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Show WONDERFUL CITY OF BUENOS AIRES. One of the bulletins from the Pan-American Pan-American nniou propounds tlip question: ques-tion: "What are the names of the three largest cities in the western hemisphere?" hemi-sphere?" , The average American will proceed to name New York, Chicago and Philadelphia, Phil-adelphia, but he is wrong. The bulletin bulle-tin presents the last statistics on the capital of Argentina, giving Buenos Aire I population of 1,00,000, ' a rrrnlor th.-m thp fimirp Oil I 'the census of Philadelphia Describ-ing Describ-ing the phenomenal growth of the I Argentine capital, the writer says that 1n 20 years it has almost trebled its population and become the larcest I cily In thp world south of the equator the largest Spanish speaking city in the world, the second largest Latin , rity Paris alone outranking it and the third largest city in the western world. Immigration is, of course, largely responsible for this rapid in crease, but the city's b;rih rate, 34.1 per thousand, has cut considerable j figure. Some more interesting questions, the answers to which are- not von. generally known, might be asked in i this connection For instance Where IE the finest jockey club in the world0 Where the most expensive theater in I the Americas? Where the most re I mark3ble newspaper buildinp in th world? Where the most elaborately housed municipal waterworks station'1 Where the most architecturally artls- tic business street0 And the answer, I to each is Buenos Aires. A few other noteworthy facts rela j tivc to the Argentine metropolis are the following: Not only is it the greatest South American sea port, but in point of en trances and clearances of vessels, encaged en-caged in foreign trade, it is ahead of even New York, while in tonnage and value of foreign commerce It ranks next to New York in all thp Americas It is the greatest wool-exporting port in the world. 'ate returns showing1 that it has crowded Sydney, Australia, Aus-tralia, out of first place. In exports I of frozen and chilled beef Argentina leads the world, next to Russia it exports ex-ports more wheat than any country in I the world; in the production and ex ' I port of linseed it leads the world;, I vhlle in the export of corn it more than trebles the United States, and.i of course leads the world. Relative to the newspaper building mentioned above, in a descriptive ar , . t tele in a recent issue of the monthly bulletin of the Pan American union. Fciward Alces writes: The building is on the Avenida de Mayo, not far from the Plaza, and Is I said to have cost over $3,0nn,noo. In j addition to the newspaper plant the f ; ; owners of La Prensa (The Press)1 maintain at their own expense a free I I medical dispensary, an able physician and assistants who prescribe for and ; tt ad charity patients, a law office where the poor may go for free legal advice I tree library; and a free employment em-ployment agency k large concert; hall, beautifully decorated with pain, jigs' and frescoes, is maintained for itt staff of employes, who also haYC B gymnasium and n private reatau rant Finally a suit of rooms is main talncd, consisting of a banquet haH. srnokinc room ladles' boudoir recep tion room, and sumptuously furnish , bedrooms, for the accommodation Ol distinguished visitors from foreign countries as guests of the nation In general and of La Prensa in parti." iar These apartments are not III ferlor in their furnishings and artlsth decoration to many of the renowned palaces of Kuropean royalty incidents inci-dents the paper claims to have the (most e'rtenifve foreign news service of any paper in the world. The Avenida de Mayo is Unques tlonablj one of the greatest thoroughfares thorough-fares In the world. It is about 120 ji ' - J a feet w ide and ne:irly a nine half lone, extending from the Plaza de Mayo at he lower end to the new plaza in front of the cnpitol at the upper Alone the middle, suspended from ornamental iron posts, is a doif ble tow of arc lights and on eacrf side near the r-urb of the 20-foot sid walks, Is a row of fine trees extend lug the entire length of the street. The main feature which strikes the m l,r,--,nr- in the. 1 1 n I f or m 1 1 in height; and the fine architecture of the buildings. The municipal govern-I govern-I ment offers an annual prize for the j most artistic building erected on the several business streets, and stlpple-' stlpple-' ments this prize by exempttng the building from taxation for 8 certain .number of ears Again under the building regulations each new structure struc-ture must harmonize in architecture, i height, and material, with its neighbors. neigh-bors. Thus no one and two story cheap buildings are found to mar the general effect on the Avenida." |
