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AMERICAN SCHOOL AT PETROPOLIS. BRAZIL.
(Copyright. 1906. by Frank O. Carpenter.)
1 -1ASHINGTON, Aug. 1 (Special
jAr Correspondence of The Bee.)
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Ing and take a look at the city
which la now the. news center
of our half of the globe. We are In Rio
de Janeiro, where delegates from all the
republics of our hemisphere are meeting
In conference, and where our own seen,
tary of state. Mr. Root, ha gone In a
man-of-war to be with them. We are
away down below the equator 1,000 miles or
more east of New York, In the ttggest
Portuguese city of the world, and in what,
with the exception of Buenos Ayrcs, is the
biggest of all the cities of the lower half of
our globe. We are in the capital of Brazil,
from where half the lan'and half the peo
plo of South America are governed, and in
the chief financial and Industrial city of the
greatest undeveloped empire on earth.' Rio
Is a fast growing town. It had Just crossed
the 600,000 mark In 1KM). In 1900 it reached
710.000, and today It haa at least 100,004
more. It Is bigger than any town in the
United States excepting Philadelphia, Chi
cago or New York, and it Is only 150,000
loss than Buenos Ayres, which is now Just
1,000,000.
Where the Charleston Lies.
To my mind Rio de Janeiro Is one of the
most beautiful cities of the world. The
harbor, in which our man-of-war, the
Charleston, Ilea waiting to take Secretary
Root on down the coast. Is surrounded by
great mountains with their tops In the
clouda. The mountains are covered with a
tropical vegetation from base to summit,
and they are of moat curious shapes. One
rises out of the aea like a sugar loaf to a
height of more than twice that of the
Washington monument; another Is a mighty
hunchback, and others are great forts and
massive battlements. The harbor Itself la
shaped Just like a pear, but It is so large
that all the ships of all the world could
anchor there and have room to spare. It is
150, miles around It and the water is
almoat everywhere over alxty feet deep.
The bay la dotted with Islands which ap
pear to float, aa It were, upon its dlamond
tudded surface.
Secretary Root In Petropolls.
Before I describe Rio de Janeiro proper,
which lies on a narrow plain between tbe
mountains and the harbor, let me take you
up to Petropolls, where the foreign dlplo-
mats live all the year around, and where
Secretary Root and our delegatea are now
apendlng their nights, going out and in to
Rio day after day.
Petropolls lies Just back of Rlo, but It is
more than half a mile straight up in the
air above It. To reach it one crosses the
bay on a steamer, a distance of twelve
miles,: then flies over swampa upon cars to
the foot of the mountains and then rises
up them by means of a cog railroad like
that on Pike's Peak.
This ride Is a succession of wonders. It
Starts In a Jungle of gigantic trees loaded
with orchids, 'with a mat of green bushes
far below. Now one sees a fern as high as
a three-story house, and now feathery bam
boos many feet higher. The road winds
this way and that. It crosses ravine after
ravine with silvery waterfalls flowing down
them. It passes In and out of tunnels, and
at times runs urder rocks 1,000 feet thick
which seem ready to drop down and
crush It.
As one rises he haa magnificent vlewa of
Rio and the harbor. The train shoots into
the clouds and out Into the sunlight again.
There are always clouds on the tops of the
hills, and In the early morning the Brazil
ian capital and lta beautiful bay are so
shrouded In mist that one seems to be de
scending Into a sea of snow.
Petropolls Itself has a climate which Is
perpetual spring. It la a combination of the
tropic and temperate sones. The air is full
of moisture, the trees and grass are always
green, and the winds blow as soft aa those
of Florida In March. It Is a city of beau
tiful villas, wide streets and modern Im
provements. Its people are rich, and they
entertain sumptuously, so that the Ameri
cana will have a eontlnuoua round of re
ceptions and dinners.
With Oar Delegates In Rio.
It will take our delegates Just about two
hours to go from Petropolls to Rio. They
will rise early, as they are in the tropics,
and a delightful ride down the mountains
nd across the bay will bring them to tbe
pavilion where the conference is meeting
In time for the opening seasons. They will
feel at home when they enter the building.
It Is the same which was constructed for
the Brazilian exhibit at the World's fair at
St. Louis. It waa built by American labor
at a cost of $130,000, and at the close of the
fair waa taken apart and shipped.' In sec
tions, to Rio dn Janeiro to be put up tor a
permanent exhibit of Brazilian Industries,
and also for such conventions as this.
