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 dominated 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 Commissioners and a refreshment kiosk, where the Federal Government dispenses Brazilian coffee to visitors. One of the first things to strike the eye is the huge recumbent figure of the Rubber Colossus, overlooking the mighty Amazon and its innumerable tributaries, all of them highways of the rubber collecting 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 Section 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.

MARECHAL HERMES DA FONSECA, President of Brazil.