The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-08-20
CUBAN TEACHERS DEPART.
Express Delight With Their Visit tn
,tmerica,s CAPITAL.

With many good-byes. addressed in bro
ken English to the Americans congregateG
to see them OF. the 1887 Cuban and Porto
Rican teachers took their departure for
New York early yesterday afternoon.
The first section of the train carrying
the visitors TO the metropolis left the
Pennsylvania depot at 1910 p. m, and tns
second and third sections followed at in
tervals OF ten minutes.
The teachers began to arrive at the de-
pot at noon. Bundles of all sorts and
descriptions. all shapes and sizes. wrapped
oftener in newspaper than otherwise, in
addition to numerous satchels and hand
bags. were carried to the train. One stout
Cuban, teacher of the masculine gender,
bore in his arms a tin trunk of formula
BILE SIZE which, however, he chung to tenac-
iously as though the contents might be
OF the most precious character. The visi-
tors were adorned with many buttons and
badges. collected in their travels in the
United States. Conspicuous were the red
button and streamers from Harvard Col
lege, and the white badges with which
they had been decorated upon their arri-
val here.
vest throng had gatha: ed at the sta
ton to witness the departure, and hand
shakes were literally exchanged. General
Cisneros. formerly President of the Replio-
lie of Cuba. was on the platform to st.i
a6ios to his countrymen and country
women. He was the recipient Of quite an
extended ovation, and was greeted as the
immaculate patriot, the father of his
country and by many terms of endear-
ment that served to express the senti-
ments entertained toward him by his peo-
pie General Cisneros followed the teach
ers to New York on a late train yesterday
afternoon.
Many compliments to their hosts and to
the character Of the entertainment which
had been rendered them in Washington
and elsewhere were expressed by those Gu
bans who could speak the English Ian
grage as they congregated on the plat
forms waiting for their trains to depart.
The Harvard yell had been learned during
their sojourn at the college in Cambridge.
and it was frequently heard ON the plat
form. The trains pulled out amid waving
of handkerchiefs and kissing of hands
from the dark senoritas.
The morning hours were generally spent
in sightseeing by the strangers. The Cap
itol was visited en- masse, at an early hour.
The Senate and House chambers we're
shown to the party. who manifested great
interest in those rooms, where laws OF
vital moment to Cuba had been enacted.
fair proportion of the visitors attended
divine service in preference to sightseeing.
and the Catholic churches. which faith
the majority of the party profess, drew
nearly all of these.
At the hotels where the strangers were
CHARTERED during their stay there were
scenes OF great gayety Saturday night.
Music and dancing were INDUCED in to a
late hour.
The party expected to arrive in New
York at about o'clock last night. Their
entertainment at the metropolis will COM
mence today when they will be rendered
boat ride on the Hudson River. To-
morrow's entertainment will be confined
to the city. when Mayor Van Wyck will
deliver an address of welcome. Philadel-
phia Will be the next point visited by the
party, where elaborate preparations have
been made for their reception. On Thurs
day or Friday the teachers will embark
on Government transports at Philadelphia
and return to their homes.