Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1922-07-21

| 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 it's trans
continental lines. With single ex-
ception the railroads are confined to
| belt along the coast from $50 to $50
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 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 it is surpassed in size
only by Buenos Aires. Set in a series
| OF valleys, backed and all but encir-
| cled by mountain-like hills clad in
| riot of tropical vegetation, and with
magnificent harbOr at it's 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.
GAS muIticolored and varied in
beauty as the butterflies of the trop-
ics'' is the characterization Of one re-
cent visitor to the metropolis of Bra
zil Gin 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-e ncircled, 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 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, CLEANS the
kaleidoscope city, with it's 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.
Oceanward one looks down on
titanic granite mountains rising sheer
! from the sea. There is bulky Baby
lonia, and f1at-topped Gavea, like a
great sail unfurled. Between them lie
Rios suburban beaches-Leme Cap
acabana, Ipanema, Leblon-in
glistening chain, their white villas
nesting 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 Tijuca,
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.
| Ayenida 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 a mile in
| length and so wide that 1t 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 Of the
city, are "home made"