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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-06-06
sArlJUAN, JUNO 8
The Islands To /
The Southeast.

In the course of a three weeks stay
among the islands of the English,
French and Danish Antilles it IS most
natural for one to compare the condl-
tions as they exist in those islands With
the present commercial status OF Porto
Rico. And it can be said at the very
start that Porto Rico does not suffer Dy
the comparison but becomes rather
sort of New York or London when
placed alongside the poverty and NIL
sery existing to day in all the English
and Danish islands, and most unfortu.
nately brought about without notice II
the French colonies in the Caribbean.
AS the interview with M. Clarac IN
another column declares, the smaller
islands to the south cannot grow the
great diversity of products which are
raised with such great success in Porto
Rico In Martinique they boasted OF
many splendid sugar plantations, and
some mango tress, but there it stopped.
In Dominica they make jellics, and that
is the limit to their industries. In st.
Kits, Antigua, Nevis and so on sugar
has been raised, and is now in the
warehouses a drug on the hands Of the
community and an eyesore Tor the
starving populaCe.
There can be no question whatsoever
but that the beet industry has killed
these smaller islands once and forever,
and that no matter what relief measur@ IS
the British government may undertake
the islands will never be in such a con
dition that they can support the people
who live on them.
Wherever one goes is the same gen
eral cry of poverty, and the only being
one finds who is satisfied with his lot
is the army officer who draws his pay
with crops or without, goes home at the
end of his term and seems to be very
well satisfied. The army officer is
really the only prosperous citizen in the
islands, and very little of his prosperity
is permitted to percolate into the hands
Of the more NEEDY.
The British system OF free trade
has certainly ruined these co,onies in a
way that has made it impossible fo1
them to ever recover Cane 5 gar has
been most thoroughly given is death
blow, and with it has died the prosper
ity Of the English West Indies. Nc
tariff war can help now, the time fol
aid is long past, and the islands are
absolutely done for commercially.
We in Porto Rico should find some
way of transplanting the disgr1lntlet
and disaffected politician, to the British
islands, where he would find some rea
cause for complaint, where his howl O
anguish would in justice find SYM Path
etic answering wall. All the talk OF the
chronic-anti becomes ridiculous in thu
extreme after ten days visit to th'
other islands, and the most effective
way which we know of to satisfy tht
professional kicker IS to lorcibly compe
his departure for St. Kits, Antigua
Nevis or even Barbados. After a few
days stay he would make a splendit
Porto Rican citizen.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-06-06

In New York club circles much COM
ment is caused just now by the action
of a well-known London club in offering
to Americans all the privileges of men,
bership during the coronation season
and tor six months afterwards, for only
twenty-one shillings. Yet such IS the
case, and the bulletin boards of a halt
dozen of the large clubs in this city to-
day bear witness to the fact The offer
is regarded variously as another indl-
cation of the Anglo-American entente,
an amazing exhibition of club ameni-
ties, or, perhaps, a thin1y disguised at
tempt to replenish the club Golfers
from the influx OF Americans to see the
h.lg Edward coronation festivities. In
any event the terms are most liberal as
Sc: forth in the circulars, which offer
visiting membership" to not exceed
ing ten members Of each of the prlnc1
oal English-speaking clubs throughout
he world for only five dollars. Appll
cants must be proposed by the secretary
or committee Of t1eir own club. and
such men bership. with all privileges
| is to conGaQe from date Of arrival IN
England 10 the end Of the present year
The club also undertakes to secure seats
on the route of the royal procession fo1
from S35 to SIoo each for its members
and guests, but this does mot sound SC
much like bargain" Sleeping g-rooms
/ the clubhouse itself at four shilling:
2. night will be "Dalloted" for among
members.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-06-06
Homo FQVO[S P0lQ1lQ.
Prefers This Route To All Others
Will Most Probably Continue Fight
Against Nicaragua.
Special Cablegram to Boletin Mercantil

