BRAZIL COURT 
Brazil occupies no less than ten thousand square feet of space 
on the Balcony Floor. The Exhibit is specially comprehensive. 
There is a fine archway to each entrance to the court domi- 
nated by the arms of. the Federal Government. An Information 
Bureau is provided, at which all enquiries as to Brazilian rubber 
will be answered. The walls are hung with statistics and maps 
of the country. Close by are the offices of the Brazilian Com- 
missioners and a refreshment kiosk, where the Federal Govern. 
ment dispenses Brazilian coffee to visitors. One of the first 
things to strike the eye is the huge recumbant figure of the 
Rubber Colossus, overlooking the mighty Amazon and its in- 
numerable tributaries, all of them highways of the rubber col- 
lecting industry. From this point the visitor may, with the 
assistance of a number of pictures, 22 feet by 12 feet, take a 
bird’s eye view tour up the Amazon. Alongside these pictures 
is a unique collection from the different States of Brazil of rubber 
and other products, the preponderance of the rubber industry 
being illustrated by a fine pyramid of caoutchouc. Dotted here 
and there are life-sized models of Brazilian workmen in their 
native costumes. Arriving at the entrance to the Amazonas Sec- 
tion we find Dr. Pinto actually engaged in the coagulation of 
latex by his new smokeless process, which manufacturers have 
admitted turns out excellent rubber and which has the great 
advantage over the native system hitherto in vogue, of saving an 
enormous amount of both time and labor, whilst giving splendid 
results. A second series of pictures affords a vivid idea of the 
salient features of the State of Amazonas. In this section we 
have a mountain of rubber, and a ball which weighs 1,600 
pounds. There is a fine picture of a native tapping a rubber 
tree and numerous very beautiful photographs. That nothing 
may be wanting to the completeness of the representation of 
Brazil’s great rubber industry a series of Moving Pictures is 
shown in the Main Hall of the Exhibition, which visitors will 
find particularly instructive after they have gone through the 
Brazilian Section on the Balcony Floor. 
