New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 15, 1919, Page 11

1 NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, DHDECEMBER 15, 1919, CHILDREN’S FURNITUE IS A PRACTICAL GIFT HIGH CHAIRS Watch Our Win For Pratical dows Christmas Suggestions OAK REED MAHOGAN B.C.P ROCKERS ¢ The Store of a A BIG LINER PASSING \THROUGH THE CULEBRA CUT, PANAMA CANAL : (By CUSHING STETSON.) BUSINESS involving an annual A outlay of over a billion dollars, which was suspended during| the four years of the war, will start again on January 7 when the plea; ure cruiser Ebro leaves New York for South America. | Lonz before the war Anwnu\ns[ had gained the reputation of being| the world’s greatest travelers. It is| not surprising that their pent-up| energics, confined during the past| years, have flocked in (“-‘t!r—ln-] five years to their own country,} should turn now to other fields. Al striking feature of the situatfon com-| pared with the pre-war period is| however, the tremendously increased| interest in tbe West Indies amnd South America. Just as these southern| neighbors have flocked 1n overdn-| creastng numbers to the United States, whether on business or on pleasure bent, so now the average American feeling the urge to travel turns his eyes toward Buenos Ayres, whose hotels, he hears, are rivalled oniy by those of New York and ! whose racecourse rivalsthatof Paris and, by way of contrast, his imagina- ton is attracted by the mystery cities of Pern, the “Land of Incas” and the magnificent spectacle of the Andes. There are plenty of indications that the tide of pleasure travel, in- stead of resminins where it was cat of by the war, will assume far greater proportions than ever before. n addition to the vast throng of winter and summer vacationists whose expenditure on steamships, goreign hotels and railroads ran to {large group of a billion and odd dollars in years before the war, there i class equaily numerous that has won: riches within the past four years and now for the first fime is able to enjoy the luxury of travel for pleasure. [inally, there fis very business men who have become interested in the op-! portunities for foreign trade and who| are willing to combine the pleasure| of a trip within a survey of the busl.| ness fleld.' Travelers of the latter| < particularly are showing a spe cial inferest in South America. 1 Ifor almost four years the scar of ships has crippled, and at times| almost entirely prevented, ali travel| to South America and the south.| |even when a man had business to transact. Commercial relations be- tween the United States and Latin| America are of vast and ever-grow- ing proportions. The fourist can now combine his business and’ pleasure, the commercial man judging for him- seif the trade opportunities in such ldtit!smh(ma.\':flpumiso and Buenos Ayres. Commerce with South Amer- fca is gradually being restored to normal. Following 1n its wake, a { land | January cold of our northern lati- tudes is transformed to the warmth of June. One of the greatest difficulties in arranging to satisfy the insistent de- mands of Yankee tourists anxious to visit South America this wnter was to find a steamship suitable for the purpos. Practically all available vesseis are engaged in other regular lines of trade. At length the Travel the| Navigation Company a new tourist is again anxous torevisit the|ship, of palms and fruit, where the| | ern hemisphere under T° ""A'(E SOUTH AMERICA RAINCE_w/ CITY AND HARBOR OF VALPARISO , CHILE B/&‘;IC TREIGHT OF THE TRANS-~ ANDEAN RAILWAY. Department of the Auerican obtained frem the Pacific Kxpress| evory Steam | ship construction steam-| beds instead of The trip{ will be no narrow beginning in Japuary will be tho| pers.” All the cabins maiden voyage of the mew liner as| lights and_electric well as the first curise ‘o (he south-|a passenger elevator. the new enade d dltions of fravel. | While tourist travel itsell has| been at a standstill during the years| of war the efforts of designers and builders to provide everiincreasing| comforts to meet the fastidious tastes|nals, and (an up-to<ate of Amerfcan traveiers have nct halt-| equipment with a doctor a ed. The new liner Ebro contains|in attendance. Her berths, just off the ways, con- the camera concerts safety eless and dark room for orchestra for nll the la t cluding W MAHOGA RTER Thousand Useful luxury and is the last word in cabins and bunks, have ' fans and there is Betw cks are two veranda There are showers and tub batbhs; and appliances