Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1910 — BUENOS AYRES. [ARTICLE]

BUENOS AYRES.

It Is Now the Fourth City In the Western Hemisphere. According to the census taken on October 22, 1909, the population of the qity of Buenos Ayres was 1,189,662, an increase sincp the census taken on September 18, 1904, of 238,771, or 514 per -cent, per annum. Buenos Ayres continues to be the largest Latin American city, the largest city south of the equator and the fourth city in the two Americas, being only exceeded by New York, Chicago and Philadelphia. If Buenos Ayres maintains the rate of increase of the period 1904-1909 for the next few years, it will contain 1,300,000 people on January 1, 1911, and 2,400 000 in 1924. As the Increase, however, is constantly growing greater, even larger figures may be expected, though a slowly increasing factor may slightly counterbalance this—the development of the city of Bahia Blanoa. Hitherto Buenos Ayres has been the only port of arrival for all the immigrants coming from Europe, who are just beginning to land at Bahia Blanca. This has been one of the main reasons why Buenos Ayres is so much larger than othe^.Argentine cities. Rosario, the next largest, having 174,000 — pie, or slightlv less than one-seventh of the population of the, capital, and why It is also the main -distributing and manufacturing centre. Every other country of settlement has bad at least two separate ports for the reception and distribution of immigrants, while Argentina has only had Buenos Ayres. Though the development of Bahia Blanca must of neeassity be gradual for several years to come, Its natural harbor and other advantages may in twenty or thirty years make it a most formidable rival to the capital, from which it has already wrested the right to 'be called the greatest wheat shipping port of South America.- '