New York, June 6th.-The latest
advices from Washington indicate that
Senator Hanna strongly favors the
Panama Canal route, and that he will
continue the fight against the Nicaragua
plan. Senator Hanna is now is Wash
ington and it is stated that he is or
ganizing for long fight in both the
Senate and the House. It is not believed
here or at Washington that the Panama
route can win Is the forces of Senator
Morgan favorins Nicaragua are el
organized, and seem to have carried
popular opinion The matter is nov
undergoing much discussion at Wash
iugton.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-06-06
Nine Millions D Pounds
For bQI}liDS.
To Be Spent BY Great Britain
During Coming Year.
Seventy-fve Vessels Under Construction
Special Cablegram to Boletin Mercantil.

New York, June 6th.-The British
navy program was made public yeste*-
day during a discuss; on in the House
of Commons over the navy estimates.
The Secretary Of the Admiralty
stated that nine millions of pounds has
been appropriated for the coming year,
and that seventy-fve new warships were
now IN the course of construction
among them being twenty arrnored
cruisers. He also stated that plans
were now completed for twenty-sever
more, and that before the year was hal
over he expected to have more than g
hundred vessels of all classes in the
course of construction, many of them
nearing completion.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-06-06
The New French CQdlet.
M. Combes Charged With The
Duty Of Forming 1t.
Is A Republican Leader.
Special Cablsgram to Boletin Mercantil.

NsN York, June 6th.-Advices re-
ceived from Paris-declare that President
Loubet has charged Senator Combes
with the duty of forming a Cabinet
M. Combes has accepted the charge
and has stated that he will be prepared
to present the names of the new cabinet
members within forty-eight hours. M
Combes is a leading republican anc
was the most bitter prosecutor of M
Deroulede, at the time Of the coup de
etat attempted by Deroulede, agains
the Loubet administration, No name!
have as yet been mentioned. 1t /!
believed that the men reelected at th'
last elections will be renamed as mem
bers of the cabinet.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-06-06

Through one of the eXigencies which
frequently occur in city rooms" Rash
and Flash had been assigned to report
the. Presbyterian General Assembly for
their respective newspapers. That either
was more at home in covering a pool
room raid or reporting the closing odds
on the public's favorite race-horse mat
tered not; each had to toe the scratch,
then plunge to the depth of his strength
into the mysteries of 1atter-day exegesls.
AS the meeting wore on, their interest
increased, and the various moot points
before the theologians became issues or
which the reporters themselves took
sides. 1t was over the question whether
the so-cal1ed "Dec1aratory Statement
had to be submitted to the Presbyterles
that their last dispute arose RaSh
asked the Moderator, and he, apparent
" in a moment of abstraction, said
NO" Flash took his stand on the
Report of TIE Committee of Revision.
They agreed to leave the decision Of
the bet to a venerable doctor of divinity
whose record of attendance at General
Assemblies already mounted to thirty
Two.
Does the declaration have to be sub
mitted to the Presbyteries|
Certainly it must" answered the
father in Israel, nodding head, weight
ened by more than fourscore years
Thereupon, strange to say, he was first
puzzled, then panied, to observe Rash
in the pew before him pass Flash what
looked remarkably ike a fye-dollar
bill.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-06-06

TO one another-"John, what is it, odd
or even?" "Odd" was the nonchalant
reply. The bill was picked up. It was
a note for $500. 81 don't believe have
the cash with me, Frank" said the
loser. He drew a roll of bills from his
pocket, and, finding he had more than
he expected, extracted one for five hun
dred dollars, and handed it over. No
more was said on the matter, and the
interrupted thread of conversation was
picked up
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-06-06

The heads Of the various depart
ments of the Insular government are
busily engaged in preparing their rep
orts for the fiscal year ending June goth
1872. The reports are very large ones,
and will show some remarkable pro
gress made along all 1ires of admins
trative work. The report will be sent
to Washington by the Governor, after
which it will be printed in book form.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-06-06

The New York papers which arrived
by yesterdays mail give accounts OF
the San juan sunsets OF some weeks
ago, and the -oopalar superstition re-
garding the near approach Of the enc.
ing Of the world. Most of the articles
.a-o written in the same vein as is
Usually Used i'll describing darkes
Africa, or an Indian medicine dance
Il is-not so long ago t1at Zionist Dowie
was r21ing il a fortune, OF hat n1iracr
Ilous cures were being claimed by many
would be "IIealers', Failing "to SET
ourselves as others see us" is rather :
universal failing.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-06-06
New York Market To-day.
To Our Readers.

