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Show CREDENTIALS NOW IN ORDER Dr. Cook tho Last "Distinguished" Guest to Ba Entertained by Buenos Bu-enos Ayres Journal, In the course of hl3 lecture on the city of Buenos Ayres, Burton Holmes showed several pictures of the editorial edito-rial offices of the great Argentine newspaper called La Frensa. In a portion of the ornate structure that bouse the journal's many activities there Is a complete flat, handsomely turn Islicd and fitted with every convenience con-venience that Paris, which the Argentines Argen-tines copy faithfully, knows. This flat used to be maintained by the newspaper news-paper a3 a place In which to entertain enter-tain distinguished visitors to the city. Mr. Holmes, In showing these pictures, pic-tures, declares ho felt very bad at first, when he learned about this hospitable hos-pitable custozn of tho paper, to think that he was not considered enough of a distinguished stranger to he Invited In-vited to occupy tho flat as a guest of La Prensa. Hut when he looked over the list of those who had occupied It his wounds were assuaged. The first of the guests was Puqplni, the Italian composer; the second was AmunBen. the Arctic explorer, and the third was Doctor Cook of Brooklyn, of " North Polo (7) and Denmark and the guest of the New York board of aldermen. al-dermen. "Since then," Holmes says In conclusion, "La Prensa has not en-tsrtalned en-tsrtalned any distinguished visitors" |