Show air mail grows in south america sao paulo coffee center now gets service washington sao paulo capital and business metro metropolis polls of sao paulo state brazil Is one of the latest cities to be enmeshed by the network of air mall mail routes which are spreading over the south american can republic the trip from rio de janeiro to sao paulo takes 12 hours by rail the air mail schedule ca calls for a three hour bour between the two cities sao paulo Is one of the oldest cities in south america says a bulletin from the national geographic society but its age has not deprived it of modern commercial development boom started in 1875 fifty years before before the capt john smith pocahontas episode at jamestown va a portuguese sailor founded sao paulo and married the daughter of a native indian chief later jesuit missionaries established a church at the settlement and held the first religious service on the feast day in celebration of the conversion of st paul hence tile the name dame of the city sao paulo which means st SL paul for three centuries sao paulo enjoyed isolation unfettered by colonial laws of portugal lt it was about 1000 miles from the portuguese government officials who were at that time at bahia in 1875 the ball of commercial progress started rolling among the inhabitants and newcomers were instilled alth a boom spirit in slightly more than 50 years the city has increased in population from to more than half a million new streets that were built were made broad and straight strai glit and flanked with modern buildings the railway depot municipal and state government buildings museums libraries schools and some of its new business buildings would be flattering additions to ninny many cities of the world of the same size three huge public gardens and more than 50 parks paries break the monotony of the miles of streets city that coffee built sao paulo might properly be called the city that coffee built many of the palatial residences are those of coffee barons in sao paulo streets huge trucks heavy carts and perspiring men laden with sacks of coffee are always within eyeshot coffee was nas not introduced trod into brazil until two centuries ago but the price of coffee now largely governs the rise and tall fall of sao paulos prosperity while ethiopia Is the original home of coffee sao paulo state has adopted the greater portion of the descendants of the original coffee berries if all the coffee plantations in the state were in one plantations it would cover an area as large as delaware and rhode island combined in a single year more than one and a quarter million pounds of coffee are produced in the state there are more than seven coffee trees for very roan man woman and child id in the state |