| Show OUTH AMERICA IN 1898 a Cnrpsntors Tour of 25000 Miles for Newspaper Frank to for LottorsA Newspaper Expedition South Arriorlca the ArnorlcaTi Business Man and the General Reader Within the next few weeks I the New v > III begin the publication ot tho rmurkable series ot Liter ever published In u newspaper This Series 1 rW r Ill decrtbe the South American continent no It 10 In 1891 It will le the lit of a tour which will cost thousands of dollars find vUleh will Include Ihnn rCOi miles for uptodate Information i of more ll i trdvels was begun by Mr mink a Oinnnlcr when he sailed from The lour other Jay for the Isthmus of Panama lie has ulreadj I landed York the ht New Colon and V wo1 Investigating I I the condition t of the Panama canal upon at which Something like two thou trid men are now working Crossing the Sir Carpenter will trael down nlonl Ih I laelllc coast of South Illhmu to the bottom at our hemlpher 10 the Stlal It ot Maellnn slopping America arloll port anti ranking extensive expeditions Into the IlItrlor the va at lie will top for a while In Ecu allor will travel extensively on the plateau Jolh la and will make Ills way by mill and Stage through ome of the ot wildest ports of the Andes Ite will visit Lake Tltlcaca the highest lake ot the old I which Is I nahtoo1 by toatll anti will port on the blllno condl or Peru and 1Iollv0 anti the chances for American Intmtllt there tlOn An interesting part or his lour vIII bn n journey tom the tells of tile Andes through the wild of Bolh n down Into ChIli crossing Ihe great and pending some time In the nitrate fields which have made reinless tone many mon rich so lie will visit Ihe gold regions of Bolivia chill End Peru which tire raid to far surplus tho Klondike In ilthness nnd from the southern pnrt of Chili will make his way on down to the bottom of the continent where there other wonderful Bold fields are After extensive travels In Chill anti IntnBonIn Including n Journey Into the Andes mountains to describe the work now being done on the Trans Andean mad Mr Carpenter will all for Tierra del I uogo and will there visit a country Inhabited by savages some of whom live In holes In the glound and will then make his way up the Atlantic coast of Patagonia and on Into that wonderful Country the Argentine Republic In ih < Argentine he will visit the wheat field which compete so greatly with our fanners will Investigate the cotton Industry which Is I lapldlj growIng grow-Ing and will travel for thousands of miles over this land which Is I as large as all the United States east of the Mississippi river After describing the capital of Iluenos Ayres which M I almost as large no Philadelphia 1 Mr Carpenter will make an expedition of some this like 2000 miles 00 the RIO de la Plata and Parana rivers riding far tip Into the Paraguay and visiting Its capital lie will also travel extensively In Uruguay and southern Brazil In BraIn he will visit the greatest coffee region of the world will make n trip to the diamond mines spend ome time at Illo Janeiro and among other ticedttlons will travel I more than 2000 miles on the Amanon river exploring come ot the wildest < and least I knon parts of our hemisphere Mr Carpenters newspaper expedition Is I taken nt the expense of the IN ve and some of the other leading newspapers of the United States who ulsh to Five their renders n plain practical commons nse description of that Is I going on the South America lie has Instructions to investigate the resources of the various countries to describe In detail what Americans in doing there and to look up the possibilities In the different countries for American trade and American manufactures He Is I In fact u commissioner for the American people > to describe for them Just the things they want to know about this comparatively unknown continent lie will also describe how the people of the various countries net and live how our sister Republic manage their business and the other curious features ot life above and below the Equator There ale few travellers who start out on Koch nn expedition so well equipped fur good work ns docs Mr Carpenter He will have with him during the mot of his Journles excellent photogrnpheis and his letters will lie ac rompanWa by Illustrations and photographs mule upon > the ground Ills extensive ex-tensive travels covering nearly every part of tho world and his long residence resi-dence at Washington have given him a wide < acquaintance and he will also Mole the assistance ot our diplomats and consuls In earning out his plans He U I well equipped with letters from the Stale departments at Washington with introductions from the Chief or Bureau of American Republic and In connection will farming matters he roes by the appointment of Secretary Wilson UK n honuiary commissioner ot the department of agriculture This tspoditlon cannot lint he t 01 ollorl11u value 10 tour readra 11 vdII bring forth Into rmnilon that cannot In fjuuel In tile llbiail which will lie 1 full of Suggestions and Inforinnllon for the business men and at the samo tlmo be InlereslhiB to nil It Is I In fait th exptorallon of a comparatively unknown un-known land by a