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POWERFUL, CRANES LINE THE DOCKS OE BUENOS AIRES 



The great river port's waterfront, extending for miles, is admirably equipped with the 

 most modern loading and unloading mechanism, but the silt brought down by the Rio de la 

 Plata is a perpetual problem to harbor engineers. 



years ago and worked for thirty cents a 

 day. With his savings he bought a row- 

 boat, and ferried passengers across the 

 Boca, or "mouth," of the Riachuelo. 

 When he died, a few years ago, he was 

 the owner of some two hundred and fifty 

 vessels, plying all the rivers of the coun- 

 try, and his fortune was valued at many 

 millions of pesos. 



In no other country except the United 

 States do foreigners so soon become 

 assimilated. Generally speaking, there 

 are no foreign quarters. True, Italians 

 are numerous in the city of Rosario and 

 in the wine belt around Mendoza; Ger- 



mans have settled largely in the province 

 of Santa Fe and the Welsh in Patagonia ; 

 but the second generation is Argentine, 

 heart and soul and language. 



Only the English are exceptions to this 

 rule. They keep their mother tongue 

 and customs generation after generation. 

 Thousands of them, whose families had 

 been in the country for generations and 

 whose Spanish was no less fluent than 

 their English, flocked home to fight in 

 1 91 4. Many of them had never seen 

 England, nor had their fathers before 

 them. 