Our columns are open to correspon-
dence on everything affecting the coffee
sugar and tobacco plantation and farna-
ING generally and we cordially invite
criticism and discussion. Natural His
tory notes will also be welcomed, as
well ss all news Of interest ad planters.
Communications should be to dressed.
The Editor, BoLETIN MERcANrIL, 30
Plaza Alfonso San Juan.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-06-06

The bill codifying and extending the
laws regulating the immigration Of
aliens into the United States was pass.
ed by the House of Representatives
yesterday afternoon. An amendment
offered b. Mr.. Bowersock of Kansas,
forl,iding the sale Of beer at Ellis Is
land was agreed to by vote of 83 to
is. Another amendment. forbiddinp
the sale Of liquor in the Capitol build
ING. was agreed e. Ios to IQ.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-06-06
San Iuan, May 10Th, 1902.

San Juan. P. r., May 20. 1902. Seal
ed proposals in triplicate, for construct
ing Brick Garbage Crematory at San
Juan, P. K. viii be received here until
II noon June 20, 1902. Information
furnished on application. .. S. reser-
YES right to accept or reject any or al
proposals. Envelopes containing pro-
posals should be end 3rsed Pro- poss,Is
for Garbage Crematory' addr sssed ].
T. Crabbs. 9. n 40
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-06-06

The Board of Public Works has re-
su rrected the old seis1n2graph which
was formerly USED BY the Spanish 60
ver-4.nent aul has placed same in
position for use in the Office of the
Board. The machine while being an
old one is fully equal to the task of re
gistering and indicating the directions
Of earthquakes and heavy Disturbances
and will be of great use in the work OF
the department.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-06-06

A Shanghai dispatch says that the
southern rebellion in China is active,
and that "a severe battle has been
fought at Shu Lrh-Sien in which the
rebels were defeated by the Govern
ment forces with losses amounting to
1900 men in. killed or wounded. The
rebels are, howeyeF, reported to be in
creasing il strength.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-06-06

The elections for the Legislature of
Ontario resulted in the return OF
Ross (Liberal) Government candidate
by a majority of five, with one cor sti
tlency to hear from, which will prooa-
bly reduce it to four. The Govern
ment majority during the last session
was eleven.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-06-06

Among the officers on the cruiser
Cincinnati is Lieut.. Commander Gil
more, who it will be remembered was
apured during the early part of re
Philippine war, and after many month.
IF suffering aud privation as prisoner
finally made his escape BY crossing the
island Of Lnzon. The Cincinnati win
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-06-06

The treaty between the Argentine
Republic and Chill, providing, among
other things, for a restriction of their
armaments and for general arbitration,
was signed last evening at Santiago.
The two governments have named the
British Government to arbitrate all
questions which in the future may
arise between the two countries.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-06-06

An order has been issued at the
War Department releasing from milit,
ary prisons all general prisoners form
erly belonging to volunteer regiments
whose confinement is contrary to the
decision of the Supreme. Court in the
case of Capt. Peter c. Deming.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-06-06

Laws and resolutions appro-
we'd by the last session of the
Insular Legislature of Porto
Rico, bound in one volume
with the political code for sled
at the BoLETIN, price $I-25
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-06-06

The games of Saturday at the Base
ball grounds should be largely attended
as most excellent program is being
arranged by the committee.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-06-06

