. The Street railway journal . ILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXX. No. 23. IMPORTANT ELECTRICAL CONSTRUCTION AT BUENOS AIRES Buenos Aires, which was founded in 1535, had, in theyear 1870, a population of some 180,000 inhabitants. To-day, according to official statistics, the population withinthe city limits exceeds 1,100,000. The rate of increase, dueto natural causes and to emigration, amounts to doublingevery thirteen years. In a period of five years, the in-crease is equivalent to the whole of the population of a ments of the rapidly growing country, and capital for allkinds of public services. An ac
. The Street railway journal . ILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXX. No. 23. IMPORTANT ELECTRICAL CONSTRUCTION AT BUENOS AIRES Buenos Aires, which was founded in 1535, had, in theyear 1870, a population of some 180,000 inhabitants. To-day, according to official statistics, the population withinthe city limits exceeds 1,100,000. The rate of increase, dueto natural causes and to emigration, amounts to doublingevery thirteen years. In a period of five years, the in-crease is equivalent to the whole of the population of a ments of the rapidly growing country, and capital for allkinds of public services. An account was published in the Street Railway Jour-nal for June 1, 1907, of the general tramway situation inBuenos Aires, but no attempt was made to describe indetail the system of any individual company. Neverthe-less, many of them will bear study owing to the specialconditions existing in Argentina. One of the most inter-esting is that of the Buenos Aires Lacroze Tramway Com-pany, the only native Argentine tramway company in the. CHAIAISTA STATION AND CEMETERY FROM EAST large capital like Lima. After Paris, Buenos Aires is thelargest Latin capital of the world, and by reason of itsmany fine buildings, its splendid avenues and parks, andthe organization of its public services, lays a very strongclaim to be called the Paris of South America. city, and the only line running a high-speed suburbanservice on American lines, with private right of way andcars equipped for a maximum speed of fifty miles perhour. This was originally organized by one of the pioneers of
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