| Show BUENOS AYRES AYKES copyrighted 1898 by frank G carpenter buenos ayres nov 25 1898 buenos lyres is the london the new york the aris is of the argentine republic it is wen more it might almost beeall be called ed he e argentine itself it controls this soun antry try as no capital of 0 the world does be I land and it is supposed to dominate it 15 an old saying that paris is france the e is not so to the extent that buenos ares is in the argentine there are a aalf if dozen different cities in france chich ch are independent commercial cen ers rs paris is by no means all france industrially she is so artistically so cisily and perhaps intellectually ayres sAyres is the political capital of ghie e argentine it is its commercial lea pital ital its indue industrial trIal capital its finan social and intellectual capital I 1 the most of the argentine are buenos ayres citizens ny any ot of them who represent faraway far away elway tracts practice I baw aw here they live the he t city the year round although diey ey may now and then go to see their constituents the republic is com of roaten boroughs s supplied by lenos enos ayres men the result is that jien en buenos ayres takes snuff the bhole ole argentine sneezes industrially buenos ayres has 55 95 per at of the fac factories of the republic it B more than employing over ads ds the great volume of foreign fade now amounting to more than wo hundred million dollars a year asses es through it its wholesale houses lipply pa I 1 Y the republic with goods there de in fact only two places in the ar ntine i buenos ayres and tle the camp buenos aenos ayres is buenos ayres the p to Is all of the argentine outside buenos ayres commercially and financially buenos ares res is the argentine it has the anks aks which supply the republic with loney ney big banks with fine buildings anks aks with deposits of from lyer r dollars down it had one with a 1 taj of butchis but this was closed athe e failures which startled the finan y 1 world and made the baring broth it tremble its depositors losing by Rs KB breaking buenos ayres ayrea its stock exchange where the entine tine is bought and sold in par and where stocks and bonds rise fall as buenos ayres thinks them od iod or bad on this exchange more n halt half a billion gold dollars worth of ck k was floated during the ten years ing I ng in 1889 when the panic came per cent of the companies tailed failed and ast aft of the shares are now not worth 1 of their face value nevertheless i city and country are in a good facial condition I 1 9 i a social center buenos A ayres esthe Is the antine tine the most of the money made fahe j camp is spent here the city has oros ea of millionaires miMon alres nabobs nabors who each their halt half million acres ot of land and count their cattle and sheep in h of thousands they may ko eo to lr r farms itt in the summer but their rs a are in their palaces here where they give royal entertainments a and nd pay a thousand dollars for a season box at ait the opera house the argentine Is ie growing fast in population ula tion it has on its seven league boots compared with the T undated states lit it trebles its population every thirty years and it now has more than four million mill ion people buenos ayres grows even faster than the rest ot of the country it is jumping upward at the rate of IEL a hundred thousand thoi usand a year kew it has mow people land and by the end ot of the century Ms its people claim that it will number more than a million one fifth of all the people in this thiis country live in buenos ayres the city grows like a green bay tree it increases more rapidly than any city in the united states long dong ago it began to take in all the adjoining herrl tory when it had bad lots its great boom on an the edge of the penile all outdoors was waa platted out in lots and within five years the real estate transactions amounted to about enough land has been bui buelt it upon to make a vast city and that a moat solid one the houses are aire not detached as ours they are built in blocks of four acres each surrounded by narrow streets af some of the sections aze aire so 90 crowded that the people swarm in them like bees bee p in others there are wide stretches of bare fields the city as it is laid ladd out Is ie eleven miles from end to end and a ride around amand it is as long loner oe as from washington to baltimore within its boundaries there Is twice as much ground as in im parts and it ft lias has a greater of stores stones and business places in hi proportion i to me MB population than any town in the und united ted St states you find stores everywhere there axe are miles nil lee of them the besson resson reia eonis Is there are few stores outside it has not n ot the great suburban population of our cities whose wants are supplied by their home towns but who come into the city caty for bus business biess buenos ayres is a spanish city it is the biggest bagg est spanish speaking 01 city ty of the world it Is almost twice as big as madrid and three times as big as barcelona its spanish character however belongs to bo the past and it is fast developing a municipal individuality of lits its own it will a always W a 7 s have the spanish lani guage but the kopul population will be a 9 mixture drawn from the fow four quarters of the earth