Evening star., 1925-06-21
MAGNIFICENT CITIES SEEN
IN SOUTH AMERICAN TRIP
Rio De Janeiro, Sac Paulo, Buenos Aires.
Montevideo and Santiago Are I'M
pressive to Senator Jones.

structing new docks more of the type
of ours. l was astonished at the
shipping in the various harbors !
visited l did not count the vessels
ip the harbor at Rio but i know they
we're lined up all along the mile and
a half or two miles of docks, and
many were anchored throughout the
harbor.
Santos Great Port.
Santos is the port to Sac Paulo.
about IL hours ride from Rio. 1t
has a population of about 100000. 1t
Is the great coffee port of Brazil. The
city is built on a fiat jutting out into
the sea at the foot Of the mountain
ridge separating 1t from the table
land of the interior. 1t was the yel-
low fever pest hole a few years ago.
but is now free from that deadly
scourge. It's harbor is a narrow chan
mel, widening as you enter, or 3
miles long. In that harbor there
were nearly 100 large ocean-going YES
sells. Some forty-odd lay alongside
the dock. while more than 40 others
were anchored in the narrow channel
waiting to get to the dock to unload
and take on cargo. These ships had
been In the harbor 80, 40 and so days
waiting for an opportunity to unload.
l.
of affairs, but 1t was amazing to me
to see about a million tons of ship
ping in the harbor of city with
population of little over d hundred
and fifty thousand.
Sac Paulo is about so miles inland
upon a tableland at an elevation OF
about 5000 feet. There is just one
railroad to connect the two cities and
transport the freight to and from Sac
Paulo. This is said to be the most
profitable and the most splendfdly
built railroad in the world. 1t has a
franchise from Brazil which expires in
1927. One Of the provisions of this
franchise prohibits the building OF
another railroad within a certain dis
tance on each side of this line. This
gives it a monopoly Of the transpor
tation between Santos and Sac Paulo
When this charter expires In 1927, the
general impression is that this limi
tation will be removed If the charter
should be renewed. One of the pro
visions of the franchise Is that a per
centage of the net profits over GER
tain amount shall go to Brazil. 1t Is
claimed that the result of this has
been to lead the railroad company tc
make all sorts Of improvements ano
expenditures so that there will be but
little, If anything, to pay to the gov
ernment, and 1t Is figuratively SAID
that the ties and rails of this railroad
are of silver. Nothing has been paid
to Brazil.
Wonderful Road.
It Is really a wonderful stretch o1
road. 1t rises about $500 feet in sia
| miles. There are four or five sections
of steeply inclined planes on which
the trains are operated by cable. As
one train goes up another comes
down. l understand that there has
never yet been serious accident. The
roadbed, Of course, is In splendid con
dition.
There are several good bathing
beaches at Santos. Many fine build
ings, really mansions, appeared tc
have been recently built and much
building is going on. There are many
misunderstanding banana plantations
near the city. There is also a very
splendid Summer resort and bathing
beach nearby. Our ship unloadet
cargo all afternoon and all through
the night on the way down and spen
nearly two days there on the way
back taking on $4,000 bags of coffee
| It expected to take on about $4,000
but the hard rain Of the night befor,
had put the power works out Of bust
ness and they could not take 1t on.
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