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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-06-26
On New Agricultural In
dustries In Porto Rico.

1t is impossible for the insular auth
critics to over encourage new agricul'
tural industries in Porto Rico. In the
same sense we can never have on this
island too many agricultural schools,
Not one dollar spent in experimenting
with new products is wasted, but will
certainly be returned three-fold if only
one successful substantial product is
introduced here which will become one
of the products of the island Vast
agricultural resources, and it will be
impossible for this island to become
impoverished, or pauperlzed.
In all the islands to the south the
people are In the midst Of a period of
hitherto unheard of despair. Sugar the
sole product of most of those islands is a
drug on the market. In the years that
are gone the cane brought large prices,
and the islands of the West Indies -four
ished and grew rich. People depended
upon tie cane and the cane alone for
all the good things IN life There came
the day of the beet product however
and as result thereof cane sugar has
been crowded out of the market Gov
ernments have paid bounties for the
growing of the beet product, and the
cane has been officially slaughtered.
In Cuba to-day we have another
example of what confinement to one or
two classes of production can do to a
people. 1t seems TO be admitted on.
every side that if Congress fails 10
grant reciprocity to the island the peo-
pie viii for long time to cone be
poverty riks1. the government viii
begin work with chain about its neck.
and the island viii 90 through a period
o T great suffering Tobacco, sugar and
xoDical fruits ii small quantities cons
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-06-26
SArl JUAN, JUNE %
How the Alcalde Can
Earn That Salary Increase

When from out of the heart of this
cold ungratefu1 world there comes an act
of true christian appreciation, for exam
p1e such as the increase of the Alcalde S
salary by thousand dollars yearly, all
the world reioices. We are all pleased to
know that the City Fathers SO magn1h-
cientlv realize the efforts of the Alcalde.
For it must be stated that these efforts
have not found as much appreciation
outside of the City Council as IN It
Many citizens bringing to mind the
aqueduct Norzagaray street, the condl.
ton of the city market, the great need
of a city ash crematory, and the gen
eral lack of good municipal regulations.
fail to find any cause for profound
Joy or ecstasy over the efforts OF
the city's chief. Of course these people
constitute the rank and file OF what
goes to make up the tlnappreclatlve
and ungrateful world.
But in. view of the fact that the Al,
ca1de once announced his intention OF
giving his entire salary away to charity,
It seems rather strange that he should
desire this increase. OF course 1t can
be said that our Alcalde comes within
the meaning Of the term cheerful
giver"; and if this is the case, the IN
crease can be explained by believing
that there is no limit to his mun1flcence
If he really believes in taking a thou,
sand dollars from the taxpayer and
giving it to the poor and unfortunate
then our Alcalde is indeed a remarka ble
man. sort of Robin Hood-Paul Gilt
ford combination, socialist of a certain
divine type.
Admitting however that the Alcalde
wants this increase which has just been
voted to him for the purpose OF being
remunerated for his services honestly
rendered to the munici pality then there
are many things which the Alcalde
has yet 10 do before he can claim
that he has earned the increase,
or in fact the salary which he
has been receiving up to now. One
thousand dollars from the municipal
treasury can be considered well spent,
if in return for the same we can pro-
cure the passage of the municipal regu-
1ations which are wanting to make this
town a half decent sort Of a place to
live in, or if the Alcalde can cleanse
Norzagaray street, or assure the people
that there is no danger of water ia
mine, or if one can have over an inch
and a half of water to bathe in.
If the city will establish a crematory
for the con sumption of garbage and
thereby do away with the great health
menace existing in the throwing of ash
and filth il negh boring waters, then the
thousand will be well earhtd There
are hundred things that the Alcalde
can do to earn that thousand dollars, SO
that ne would be beyond the criticism
of all citizens, no mater how biased
they may be polilicl ly or o.her wise.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-06-26
The Peoples
Cooperative Building, Savings
and Loan Association
of Porto Rico.

