Show BEAUTIFUL BEAUTIFUL RIO JANEIRO San Francisco Chronicle We Wedo do donot donot not doubt tb that thai our readers appreciate the graphic descriptions of the progress pro pro- ress of our heel which we print as the they thoy are received from our special correspondent on board the flagship The account of tho reception of our IJ people b by the tile hearted warm inhabitants tants of oC beautiful Rio Janeiro which we presented yesterday must have set our out own reception committee to wondering won won- dering done whether anything which this pity city it of half the size of Rio Janeiro can do will not not seem tame to o our sailor liars boys as compared with the magnificent mag rung entertainment with which the Brazilians expressed their hospitality We do not think It IJ will It will be a welcome home borne And we shall shaH see what we can do One thing which we cannot do however boWmer however how boW ever mer we ma nay may try Is to show a city eity so magnificently adorned adorne by br the labor of r man as ns Rio Janeiro The rue N lion of or the tIle city ity rea reads like a page Dag from Crom v t h lt Arabian Nights Says s1 Says B our corr correspondent cor cor cor- cort i respondent r In part I Thc They saw one oue of the cleanest and best paved cities In the world Th There rc was not nol a foul smell in evi i dence Where There the streets were Hot not of asphalt they were of wood a Tire The ge great at surprise of all was the Central avenue built right through 1 the heart of the city just as Napoleon l highways through Paris and which rivals riyals an anything which Paris can show The architecture along I Ithe the avenue Is harmonious from one end to the other And those sidewalks I The They arc are big mosaics composed of small pieces of r. r black antII and antI I white granite with a different design for ever every block And AntI as one went vent south on the Central avenue became he be came upon the Municipal theater theater one one o of the handsomest playhouses In the world the new public library the federal buildings and antI the tho strikingly beautiful Monroe palace palace named named from our own where where the Pan Pan- American congress u et and aud Secretary Root made the adr address s ss which created so 50 profound an Impression Wo We cannot show such things yet yeL Heaven willing w we will get them to show some time No o city In lu the world has lIas a greater incentive t to do llo such things than thau our own OViD San Francisco and antI when we can ean do tIo them we will But ut there is another side to It Such beautification costs money mOlley all and 11 a as ar I our correspondent writes in iu spite o othe or I Ithe I the many thousands of reis whIch 1 our our sailors could get get for each ten dollar gold piece Jack found ou out I quickly that lie he was not getting rich for br or Rio lo Is just v nO now farly fairly oppresses ss I with enormously ly high prices due clue i 1 it I. I is said to paying nS heavy taxes ro for th the improvements which have beep going on We rc must b bide ow out time There Then C CIs Is no oth other r way The PO poor l. l cannot ar af al afford ford all the luxuries of wealth an and 1 San Fr Francisco is poor Nevertheless Xo S Swe we are nrc patriotic and Vh when n our fleet flee t sails Is Into our harbor It shall Hhall be n re- re elved with nith the welcome which comes come S from the heart and if our habitations habitation S be bc humble as compared with those of or c r RIO Janeiro they will vill still be he homo and there Is is no place like It |