The Cordova daily times., 1922-08-17
Rio in It's Valleys Among Towering Peaks.

Brazil is not backward in railroad construction, having 2c,0OO miles of track. Yet so vast is the country that railway construction seems barely be gun. Brazil has yet to build it's trans continental lines. With single eX ception the railroads are confined to a belt along the coast from $50 to 450 miles deep. The exception is the road extending from the port of Santos 800 miles westward to Porto Esperanca on the Paraguay river.
 Rio de Janeiro, capital of Brazil in which the exposition celebrating the centenary of Brazilian independence is to be held, has population between million and a million and half, and is therefore one of the greatest of cit ies It shares roughly with Vienna. osaka, peking, Hank0W and Calcutta the rank of tenth city of the world. In South America it is surpassed in size only by Buenos Aires. Set in series Of valleys, backed and all but encir- cled by mountain-like hills clad in a riot of tropical vegetation, and with a
  de 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 ad- joining coast; one of the most famous of botanical gardens has been created i 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- ics'' is the characterization of one re- cent visitor to the metropolis of Bra gil. Tn splendor of hue and setting, this great city of the South Is un- rivaled the world over. Here granite peak and turquoise sea, tropic forest and rainbow-tinted town, meet and harmOniZe.
 This city of lure terraces up from a glorious bay-the Bay of Guanabara. mOuntain-en encircled, isle-bejeweled. From the shore, where parks and boulevards are fast crOwding out the old Rio of narrow streets, rise fOrested hills on whose slopes the lovelier DOT tion of the city lies"
 Rio Seen From the Mountains.
 To see Rio at it's best and loveliest one must go to 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 verdure, gleams the kaleidoscopic city, with its crescent shores. In numerous crescents the creaming sea meets the beaches Formosa, Santa Luzia, Lapa, Gloria. Flamingo, Botafogo, Vermelha. The bay, set in it's 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 to Nictheroy, the little sister city across the way. In the dis tance 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 hat-topped Gavea, like a great sail unfurled. Between them lie Rios suburban beaches-Leme Cap acabana. Ipanema, Leblon-in a glistening chain, their white villas nestling between hill and shore. The Avenida Atlantica, which connects them, is equaled only by boulevards along the Mediterranean.
 One can motor from the city to these beaches and on to Gavea over a new road cut in the rock high above the sea, climb to the divide at Tfjuca. and drop down, on the bay side of the range, to his starting place in the city "a wonder circuit of forty miles or more.
 Avenida Rio Grande, Rios finest thoroughfare was hand made" after the city had attained practically it's present extent. In 1904 it was decided to carve this great modern avenue out of the city, over GOO homes being sac rificed.
 The avenue, more than a mile in length and so wide that it consists of two distinct boulevards separated by row of shade trees, Is thronged day and night with automobiles.
 The sidewalks. the widest the traveller Is likely to find in all his world travels, are of black-and-white stones laid in mosaic designs, like those in vogue In Lisbon. Both stones and workmen, were brought from Portugal, but similar pavements, con, structed later in other parts ot the city, are "home maJe!'