About the ball are cases showing the va
rious manufactures and products if the
different Brazilian states, and the members
of the conference will not get away with
oullearning something about the country.
The official banquets, nails and other
functions will probably be given In the Bra
zilian Bute department, and after the con
ference is over the delegate will be takea
on a series of excursions to the most ac
cessible parts of the Tepubllo.
Walks Abont Rio de Janeiro. .
I doubt whether they will find any place
more Interesting than Rio Itaulf. It la one
of the queerest cltlea of all South Amer
ica, and the delegate who can keep "from
being scared to death by yellow fever
stories will find 'plenty to see during hla
leisure. He will be delighted with the new
residence section, with its villas and
Spanish built homes. Ha will find parks
which bare no superior on the continent,
tail a botanical jjj Jcu lulurlur to nou
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outside that at Bultencorg, Java. There
are bamboos in Rio which are fifty feet
high, whose feathery arms interlock and
make avenues through which one can walk
for a mile or so shielded from the heat of
the sun. There are flowers growing wild
which we raise In our hot houses and
royal palms 150 feet high. Broxll la one
of the chief homes of the royal palm and
this tree is to be found In every part of the
city. It rises without a branch In a sym
metrical shaft of silver gray for 100 feet
or more and ends In a canopy of beautiful
green fern-like leaves. Many of the res
idences have such palms along the walks
to their front doors, and In the botanical
garden Itself are four rows of these palms,
making a grove about a mile long, which
travelers often consider one of the wonders
of the world.
The older parts of Rio are much as they
Migratory
HE removal of the old Edwin
Haney homestead from Its high
perch on the southwest corner of
Eighteenth and Farnam streets,
to make way for the new Real
Estate Exchange building, calls to notice
the fact that a certain kind of blemish to
the appearance of things in Omaha is
rapidly disappearing. This is the yellow
clay crag, towering high above the level
of the street, and mounted by long flights
of steps, usually unpalnted, leading to the
domiciles on the crests. In the old days
unfriendly visitors never failed to comment
on these unsightly excrescences, and the
hideous distortion of form, color and taste
they produced. The condition, however,
was essential to the creation of a metro
polls on the Missouri river bluffs, and la
nearly a thing of the past
Casual observers seldom understand how
the yellow clay monuments and V'he aerial
dwellings came about. They saw the
houses alongside were at proper level with
the sidewalk and pavement, and further
along, some much below the grade, despite
the fact that the street line dipped to
the valley. They did not stop to reason
out that the thoroughfare they were walk
ing on would scarcely have been passable
had It not been cut down and built up to
degree of uniformity, and gradual ascent,
.
Primal Hills Make Trouble.
The hills on which Omaha was built un
doubtedly supplied a healthy site, but a
costly one and difficult for the engineer
to lay out his streets and alleys. It is
probable that If the town were platted
today and the founders were In full knowl
edge of a population of, 140,000 within a
few years, there would be hardly a straight
highway running from end to end of the
municipality. Rather there would be focal
points and circles, reached by arteries run
ning more or less directly along crests, or
in valleys, and countless little avenues,
contrived to yield to the natural Inclina
tions of the hills. The checker board plan
of designing a city la obsolete. It Is now
regarded as expensive and Inadequate to
urban needs, the chief elements of the lat
ter being direct lines of travel to fre
quented places and freedom from conges
tion. Plans that famous architects have
made for the new San Francisco, for the.
national capital and other cities, are en
tirely different from the accepted ldeaa of
cities, with thoroughfares at right angles,
beginning nowhere and ending In the same
place.
A glance over the boulevard map of
Omaha will reveal adherence to the new
scheme. There la no straightaway boule
vards In the city. They wind In and out
of wooded glens and over summits where
tbe grades are easiest, giving fine vlevs
and pleasant, shady places.
Graders Chmnaje Topography.
But the checkerboard plan went when the
first surveyors began the attack on the site
of Omaha and until there Is a public will to
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OLD HANEY HOUSE ON ITS WAY.
and
wero In' the days of the empire. There
was a city here long before we had any of
size in the United States. As early as
1556 some French Protestants built up a
town on one of the islands of the bay,
and about a hundred years later Rio had
80,000 souls. It was made the capital of
Brazil in 1762, and there are houses here
now which are several hundred years old.
