. The Spanish-American republics . he gone forth into this newworld with his literary senses sharpened,his stock of epithets in convenient order,his batteries of metaphorand simile ready to pointat the new visions of ma-teriality which he expectsto find; for, behold, it isall old, all a more or lesssuccessful counterfeit ofEurope, all apishness anda pen pris. Still to the north ofthe town — the one nearPalermo and the other atBelgrano — are two pleas-ant race-courses, the Hip-podromo Argentino andthe Hippodromo Nacional, with fine and picturesquely-situated tracksand tastefully-designed tribun
. The Spanish-American republics . he gone forth into this newworld with his literary senses sharpened,his stock of epithets in convenient order,his batteries of metaphorand simile ready to pointat the new visions of ma-teriality which he expectsto find; for, behold, it isall old, all a more or lesssuccessful counterfeit ofEurope, all apishness anda pen pris. Still to the north ofthe town — the one nearPalermo and the other atBelgrano — are two pleas-ant race-courses, the Hip-podromo Argentino andthe Hippodromo Nacional, with fine and picturesquely-situated tracksand tastefully-designed tribunes. On one or the other course thereare races on Sundays and fete-days during the winter months, un-der the direction of a jockey club, and with all the formalities andapparatus of the race meetings of Europe. The Argentines arebecoming great buyers of European racing stock, and they alreadyhave their stud-book and important and well-stocked racing races are usually a pretext in civilized countries for gatherings of. THE ARGENTINE CAPITAL. 295 elegance and fashion, I went to the meetings at Buenos Ayres on sev-eral occasions, but my observations were each time identical. In thetribune of the members of the Jockey Club I counted about a dozenladies; scattered over the other tribunes and on the lawn might beseen about the same number of cocottes; the rest of the public wascomposed of men and boys. And what men! How coarse and brutalin their looks and manners! How gross and unclean in their lan-guage, how aggressively vulgar, how utterly lacking in refinement ofany kind! For this rough horde of human beings the only interestthat the races offered was the betting, conducted in the Argentine, asin Europe, by means of the mutual pool, or Pari tnutuel, system. Oneach race the totals amounted to fifty and sixty thousand dollars, andthe moment the race was over there was a roar of many feet and astampede from the tribunes to the paying offices. In such a roughcr
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