Charter Perpetual Authorized Ca
pital Stock, 100000. Face Value of
Shares $Ioo. Each, to be Paid for in
Monthly Iustallments of $I.25 Each.
No Membership Fee. Money Loaned
to Members at Six Per Cent Interest
and on Easy Terms. Dividends Gre
dited or Paid Four Times Each Year.
Full Privileges of Withdrawal. The
Interests of Shareholders Carefully
Guarded and Safely Secured. A Com
Portable Home Possible for the Hum
blest Wage Garner. Safe and Profit
able Investment for the Man or Woman
who Would Save Money. A First class
Opportunity for the Person of Means to
Obtain Sure Income in Quarterly Pay
ments. Designed and Destined to be
Powerful Agent for Prosperity, Builder
of Many Good Homes, a Promoter of
Improved and More Enjoyable Social
Conditions in Forto Rico.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
William H. Elliott, Andres Crosas,
Fidel Guillermety, DR.. Ricardo M. Her
nandez, Walter K. Lands, Manuel
Paniagua y Oller, Alfred A. Smi h.
This Association will commence bus
iness on July I. 1902, on which date the
first monthly installments on all stock
subscriptions will be due and payable
at the Associations office, the location
of which will be announced prior to
said date. Subscription sheets are being
mailed to numerous persons whose ad-
dresses have been obtained, with re-
quest to sign, solicit subscriptions from
friends, and return as directed Anyone
failing to receive sheet and not hav-
ing other opportunity to subscribe, may
send his subscription by mail Or messen-
ger direct to w. H. Elliott, Intendencia
Building, San Juan.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-06-26

titute the products of the island Be-
yond this the people have no training
and no knowledge.
Here in Porto Rico we have confined
ourselves to sugar, tobacco and coffee.
Oranges are just now being cultivated.
Porto Ricos one great aid has been its
open market in the States Were it not
for this we today would be stagnating
in the same manner as the islands to
the south and west. There is good
lesson to be learned from the condition
of affairs in both Cuba and the Lee
ward islands, and that is that diversity
of products is the only salvation for a
purely agricultural people
We can take for example the orange
industry. The first cultivated orange
crop is due in about two years Prior
to this, despite the fact that the Porto
rican orange has no superior there was
no such a thing here as a cultivated
orange. After the first crop is grown
the orange lands already under cultiva
ton will yield larges crop than that OF
Florida and California combined. A
vast resource for the island has beer
given life within but few short years
and saving unusual disaster the people
of Porto Rico may look to their oranges
as substantial support in time OF need
Experiments in other lines of agrl
culture must continue. Cotton has beer
experimental with and the finest grade
of what is known as island cotton has
been produced here with great success
We must encourage cotton people
TO come here and cultivate this pro
duct. We can make cotton as staple
Portorican production as cane and to
bacco are now. Good results have beer
achieved with a silk worm which pro
duces a fine grade of silk and the lar
gest cocoon known to the world. .
course this product is merely in 1T
early experimental stages. How wide
or how large an industry it may beco
me it is difficult at this time to prophe
size, but it is worth the effort, it is wortl
working with, as it can also in tim'
become great insular industry.
There are many more products which
can be grown here, and made par
of the insular support. Our great
est security from want and deprivation
in times of disaster lies in the the di
versity of products which we may grow
Drought is good for one product il
; certain stages, and bad for others, le
us have both so that we can gather be
nefts whatever may come. To depend
upon one or two Or even half a dozel
products when we can grow scor
means carelessness, and inactivity. Thi
is what brings want and famine sucl
as the other islands are today expert
encing. Let us profit by their mistake
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-06-26
Current News Notes.
Local And Personal.

The New York Evening Post of June
9 gives the following army promotions
Gen. George w. Davis who has been
made Major General was the last
military governor of Porto Rico.
Brig.-Gens. John c. Bates and George
w Davis, to be major-generals.
C9lanels to be 6rlgadieT-generals--
Tasodore +. Windt, Sixth Cavalry
Frank d. Baldwin, Twenty,seventh In.
fantry; Jesse M. Lee, Thirtieth Infan.
try William II. Carter, assistant ad-
jutant general.
Major to be bTigadier- general Tasker
II. Bliss, conmissary.
general, for a period Of four
years, with rank of brigadier- general
Col. William II. Forwood, now assistant
surgeon general.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-06-26