The streets' near the harbor are narrow
and some are so low that tbey are flooded
at every rain. In some the houses are so
close together that they shut out the sun,
aad where the street enrs pass- through
them It Is advisable to Jump Into a door
way, now and then, to avoid losing a leg.
At any rate, the street cars go so close
that they almost gruie the narrow side
walk, and the drivers are no repectors of
persons. It Is in this part of Rio that
the slums are to be found. ' Here whole
Omaha Homes and
destroy a great deal of valuable property
and spend enormous auma on reconstruc
tion, will remain the working base. It
meant a lot of money as It was and the
records show that considerably more than
a million dollars have been spent grading
streets. Farnam street in places was cut
down thirty and forty feet, and in other
localities filled In almost as much. Other
highways were similarly treated. Homes .
built before the graders got to work were
left high on the bluffs and others deep In
the hollows, some with chimneys Just peep-:
lng over the curbing. ' '-.'
Of course the city paid damages to prop
erty owners Injured by the grading,' but in
many cases the owner", did not think his
receipts large enough to .Justify grading
down his lot and lowering his home, so
let it stand. A few . of these houses are
Some Quaint
CanKht on His Own Hook.
ITH a three-way spoon hook lock
ing both his Hps, Leonard Con
w
ger of East Corning, Pa., rowed
a half, mile up the Chemung
am
river against current, and made
his way home, where his father telephoned
for a physician. It was an hour later be
fore the barbs were removed.
Conger was fishing for pickerel, using
a regulation fly hook, with a triple prong.
In making a cast the line caught the
brim of his hat. He gave the refractory
cord a Jerk, and the hook fastened Itself
In his uprer Up.. In trying to extricate It
the lower -prong caught in his under Up,
and Conger found It Impossible to open
his mouth.
With his Hps fastened together and the
fly attachment tickling his nose, he
rowed up stream and waited speechless
for a surgeoj) to come and relieve him
from his painful predicament. He la one
of the few fishermen who know how their
victims feel when caught.
Ills Wife In the Trap.
Philip Rodney of Centervllle. Pa., a
prominent bualneas man, discovered re
cently that his wife had been obtaining
spending money out of his trousers pockets
while he slept. He remonstrated with her",
but his wife insisted she had a right to the
money. I
Serious quarrels followed, but Mrs. Rod
ney kept getting the money. The other
night Rodney, determined to break up his
wife's practice, got a small, strong rat
trap and placed It In his money pocket
with the Jaws toward the . opening.
He was awakened shortly after midnight
by his wife's screams, and. Jumping out
of bed, discovered her hand tightly wedged
In the sharp Jawa of the ateel trap.
The woman begged to be released, but
Rodney, she declared, allowed her to suf-
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families live In one room and negroes and
whites seem to herd together.
This Is also the warehouse section. The
smell of coffee fills the air. and In some
of the wider streeta long lines of carts
are moving back and forth loading and
Unloading coffee bags. There are, also fac
tories nearby where coffee is sorted, pol
ished and sometimes colored for the dif
ferent markets of the world. There are
coffee grains on the roadway with negro
"women
and boys down on their . knee
brushing them into dust pans to save
them, and there are scores of half-naked
blacks and whites trotting from the
wagons and carts to the warehouses with
great . bags on their heads. Each bag
weighs 132 pounds, but a porter will stand
straight ur and walk off with one as
briskly as though, it were feathers. Thl
Is the great coffee, port of the world, and
still left, well scattered over the city. Up
to a year or so ago a few were left In the
downtown district on lots not seized for
business purposes. The sale of the Haney
corner , takea away the' last good example
of the transition period and leaves the
court house the only downtown building
above the street grade. No fault Is to be
found with this feature of the court house
so far as taste goes, for the terraces are
thlnga of beauty and terraces only when
one has to climb the stairs to get inside the
county building. A ', ' 'J '' ' ',' s
The closing Jn of commercialism s oa -the
old residence district produced the mlgfa-
tory house In Omaha. This affair com-
monly was once a homestead of pretention,
the early habitat of foremost, .families
and birth 'places of leading citizens'
and wives of today.' . Used for dwellings
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fer for a while before he freed her. Her
hand was badly lacerated., Mrs. Rodney
left her busband and took up her residence
-with her parents. She
longer live with him.
ys she will no
Pickles and Vinegar Diet Fatal.
