BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1901-07-22
SAN JUAN, JULY D, 1901.
Editorial Comment.

mark an era in the history of the island,
and should sound the key note ior an
increase commerce and the influx of large
number of investors who have only been
waiting for the settlement of the tariff
question to seek the opportunities tor In.
dustry ard trade which offer safe and sure
retnrns here.
Some doubt as to the validity of titles
here has in the past influenced the Anne
rican moried classes but the old system
which prevailed, while it did not follow
our method CT making abstracts, still pres
ents sufficiently good record to meet all
legal questions and safely guarantee the
legitimacy of possesSory rights.
Valuable lands of all KINDS for agricul-
tural purposes may be bought cheaply
here now but there is no doubt prices will
shortly materially advance.
Now is the time to buy, and as orsDge
and rubber trees, coffee plants, etc. require
some years to reach maturity and protita-
BILE returns start in the these should be
made st once.
Why do not the merchants of San Juan
get together and prepare a prospectus set.
ting forth the high class offerings Of Porto
RicO as field for inve estment to be dis
opef
Let us place our advantages before the
world.
A Yankee girl has committed suicide
because ber lover was too poor to wed.
a. nj Maud 6earts soefs tT1rn
diamonds would have been a winning suit
but as the game was played spades proved
best at the finish.
A window glass combine capitalized for
some 81, 100000 has recently absorbed
nearly all the plants in the business. That's
a trust that ought to be easily broken.
The autOmibile has made record speed
of one mile in one minute and 16 3-4
seconds. This beats the Porto Rican ''gua.
guas" up to date.
In China when bankers fail they are
hung. In the United States the deposi-
tors hang themselves.
WI Ting Fang delivered an Grafton in
the United States on the fourth of July
1t is safe to say that Wu's patriotic sen
timents were not dictated by the empress.
\
1t is said that Senator ". A. CLARK of
Montana, j. Z. Add;cks of Delaware AID
Mat Quay of Pennsylvania will in the
autumn travel through the new insular
possessions of the United States and deliver
joint lectures on how to maintain purity
In politics.
One of the most remarkable features of
the exhibit at Buffalo and not set down ON
the bills has been the vagaries OF the wea
ther. Visitors wore fur tverc0ats in June
at the opening, then heavy rains made
some of the streets partially navigable 70
Indiana steamboats,, next the sun got on
gridirOn heat and roasted the crowd and
and now fires are comfortable again and
there is sharp call for hot punch.
There is furry among novelsts OF the
"Jack the Ripper type. Yellow paper co
vored literature masqueradiDg as serials is
to be excluded from the second class pri-
vileges of the United States mails. Soap
and baking powder fiction meets the same
fate.
A circus company literally had s'monkey
and parrot of time" when tornado
struck it in Nebraska and distributed the
contents of lis managerie over two or three
counties. That particular part of Nebraska
must be as interesting just now as the slopes
Of Ararat after the ark unloaded.
o
John Bull has taken an extra hitch in |
his pants, put on some more war paint and
says he'll fight to the end Of time if he has
10 in South Africa At cost Of fl, 800, 600
per week the British treasury will in that
event need to send an expedition to the |
moon to get some Of the gold of the 'sGrand
Luna" that Wells has recently been writing
about in the Cosmopolitan magazine.
The church authorities Of Russia having
excommunicated Tolstoy, the anarchists
have decided on the removal Of the czar "for
the good Of the ORDER"
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