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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (July 31, 1904)
10' THE ILLUSTRATED BEE. July 31, 1001 Carpenter's Letter (Continued from Fage Twelve.) fhs first foreign minister who had ever Stone to that part of the country and. jehen tba cowboys learned that I repre sented the United States and had come from North America they wanted to see Una. There was a great crowd of ttiem employed on the estancia, They came together and I made a speech to them through their foreman. In which I said I should be very glad to answer any ques tions they would like to make as to my country or Its people. They were much Interested, and though very backward at first, they finally said there was one thing they would like to know, and that was whether I was personally acquainted .With the president of the United Slates, fr. Roosevelt. I told them I had the tionor of knowing him personally and telng one of his friends. They then asked If It were really true that he had lived a part of his life as a cowboy and could really lido a bucking horse. I told them It was so, whereat they were very much delighted, evidently thinking that it must te a free country where a cowboy coxiA fceoorae president." The conversation here turned to Amer Ictrn trade with the Argentine Republic, and 1 asked Mr. Barrett what should be Cone to Increase It. "I have already told you that we need Hw steamship connections,' was tt)s reply, "We need also new banking .connections. There ought to be a great American bank In Buenos Ayros, or better still, a branch of one of our biggest New York banking Institutions. The banks of Argentine are Strong. "Borne of them have as much as eighty million dollars, sliver, on deposit at one time. There Is one bnnk which has a capital of fifty millions. The American bank should be able to do business In the large cities, and It would find plenty to do. It would control the exchanges on New York, and would form a place where Argentine exporters could Inquire bout the business stundlng of firms In the United States, and where our ex porters could ascertain the business stand ing of men In Argentina. This Is one of . the great troubles with our trade at present. Most of It Is carried on through foreign hands, and information as to the responsibility of purchasers Is lamentably lacking." "I think we should have more Ameri can firms In Argentina. Our biggest In stitutions should have their branch estab lishments there, and they should drum the country with their own salesmen. The American will work two hours where the Argentina agent works half an hour, and he will do much more business In the same time. As It Is now the field Is a comparatively new one. Argentina Is a country like ours, a new land, with a pushing people. There are great possibili ties for American trade, but energetio Americans are needed to build It up and to fight for it In competition with the English and Germans, with the Italians, Spanish and French." "I suppose you saw something of Um BTuay during your stay In South Ameri ca, Mr. BarrettT" "Tea; I visited Montevideo, and met the principal Uruguayan officials. That coun try, although comparatively small for a Couth American republic, Is one of the richest on the continent. It has excellent lands, and parts' of It are as fertile as the boat parts of Argentina. It la a cattle country, having about thirty-seven million acres of pasturage. It also raises S great deal of wheat and corn. One f Its chief exports is hides, which are seat by the ship loads to the United States. We bought In the neighborhood of two million dollars worth of hides and aklua from Uruguay last year, and we sent about a million and a halt dollars' worth of American goods there." "What kind of a place Is Montevideo?" "It Is on of the finest cities on the PmitH American continent. It lies right oa the sea on a tongue of land so shaped that the rains wash Its streets clean. It has fine buildings, street cars and alaoirio lights and all sanJUry Improve ments. They are now dredging out the harbor and Improving the city la other ways " "What Is going on In BrastlT" "Brasll Is In a very good condition," said Minister Barrett. "I stopped for a Urns in JUo Janeiro, and saw other cities along the coast. The country is Improv ing, and Its vat rtfiources are being slow ly developed. Biaall is an empire in ex tent It It as large as the United States Without Alaska and our outlying possess ions, longer from north to south than Iroin Pittsburg to Ban Francisco, and wid er than frsln New York to Salt Lako. The country has all sorts of resources. Jn the south there are lands of much the came character as Argentina, where cattle can be reared, farther north are the coffee countries, which produce the rnewt of the coffee of the world, and In the vast territories of the Amason is gath ered most of the rubber used all over the globe. Uracil has gold mines, coal mines and dliunond mine. Parts of the country Slavs never been prospected, and there ars areas now wild which will some time sup port a vast population. As It Is now Bra- 1,1 ' ' wiiii I i i i .1 . i i . i i it- ; i -TT m 1 , : i. , -r 1 , i i I ' CHAUFFEUR DECKER IN HIS WILD FLJGUT AROUND THB TRACK- Photo by a Staff Artist all has almost half of all the people of South America and almost half the terri tory. It Is a wonderful country, and one of enormous possibilities." FRANK Q. CARPENTER. Rooster Steals Ride A Chicago rooster will be exhibited at the West Michigan State fair, which opens in Grand Rapids September 19, as the re sult of unusual circumstances. It went to roost on the trucks of a Grand Rapids and Indiana pasnenger train. Some of the passengers saw the rooster take Its perch at Grand Crosnlng and it hung on while the train was getting under headway. At Michigan City the rooster was still a pas senger, though sermlr.gly beating its way. It hopped off the trucks at the Union sta tion rrere, and admirers made a race for it. Now It will be placed on the poultry bench in Michigan's big show as an ex ample of real, unadulterated Chicago grit. A Diagnosis in 177G "What do you suppose is the trouble with those American colonies of mine?" aked George III while his physician was looking at the gouty foot. "I should say," remarked the physician gravely, "that, from all the symptoms, the colonies have become affected with lnde pendencitia." Subsequent events proved that the phy sician was correct, but it required a great many operations to relieve King George. Judge, Buying Rubies in Burma The peculiar business methods of Oriental merchants are Illustrated by the manner of buying rubles In Burma. In the examina tion of rubles artificial light is not used, the merchants holding that full sunlight alone can bring out the color and bril liancy of the gems. Sales must, therefore. i ; . ; i .Us FRANK DECKER, THE CHAUFFEUR WHO DROVE EMIL BRANDEIS WHfTE STEAMER TO VICTORY. Photo by a Staff Artist. take place between s a. m. and S p. m., and the sky m'ust be clear. The purchaser, placed near a window, has before him a large copper plate. The sellers come to him one by one, and oach empties upon this plate his little bag of rubies. The purchaser proceeds to arrange them for valuation in a number of small heaps. The first division . Is Into three grades, according to sin ; each of these groups Is again divided . tinto .three piles, according to color, and each of these piles In turit is again divided- Into three groups, according to shape. The bright copper plate has a curious use. The sunlight re flected from It through the stones brings out, with true rubles, a color effect dif ferent from that with red spinels and tourmalines, which are thus easily sepa rated. 1 I The buyer and seller then go through a very peculiar method of bargaining by signs, or rather grips, in perfect silence. After agreeing upon the fairness of the classification they join their right hands, covered with a handkerchief or the flap of a garment, and by grips and pressures mutually understood among all these deal ers they make, modify and accept proposals of purchase and sale. The hands are then uncovered and the prices recorded. Jewel er's Weekly. BOYLES BUSINESS COLLEGE NOW BEING ERECTED AT EIGHTEENTH AND HARNEY STREETS JUST EAST OF TUB OMAHA PUBLIC LIBRARY", The only Bum liens College building In Nebraska and one of the very few In the United States, being built of brick and atom and strictly modern. The length of the building Is H6 feet, width 68 feet Two stories and a basement, high ceilings and finely finished throughout, Boyle Collegs will own and occupy it all. It will have all modem devices for health, comfort and eot venl Mice. The entire biuieinent, 66x105 fevt, will b divided into two complete gymnasiums,' for ladles and gentlemen, U kower aud plunge Uuhs and all kinds ef Unproved apparatus for the use of the students. ....