. The South American tour : a descriptive guide. rds in a single after-noon. Our admiration for these magnificent drives and park-ways, unsurpassed in the world in their opportunities fordelightsome hours, will be heightened if we are mindful ofthe astonishing transformation which has here been wroughtwithin the last decade. In 1903 Rio was a dirty, not to sayfilthy, city of narrow streets, a place to be shunned, as often ahot bed of yellow fever. For its regeneration various planshad previously been proposed, but President Rodrigues Alveswas the man who put one of these into execution. The sl
. The South American tour : a descriptive guide. rds in a single after-noon. Our admiration for these magnificent drives and park-ways, unsurpassed in the world in their opportunities fordelightsome hours, will be heightened if we are mindful ofthe astonishing transformation which has here been wroughtwithin the last decade. In 1903 Rio was a dirty, not to sayfilthy, city of narrow streets, a place to be shunned, as often ahot bed of yellow fever. For its regeneration various planshad previously been proposed, but President Rodrigues Alveswas the man who put one of these into execution. The slowness of Latin Americans (in fact of every onebut themselves), so favorite a theme in the talk of theirnorthern neighbors, does not appear in this instance. Itwould puzzle us, I think, to find in the United States anycity, save San Francisco when necessity compelled, whereby works of such magnitude a great city has so speedily beenmetamorphosed through the destruction, replanning, and re-building of some of the most compact and important busi-. AVENIDA UK HIO HUANCO
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