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Show Traveling Around America ' ' , f t ... 4 j 6;. - A JALOPY VERSION OF STREET CAR 'TIIERID happy go lucky little trolley cars clatter through the streets of Caracas In Venezuela with as much disdain for the poor pedestrian as the newest or modern motor cars. Visitors often desert their niotor sightseeing car for at least one ride In these chattering chummy little trolleys. In them one Bees the natives :.n they really are and not putting on a show fur the tourist. Besides, the trolley's speed or the lack of it is such that the passenger has ample time to see everything there Is to see long- the way. They pass the market square of Ban Jacinto, crowded with natives selling fish and fruits, wearing apparel and vegetables, orchids, bright-colored birds and soft drinks right under the nose of one of the city's most high hat hotels. In contrast to this are wide boule-Tards boule-Tards shaded with mahogany and iav-y-iffjragTrjlbMII-lP eucalyptus trees and flanked with handsome villas which betray ths wealth of the aristocrats of ths capital. In their wandering, however, the trolleys stay well within the city limits- To venture outside would mean that they would have to climb the mountains - and that would be too much trouble! As a matter or fact nothing much In the line of wheels scaled those dizzy heights until comparatively recently recent-ly because of the great problems and tremendous cost involved In building highways and railroads. A fins concrete highway connects Caracas wih Its port, La Gualra, visited weekly by 12-day cruises from New York, but the road spins 'round the mountains tor twenty-three twenty-three miles to cover a distance which as the plane flies Is but seven! Edna Mae Stark. |