The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-04-28
GOVERNOR AhIEv IN PoBro RICO.
His Landing Not Accompanied by Any
 Particular Enthuxiasm.

1 San Juan, Porto Rico, April 27.-The 1 U. s. s. Dolphin. bearing Charles Her. bert Allen, the newly appointed civi | governor of Porto Rico, dropped an chor off San Juan at 10 o'clock this | morning as did also the United States | armored cruiser New York, the United States battleship Texas and the United l States gunboat Machias. The New York remained outside the harbor, the others entering. General Davis, mili- | tary governor, visited MT. Allen on board the Dolphin at half-past eleven.
 A detachment of seventy-five insular
 police and four companies of the Porto
 Rico regiment, with a band, were drawn
 up on the wharf.
 The Dolphin's launch, carrying MT. Allen and his family, with General Da- wis and Lieutenant Parker, the generals
 aide, left the Dolphin at noon, the Texas and Dolphin firing a salute of seventeen
 guns Meanwhile the band played
 "Borinquel," the Porto Rican national air, and the steamers lying in the har-
 bor kept up a continuous whistling un-
 til the launch reached the landing. Mr.. Allen ran quickly up the steps and the families of General Davis and the new civil governor were introduced to each other. The crowd of 5000 looked on, but was kept at a distance. The troops and police marched past at port arms, MT. Allen dofflng his hat.
 He then entered the carriage that was in waiting and drove to the execu- tive mansion, preceded by troops and followed by squads of police. He con- stantly raised his hat to the throng that lined the sidewalks
 MT. Allen took breakfast with General Davis, and, with his family, will re- main as the guest of General Davis in- definitely. He landed in an ordinary costume, straw hat, blue coat and duck trousers; and a wave of exclamations followed by the carriage. That can't be MT. Allen,' said one. That's not the new governor" said another, mot that man in the straw hat. Surely not" The simplicity of the costume and of the general details of the recep- tion took the Porto Ricans by surprise and they could scarcely realize that they looked upon the new governor. MT. Allen is the first governor of Porto Rico to arrive in anything less conspic- uous than gorgeous uniform covered with gold lace and similar trappings.
 Few representative citizens were pres- ent at the landing the throng being composed largely of middle class peo- pie. Nor was there any attempt to dec- crate the buildings and generally the reception was not notably enthusiastic. One Porto Rican explained the lack of popular demonstrativeness by saying that the people were dissatisfied to find that the civil government would not actually be in full force on May 1 as they had hoped.
 Tn the course of brief interview MT. Allen told the correspondent of the As sociated Press that it was too early for him to talk of government affairs, but that he had formed no outline of policy. He contradicted the report that he would return to the United States after a conference with General Davis. He desires to settle the details of the new regime as soon as possible and will re- main here conferring with General Da- wis pending the arrival of the new ap- pointees