Pickles as a steady dtet, washed down
with copious draughts of vinegar, caused
the death of Miss Annie Gross, 2 years
old, who was training to reduce her
weight! She dropped deanhe other day
in the bath room at the residence of her
brother, Adolph Gross, M0 Magnolia ave
nue, and the Inquest revealed the cause of
her death.
Dr. J. A. Hartman performed the post
mortem examination and discovered that
the walls of the girl's stomach were al
moat entirely eaten away. Never before,
he aald, had he aeen the walls of a human
stomach as thin. He gave rupture of the
stomach aa the cause of death, aaylng that
the vinegar and plcklea made thla poasible.
The girl's brother testified that Miss
Gross had been twitted about being so
stout, and that she decided to diet to re
duce her flesh end avoid the Jokes of her
companions. She refused to eat meats and
other heavy ford-, and subsisted almost
entirely on pickles and vinegar. She lost
flesh rapidly and In the end sacrificed her
Ufa.
Country Home for Tata and !)(.
A country home for the poor dogs and
cats of New York haa been established at
Greenwich, Conn., by Mrs. H. U. Klbbe,
president of the BIdeawee home of New
York, who brought a hundred doga from
the city home of the association to enjoy
life on the Leahy farm here. Two hun
dred cats are to be brought to Greenwich
and already Mrs. Klbbe Is advertising for
homes for the destitute ones.
The animals which the BIdeawee society
cares for are fed from the Waldorf-As
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our delegates will be able to get tbe finest
of Javas and Mochas, as well as Rlos, for
all come from Brasll. They will get them
cheap, too, and as the coffee bean im
proves with age, I venture Secretary Hoot
and every American delegate will bring
back a bag or so of this 10-cent per pound
coffee which is sold from 80 cents and up
ward a pound In our grocery stores.
In the Rna do Ouvldor.
Some of the best business atreeta of Rio
are almost as narrow as those about the
coffee market. The Rua do Ouvldor, which
is the chief shopping street and grat gos
slpplng place. Is so narrow that at cer
tain hours of the day carriages are not
permitted to go through It. It Is not as
wide as (he Moskl at Cairo, and Is almost
as strange. It is walled with one, two and
three-story houses, painted in all colors of
Their Aeanderings
until offers so large that refusal
waa out of the question were made,
the old homesteads were taken down from
their foundations, like the Haney house,
and carted away to a retreat on some out
lying lot. Here, as a rule, began their
social decline. At first painted, papered and
repaired they rented to householders of
'caste. Later, when age showed Its deadly
hand for all that maintenance might do,
they fell Into the hands of boarding-house
mistresses and thence their decline' was
rapid. The last phase was reached when
they became tenements for folk of lndlffer-
ent standing In the community, and pride
rejoiced when the building Inspector con-
demned them and had them reduced to
lumber, bricks and mortar again,
': The hlstoryef the house built by a
aturdy man who thought he waa rearing
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toria hotel In New York. ' Miss Clover
Boldt. daughter of the proprietor, whose
mother was a member of the BIdeawee
when It was Instituted, three yeara ago,
and Mrs. James Speyer, Miss Gerry, Jud
son Seligman, and others, are taking a
great Interest in the animals, whose own
ers have tired of them and have brought
them to the society, and In those which
have been picked up on the streets by In
dividuals and taken to the home.
Mrs. Klbbe has moved to Greenwich that
she may dally drive to the summer dogs'
home and look after their interests.
Woman Concha In n Tooth.
Mrs. W. J. Kerr of New Westminster,
B. C, who has been suffering for eight
months with a bronchial sllment that de
fled the best efforts of doctors In that nd
neighboring towns snd which many of
her friends took to be galloping consump
tion, after a violent parxyn of coughing
threw out a large molar tooth that ex
plained the whole trouble.
About eight months ago Mrs. Kerr was
put under the influence of chloroform In
the office of a local dentist while she hnd
several teeth extracted and during the
operation she must have swallowed one
of the loosened molars without the knowl
edge of herself or the dental surgeon.
