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Title: Across South America; an account of a journey from Buenos Aires to Lima by way of Potosí, with notes on Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Bingham, Hiram, 1875-1956
Subjects: South America -- Description and travel
Publisher: Boston, New York : Houghton Mifflin Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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llously well-appointed building where dis-tinguished foreigners are entertained, lectures aregiven, and all sorts of advertising dodges are fea-tured. It was La Prensa that had the news ofPresident Tafts election two minutes after it wasknown in New York. Many Portenos, as the peopleof Buenos Aires are called, think the columns ofLa Prensa are too yellow and that its businessmethods are almost too modern. They prefer themore dignified pages of the Nacion. The hotels on the Avenida are not up to thestandard of three of those on the narrower thorough-fares. In fact, it would be hard to find more com-fortable hostelries than the Grand or the Palace.The new Phoenix Hotel, one of the first skyscrapersto be erected here, promises even greater comfortsand is to be the rendezvous of the British colony. There are many theatres and they have a bril-liant season, which begins in June. The pleasure-loving Porteilos are willing to pay very high pricesfor the best seats, and managers can offer good
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BUENOS AIRES 35 salaries to tempt the best performers to leave Eu-rope. Variety shows are popular and carried to anextreme with which we are not familiar in the UnitedStates. Some of them are poor copies of question-able Parisian enterprises. But even these are notas bad as the moving picture shows that have cap-tured Buenos Aires. Public opinion is astonishinglylax in the southern capital. Exhibitions of shockingindecency are countenanced, that would no longerbe tolerated in Europe or North America. In thismatter Buenos Aires also offers a marked contrastto Santiago de Chile where morals are on a muchhigher plane, thanks to the Catholic Church, whichunfortunately seems to have lost its grip here. The Porteiio has not only forgotten his religion,he seems also to have lost the pleasing manners ofhis Castilian ancestors. I have been in eight SouthAmerican capitals and in none have I seen suchbad manners as in Buenos Aires. Nowhere else inSouth America is one jostled so rudely. Nowhereel

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