today more than half of the population is foreign and the city itself Is 18 fast losing its spanish character the me houses on om the new avenues which have been made lare are more mke like those of paris aham madrid the avenue de ma mayo Is a 6 wide boulevard with an am asphar pavement the buildings upon it make you think of those ot of the champs elysee and there is a total absence of the flat low one story structures of old spain it is the same with some ao me of the buei bual begs anieas blocks which have been erected I 1 alace alce buenos ayres began its rapid growth j the most of the buildings however are tow low fora for a century or so there was waa i not a two story house bouse in the olty the town was laid out in the spanish style in rectangular blocks falong along streets it was founded away ba bade tax in 1836 1636 by a spanish freebooter pedro do de mendoza Mend joza he named it buenos ayres the words mean good air but mendoza did not noot niame it thus because air here is espe especially good it Is U not at its death rate nate Is high more than a thousand people died here last month and the average Is over 33 per cent jua t now the fog over the oty is as tha thick ek as that of london for fior a a long lone tame ame the air was so bad that lockjaw was epidemic I 1 it takes a boys bare toot and a rusty nail to produce lockjaw la in the united states until recently sou could get it here by simply opening your mouth no buenos ayres did dot bot get its name from its superfluous ozone mendoza like cortez pizarro and tle the other adventurous spanish cut throats of ills his time had a deeo deed for the tee saints he had named the city after the virgin marla maria de buenos alrea juose aid he aad invoked tor for his expedition before leaving spain spada in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries asuncion Asun con paraguay Pan aguay and cordoba Cordob ij a days ride by train west of here were far better bremna annaa the town lams remained settlement of mud huts although lots yea yarda front and three railed miles deep could 4 bp bought for a SUR suit of old clothes othes el in the seventeenth century some of the central blocks of the city were mid for a white horse and aad a guitar today the ja average value of the land per square yard is over 20 and the house property is said to be worth over in gold A fi when our declaration of I 1 dence dance was signed there were ar people in this region and only to in buenos ayres tile the colw colony begun be gu n to make money out of aind d chiefly out ot of negro slaves ahe best famines families then lived la in thatched huts but they ate their meals from dishes of solid allver ert lver being waited upon bwy heir own me degroes groes when john quincy adams was as president buenos 13 mean ayres A ares had peaple awing gen grants first term in the white house home it bad less than and land began bl gan his second six years begs citizens numbered Ks great growth has U hus us beeck within the past thirty years buenos ayres is a queer daty A caty made up of shreds and patches bodh I 1 as to architecture and man me As to man it has people of nearly every race three hundred thousand of its 1 ts residents ire are italians italia are spanish about french and the remainder germans english and argentines Ar gentines the ar gentines proper do not bly number over and ana they ake are the only rial real citizens in the sense that they vote e arid and take part to in the government the te rest prefer to bo keep out of politics and anaf an fn urmy army for the foreign resident dent here has every property right of the with none nde of his military obligations most of the stick to old nationalities although aft bough bottie omeo would not mot dare go home b onte to th vote me argentine Is one of 0 f the few f 00 U 0 which have no extradition treaties CeL criminale from everywhere have taken advantage of this and it is said that there ore axe more men lying under an assumed name here than in any city of 0 the world this is ie especially so 90 as to the emigrants from italy and until recently it was VMS 20 0 o as to some of those from our country A year or eo 00 it te is said foura four americans were chaft chaffing ing gether tn in one of the cafes cafe of buenos ayres when three of the crowd began for some rea nea eoa am to bo jeer at the fourth he grew angry and sald said well you may sneer iba a we toe it if you please but I 1 want you to understand that there is at leat one ot of the united states that I 1 dare go back to without tear fear ot for the sheriff I 1 know none of you can cam say its aa much aft bID however is rather hard on the years yeara ago before we lost our merchant maxine marine the americans americana wore ware among ithe most proad neut or of the foreigners here anad those who have been colim within recent years are awn of high ot standing andIng same of them wave have large interests here and at ait present the ithe americans americana so ao a class eve are aup much h respected Architect architecturally uraNy ayres ayrea is a peAch patchwork work efty I 1 have high up 10 ja one 0 ne of its biggest hotels they are high tin in price ws as well as in ahti altitude tude they cost coat me elgut argentine dollars a day I 1 am on the che fourth floor and from my ady balcony I 1 cam see