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La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1897-03-30

S1" s'o'e' ee"ei1' tablecimiento, montado
a la altura de los mejores de su clase, ofrece
los transeuntes exquisitas comidas, mullidas
camas, servicio esmerade todas las comodi
dades que en- un establecimiento de fndole
puedan exigirse. Su dueno Sc complaee en-
ofrecerlo al pablico, en- la seguridad de que
todo ell que 10 visite quedara complacido
tisfecho. Utuade Mario de IS97.-M b. 15-7
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1897-03-30

Dsasa do musCas. fa[ssr 81 s.Jas gass
go con salmon macarelas frescas, en- tinas;
bacaao de Escocia, sin espinas, en- cajas de
hbras; carne de familia, superior, para hacer
mejor la digestion, segun opinion de los mas
acredltados facultativos, comerse como postre
un POGO de queso Creme Gorgonzola, Gruyere,
Reinosa, de las muchas otras clases que tienen
en- su Colmado, los sefores Cerecedo, HERNIA
nos y Companfa.
Varios amigos hablan de la fuerza ffsica,
y cada cual elogia la suya.
-Yo levanto Glen kilos con una mano.
-Yo derribo una puerta con un hombro.
-Yo dice-un desconocido -paro un tren
con una mano.
-iEs usted ell Padre Eter1o?
NO, senior. -. soy :. maquinsta.
los sonstas. sag yol,sc. qds 1s"'tabss aba
ra acaban de llegar 500 cuarterolas de vino
Rioja sSagasta> por vapor <Marfa,; bebiendo
de este vino los animos Sc tranquilizan Sc res
pira mas confianza. No hay persona seria nj
formal, que descuide ell orden economico la
tranquilidad generai.-De venta en- Gel Colma-
dos, de Cerecedo, Hermanos Compahfa
Rompeco6ezas. CINEMA TRIZ GERONA.
Combinar con estas palabras ell nombre de
una encantadora joven rubia, que vive actual
mente en- la Marina de esta Capital. Leonardo.
AImaenn Liberia de Olimpio Otero Ponce)
nI"uV0" Puerto Rico. = JOSEFFI. = Polka
noble, l 20 centavos. s.-KALBRENER.-
! bum l3 Rondos, l : IDEM. M.-Trozos de Con
ciertos Opera lO2, Is 81 centavos.-IDEM.
Gran Fantasia, l S 13 centavos.-IDEM.-Mi
nueto Rond6, IS 13 centavos.-IDEM.-Le
Fou Opera 139 Escena Romantica, As centa
VOs.-
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1897-03-30
nFI Parisiensa" PELUQUERIA 7 PER
o'ioiVhV0 FUMERIA DE SERGIO

LECOMPTE. CRUZ II. Surtido general
Importation directa de 10 mas selecto que
en- perfumeria sc fabrica en- Francia, LagLate-
IRA Italia Especialdad en- enseres de Bar6e-
ria q Perfunaeria bsgLesa. Limpieza servi-
clio inmejorable. Sc admiten abonos.
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1897-03-30
PeIuuueria "EI Buen Gusto''sAN JUsTo

Elegancia, prontitud, esmero. Hay un cons
tante surtido de psrfumerfa selecta. Gran es
tablecimiento de BANOS DE DUCHAy ASEO
Sc admiten abonados. JUAN APELLANIZ,
propietario.
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-17

Il don't L y'
shed break through the floor
her She's he
Got children every
cptng when she's the
around corridor three
then she'll upstairs and visit the school,"
What school?"
why the school for acting. Mrs Bellew
remember She presides
dressng-room.
'she great years London now-wel"
them to feel they
We started
Oh but mnuteP he exclaimed he
almost instantly with
so you the stage"
YES he replied, dwelling
been high
to emulate the example OF James K Hackett."
pecuIia
brought
OF 1t would
but
he is of wasting being
could
"lt will take long time said.
mot when he said.
Have riedP'
jaunty
blue tie his his throat
NO. he said; waiting" turned to sham mbIe
he
handed o
Got it for two btsl proudly 1 handed the
handsome unepousve features of
knew whether 10 r.
There's bad case" said the manager.
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, occurrences at the closing hour of some
of the large mills elsewhere few minutes
spent at the close of the working day in
the vicinity OF this factory is a revelation.
