Identifier: municipalorganiz01inte (find matches)
Title: Municipal organizations in Latin America. Mexico City
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: International Bureau of the American Republics
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Publisher: Washington, D.C., Govt. print. off.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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e are 6 organizations, with 4 paid secretaries and about 1,500 members. The association hasrailroad branches and educational departments for boys and men. Mexico City has 353 public schools maintained at governmentexpense and nearly 200 private institutions of learning. Of theformer, 13 are professional and technical institutes. The climate of Mexico is delightful. In summer the maximumtemperature reached is not higher than 80° F. This occurs in Apriland May and from 2 to 4 oclock in the aiternoon. The mornings andevenings are cool, the thermometer sometimes falling to 50°. Thecoldest months are generally November and December, where for afew hours the thermometer may fall within five or six degrees offreezing. The mean temperature of the summer months is about 65°,and for the winter months 54°. The annual variations for the severalseasons is comparatively small, but the daily variation is often con-siderable, the temperature rising or falling twenty or more degreesin a few hours.
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68800—Bull. 2—09- 218 INTEENATIONAL BUEEAU OF THE AMERICAJST REPUBLICS. The Mexican capital is becoming one of the most beautiful cities ofthe world, but it is a city in process of being made over. UnlikeBuenos Aires or Chicago, which are new, Mexico City is very old.The work of improvement is the work of tearing down and rebuild-ing. This work goes on constantly and always to fit in with a generallarge plan, which looks to the whole and not to the particular. An English writer, Mr. Percy Martin, says of it: The aspect of the city to-day is suggestive of one-half being pulled down whilethe other half is being built up. But there can be no question as to what it willbe when the destruction stage has ceased and the construction is complete.Mexico will be a beautiful city in every respect—worthy of the superb climatewith which the country is blessed, worthy of the enterprising Government whichis directing affairs, and with plenty to show for the millions which are beingexpended upo

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