Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1922-07-26

construction. having 10000 miles OF
track. Yet 50 vast is the country that
railway construction seems barely be-
gun. Brazil has yet to build its trans
continental lines. With Il single ex-
ception the railroads are confined TO a
belt along the coast from $50 TO 40
miles deep The exception Is the road
extending from the port Of Santos 500
miles westward 10 Porto Esperanca
on the Paraguay river.
Rio DE- Janeiro. capital OF Brazil.
in which the exposition celebrating the
centenary ~ Brazilian independence
is 10 be held. has a population between
a million and "a million an1 half, and
Is therefore one Of the greatest OF cit
les. II shares roughly with Vienna,
Osaka. Picking. Hankow and Calcutta
the rank of tenth city OF the world. In
South America Il IS surpassed in size
only by Buenos Aires. Set in series
II valleys. backed and all but encir-
cled by mountain-like hills clad In a
riot IT tropical vegetation, and with
magnificent harbor at IFS feet, Rio
he Janeiro Is one OF the most beauti-
ful-many travellers assert the most
beautiful-of the cities Of the world
Mans hand has helped nature In bring
ing about this beauty. Broad boule-
wards rim the deep crescents OF the
harbor and the rough, picturesque adj
Joining coast: one 81 the most famous
81 botanical gardens has been created;
and avenues are lined by towering
palms. while stately buildings are set
in spacious parks.
"As multicolored and varied In
beauty as the butterflies Of the trop-
les" Is the characterization Of one re-
cent visitor 10 the metropolis OF Bra
I'll in splendor Of hue and setting,
this great city Of the South Is I'M
rlvaled the world over. Here granite
peak and turquoise sea. tropic forest
and ralnb0w-tinted town, meet and
harmonic.
This city Of lure terraces up from
n glorious bay-the Bay Of Guanabara.
mountain-oncircled. isle-beleweled.
From the shore. where parks and
houlevards are fast crowdlng ont the
old Rio OF narrow streets. rise forested
hills on whose slopes the 1oveller por-
ton Of the city lies"
Rio Seen From the Mountains.
To see Rio NJ its best and loveliest
one must 90 20 these mountains that
tower over the city. Turning hayward
one looks down. through a frame of
tangled vines and branches. onto the
tree-tops Of the sloping virgin forest.
Far below. set In yerdure, CLEANS the
Kaleidoscope city, with It's crescent
shores. In numerous crescents the
Dreaming sea meets the beaches
Formosa. Santa LULA. Lapa. Gloria
Flamlngo. Botafogo. Vermelha. The
bay. set In its amphitheater OF hills
sparkles like a sapphire. To and fro
among the ships at anchor ply the
busy paddle-wheel ferry-boats TO the
islands and 10 Nlctheroy, the little
sister city across the way. In the dis
lance tower the blue spires Of the lofty
Organ mountains.
Oceanward one looks down on
titanic granite mountains rising sheer
from the sea. There Is bulky Baby
lonia. and fat-topped Gavea. ike
great sail unfurled Between them lie
Rios suburban bcaches-Leme Cap
acabana. Ipanema, Leblon-in
cilstenlng chain. their white villas
nesting between hin and shore. The
Avenida Atlantica. which connects
them. Is eQualed only by boulevards
along the Mediterranean.
one can motor from the city 10
these benches and on 20 Gavea over a
new road cut In the rock high above
the sea. climb 20 the divide at |tiuca'
and drop down. on the bay side Of the
! range. 10 his starting place in the city
"A wonder circuit OF forty miles or
more.
Avenida Rio Grande. Rios finest
I thorouchfare was "hand made after
the city had attained practically its
I nreSent extent. In 1904 Il was decided
I % carve this great modern avenue out
~ the city. over COO homes being sac
rificed.
The avenue. more than a mile In
7 length and So wide that II consists
~ two distinct boulevards separated
I by a row az shade trees. Is thronged
day and night with automobiles.
The sidewalks. the widest the
T traveller + likely 10 find In all his
I world travels. are ~ black-and white
Il stones laid IN mosaic designs, like
4 those "a vogue In Lisbon. Both stones
z and workufen were brought from
Z Portugal. but similar pavements. con
structed later IN other parts OF the
city, are ~aome made"