In many other localities the opening OF
the great gates is the signal for q wild
stampede OF long -prisoned humanity. The
small minority OF naturally refined and
would-be quiet workers are swept along in
the resistless tide of the rude minded
loud mouthed and coarse hammered
majority, that INDUCES freely il rough
horse-piay, vulgar issts and impudent
verbal attacks on those pedestrians who
are so unfortunate as to be caught in the
unpleaslng rush.
Nothing OF this is seen here, however.
The operatives leave the building as
quietly and decorously as if it were a CO.
educational college, and they were all
dignified seniors There is no crowding
no quarreling, and no ''joshing"; only a
separation into friendly little groups,
chatting cheerilv as they walk along, and
parting with pleasant good-nights at the
cars and the corners of the streets.
Moreover, it is worthy of note that no
gaudy ''gin palace" fourishes in the vi
cinity of the mills, and that the few
saloons in that portion of Oakland are
neither large nor prosperous looking. al
though from $4,000 to $40, 600 is monthly
paid into the hands OF the cotton mill
people.
Perhaps the fact that the pernicious
'factoiy clearinghouse and tenement
system is unknown here has not little 10
do with this state of things. The ma
jority of the factory employees live in coy
cottages, not uniform rows OF CORPORA
tion houses" dreary and utterly unhome-
like in expression and surroundings. but
cheerful little dwellings scattered about on
wide and pleasant streets. Most OF them
have lace curtains in the front windows.
and callas and carnations and roses
and heliotropes and chrysanthemums and
other lovely flowers that run riot in the
open air under our California sunshine.
in the front yards, and in the back yards
there are often plump hens and chickens,
or well-tended vegetable beds, which add
their mite to the general good.
And best OF all, not few of these men
and women whose skilled fingers easily
solve for them the problem of living OWN
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, their own small homes, and are bringing
up therein happy, healthful, industrious
families.
So much learn of the workers; and l
learn some things of their work and of the
mill itself, after 1 escape from the fas.
cination of the seemingly sentient ma
chinery, and find myself once again in a
place where people talk with voices.
The factory is the only one of its kind
on this coast, and is just beginning, as it
were, to sit up and take notice after being
half asleep for some time past. During
the "hard" years it ran short time and
shorthanded, but now the powers that
rule its destiny are talking of putting in a
new engine and making several other i'm
provements to keep step with the march
OF good times" 1t was built fourteen
years ago CT Pleasanton brick and Puget
Sound lumb ber. and is djstinctively coast
institution, only such machinery being
brought across the mountains as could
not possibly be produced here.
The owners have not become multi
millionaires turing the brief period of lis
existence, for it has been obliged to hold
its own against cheap foreign products
and com pete with mills whose hours of
abor are longer ard rate of wages less,
but it has always done reliable and salts
factory work, thus building up a good
reputation, and has helped California by
giving many of her children and step
children decently paid employment.
1t was hoped when the idea of having
such a manufactory crystallized into a
reality that California would raise cotton
enough of her own to supply the raw ma
terial ne ,ded, but such has not been the
case. Oddly enough, though most ex-
cellent quality OF this product can be
raised as far north as within the borde ers
of Shasta County and as far south as the
State line, the cotton used here is brought
mostly from Texas and the Pacific islands.
That it can be grown here successfully
has been proven. The plant thrives and
grows into giant of its kind, Towering
proiusely and producing cotton of fine,
long fiber and great strength. Indeed.
even in Atlanta. where they know all that
is worth knowing about this special sta
pie. California cotton won prizes and
praise of the most crafty ing kind but the
troublesome question Of competing against
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indicative of heart
failure that
that the heaters be the anticipating
might trying
find them way,
They glare Ophelaike
wreahs chemically
fling amazing
There absolutely OF the idea
things born within
conception possible
anything"
outside within the portals of the
Grand
You won't artist the
manager the boxofee window and started toward
Are there n.y." asked
ANY" knew sharp at the same time
how like that lite could sound ANY,! he
facing thoughts
question had provoked as anything else?'