i submarine The Isbro at sea will OAK REED A Rose or Blue Klear- flax is just the thing for the Nursery Floor. -~ IR()‘\ WOOD ONS Gifts RUGS Our Rug Racks are loaded with hundreds of handsome Rugs —7Unexcelled anywhere Fard stemmtrg down the Peruvian «coast, tbe mountains, capped ith uamma,l snows and slopimg actoaily | to the sea, are a view without an laqual in the workd. | In a way still more intimate the twenty republice of South America demerve the dleser acqueintance of North Americans. Their governments resemble and in the mmajority of tcases are modelled on our owrd con- stitution. In the early part of tx; nineteenth century, when the Hg Allance under the lead of Russia ‘was irying to strangle liberal forms of government in Kurope amd the new world, the Spanish colon#es in Somth America broke away from Spaii. Their eyes turmed to the United Sates, a great and growing repumblic to the morth; and the prineiples un- derlying our government were adapt- ed to their particular wuse. “Travel to Soawrth America unden normal condiidons would this year be the biggest in history,” said Ny Ralph Towie, gemeral manager of the Travel Departmemt of the Amer- ican Express, commenting on the en- quiries coming into steamship offices. “The trouble is ome of lack of ac- commodations, lack of ships. The Ebro, eo far as we can learn, is the only pleasure cruiser tp make the trip this vear. To judge by reservations and bookings already made, the whole adult population of the coundry, from Maine to Califor nia, would like to be aboard.” The whole trip will cover a dia tance of twelve thousan® milag— equal to a voyage almost half-way round the globe. The Ebro will pass through the Panama Canal and down the western South American coast to Valparaiso, a distance of 4,911 miles, and return in sixty days. Included also is a trip acroes the Andes to Buenos Ayres of 2.200 miles. Three days out from New York on the southern course, and just over the CGauif Stream, rises the solitary island of San Salvador, called by sailors Watling Island, with its sin- gle lomely lighthouse, and alas! its wrecks, as the first land the tourist | sees on his way to Jsmaica and ;soufl:em ports. after leaving port; |and every ome must feel anew the | thrill of Columbus, that Haster umEming, in 1492, when he first saw !this isolated bit of the mew world. {“Bird Rock” and Fortune Island, in | quick euccession, Cape Maysi on Cuba’s eastern tip, the slo¥™ " n. ishing Cuban coast with i.3 green mcountains, and the traveler is at Jamaica. rope. Its rubber for tires has made| The next leg of the jowrney will the automobile industry on the pres-| CArTy the travelers to Cristobal, the ent scale possible and praetieable. Its| Canal and Panama City. The great theaters have mo equals in magni-| ditch built with $378,000,000 of Amer- ficence and size. ican momey is itself one of the As comeerns Hs natural wonders,| Worid'e great sights. Bevomd is the of especlal interest to tourists, Mt.|coast of Colombia, Ectrador and Peru, Aconcagna of the Andes Range js|and the snow-topped Andes, pink in {he highest in the Westorn Flemis-| the dawn and twilight, In whose phare; the Iguazu Ialls are. higher|every cleft nestiesabarbor hid from and wider than Niagars: Lima, “The|ihe sea. City of Kings,” “The Thrice Crown-| Literalty weaith of almokt ed City,” with a present ® pulation)every kind wilks to be found and of 150,000, was, under Spanish Rule,)explofted in €he comparatively un- the capital of the whale conmtiment. | worked natwral resourees of South Leaving the Panama Canal behind | America. INDIAN DUG-QUTS ON THE CHAGRES RIVER ~ BRINGING BANNANAS . TO GATUN , PANAMA = CONCOURSE AT BUENOS AIRES RACE TRACHK- THE RACES HERE ARE RIVALED ONLY BY THOSE OF PARIS CITY be a modern hotel in every respect. It bhas been well said that the greatest wonder about South Amer- ica—the land of wonders—is the lack of knowledge concerning it. Its olv- ilization, its mnative industres, its school eystem antedate our own. Cuzeo, the anelent capital of Peru. was a highly clvilized city of wvast wealth, gencrations before Columbus was born. Today beef and wheat from Argentina compete for the mar kets of the world and show a steady increase. South American nitrates and other fertilizers enrich the farmers of North America and Euw nave there! no “up- outside cen prom- cafe al fiend; | dances, | | hospital nd nurse STORE OPEN TONIGHT For Your Benefit Shop Tonight---Don’t Wait THE BIG STORE Until the B ig Rush. Raphael’s Dept. Store