Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-11-23
RAFAEL YGLESIA,
President Of Costa Rico, is In New
York-..May Be Here in the Interest
of The Nicaragua Canal.

New York, November 22.-Rafael
Yglesias, President Of Costa RIGA, ar
rived here to-day on board the Atlas
liner Altai, from Port Limon and
Kingston. With President Yglesias
were Ricardo Yglesias, his brother,
Col Leonzo Bonila, aide-de-camp, DR..
Antonio Guestiani and Gen. John S.
Easement, Of the Costa Rican railway.
The party will stop at the Waldorf for
few days before proceeding to Wash
ington. Shortly after the Altai left
quarantine for her dock she was board
ed by Col. William Carter, of the War
Department, representing President
Mckinley, to welcome President Ygles-
las.
President Yglesias said that as he is
travelling practically incognito and not
on national business he was opposed
to display. He had simply come here
for pleasure and for the benefit of his
health, and expects to take a trip to
England and France, and on his way
home will spend several months in the
United States. The visit here of Pres
ldent YgleslaS at the present time
when there is so much talk about the
building Of the canal across Nicaragua,
Is believed to have been brought about
by the recent concession granted to the
Grace syndicate, which goes into effect
in October, 1899. When this conces-
sion was announced it was said that
Costa Rica's opposition could not in
any way affect the new grant
President Yglesias when spoken to
about the proposed canal to-day said
that Costa Rica has important rights
which it has reserved ard intimated
that it was not all plain sailing for the
new syndicate. Further he would not
| discuss the matter.
DR.. Clloa, consul general of Costa Rica.
however, explained what was meant py
Costa Rica' s rights. The consul general
until last May was vice president of the
country and he resigned in favor of Don
Lemitrio Iglesias, the Presidents father,
who is now &C ing for his son DR.. Ulloa
said that his country has equal rights
with Nicaragua along the san Juan
| river, an important waterway which
divides the two republics The guiding
OF dams across the river for inter-oceanic
canal, it is said, viii int ndate consider
able lands in Costa Rica. Without the
latter country's sanction, 1t is assea ed
| the concession nelC oy the Grace Syndi-
cate is virtually valueless. There is said
to be a strong feeling in Costa Rica in IA
vor of allowing the United States instead
OF private corporation to build the canal
and that the government should do It's
! best to thwart the scheme planned by
| Nicaragua.
Dr. Ulloa said that the reason that
Costa RIGA has not Joined the republic
of Central america, which is composed OF
San Salvador, Nicaragua and Honduras
is because the coalition is looked upon
as an experiment and not by any means
as a stable compact. The revolt now in
progress in San Salvador, he added, is a
serious one. and is the outcome OF the
| union which went into effect on Novem-
| Der l.
There were Also on board the Altai from,
Greytown, Edward F. Fisher, Patrick
/ Tierney, David H. Baldwin. Stephen Har-
/ ris, Oscar Jones, Louis E. Lannan and
/ Rowland W Cater, civil engineers con-
nected with the Nicaragua National Com
pany.