Shortly afterward she experienced severe
pains In the cheat, which iaatead of pass,
lng away continued to grow more excru
ciating. Violent coughing flta racked her frame
several times every day and throughout
the entire night, while doctors and patent
medicines alike failed to bring any relief.
Trips to the seashore were equally un
availing and her quick demise seemed
assured, till after a fit of coughing more
violent than Its predecessors the tooth was
discharged from her bronchial tubes. Re
lief from continuous pains followed Im
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the rainbow. Yellow, pink, blue and green
walls Join one another, and the houses are
o close together that canopy is some
times stretched over the street, and so
close that the flags which float from the
windows on one side almost touch those
from the other. Every window has Ha flag
pole, and the poles Join almost like bean
poles or stacked arms. Just now each
pole has its flag, and these flags will keep
the sun off the delegates as they walk .
through. At night the Ouvldor is Illum
inated by arches of Iron pipes, which run
across from one side of the street to the
other. The lights are of many' colors, and
Just now they will be blazing.
The People of Rio.
This street is filled with people during
the business hours of the day. The crowd
Is mopt cosmopolitan. It consists of Ital-
for generatlona is a pathetic thing a
sacrifice to the high speed of modern de
velopment. Sometimes Makes Trouble.
The migratory house often produces
trouble. A few years ago the Chicago
Oreat Western railroad condemned and
bought scores of dwellings in the south
central part of the city to make way for
switching yards, freight houxes, etc. All
of these buildings that were fit. to be
moved were hauldd away and disposed of
on suitable vacant lots. They were ' re
paired' and painted and rented readily.
Some neighborhoods Into which they were
introduced objected strongly to the new
architecture and somewhat plain and ordi
nary exteriors, but the objections were of
no avail. The migratory house, if 60 per
cent whole, haa a right to go anywhere ao
long as ground Is ready to receive It.
Clearing routes for the boulevards and
parks, too, has added to the ranks of the
migratory dwelling. In carrying out the
plana for finding routes best suited because
of natural conditions, the Park board has
condemned many a comfortable home, pay
ing good prloe, of course, for the demoli
tion. New sites were found and the aid
of the house mover enlisted. Only a few
months ago aeveral buildings were taken
away from Thirty-third and Cuming
streets to enlarge Bnmls park. Houses
removed from this cause usually do not
travel far. They are placed on nearby
lots and ordinarily serve out their careers.
In all their pristine strength snd glory
of original Intention.'
Metamorphoals of Churches.
So far only the frame house has been
spoken of. Tbe orlck or stone building
defies carting around in so high-handed a
manner. It Is moved, too, nevertheless.
Only a -few years a,o the bricks from an
old Cathollo church in the retail district,
torn down to make way jr a department
store, were need In a dancing academy. A
more appropriate occupation waa found for
the stone of the old Young Men's Christian
association structure, which will go In -the
ensemble to make Ui the new Wise
Memorial hospital. Not a few of the im
posing sew downtown buildings of the
last few yeara contain aalvage material
from structures torn down In the"' march
of progress, and at least one fine new
residence waa constructed this way.
The tide Of unreat doea not atop with
dwelllnga and once business places.
Churches, too, are caught In the awlft
movementa, and a task of this sort has
Just been completed. It was the moving
of an old frame church structure, built by
the Baptists, at Thirty-fifth and Farnam
streets, down to Twenty-ninth 2nd Far
nam, where It was overhauled, the ec
clesiastical features cut out and made over
Into, several store rooms. The work waa
hatdlly done and the structure saved from
the disuse Into which it had fallen of late
rears.
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Inns, Portuguese, Spaniards, German
French, English, Americans and Brazil-
Ions. There are many fine looking people
and among the striking characters to us
are the welt dressed colored people. Brazil
has a large negro population, and the races
have mixed much more In that country
than In ours. There seems to be no preju
dice against the negro there; and, at the
hotel tables and In the dining rooms of the
steamers the black and the white alt
down together. The same family mny con
tain both blacks and whites, and one sees
every shade of brown and yellow In the
complexions of the passersby aa he walks
through the streets. There are many col
ored people of note. When I was at Rio
some years ago one of the principal editors
was as black as my boots, and I met at
a reception given by the American min
ister a Catholic bishop of Intelligence and
culture whore skin was a chocolate brown.
In the Draslllan stores.