Strikes in Manila are becoming gene
raj. The printers, butchers, tobacco
nists, hemp worker, and the carriage
makers, estimated in all to number
more than 1000 men, are out Isabelle
de los Reyes who organized the strike
movement, has become frightened at
the conditions which have resulted from
his efforts, and has resigned the leader
ship. A dummy leader has been ap-
pointed in his stead, but the strikers ad-
init that de los Reyes still issues all
orders. The majority of the strikers
tell their employers that thev are satisf-
ed with their present wages, which are to
day three times higher than they were
before the Americans came to the
islands, but that they must obey orders,
or they will be killed.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-06-26
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
OF PORTO RICO.
Office of the Commissioner.
SAN JUAN.

Sealed proposals in triplicate for the
erection of a Model School Building and
Principals House, on the Normal School
property, Rio Piedras, p R., will be re-
ceived at this office until 10 o'clock A.
M. July 5th 1902 and then opened
Information furnished on application.
The right is reserved to accept or reject
any or all proposals. Envelopes con-
tanning proposals. Should be endorsed
q Proposals for constructing buildings,
Normal School system, Rio Piedras !,
and addressed to S. B. Hickman, Acting
Commissioner of Education. 2-3
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-06-26
KIND btV0IQ'S
| Condition improved.
Indications Of A Speedy Recove
Anxious Crowds.
Special Cablegram to BOletln Mercantil.

New York, June z6th.-Advices re
ceived from London this morning state
tha. the condition of the King is much
improved, and that the physicians II
charge are hopeful of a very speedy
recovery.
No symptoms of blood poisoning
have shown, and it is believed that the
King will recover without further TN
usual incident.
The postponement of the coronation
has left thousands of persons penniless
and there is danger that fund will
have to be created to help many stran
gers away from London.
The news offices were all watched by
eager thousands yesterday, and every
bit of good news was cheered. Good
order has been preserved throughout.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-06-26
The ChO|eI0 AI M0|lI0.
On A Steady Increase.
Three Hundred And Thirty Deaths
In Twenty Days.
Special Cablegram to BoIetin Mercantil

New York, June 26th-The War
Department is in receipt of official ad-
vices from Manila to the effect that the
cholera plague which has been at that
place for some months past is growing
more severe than ever; and that three
hundred and thirty persons have sue
cumbed within the last twenty days
among them a large number of sol
diers, and three army officers. The
advice also states that the military and
civic hospitals are overcrowded, anc
larger Accommodations are now being
prepared
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-06-26
VQ|OUS Notes

An official report just published at
Havana shows that ga 600 tons of ST.
gar were manufactured in Cuba between
January and June 1 of this year.
Two hundred and thirty-eight thousand
tons of this sugar was shipped away
from the island, and the remainder is
held to await the result of the move
ment to secure reciprocity between Cuba
and the United States
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-06-26

There was a meeting of the city
council last night at which the munich
pal budget for the coming fiscal year
was taken up. The first item on the
budget was an increase in the salary
of the Alcalde from $500 to $4,000.
This created considerable objection from
Messrs Soler, Dooley and Larrinaga. Mr.
Dooley voted for $2ooo and Mr. Soler
voted for the same sum as paid last
year. Other items were then carefully
gone over, and each one separately de.
bated. The meeting adjourned at mid
night to resume this evening.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-06-26

A dispatch received at the State De
partment from Minister Conger at
Pekin says that the Ministers OF the
Powers there have reached an agree.
ment on the basis of Secretary Hays
proposition, making a reduction of
about 100000 in the Chinese indem-
nifty. One million of this will come out
of the sum to be paid to the United
States
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-06-26

Through the generosity of Senator
EIoar the town of Natick Mass, is to
receive duplicate of the bronze tablet
soon to be erected in the ice-President's S
room at the Capitol at Washington as
"a memorial Of the late Vice-President
Henry Wilson.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-06-26
To Our Readers.

