Stories of Paraná - Who was born before the car or the road?

Stories of Paraná - Who was born before the car or the road?

Who was born before the car or the road?
Aryon Cornelsen

Were many and deep, even radical, changes that Paraná met earlier this century.
The great war of 1914 stimulated the export of timber and lumber mills began to appear in various parts of the state,
moving into new areas, now more connected by the system of roads that will be creating.
The keynote of the railway will be shifting to the roads, but the roads themselves drawn following purposes disorderly occupation of the territory. And as this intoxication of speed to win the race against time, thrilled the world, the "raids" by plane and car became one of the passions of those times.
The exploits of intrepid pilots in their small planes, especially when in exhibitions in cities, attracted crowds of people.
When flying over the fields then, was a God help us! There were few who did not want to believe what they saw, that those things with a man, even flew.
In any case, for pilots there was greater difficulty in covering the distance between two cities: one paddock enough reasonably plan for takeoff and one for landing.
Different was the situation of automotive pioneers-bilistas: no roads, or something that resembles a road, they could not go much^lon-ge>
Hence the excitement caused by the Commander Francisco feat Fido Fontana in 1920. Pioneer car in Paraná, in eight days he made the connection Curitiba-São Paulo, following the direction of the railroad toward Itararé. This pioneering feat to repay the statesman that Washington Luis, a gleaming "ITALA", came from São Paulo to our capital, when there was no road, although the route had been partially done with the car transported by train.
The previous year had occurred an exceptional: Colonel.
Jorge Schimelpfeng, mayor of Foz do Iguaçu and provincial deputy, was the largest "raid" of South America, beyond the region of the Falls to the port of Antonina - a total of 840 miles - traveling in two Ford a ride and another -load
At this time, the state government played a strategic road now called BR-277, which would give, henceforth, greater access to the west and to the Falls, for all desfrutassem sense of wonder and beauty that adelantado Alvar Cabeza de Vaca had the privilege of seeing centuries before. And, however, only in April 1920 that there is an official trip in two Ford, a Fiat a Benz and Izola between Curitiba and Foz do Iguacu. The engineer Moreira Garcez is one of the heads of delegation.
All that thrilled: contact with the Indians, the narrative of exuberant flora and fauna, raped today, the panel were a normal state that began to achieve-up tar road that were no longer wild paths and drovers.
Later, in August 1926, the headquarters of the military unit of Foz is opened. And the integration process in motion.
Á that time, it was believed that there were pine trees in Parana for an exploration of 370 years, which did not correspond to reality, because of 200 000 km² surface state, only 76 Km nul² ​​had native pinewoods.
But that's another story.

Atyon Cornelsen's lawyer, sportsman and former president of Coritiba FC


Source: Stories of Paraná, Brasil.