Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "The building covers more than an acre, and it will hold, it is said, nine thousand people. It is the chief church of the city; for Argentina is a Catholic country, and Buenos Aires is said to be the largest Catholic city of the world. Catholicism is the religion of the state, and it is at the cathedral that the president attends mass."
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Buenos Aires is the largest city in the world south of the equator. As at present laid out the city is about eleven miles from end to end. Within its boundaries there is twice as much land as in Paris. Buenos Aires has more than a million and a half of inhabitants and is growing very rapidly, due to the high birth rate among her vast foreign population and the great influx of immigrants, chiefly from the south of Europe, who thrive in its temperate climate so like their own. Buenos Aires is the largest Spanish speaking city in the world, and next to Paris, the world's largest Latin city. Among American cities it ranks fourth in population with all points favoring an early advance into third place or even higher. "
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "It should be a source of pride to American readers to know that the Constitution of the Argentine Republic is modeled upon that of the United States, with possibly a higher degree of liberty for its inhabitants."
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Argentine is familiar with the standards set by Washington and Lincoln and admires these great Americans."
Among the fifty or more social organizations in Buenos Aires, the Jockey Club is the Argentine circle par excellence. Its wealth, derived from an initiation fee of $4000 and annual dues of $1500 for each member, and a 'rake-off' of ten per cent of the amounts wagered at its race-track, together with gate receipts, accumulate so rapidly that it is a source of genuine embarassment for the governing board. A short time ago the club voted to devote its surplus to the purchase of a dozen blocks in the heart of the city, the idea being to transform the tract into a beautiful boulevard. It would have cost nearly $14,000,000 in our money. The project was abandoned, not because of the cost, but on the ground of impracticability. During the racing season, held under the auspices of the Club at Palermo Park, the Porteno is seen at this best. Paris gowns and picture hats are displayed in profusion in the grandstand, lawns and luxurious victorias and automobiles that line the course, and with the correct dress and animation of the men, the prodigality everywhere in evidence, the scene takes on an aspect truly Parisian.
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Don Pedro de Mendoza, sent out by Charles V. of Spain, entered the river Plate, February, 1536 and landed on the spot which now constitutes the capital of the Argentine Republic. A township was formed with the name of Santa Maria de Buenos Aires, but this was after-wards destroyed by Indians. the town was reconquered and re-established. Plans were drawn for the demarcation of the limits of the town which the Indians, again essayed to destroy but were unsuccessful in their attempt. the first inhabitants of Buenos Aires were 50 Creoles and 19 Spaniards, and with this second founding of the town the period of conquest in the regions now comprising the Argentine may be said to have finally closes, to be followed by a Colonial regime, which lasted until 1810, when the existing form of Government was proclaimed and established. "
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "General San Martin was one of the great patriots and liberators of South America from Spanish rule. After his death his body was brought to Buenos Aires and reverently placed in a tomb, one of the handsomest in the world, about which stand three marble figures representing Buenos Aires, Chile, and Peru."