Our columns are open to correspon-
deuce on everything affecting the coffee
sugar and tobacco plantation and farm-
ing generally and we cordially invite
criticism and discussion. Natural His
tory notes will also be welcomed, as
well IS all news Of interest ad planters.
Communications should be to dressed
The Editor, BoLETIN MERcANTIIs 20
Plaza Alfonso San Juan
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-06-26
Nl|B Captures
me CiB 0I euro.
Large Town About Seventy Miles
From Caracas.
vice-President of Venezuela Is Taken
Prisoner.
Special Cablegram to Boletin Mercantil.
Special Cablegram to BOletin Mercantil.

New York, June 26st.-Advices rec
sived here from Trinidad state that
Gen. Matos has just captured the city
of Cura, situated about seventy miles
inland rom the city Of Caracas. The
advices state that desperate encounter
took place. and that many men were
lost on both sides. Matos is reported
TO have taken over six hundred prison.
ers, many of them joining the rebel
forces immediately after being takeE.
Amongst the prisoners is the Vice Pre-
sident Of Venezuela.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-06-26

Gustavus Dirl<s, a young newspaper
and magazine illustrator, whose bug
VILE pictures have become familiar TO
readers of the comic papers, committed
suicide by shooting himself through
the head last night, at his studio No.
|2s2 West Fourteenth Street. Ill health
IS supposed to have caused the deed.
He was only twenty-one years old.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-06-26
Another Violent Eruption
Fort-de-France Covered With
Ashes And Stones.
Darkness At Dominica.
SDariaI CahIeoram to Roetin Marra autiI
Darkness At Dominica.
Special Cablegram to BoIetin Mercantil

New Yock, June z6th.-Advices re-
ceived in this city from Dominica state
that on Tuesday of this week Mt. Pelee
was again in vigorous eruption, and
that heavy storm of ashes and stones
fell at Fort-de-France the fall of ashes
exceeding in duration that of any pre-
vious time.
AT Dominica darkness lasted for
several hours. and ashes fell in the
southen portion of the island.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-06-26

The House of Representatives by a
vote of IIo to II, struck out the enact
ing clause of the Corliss Pacific Cable
Bill, which provided for the laying by
the Government of cable to the Phil
ippines.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-06-26

The grain-tax clause of the budget
passed the committee stage in the
House of Commons last weekly 27o
to Io2 votes.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-06-26

The Arkansas Democratic Conven-
tion at Little Rock by vote of 42o to
72,;has adopted a resolution declaring ex-
Gov. James P. Clarke to be the party's
nominee for United States Senator to
succeed Senator Jones. Gov Jefferson
Davis was unanimously renoninated at
the head of full State ticket, and a
platform was adopted indorsing the
Kansas City national platform, with a
plank especially denouncing Trusts,
and demanding the taxation of the
franchises of corporations.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-06-26

The negotiations of Sheng, the Direc-
tor of Chinese Railroads, with a repre-.
sentative of the American China Devel-
opment Company for the beginning of
work on the Canton -Hankow Railroad,
have been satisfactorily concluded.
Sheng has undertaken to memorialize
the throne, recommending that an edict
be issued authorizing an issue of $4o,-
100000 bonds in accordance with the
Washington contract of 1898.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-06-26

The President of the Limpia, ,botas
association has written a letter to the
BoLErIN requesting it to deny The
charge that his association is poll
tical one, or that it has any political
axes to grind, or that it has nominee
for Commissioner to Washington.
The president who was busily engag-
ed this morning in having his boots
blackened .ty another member of the
fraternity, while he played with a
silverheaded walking stick, stated that
his association had no connection with
the Turbas and that they were all
honest working people. Iglesias happen
ed to go by on the other side of the
Plaza at the moment. looking very
envious, and is said to have stated later
that while his men will obey his orders
implicitly he has never been able to get
them to clean his boots.
Talking about true greatness.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-06-26

The gunboat Marietta entered this
harbor early to-day. She comes from
Santo Domingo, and is now awaiting
orders. The BoLETIN yesterday rec
eived cable stating that the Marietta
had been ordered to go to Venezuela.
That cable is now on file in this Office
and can be seen by any person who
cares to read it. AT the Naval Station
her destination is unknown at this time.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-06-26

