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Show CITY MADE A GARDEN SPOT Buenos Ayres, Though Metropolis of Argentina, Thinks of Other Things Thsn Business. Benor Curios Thiiys, director of the public parks of Hucnoa Ayres. the Argentina Ar-gentina metropolis with more than 1 .ooil.iiiio people, has published a highly high-ly Illustrated monograph on the lu tunic gnrden o.thut city. In wblcb he' has set forth the results of some of his nine years of reaaeleaa nctlvl to produce a city beautiful lie baa planted more than HJ.uoO tries; be has placed the pine of Neuquen taraurarla Imbrlcata) by the side of the palms from Mlslones territory (cocos auatrnllsl; he nas rattaed over eighty well distributed parka to be opened throughout the great city. Ills masterpiece Is the great plaza del Congreso. In commenting upon Benor Thsys' achievements I'nlted Htatos Consul General It. .... Ilartlemun ssys: .Municipal .Mu-nicipal decoration Is one of Ihe many things that the I'nlted Hlalea has yet to learn from the twenty sister American Amer-ican republics. There la no city among them from which more can be learned, not merely In municipal decoration nlouo, but In the sense of prlvnto Interest subordinated to the public welfare, ns Is shown In the fact that the commercial element never demands here that squares ahull be cut up to build mure skyscrapers on, than from tho largest IjiIIii American city, Hucnoa Ayres." |