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ASUNCION, ah .SWIH ' KIT. ohn, officially known 

 MS tin v SENORA DE LA Asr 



is the capital and chief port of Par-mil 



trd on tli- east bank of the broad and 



deep Paraguay River. Tin- nt.v is 070 miles. 



bv river, almost due north of Buenos Aires. 



piously bestowed, has reference to 



Virgin Mary. 

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Asuncion was founded in 1535 by the Spanish 

 Ayolas, and was a seat of colonial government 

 before Buenos Aires was founded. The work 

 of the early missionaries centering here can 

 be compared only with that of Saint Patrick 

 in Ireland, eleven centuries earlier, in the mag- 

 nitude and quickness of its results and in its 

 peaceful character. 



The struggle of the Spanish government with 

 the Jesuits led to deplorable results, undoing 

 much of the missionary work. Early in the 

 nineteenth century, when the republic was 

 ivady to start upon its career, there began the 

 long tyranny of Doctor Francia and his nephew 

 and grand-nephew, which retarded both the 

 city and country. When the younger Lopez 

 fell, in 1870, the land was ruined and largely 

 unpeopled. Captured and ravaged by the Bra- 

 zilians in 1870, and blockaded for many weeks 

 by a revolution as late as 1905, Asuncion was 

 late in entering fully upon its career. But 

 the city did not lose courage; and it has 

 recently grown with a steady pace which re- 

 veals the unquestioning confidence of the patri- 

 otic citizens in the greatness of its future. The 

 original purpose of the Spanish in establishing 

 a city so far from the coast was to create a 

 southern outlet for the gold and silver and the 

 commerce of Peru, which then included Bolivia. 

 This original purpose may yet be realized, and 

 Asuncion will in that event become a great 

 midway point of commerce. 



The city contains a population of 84,000. It 

 is laid out in regular squares. The principal 

 ts have street cars and electric lights and 

 an- well paved. There is good telephone serv- 

 ice, and automobiles are much in use. Touring 

 cars and motor trucks take the place of rail- 

 over the level country to points not 

 :ied in railway construction. Motor boats 

 by dozens run on the river. Although the 

 climate is hot. 11 is very healthful. 



Asuncion contains numerous churches, a 

 cathrdral (the bishopric dating from 1547), a 

 national college, a public library and the palace 

 10 by the lit, r Lopez; but its modem 

 development did not begin until about 1880, 

 and its more notaMc buildings are so strikingly 

 new as to remind the visitor of the young cities 

 of North America. Kxamples of these are the 

 courthouse, i ilegc. the agricul- 



tural bank and the municipal building. The 

 new "port works," extensive in plan and in- 

 cluding docks, wharves and buildings, have 

 been undertaken by capitalists from the United 



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