The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1922-07-20
Rio in Its Valleys Among Towering Peaks.

Brazil Is not backward in railroad
construction, having $1,000 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 "A single ex-
ception the railroads are confined to a
belt along the coast from $50 to .
miles deep. The exception is the road
extending from the port of Santos 800
miles westward to Porto Es2eranca
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 a population between
a million and a million and a 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 a 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 n 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 n of the most famous
| OF botanical gardens has been created;
and venue 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 re-
cent visitor TO the metropolis of Bra
I'll. "In spIendor of hue and setting.
this great city Of the South Is IN
rivaled the world over. Here granite
peak and turquoise sea, troplc forest
and rainbow-tinted town, meet and
harmonic.
"This city of lure terraces up from
a glorious bay-the Bay of G~uanabara.
mountain encircIed, isle-bejeweled.
I From the shore, where parks and
b~oulevards are fast crowding ont 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 loyellest
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 Its crescent
shores. In numerous crescents he
Dreaming sea meets the beaches
Formosa, Santa Luzia, I.ana, Gloria.
Fiamingo, B~otafogo, 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 ~nat-topped Gavea, like a
/, great sail unfurled. Between them lie
: Rios suburban beaches-Leme Cap
acabana. Ipanema, Leblon--in q
glistenIng chain. their white villas
nesting between hill and shore. The
Avenida Atiantica, which connects
: them. is equaled only by bonlesards
along the Mediterranean.
|. One can motor from the city tc
/ these beaches and ON to Gavea over Q
! new road cut in the rick high above
i the sea. climb to the divide at ~ijuca
! and drop down, on the bay side Of the
j i range. to his starting place in the city
la wonder circuit Of forty miles OF
more.
Aven.da Rio Grande, Rios finest
/ thoroughfare was shand made" after
! the city had attained practically its
: present extent. In 1904 II was decided
/. to carve this great modern avenue out
: ar the cifu- aser 600 homes heinG sac
rinced.
! The avenue. more than 4 mile II
Il length and So wide that u consists
az two distinct boulevards separated
J by d row OF shade trees - thronge'
/ day and night with automoniies
j The sidewalks. Che widest th'
/ traveller ii lllely to md In ell ny
world travels. are on ~black-and Whit
} stones laid III mosaic designs iik'
: those In vogue In Lisbon Both stone
} and workmsn were brought From
Portugal, hut similar ravements snn
sfrucfcd later In other parts o. ~
city, are sshome made