couldn't myself, but hoped my
calling
some hanging about There's
out there"
looked indicated short
but giving the of being She
nteI the cold unfriendy marble of flooring
wide-opn the garng that dfgud the walls
is she one asked
He nodded deep-drawn sigh play
anything we'd wouldn't why-she
came DAY a DAY ana watched the people and the bills But
do? You
YOU? Though, knows we'd ell
Inen turned and walked toward the who could
like that where rights
And such cold place, too! marble
ana the great nigh ceilings stare unnVlng and the mirored
the direction you
should be doing And hivering
u: is cold =" I ventured
at wany OH tragic incom-
pleteness OF that face! There lines
purpose; disappointed in
eanV "hlteWashed wall had marked all sorts OF ways TO mar h
moothness She turned brilliantly yellow
whkered individual
irown and tragic posing of two gaunt
magnificent whispered Must ave cost lot"
And she casped her thin ungloYd
sleeves slipped wrists long
pe ever only that her and her thin lips
closed tightly.
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but others, wearing their luxuriant locks
in the latest mode, look piquantly pretty,
as if they were just preparing for cos
tune ball, as the featDery powder lends
its own quaint charm to bright eyes and
dimpled faces.
None of them look up from their work
to stare rudely at the unusual sight OF a
visitor serenely trotting about where Wis
itors are never supposed TO gain admit
tance, but now and again one of them
meets my eyes frankly with her own, and,
seeing nothing but good-fellowship in my
expression, returns my friendly smile in
KIND. They are nearly all American born
and bred, these girls, though many differ
ens nationalities are represented among
them, and they have one and all a certain
proud Independence OF feeling ana man
ner which grows and fourishes under our
gracious skies.
when the factory is run full-handed
over 800 persons find employment here, OF
whom at least 225 are women and girls.
NO Chinese are employed and no girl or
boy under IA years of age No strikes
ever occur, for the grievances which oc.
casionally, but very rarely, ruffie the
NNASSih biiCht VI iiliii are CdETiSu III
rectly and quietly to the superintendent,
who, being good judge of human nature
and man besides possessed of much ma
tive shrewdness and a good store of hard
common-sense, combined with kindly
disposition. generally manages TO arrange
matters TO the satisfaction OF all con-
cerned.
Five years ago Commissioners Tobin SAID
OF this factory: at is remarkably we'll
managed institution. n is a pleasure 10
see how the girls there are treated, and
the effects of it are very noticeable.
"Thev are treated as if they were all
young ladies, and the consequence is they
are. If the managers of factory treat
their female help as if they were all hood
lums they will get only hoodlums to work
for them, and if they treat them as nice
Young ladies they will get tie better class.
l sincerely wish that We had N this State
fifty such factories as the California Cot
ton Mills"
The Commissioner remarks are as true
now as they were when they were first
made. To those who have been inter-
ested but awe-stricken spectators of the
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I smile, and L discern that he has good
teeth and that they are well cared for.
His hands lift up bits of candle wicking.
cord, twlne and other things for my in
specliou and consideration, and now and
then touch sections of the machinery with
the casual and assured touch OF familiar
i,y. OF certainty he is describing to ME
the various processes of manufacture
which we are observing and of a certain ty
he is describing them well, too, since be
is bright and well-informed youth, and
is exerting himself most kindly to be
amiable and entertaining.
But he might as well be rehearsing a
political speech, or chanting the praises
OF the heathen gois for all 1 know 10 the
contrary, since l have not been taught to
read the movements of the lips, and my
ears are utterly useless in the overw helm
ing din which surges all around US
To tell the truth, do not mind this SO
very much. l am far more interested in
the lndividu uality of the mill itself, and its
workers. than | am In processes and prod
ucts, though the processes are undoubt-
edly worthy of admiration and the prod
ucts OF surety most excellent of their
kind. l have visited mills of this kinu in
the South and in the New England States
and every one of these visits has left be-
hind 1t something OF heartache and futile
rebellion against existing conditions.
have seen sallow, tired and discour-
aged-looking women and girls walking
wearily up and down between rows of
machinery placed so closely together that
Death himself was clutching constantly.
and not always vainly, at garments and
HAIR. | have seen these wome en- and girls
prisoned and haf-smothered under low
ceilings, with only narrow and diney
windows at one side to admit light and
air, and working twelve and thirteen
hours day for wages so low that il seems
a wonder how they can live on them at all
Here | see lieh: and airy rooms where
avenues OF sale width run between the
dangerous machines. and busted there are
workers neat in attire, alert and cheerful
OF aspect, and with pleasant faces which
tell by their very expressions of good food
and good air, and consequent good health.
