New Britain herald., 1924-07-25
$40 PAULO CITY OF
 COFFEE AND SNAKES
Scene Of Reported Uprising Is a
 Wealthy Place

Washington, p. C., July E5.-sao Faulo, Brazil, scene of a reported rebel uprising, is the source of the morn- ing aroma from millions of steaming coffee cups all over the world, re- marks a bulletin from the Washing ton. D. C., headquarters of the Ma tional Geographic society
 "sao Paulo, the city. is the pros- porous and beautiful capital of the rrichest of Brazl's twenty states. The city has half million people. The state of Sac Paulo is larger than all New England and Pennsylvania con- bined. It comprises only one-thlrty- second part of Brazips vast area but contains one-eighth of the country's population.
 An Enormous Coffee Bill.
 ITO the visitor it seems as If the state had two major products, coffee and-statistics! Its 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 thirty cents a pound the world pays Sac Paulo about S34O,- 100000 annually for her r. 100000 pounds of coffee produced. AS spe- clalized wholesale grocery her coffee business is only to be compared with Cuba's sugar crop.
 Geography, religion and romance are strangely blended In Sac Paulos coffee, solomon, for all his wisdom, overlooked potential source Of sreat wealth, for coffee Is generally believed tohave originated in Abys- sjnia. where Solomon's descendants reign to this day. It was not intro- duced into Brazil until 1723.
 "A Portuguese sailor was the Cap tain John Smith of Sac Paulo. He married the South American Poca- lontas, daughter of the chieftain T1- birica. That was about 1500. Then came Jesuit missionaries, who are accredited founders of the state, and when they celebrated their first mass on the anniversary of the conversion of St. Paul they named the country for that apostle.
 Corn and Potato Move North.
 Cautiously enough, coffee rules In Brazil, while two indigenous South American crops, corn and the Irish potato. are nainstays in North America.
 "sao Paula, the city, Is purposeful- ly 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.
 For years now when new school house is built in Sac Paulo the school physicians have passed upon the lighting, the kind of seats to be used, and other hygienic details. Indeed they must even approve the type and its spacing h textbooks before they are adopted!
 An unusual sight of the city Is the snake farm. The snake houses, look ing like bee hives, cover large tract. The snakes are the sources of serum used to treat sufferers from the bites of rattle snakes, the deadly jaracas. and other venomous reptiles.
 Famous "Coffee Railroad"
 "The railroad from Sac Paulo to Santos, the worlds foremost coffee port, is famous among engineers the world over. There is drop of 2,6o0 feet in, seven miles over one section. Steel cables, stationary engines and especially equipped locomotives are required for the 35-nile run between the two cities. There are thirteen tunnls but the trains emerge from each to disclose some surprising new panorama of wooded mountain. val- ley of banana or coffee trees, torren- tial stream, or gorge of dizzy depth.
 The road is said to be one of the best paying in the world. Since the dividends are limited by law it's earn ings have gone into sumptuous sta tons. fine rolling stock and perfected equipment until one visitor remarked that al. remaining to be done was the gliding Of the tops of the tele- graph poles.
 "rhs steep r1iltosd climb from Santos to Sac Pauo gives hint to .he peculiar geography of the state. For nearly k0G miles along it's coast is a low bel. narrow in the north and widening 10 about S1 miles in the sonth. Here the weather is hot and mos. and the crops are ba1orGs. CO., coanu;s, vaai.ia beans and eaeso- This lov,aai .s inar;sed hy iae Of hiis Lack Of which is an uniulating