Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1922-07-21
Rio in It's Valley. Among Towering Peaks.

Brazil Is not backward In railroad
construction, having 10000 miles Of
track. Yet so vast Is the country that
railway construction seems barely be-
gun. Brazil has yet to build its trans
continental lines. With n single ex-
ception the railroads are confined to
belt along the coast from $50 to 45O
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
a million and a million and half, and
| is therefore one of the greatest of cit
| les. 1t shares roughly with Vienna,
Osaka, Picking, Hankow and Calcutta
| the rank of tenth city of the world. In
South America 1t 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
magnificent harbor at Its feet, Rio
| 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 adj
| joining coast; one of the most famous
| of 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 to the metropolis of Bra
zil SIN splendor of hue and setting,
this great city of the South is I'M
rivaled the world over. Here granite
peak and turquoise sea, tropic forest
and rainbow-tinted town, meet and
| harmonic.
This city of lure terraces up from
a glorious bay--the Bay of Guanabara.
mountain-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 por-
ton of the city lies"
Rio Seen From the Mountains.
To see Rio at its best and loveliest
one must go to these mountains that
tower over the city. Turning hayward,
one looks down. through a frame Of
| xxtpa
! tree-tops of the sloping virgin forest.
Far below, set in verdure, CLEANS the
Kaleidoscope city, with Its crescent
shores. In numerous crescents the
Dreaming sea meets the beaches
Formosa, Santa Luzia, Lapa, Gloria,
/ Flamingo, 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 to Nictheroy, the little
sister city across the way. In the dis
lance tower the blue spires Of the lofty
Organ mountains.
i Oceanward one looks down on
titanic granite mountains rising sheer
| ITOtn Tile sea. ucIC 10 UtuhI lazy
lonia, and fiat-topped Gavea, like a
great sail unfurled. Between them lie
Rios suburban beaches-Leme Cap
acabana, Ipanema, Leblon-in a
gIistening chain, their white villas
nesting between hill and shore. The
Avenlda Atlantica, which connects
them, is equaled only by boulevards
| .1~x.,~ %bo 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 Tijuca
and drop down, on the bay side of the
range, to his starting place in the city
Ia wonder circuit of forty miles OF
more.
!, Avenida Rio Grande, Rios finest
, thoroughfare was "hand made after
, the city had attained practically its
present extent. In 1904 1t was decided
to carve this great modern avenue out
, of the city, over 600 homes being sac
rificed.
: The avenue, more than mile II
, length and SO wide that 1t. consists
of two distinct boulevards separated
, by row Of shade trees, is thronget
! day and night with automobiles
II The sidewalks. the widest the
t traveller is likely to find in all hi
world travels. are of black-and-whits
} stones laid in mosaic designs. lik'
: those in vogue In Lisbon. Both stones
> and workmen were brought from
j Portugal, but similar pavements. con
structed later In other parts OF thu
city, are 'home made"