Some of the more careful ones affect be-
coming sweeping caps" to protect their
hair from the constantly settling dust,
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-17

Oh she can't feel
at attempt at speaking with her. She doesn't it's od
she doesn't
he
the
play you'll her again. She'll
all ?'
'Wel of them haven't
o
apologize there's
us"
whoh had
mankind.
They to death with plays"
subjects that There mechanic
butcher in
them
condescend
felt who
thought
face.
The Acazar smaller endiiness
about it. although always feel desire elongated when
managers Office for ceiling dome
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fingers OF the machine tear it apart, and it
flows down chute stream OF fluffy
whiteness, to reappear in the next room
spread evenly over massive rollers from
which it winds smoothly and slowly into
great soft cylinders of batting"
In another department thin, almost
diaphanous, streams of cotton flow over
rollers, and at theIr outlet become downy
ropes OF over an inch in thickness, that
coil tn mselves softly away in;o tall re-
ceptacles, which when full look as though
heaped with lightest swansdown.
The sight of these yards upon yards of
snowy 'rolls" reminds me of childish
days spent on certain Southern planta.
ton, so remote from social and business
prevailed there, though the new South"
was rising from the ashes of the old al
most everywhere else.
Here old Aunt Betsy "rolled' her cot
ton with hand-cards, with which, by the
way, she Used also to vigorously card her
own gray wool whenever her chevelure
needed rearrangement under her gay tur-
ban, and spun it on a tall spinning wheel
beside which her clumsily shod feet had
worn path in the pine boards of the
floor. But, much as she priGed herself ON
their being ''eben an smoov," even Aunt
Betsy's skillful fingers never turned out a
roll as perfect as these which slip. hour
after hour, through the iron hands of these
smoothly working and tireless machines
Later these downy ropes are drawn out
into attenuated threads, and these threads
again are twisted together into cord, and
twlne, and cotton rope, or are woven into
bagging, and cloth, and duck, and towel
ing. Some of it even goes into those
coarse checked table-cloths which occa-
sionally masquerade as linen before the
uncrltlcai ewes of credulous customers of
unreliable stores
l follow my guide about everywhere,
carefully keeping my skirts away from
the ~hirling belts, which are always on
the watch to snatch at passing garments
and play havoc with them and their
owners, and the tall young fellow who
has been detailed TO take charge OF me
does his best TO amuse and instruct me
during our promenade. / can see his lips
move almost constantly snd occasionally
expand into an ingenious and pleasing
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over II Oakland there is veritable ma
gician's cave, True, it does not look much
ike a cave on the outside-in fact, it ap-
pears to the eyes of the ordinary passer-by
merely Ike a long low, red brick build
ing. with a wide avenue bordered by locust
trees on one side and tall brick chimney
IN the background which seems TO reach
nearly u to he blue sky itself. magician
lives there Just the same, however, and a
very powerful one, and for sixty hours out
of every week he performs the most
wonderful feats in the way of sleight-of-
hand and the transformation of one thing
into another.
70 explain matters prosaically this
magician's cave is known to those of US
who know anything about it al all as the
California Cotton Mills. The magician is
that all powerful sorcerer OF modern
times-machinery- the transforma-
tiCns effected are the changing OF raw
cotton from the bale into such a bewild-
erlng mum Der of different articles Of beauty
or utility, or OF both com bined, as to
make the onlooker almost believe that
the whole thing is the work of witchcraft
rather than that of human brains and
fingers alone.
Once inside the building, 1 sit waiting
in tig, sunshiny Office until some one
can be found who has time TO guide me
through the different workrooms; and as
l sit there the noise that comes to my
ears is as If mighty giant on the other
side of the partition were stamping his
weary way up a mountainous tread mill
and putting and painting automatically the
while.
! We begin at the very beginning and
kYisit first the wide yard, where waiting
Vcars stand on the railway switch and all
Manner Of big and cumbersome boxes and
bales and bundles lie aboui. And then we
go into the room where man with an ak
is breaking and entering bale after bale of
>fieecy cotton, which expands ana over
edows its wrappings, as if taking a long
breath of relief, when the tight iron bands
which have held it for SO long are cut
away.
