning hayward. We look
down through n frame of tangled
vines and branches, on to the tree
tops Of the sloping virgin forest A
soarlet-winged bird fits to a nearby
tree-fern; a big blue butterfly zig
Gags layily by. There are purple
orchids within reach and waxen be-
verdure. CLEANS the Kaleidoscope
city. with its crescent shores.
THE bay, set IN its amphitheater
~ hills, sparklee like a sapphire. To
and fro among the ships at anchor
ply the busy paddle-wheel ferryboa is
to the islands and to Nictheroy, the
little sister city across the way. In
the distance tower the blue spires of
the lofty Organ mountains. Today
We can see the sharp crag called The
Finger of Cod Often 1T is yelled in
mist.
Beaches in GIistenfnE Chain.
.pceanwar6 We look down on titanic
granite mountains rising sheer from
the sea- There is bulky Babylonia and
unfurled. Between them lie Rios sub
urban beacheS-Leme. Copacabana,
Ipanema, Leblon-in Q giistening
chain, their white villas nesting be-
sween hill and shore. The Avenida
Aflantica, which connects them, Is
equaled only by boulevards along the
MediterT1aean.
-Avenida Rio Branco. Rios finest
t6oroughfare, - more than q mile in
length and 50 wide that it consists Of
two distinct boulevards separated by
q row Of shade trees It IL thronged
day and night with automobiles. The
sidewalka the widest I have ever
seen, arc black-aAd-white stones, laid
in mosaic design. like those in vogue
in Lisbon. Both stones and workmen
were brought from Portugal. but
similar pavements, Constructed later
IN other parts OF the caty, are home
SnAdes
Widths HSvie Fans ReEaleA.
AT the cinema theater1 the people Of
Rio de Jansiro know real comfort. Un-
HE our movt1g-pdcture houses. those in
Rso have spacaoO Waiting rooms. where
yeu SIT hsteotng to .exee1eut music. I'M
round. 20 ~.
RIOS eauaaAe b often u,anxned. but
= suits dboee Who Ike spring and sum
mAF weather. It = nevee a. warm a
summer fn many o( our eastern and
middle western cft3es. and tho nights
/; On the hills arc nearly always cool.
Nov and tben On the wide. world
6a1 10 md . scene which doualnAtea
Such n Rio de Janetro, City of Lure.
90 lcng as glory of form and culor glad
don tho eyo. Rio WW stand pFo-emfnent
n beauty amnng the habitaa3dns of