over mot most of the of the city out of the window with me and take a birdseye birds lards eye view of at ayres below and about us u ties lies a vast ragged plain of one me and two story mouses imus whose flat fiat roas are made of bricks or brick tiles or corrugated some of them abe high above ta abbe others and the whole looks like a lot of great store etore boxes jumbled together along narrow oani oan which are the streets reeta at away to the south you see a few smoke moke taxis tax iks the roasts maata of and big warehouses sa Is barraba Barrs Barr aoa cae the ewt of the city where meat ineat wool and hides are prepared pre for shipment to american and europe to the north there them Is ie a spot of green that Is 19 palermo pork where all the swells so go to ame and drive every afternoon i you may see ee a thousand carri carriages aces dhere wt ait a time to the east beyond that thicket of rad and span lindaa the docks docka extending on om and on cm until they meet the hw horizon izon are the muddy waiters of the rio klo dela plata which connects conni ecta buenos ayres with the rest resit of the world the river here ts Is eight milleo wide and in the foggy misty air we see ee tt a opposite banks buenos ayres ayree to te only forty eight feet a bove above the atlantic ocean and back around and beyond it extends the vat vast plain of the valley of this river as heareas here that of ithe taw mississippi pt dt la cut up by sad spotted with for fruma rud some of which support cattle od nd in herds herd of thouis ands As an you look wore more closely st at the roofs below you you a ee that many of them aur surround round courts or ioe thie MIS it w tha spanish style of building there are no gardens in front or behm behind the and the masses here live without plants flowers or trees there are no the argon bentee do not fires healthful in their living AL you see here and there them a black stovepipe coming up through the roof dhosi pipes own are with the kitchen not mot with the parlors there are a few open spaces in the chy of roots roofs these chwe are the or parks ther are twelve in the city varying Vary Lug in dine aize from forur to twelve wees acree chilt one near the river is the die de mayo it Is the ecclesiastical and fin uncial center of d city upon it face the cathedral ca the presidents blouse congress the courts land and the bolsa or stock exchange into it run some of the chief business street sand from it to the west extends the avenida de mayo the wide boulevard of which the people here are so proud and at the abher end of which the future capital capit iol building of the re pubic is to co stand this avenue has already cost gold dollars and it ft will eventually be one of the grand areeta streets of the world the part of the city through which it goes was jn in the early spanish days lighted with oil made of mares grease now electricity gives the fahe same locality its illuminating rays the plaza de mayo covers eight acres the finest building upon it is the cathedral which looks more like a government structure or an art gallery uhan a church it covers more thian than an acre fand and it will haold pe people opie it to is seldom full however buenos ayres is the largest catholic city of the world ninety six per cant of all the people in the argentine are roman catholic Oat holic still the men are not ardent churchgoers ch goers and the women who attend the da cathedral thedral do not usually fill vt it there are in the efty city twenty four daher catholic Oa churches there are only four which are protestant protestants are freely tolerated and one of these churches Js ds the american methodist church whose pastor Is i an ohio man dr william mclaughlin mccaughlin it is well fat attended tended beir situated within almost a sfa ones throw of the cathedral in the very business heart ot of the city the most moet interesting thing g however in buenos ayres is its people I 1 will write more of them in other letters they are like no otheir cother people in the world I 1 have always thought that new yorkers bostonians and chicagoans were about as conceited as to their own towns us as any etti citizens zens I 1 had ever met in my travels but these Ar gentines cap the climax awk to a man in buenos ayres about his olty and his head swells out at once till it is as big as a foot ball he thinks that the sun and moon rise and set for the argentine alone he dont care for atrian gers and the only heroes he worships Ps are those who live here diere I 1 was talking last night might to mr william bullifin of the cross he is a leading editor and literary newspaper man here I 1 referred to the above phase of the argentine said he you are right about the argentine self esteem I 1 dont believe there is a man in europe or america who could stir up the average person here by coming to visit us I 1 doubt dio abt if iii di hung bhang would attract notice in buenos ayres from any one but the sellers of lottery who you know are after every new arrival all we want to know is whether you speak spanish and whether you are convinced that buenos ayr ayres Is the greatest etty city in the world 11 I 1 wink mr bullifin is right but alwill these gentines argentines Ar are not bad people after all they have a character of 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