Mr.. Joaquin Aldea Berenguer, a
clerk in the office of the Attorney Ge-
neral died at his home in this city last
night.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-06-26


Miss Victoria c. Dodd Of Ponce, who
has recently taken her degree from
Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley,
Mass, is the first young lady from the
Island to graduate from one Of the
largest and best known colleges for
women in the United States since the
American occupation of the Island.
The Educational Department desires
the best of the daughters of Puerto
Rico in its service, and the San Juan
Graded and High School is to be con-
graduated in obtaining her as instructor
in Latin in the Spanish and English
Department for the coming scholastic
year.
I While there are number of Normal
graduates on the Island it is sincerely
hoped that there will be other ladies
who will fellow Miss Dodd's example
thus fitting themselves for any position
which the future schools of Puerto Rice
may demand.
Miss Dodd has been absent from hel
native land seven years, during three
of which she. taught in. the City o.
Mexico and the remaining four ha:
been spent in special study at Mt Holyo
ke College.
She will be warmly welcomed to he1
own sunny shores by many friends whc
wish her all success in her future work
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-06-26

Proposals for the building of culverts
on the Utuado-Adjuntas road were
opened this morning in the office of the
Board of Public Works.
Only two bids were presented, one by
Mark and Co., and the other by Jose
Roig Colomer of Utuado. Mark and
Co., bid $S,35o4o, and agreed to. do the
work in four months, and Colomer
SS.172.o2 and agreed to do the work in
the same length of time. The contract
has not yet been awarded.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-06-26

week make point of getting drunk
every Sunday and holiday.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-10-01
CUNARD SHIPPING SUBSIDY.


LONDON, Sept. 3O.-The directors of the
Cunard Steamship Company sent letter
to the shareholders tonight setting forth
the terms of the proposed subsidy 1t will
include payment by the government of $780,
900 annually, the company to build two
large, fast steamers for the Atlantic trade
The agreement will remain in force twenty
years after the completion of the second
steamer. The company Is to remain Brit
ish concern, and an undertaking is to be
given not to unduly raise freight rates.
The assistance which the government, un-
der this arrangement. renders the Cunard
Steamship Company is designed for the ex-
press purpose OF meeting the alteration in
conditions of transatlantic travel caused
by the formation of the Morgan shipping
combine. During the continuance of this
its entire fleet, including any new vessels
which 1t builds, at the disposal of the gov
eminent.
The Cunard arrangements meet with the
warmest approval both in Liverpool and
London, and aaron Inverclide, chairman of
the company, who is credited with having
been throughout resolute in resisting the
policy of absorption by the Morgan COM
bine, is the recipient of a shower of con-
gratulations for having secured an unex-
peotedly favorable agreement with the gov
eminent. Similar praises are literally be-
slowed upon the government for it's eff
bination.. These feelings are expressed in
all newspapers, and editorial articles on the
subject, even in papers which have been
most determined against the principal of
subsidy, agree that in the present case a
subsidy is justified.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-10-01
Cable Notes.

The Macedonian disorders are regarded at
Sofia as simply protest against Russian
participation in the Shipka pass celebra-
ton.
The English Foreign ONCE has decided
that in the future all army contracts for
meat shall contain clause that the frozen
mutton supplied must come exclusively
from British colonies.
II is reported from San Sebastian that
King Alfonso has refused to sign certain
DEGREES presented TO him by the minister
of war, General Weyler, and the matter is
receiving much comment.
The Duchess De valencay, formerly Miss
Helen Morton, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Levi p Morton. has been operated on for
reported to be out or danger.
The British steamer Capella, from New
Orleans Sept. 10, which arrived at Liverpool
Yesterday, had on board the crew of the
Norwegian bark Winona, which was aban-
doned at sea after having been set on fire.
One hundred and twenty houses out of
100 comprising the village of Voshnik, Po-
land have been burned to the ground. The
fire was caused by children playing with
fire. Two children persisted in the flames.
The statement sent out on Monday that
General Won Gossler, formerly Prussian
minister of war, had died at DantZig was
erroneous 1t has been learned that it was
General Won Gossler's brother Gustaye
Won Gossler who died there last evening.