. The Spanish-American republics . above as the fashionableresort of the rich dandies. It is, indeed, the chief native club inBuenos Ayres, and has more than twelve hundred members. OtherArgentine clubs are the Club del Plata, Union Argentina, Oriental,and the Jockey. The foreigners have a general Club de los Resi-dentes Estrangeros, founded in 1841, whose 600 members occupycommodious and almost handsome rooms in the Calle members are foreign residents of all nationalities. There arealso French, Spanish, German, and Italian social clubs, and importantand rich philanthropic and mu
. The Spanish-American republics . above as the fashionableresort of the rich dandies. It is, indeed, the chief native club inBuenos Ayres, and has more than twelve hundred members. OtherArgentine clubs are the Club del Plata, Union Argentina, Oriental,and the Jockey. The foreigners have a general Club de los Resi-dentes Estrangeros, founded in 1841, whose 600 members occupycommodious and almost handsome rooms in the Calle members are foreign residents of all nationalities. There arealso French, Spanish, German, and Italian social clubs, and importantand rich philanthropic and mutual aid societies connected with eachnationality. The English-speaking residents have their own KosmosClub in the Calle Can^allo, in rather cold and bare rooms. The Ene-lish also have a literary society, and they are the founders and almostexclusive members of the Buenos Ayres Rowing Club, which has afine boat-house on the river in the charming suburb of Tiere. TheArgentine clubs are all used for interminable gambling operations. AT THE CONFITERIA T> ACiUILA. THE ARGENTINE CAPITAL. 303 that go on day and night, while their social function is fulfilled by theorganizing of splendid balls, which from time to time awaken thearistocratic Creole society from its habitual torpor. Cafes such as exist in Paris or Venice are not to be found inBuenos Ayres. Out-door life does not seem to be appreciated, and thefacilities that cafes offer for meditation and conversation have still tobe realized by the Argentines. There are more than two hundred so-called cafes in Buenos Ayres, but although some of them occupy situa-tions in the centre of the city where the rents are enormous, not one ofthem is fitted up and organized in a manner worthy of the wealth andimportance of the city. The rooms are inadequate and inconvenient,the service execrable, and the prices dear. Few of these cafes arewithout billard-tables from two to ten in number, while others havetwelve, eighteen, twenty-four, and
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