Irnlned observer and a welt equipped newspaper man peaking of our business Inteitsts abroad the tour was planned because It Is I believed that South Area t Is 1 desllned to be one of Ihe chief news van lers tot tile people nf the United States The day la I p1 when America can rely upon her home trade to feed her factories From now on our budneis 13 I to cover the world We ore already reaching gut towards Europe rng land tiembles when she views the Inca of American Products Into her homo iitnrkels Our machinery Is I now being Introduced Into most every city of Europe and we are making heavy shipments to Asia Soulli America naturally belongs to us arid our trade thero U I steadily Increasing In-creasing It Is nothing lo what It will be and Mr Carpentei believes that lie Is I In the advance guard nf n movement which will result In opening the treat est field for commerce and money making that the Unltrd Violas has > et had He says hot we are Just on the edge of another era In our national life the commercial era and that ire nr to look not at home but to the worlo1 for our trade The ure today scores of our people who nio ccalteml over South America Some hive concessions for gold and slier mines Others tire making fortunes by raising coffee anti others have vast rubber l Interests un the Amazon There are a half dozen different concessions which he been recently granted to America to build railroads on Ih Paclllc coast ot South America and It Is tilt American who Is I building the gap which remains In the great railroad across the contlnnent from the P < clnn In Chill lo tile Atlantic at lIueooB Arcm ThoI tire American coluo In South America I engaged In agriculture and stockraising and there arc American traders on I the upper Amazon whose business Is I with the wild Indians of those regions I Mr Carpenter will till Just what our people are doing In tlijc dllterellt countries and will show what chances there are In the different countries for I American muscle brains and capital I Aside from the business Interests Mr Carpenters tellers will bo ot great value to all lie Ilan 10111 hern known lIS Gneof the mot eatfulnllll accurate of correspondents Ho has the power of de crlptlon which transports hit readois to the scenes he describes They seem to be travelling with him and In tills respect his lelters arc of great value lo children no well as grown people and as they will give a geographical knowledge of the countries rind people which con be found nowhere else 11 Is uoneooar however for us 10 Say enlhllll 10 our readers no 10 the work of Mr Frank Carpenter lie has long been Known ns one of the best of travel correspondents Ito seems to have nn Instinct which tells him where trouble Is I going to break out next so that he may get there In time to tell the story It was this Instinct that sent him to nussln nt the time ot the famine and this made him lake his tour of KOOO milts through China Japan and Korea jut before the great war between Frederick lIemlnltoo and Poiltntly 1II < I1 < low who It vIII be remembered remained but I five days In the lead I of tire rzar and then left I In deplicsir Mr Carpnter re ra ft 1C mnlned three months and travelled more than three Ihousind miles In tire famine districts giving a wonderful picture of Russia and tile Russians which was Illustrated by photographs made especially for the czar but duplicated by the Russian officials for Mr Caipenter In his Asiatic tour Mr Carpenter gave the best Information that was furnished from the Tar Last at that time Ills Interviewn with LI Hung Chang Count Ito of Japan and the king of Slam were of the greatest value and Interest In his present tour Mr Carpenter thinks he will be as close to the news ns he was In 1S9I He will have Interviews with the greatest of the Insl I dents ot the South American Republics who through him will tell us what they think of tho Monroe doctrine the destiny of the two continents nod Ihrough him will aid In bringing the United Slates Into a closer touch with tire countries over which they rule There are few better Interviewers among the Journalists of today than Mr Carpenter During his trip around the world eight years ago be Interviewed Inter-viewed the leading monarch and statesmen ot the various countries He has a wonderful powcr ot getting at people and of eliciting Information from them upon matters of public and personal Interest He had a long conversation conversa-tion with the late Khedive of Tfnpt Just before his death He chatted In his palace In Athens with King George of < Ireece saw the sultan at Constant nOII and Intorvlew1 Rajahs anti Mahatajab galore When he WM III Ate leo President Diaz gave him a full page Interview on the things most ot Interest Inter-est between us and our sller republic and when he was In Russia lie hall talk with the leading Russian statesmen and on his way there secbred an Interview with Prince Ulsmnrk at Trlcdrlchsruhe The first of Mr Carpenters South American lettefs will be published on one of the Saturdays ol March and the series 1 will run through the Saturdays of the following year one letter being found In each of our Saturday Issues due log that time |
