Sight-seeing in South America . ns. It has fine viewsand a broad horizon, and it might have been called, likeanother Brazilian State capital, the beautiful horizon altitude of nearly three thousand feet prevents it frombecoming hot, although it is located almost upon theTropic of Capricorn. The same elevation may give toits citizens that vigor and energy for which they aredistinguished. Out of harmony with the citys progress is the narrow,crowded shopping district in the old part of the Rua Direita and the Rua 15th de Novembro, theprincipal shopping streets, have only small s
Sight-seeing in South America . ns. It has fine viewsand a broad horizon, and it might have been called, likeanother Brazilian State capital, the beautiful horizon altitude of nearly three thousand feet prevents it frombecoming hot, although it is located almost upon theTropic of Capricorn. The same elevation may give toits citizens that vigor and energy for which they aredistinguished. Out of harmony with the citys progress is the narrow,crowded shopping district in the old part of the Rua Direita and the Rua 15th de Novembro, theprincipal shopping streets, have only small stores. the old buildings are being torn out and larger oneserected, but the shopping district as a whole is not keep-ing up with the growth of tlie great city. There is prob-ably not a better place in the world for large departmentstores upon our American plan. The stores have an European appearance; but littleof their stock is manufactured in Brazil, less comes fromthe United States, while everywhere there are Rua DireitaTlie Main Business Street 58 Sight-Seeing in South America German, and French made articles. The reason for thispossibly is the general European taste. The old Portu-guese Paulista population is the governing one in SaoPaulo, and most of the remaining people are Europeanborn. There are over a hundred thousand Italians, andvery large German and Portuguese colonies. Americansare few, the principal American goods offered for saleare sewing machines, typewriters, cash registers, andgraphophones. An important American enterprise, however, is the SaoPaulo Tramway, Light & Power Company, which belongsto a Canadian corporation, but in which is invested a largeamount of both American and Canadian money. Thiscompany owns also the Rio electric street railway for Sao Paulo is brought from the falls in theTiete River some miles distant. The street car servicein Sao Paulo is up to the best American standards, andemployment in the company is p
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