Evening star., 1924-07-11
SA0 PAUL0 GROWS
COFFEE OF WORLD
state Where Revolt Is in
Progress Is Richest
in Brazil.

Sac Paulo, Brazil, scene OF rb.
rebel uprising, is the source of the
morning aroma from millions Of
steaming coffee cups all over the
"orio, bulletin from the Washing
ton headquarters of the National
Geographic Society says.
sac Paulo. the city, is the pros
porous and beautiful capital Of The
richest of BraziPs twenty states. The
city has half a million people. The
state of Sac Paulo is larger than all
New England and Pennsylvania COM
bined. 1t comprises only one-thirty-
second part of Brazips vast area, but
contains one-eighth of the country's
population.
Enormous Coffee Bill.
ITO the visitor it seems as if the
state had two major products, coffee
and-statistics, It's aggregate acre
age of coffee trees exceeds the COM
bined areas of Delaware and Rhode
Island. There are more than seven
coffee trees in the state for every
man, woman and child in the United
States. At 80 cents a pound, the
world pays Sac Paulo about sS40,-
100000 annually for her 1,135,00O, 900
pounds of coffee produced. AS a spe-
cialized wholesale grocery, her cof-
fee business is only to be compared
with Cuba's sugar crop.
topography, religion and romance
are strangely blended in Sac Paulo's
coffee. Solomon, for all his wisdom,
overlooked d potential source of
believed to have originated in Abys-
sinia, where Solomon's descendants
reign to this day. 1t was not intro
duced into Brazil until 1923.
"a Portuguese sailor was the Capt.
John Smith of Sac Paulo. He mar
ried the South American Pocahontas,
daughter of the chieftain, Tibirica.
That was about 1900. Then came
Jesuit missionaries, who are accred-
tied founders of the state, and when
the anniversary of the conversion of
St Paul, they named the country for
that apostle.
Corn and Potato Move North.
"Curiously enough, coffee rules in
Brazil, while two indigenous South
American crops, corn and the Irish
potato, are mainstays in North Amer
ica.
"Sao Paulo, the CITY, is purposefully
modern, so much so that some of the
social and engineering projects were
put into effect there while they were
still paper programs in North
America.
&c hui in SCnOOl
physicians have passed upon the
lighting, the kinds of seats to be used
and other hygienic details. lnoeeo;
they must even approve the type ana
it's spacing in text books before lhey
are adopted!
IAN unusual sight of the city is the
snake farm. The snake houses. look
ing like beehives, cover large tract.
The snakes are the sources OF serum
used to treat sufferers from the oltes
of rattle snakes, the deadly JaTacaS
and other yenomous reptiles.
Famous "Cofee Railroad"
"The railroad from Sac Paulo TO
Santos, the worlds foremost conee
port is famous among engineers the
world over There is drop OF 2,ooo
feet in seven miles over one section.
Steel cables, stationary engines and
especially equipped locomotives are
required for the thirtyfive-mi run
between the two cities. There are
thirteen tunnels, but the trains
emerge from each to disclose some
surprising new panorama OF wooded
mountain, valley of banana or coffee
trees. torrential stream or gorge or
dizzy depth.
THE road is said to be one of the
best paying in the world. Since the
dividends are limited by law, Its
earnings have gone into sumptuous
stations, fine rolling stock and per
fected equipment, until one visitor
remarked that all remaining to be
done was the gliding of the tops of
the telegraph poles.
"The steep railroad climb from
Santos to Sac Paulo gives a hint to
the peculiar geography of the state.
For nearly 400 miles along its coast
is a low belt, narrow in the north
and widening to about eighty miles
in the south. Here the weather is
hot and moist and the crops are ba-
nanas, cocoanutS, vanilla beans and
cacao. This lowland is marked by
a line of hills, back of which is an
where the coffee finds ideal growing
conditions.
Notable for Architecture.
''Sao Paulo is notable for its varied
architecture, ranging from chalet
types, Moorish palaces and buildings
of the French renaissance period to
modern Office structures Its outly-
ing streets are as plenteous1y planted
with trees and as well interspersed
with flower-planted parks as Wash
ington.
The port of Santos is given over
principally to shipping. but lacks the
squalor of many older ports. 1t has
a beautiful beach, where the sand is
packed so hard that automobiles may
drive to the waters edge.
THE city has a remarkable theater,
with a telescopic roof. BY means of
an electric mechanism this roof may
be removed in ten minutes and the
building converted into an open-air
auditorium The orchestra chairs
are removable, so that shortly after
the curtain falls a ballroom is avail
able for dancing"
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