Show A t congested shipping in the harbor of buenos alre aires prepared by the national atje society Y W civit 1 D C AIRES in the worlds BUENOS Bern eye because of the recent governmental ern mental changes in argentina Is I 1 like a person of retiring nature whom you must know long and well to appreciate it reveals itself little by little to you ou and twines itself about your heart till ere long and so gradually that you jou have not realized I 1 it t its subtle charm has made a lasting conquest your tour first icv shows great white grain ea elevators v acors in rows along the shore with wit 1 I 1 one skyscraper of fourteen stories lo 10 looming 0 ming up behind them the great alze of the city Is not evident for the land Is flat fi it and the cs and otil office c buildings close to the hus busy e docks tilde hide all that lips lies behind nearly every traveler tra ieler Is impressed Impi essed first of all by the cleanliness of the capital of 0 I 1 the argentine republic the industries industry Indu a of tile the city are confined largely to port activities and trading partly for this reason and partly because argentina has no coal and hence cannot manufacture minu facture hideous chian chimneys cys and smoke grimed factories are not numerous there are no slums 0 naturally 1 11 aurally there tire are districts of poverty p av erty but the tenement as we know it does not exist in even the poorest quarters such as the boca the streets are clean and well paved and the houses only one or two tw 0 stories high all have patios behind them the houses fire are tinted cream or yellowish tan and face directly on the streets with blank or nearly neaily blank walls walla one draw drawback back to the older part of the city Is tile narrowness of the streets and especially the sidewalks which are otten often three teet feet or less f from rom will wall it to c urb curb there Is no excuse for this for whon when tile city was laid out the whole vast expanse of the pa pampas m pas lay iny open behind it the newer nener streets st are much wider often with a ribbon of shrubbery and grass down the center how the city Is laid out buenos aires Is roughly circular in shape and of immense size covering some seventy five square miles two of its sides are formed fly by the illo tie de la plata so wide that it seems like a muddy sea and a small stream tile the along both of these hut but principally the former are the numer ous docks basins and warehouses avenida Rhada vIii starting tit at the waterfront tind and running almost due west divides the city alt into two roughly equal portions over the greater part of the elev tha ti streets intersect at right anges anti and it would he be a very veri PIS ansy place in which to find ones way around were ere it not nol tor for the fact tint that flit alie streets are till all canid intond of numbered most meet of the mines being historical historIc ril or ge gpo graphical every country in the world has a street named mined for it and every een argentine president general or other important personage another habit Is to name streets for dates of which there are several corresponding to our fourth of july titus there are aie avenida tie mnyo mno calle 1 25 tie de alayo de julio juho and parque dp de las ins tres do de Feb febraro roro much of tile the alt city Is uninteresting consisting of nf block after block of low plaster covered colored brick buildings anti and innumerable small alma cenes gro cerlis s beer bee r saloons cares coffee howes houses bere a enre Is 19 not it a restaurant its as in the united states reruns and lot eilis lis shops where lottery tickets tire are sold two interesting streets tile chief artery of the city Is ave ap neda de stretching from tit til presidents hotine home to the capitol the caa rosada pink link house cor coi responding to our white house rio iise Is it a great pink pite pile with imposing en trances and handsome can ings and has bas it faces the plaza PI iba de alayo where on may ti 25 1810 argentine independence was ns first pro claimed this avenue onue under which the sub way runs Is lined with hotels and fine shops and lina has many cafes with little tables out on tile the sidewalk under awnings n to la parts paris another Infer interesting esting thorough thoroughfare fare la Is calle florada Flor lAi lda lite street of restaurants and jewelry stores it Is so narrow that there Is barely fair two cars to pass and in the late afternoon nil all traffic Is stOPp stopped Pd so that hint tile peo pie amny promenade in tile the street buenos alres was founded in WO after colonization efforts in 1511 1534 and 1012 1512 had failed front the first it had to fight against neathy and even open hostility pit on the part of the spanish rulers for generations regulations were in force preventing direct commerce be tween buenos alres aires and spain so that goods had to be shipped overland across the andes through bolivia and peru ieru thence by vessel to panama and transferred across tile hie isthmus statuary from other nations nation thus handicapped it Is no wonder that the port grew slowly it was not till the last half century before the spanish yoke was thrown olt off that buenos aires began to come into its own once independence was tic achieved it grew rapidly and when in 1910 1010 the hundredth anniversary was celebrated I 1 it t had a population well over oer a million much of the cites beauty dates front from tills this centenary cente imry in 1010 at which time many countries presented argen tonii with cominek iora tIve statuary sym simbol bolle lc of t alie ile occasion As Is fitting tile tho gift of tile spanish people Is tile most conspicuous in the center of the brond broad avenida alvear ah oar the cites loveliest promenade rises a great white marble maible pedestal downed crowned with nn an angel of victory below are many other figures and friezes leyes tr while the four corners of the pedestal bear hrone bronze groups symbolizing the andes the pampas the chaco and the meso rilan region between the parana an and d uruguay rivers frances contribution Is among the finest and also stands beside the tha ave nada alvear it Is of rose colored granite and white marble with exquisitely carved figures americas gift Is not in keeping with tier her importance and standing in a rather obscure corner coiner of one of tho the parks Is missed by miny many m iny tourists it Is a bronze life size figure of george washington on a icv severely rely plain pedestal of pink vermont granite the english commemorated the occasion cas ion by the gift of a great red brick c lock clock tower in tile center of the bean beautiful plaza ilan britannica opposite the rethro railway station germanys germanas Germ anys gift ans a broad white marble fountain while italy in the plaza italia tins hns a large equestrian statue of garibaldi throughout argentina in every city and in miny many towns may be seen equestrian statues of san It martin fartin ar guntinas gen go ri tinas greatest national hero among the best Is theme the ane in the center of the plaza san martin with bronze battle groups and has bas in an all excellent setting of palms and formal flower beds where the british live all about the the city are suburbs with which there Is goud good communication hi fly the frequent suburban trains of those residential districts belgrano nel Rel grano lies closest and Is the best known it ts I 1 s espe chilly popular among the many british residents and in some por ion ions were it not for the spanish street signs ilginis one might In ingine himelr set down in fit england on one cortier corner Is a I 1 boys hoarding school and in the I 1 lie open lot behind it inglish I lads in shorts their nion eton jackets and brond biond white collars laid aside are engrossed in cricket or football on another corner collier Is an lv ivy clad episcopalian or presbyterian church a bevy of pretty english girls giris chatting on the steps even the native policeman erects pets you iou good morning sir air 11 instead of Bli ellos dins senor the elty city with its suburbs has nearly two million almost ono one fourth the population of the country it Is the third largest city in the tha new world till and the second latin city it in ohp whole world it Is sometimes called lied the paris of the new world and sometimes tImes tile now new york of south america in bentito of buildings and parks tile the first name un i Is descriptive and in financial and commercial importance the second Is equally illy so another resemblance to new york Is in if its cosmopolitanism in nearly mil any popular restaurant one may heat heal diners chatting in spanish french italian german anti and english per imps haps also in swedish or portuguese good place for immigrants like new york it Is a city of opportunity port unity for tile the immigrant many of the largest businesses are owned by foreigners who landed with their belongings on their lincks while buenos aires Is thought of no as n spanish city true spaniards are not in a mal malwitz wity the capital of argentina Is preeminently a city of wealth and pleas tire lire unlike wealthy americans who have their places of business in the city but live in the country many of the richest land owners who number their acres by the tens of thousands have their palatial homes in tho the heart of buenos aires and only at infrequent intervals visit their immense ranches which tire are managed by overseers |