Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1921-03-25
BUENOS AIRES: CITY OF
SUPERLATIVES AND
CONTRASTS

Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina,
which recently attracted world atten-
ton by Withdrawing its representa-
tives from the League Of Nations as
sembly. is not merely the capital and
chief port of a South American repub-
lie. 1t is world center--a city OF SUI
perlatives, contrasts and paradoxes.
It's population of close to 100000
makes it. by wide margin, the me-
tropolis of South America and the
Southern hemisphere. 1t is the great
est Of Spanish-speaking cities, having
nearly three times as many inhabitants
as Madrid 1t is greater than any
Latin city except Paris. In the New
World it shares third place with Phil
adelphia; only New York and Chicago
surpass it. And now that Petrograd
and Moscow have shrunk, while Berlin
and Vienna are marking time, it proba-
blv ranks or soon will rank as the
sixth city of the world, led only by the
two metropolises of Europe, the two
of North America, and Tokyo in Asia.
This great city is the focus OF the
culture, thought, politics. economics
and social life of Argentina, as well as
the funnel through which pour the
millions of pounds Of dressed meats
and the millions of bushels of wheat
which make UP the contribution of the
republic to the hungry peoples OF the
Old World In its general aspect 1T Is
a combination of New York and Paris.
It's language is the language of Spain,
but many other things Spanish nave
been thrust aside. It's inhabitants
would laugh at the idea of a midday
siesta-so generally observed In most
Spanish American countries. The OD-
sc. ion of "manana" has been discard
ed; the people of Buenos Aires live I'D
the throbbing present, going strenu-
ously about their business in streets
whose hustle and whirl are as balm to
the heart of the homesick New YORK
or. who feels that. after all. he cannon
be far from Broad and Wall or Forty
second and Broadway. Subways, COM
muters and taller buildings than can
be found in any other city in South
America heighten the Illusion.
In progress and the possession OF
vision the people of BuenOs Aires are
unsurpassed even by the restless build
ers of North Americas greatest cities.
For centuries after it's establishment
Buenos Aires was without port.
Ships anchored miles from the shall
low. sandy shore and all freight was
handled in lighters. Within the last
% years the municipality has con-
structed the largest artificial docks In
the world. These provide adequate
facilities for the thousands OF ocean
vessels and coasting craft that put into
its port annually.
The owSchecker-board of streets
in the business center which the colo
NAL Buenos Aires bequeathed to the
world city of today has been con-
slant embarrassment in the face of
the demands of modern business. The
municipality has widened some OF
|. these narrow ways af cost of many
millions of dollars, into stately and
handsome avenues, and is carving 9TH
err arteries of traffic 0iagonally through
the closely packed squares
In the newer parts OF the city
streets of ample width and numerous
broad avenues have been laid out.
Many of the avenues are lined with
the costly palaces of Argentina's null
timillionaires. 1t is in this part of the
CITY and in such semi-business avenues
as the tree-rimmed Ayenida de Mayo,
with its mile or more of fine hotels,
clubs. cafes and business buildings de
luxe that Buenos Aires reminds the
traveller Of Paris