The American Vlelegates will bring pres
ents home for their friends, and I doubt
not Mrs. and Miss Root, and the other
American women of the party will spend
considerable time shopping in the Ouvldor.
They will plei.ty to buy. The Brazll
iana are fond of Jewelry, and Rio la said
to be one of the best diamond markets
of the world. Most of their stones come
from South Africa, although the mines
near Bahal are still producing fine dia
monds. Among the purchases usually made
by foreigners are humming birds set as
Jewelry. About Rio there are many such
birds of the most brilliant plumage, some
of which are no bigger than the first
Joint of your thumb and some hardly a
big as one's little finger. There are also
egrets and numerous beetles of iridescent
hues. One can buy beetles by the pint, of
such a kind that one set In gold forma
a beautiful scarfpln or earring.
A queer thing about shopping In Rio I
the price mark. Silks sometimes sell for
10.000 reis and cotton at 2,000 rels or so per
yara. The sums seem enormous uhtll one
learns that a thousand rels are worth but
a few cents of our money, and that several
thousand go for a dollar. During my stay
In Rio I once took some gold coin to the
bank and ot a million and a quarter rles
In exchange. This seems extravagant until
you know that It then took Just that many
rles to equal $200.
Scenes In the Markets.
Rio de Janeiro lives well, and Its markets
form one of the sights of the city. Many
of the vegetables are brought from Spain,
notwithstanding the soli of Brazil will
raise almost everything. Among the most
Important of such Imports are garlic and
onions. . The onions are braided together
In strings and sold by peddlers, who go
from house to house, the strings being
thrown over their shoulders. Fruit is Im
ported from Portugal and other countries
of Europe, and apples are brought In from
New England. A good, sound American
apple often sells for 10 cents, and one can
get a half dozen fine oranges for less. Meat
Is sold as soon as It Is killed. Very little
la kept in cold atorage, and In moat mar-,
kets the price declines from daylight to
dark. In the morning It may bring IS cents
a pound, but along toward 4 o'clock It can
he bought for 7 or 8 cents. The reason
Is that the hot weather may cause the
meat to spoil and the health officials wtll
then direct that it be thrown away.
Dried meat qften sells for more than
fresh meat. This Is especially so of Jerked
beef, which Is a favorite food of all classes,
and which Is brought by the ship load front
the Argentine and Paraguay to Rio de Ja
neiro. This meat has a strong smell and
Is very salty; It Is largely used for stewet
Another high-priced meat is fat pork, which
is used for cooking with beans.
, Americana I a Brasll.
Secretary Root will And a number of
Americana In Brazil, and also that tbe
United States Is doing considerable bual
neas with that great South American re
public. We have large exporting houses at
Rio and Santos, whose chief business It la
to ship coffee to the United 8tates. Brazil
la the greatest coffee country In the world
nd Uncle Sam Is its principal customer.
We drink more coffee than any other peo
ple. In 1891 we consumed almost 1,000.000,000
pounds, four-fifths of which came from
Brazil. We .bought 800,000,000 pounds of
her in 1906, and paid more than 104,000,000
for It. All our great coffee companies have
connections with Rio and Santos, and many
of them prepare their coffee at those ports
for the American market.
There Is altio a lot of American money In
vested In railroads and electric plants in
Rin de Janeiro and Sao Paulo. The botani
cal garden car line of Rio was built by an
American named Greenough, and Ameri
cans built the first street car lines in Ma
naos, and. I think, alxo In Tara.' Ameri
cans are Interested In Sao Paulo and Its
electrto plants.
An American College.
Brazil has a force of American missiona
ries and quite a number i f American school
teachers. One of the best female colli ges
In all South America is situated in Pe
tropolls, not far from where Socretary Root
Is now stopping. The college buildings
are palatial In character. The rooms have
ceilings from fifteen to eighteen foet high,
the kitchen is walled with porcelain tiles,
and the bath room has a marble swim
ming pool, with shower baths adjoining.
The school rooms are equipped with Ameri
can desks and the best of our modern maps
and instruments; and, on the whole, the
college ranks In Brazil somewhat as Vassar
dors In this country. This school la under
the charge of the women of the American
Methodist church, who each pay 10 cents
a week toward It. Ita teachera are Ameri
cana, and the students are young ladles
from tbe best Brazilian families through
ut the republlo.
JTKANK Q.' CARFEXTZR. .'