There is a kind of hopper at one side
of this apartment into which the cotton,
pulled lightly apart, is put, small guam
titv at time, and 1t hops merrily along
into an inne. cham Der, where the iron
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sections where the rate of wages and the
standard OF living are much lower has
made California cotton-growing on alarge
and practical scale an uninvitine invest
ment i'll the past
Less than a dozen years ago a wealthy
tlrm-Haggin 81 Tevis, l believe it was,
but am not sure-planted acres of cotton
! in Kern County, and brought company
o. genuine plantation raised negroes from
the South to care for II. At first the ex-
pertinent promised TO be wonderful sue
cess, and in one year they sold $24 900
worth of their output to the home mill,
but differences with the imported help
arose, strikes followed and at last, dis
gusted with the bother of it all, the pro-
moters of the enterprise gave up the plan
and put the land to other uses.
The Buckley brothers also raised 8 good
crop on Kings River in 1884, and good
many ranchers were turning their atten-
tion to cotton culture when the "fruit
boom" struck this part of the country,
and everything was made subservient to
that idea.
To those who believe that Calfornia's
future solid prosperity lies in her unex-
ampled capacity to produce a diversity of
money-making crops, the subject OF cot
ton-raising seems to be one that should
receive serious and careful consideration.
The comparatively recent demonstrations
OF the utility OF all the products of the cot
ton plant make it far more valuable
property than it was in the old days when
the fiber alone possessed a market value
While none of us wish to see cotton
king" of our State it seems certain that
the question of how to grow it profitably
here will be answered before long. The
time may come, indeed, and in the near
future. when even the small farmers of
thrifty mind may find it advisable to fol-
low their Southern brothers example and
RAISE, every one of them, a bale or two of
cotton, if no more, along with heir other
crops for good cotton is practically ready
money every where IL is raj ed. and ready
money is very convenient thing 10 have.
FLORENCE MATHEsoN.
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dramas he said mild
murders, hanging suicide Want
heard him laugh as my escape
." think, said the artist climbed
Dramatic Art THAT the safety of
account of carelessness in
hate politics. bu asked
Why he sad "he supposed
April completely
country a
that's cruel"
'But you'll allow it's horse quoted
passed into the presence OF
There little short ookin
with flushed face and mustach the
Perhaps could have stayed longer they
particular with
of 1
able
ortude
He stood in the middle of the and his
his two sides respectfully and began.
Shades the
heretofore heard him
that
ut is the 1T is the soul" he in exactly
different keysor he has orun
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walls that there's scarcely
1t occupied already
paused at the didn't
Come ln, SAID Mr. Than cordially
TLs lady he speaking OF the
We thought he joking the
the
her
What did would like?
evidently benefit The
second The chid to 10 song
dance'
Then she bowed herself
pounds of avoirdupo would
"There!' exclaimed in
entirely
Can she
u never heard her. groaned
meant he intended
She gong to the
coming back and
He sighed deeply
But sked.
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addressing
But it until region
other
MY ordl My lord What ho my lord My iordl'
II much and l left without 'good-by"
isn't al ?"
led him to the Columbia.
band of children didn't
children weren't
the asked could
know She couldn't sing couldn't
asked what did think Of
And she said?"
"She to
the Tvo chorus sins butwl fill up
What Id
Il wasn't competent to judge said Mr. Fredander.
The hurried
Now you'll allow it's horse won't your" asked
What else could MURIE1 BAILEY
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Railways in Holland are SO carefully
managed that the accidental deaths on
them average only one year for the en-.
tire country.
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"WOTse than a matinee glrIT'
And laughed
There another around here She frst
down the ridiculous
couldn't do anything she knew
refused her brought He
farmer they in mind
thought I'd a-laughing He I'd
didn't take her-tha all the theaters clamo her.
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Don't you know said he. Il 90 off
hand in hand disappointed, because they don't
any better, thing sad
don't you know?"
And did for the capacity for feeling may
be it is equal with their knowing, if they
suffer with ali their their suffering
who understand all the wild hopeessness desparf
"And nowP'
They the farm, guess he 81 never see
them any more
by the way he said started out II Just had play
handedin m he thatn