The Supreme Court has granted Ii
cense to practice as attorney at law to
tie following named persons: Cruz
Castro, Emilio Ginorio. Sandalio Torres,
Ma1uel Ginorio, Beriso Torres. Rafael
3. Sama, Rodo1fo Ramirez, Luis Freida,
An onio Sulivarez, Rafael Aroe, Loren
20 Gimenez, Miguel Yanarez. Cartnelo
Martinez, Uipiano Colon Ferrer, Fran
cisco Lasalie, Fernando Vazquez.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-06-06

The East Side "kid" is nothing if not
precocious. A diminutive Italian, not
yet nine years old, was witness in an
assault case tried on Thursday before
Deputy Police Commissioner Thurston
The boy had been dubbed when he
wasn't doin nothin but standin on the
corner"
"Were you playing craps, as the
officer says?" Col. Thurston asked.
"Naw."
You know how to play it,"
"Surew
"rhen how did it happen that you
weren't playing on this occasion?
Leaning forward eagerly and holding
up his hand, school-boy fashion, the
mite explained:
Il didn't have no pennies that day.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-06-06
VoTiOuS Notes.

The Virginia Constitutional Conven.
ton by vote of 4S to 3S has, decided
that the new Constituon shall be pro
claimed.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-06-06
Current News Notes.,
Local And Personal.

The BoLETIN offers a prize for the
first intelligent reading of the photo
graphed letter which appeared in this
mornings scandalizer A pair of
spectacles should have been furnished
with each paper.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-06-06

The Sc ate COMMITTEE on Military
Affairs has authorized favorable re.
port upon the bill providing for the
retirement Of Major-Gen. Brooke with
the rank of Lieutenant General
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-06-06
.Sll!l Neg0!aeS LQ!ge Loon
To Increase The Army and Navy.
Internal Improvements To Be Made.
Special Cabegram to Boletn Mercantil.


New York, June 6th.-Advices recei-
we'd from London state that the Spanish
government has just negotiated loan
of three hundred and thirty eight mil
lions of dollars.
The money was obtained in both
Paris and London, and the matter was
closed before it had been made public.
The government intends to increase
the navy in accordance with the propo-
sails made at the last session of the
Cortes.
1t is also said that the army will be
placed on a-more effective footing. In
ternal Improvements, that is, schools
and government workshops will also
be erected. The loan is for thirty
years
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-06-06

There will be dance at the Hotel
Olimpo on Saturday evening. Tne
affair will begin promptly at $50 O'Clock
and will continue until midnight. The
invitations are limited to two hundred
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-06-06

The following is the list of passen-
gers who arrived on the Caracas from
New York yesterday:
Mr. B. L. Dix, aife and child, Mr. A.
Mendez, wife and two children, Mr. Jose
Y de Guzman. Mr. Esteban Ramirez,
DR. Francisco del Vale, wife. three chill
dren and maid, Mr. Ralph NJ Satterly,
Mr. A. G. Holmes, Mr. w S. Cordova,
Privates John Pohlmann, John Miller
and Walker Morris.
The Governor has received the fol
lowing Letter of thanks from the Act
ing Governor of Martinique:
Fort de France, May Is, 1902.
The Acting Governor of Martinique
to the Honorable Governor OF
Porto Rico:
Honorable Sir
1t has pleased the Relief Committee
of San Juan Porto Rico, to sead me
per the SIS. Sterling, certain quantity
of provisions for distribution among the
victims of the sad catasphe of Mays.
l have the honor to request you tc
be pleased to tender to the inhabitants
of San Juan and more especially to the
aforesaid Committee the most sincere
thanks of the people of Martinique.
Pleace accept, Honorable Governor
the assurances of my highest conside
ration.
[Signed] LHUERRE
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-06-06
TIOtG Is Doomed.
Commerce Of West Indies Ruined
By The 5raptions.

Views of M. Clarac Who Escaped From
St. Pierre-Exodus From Islands Ger
tain-The Sugar Industry. Guiana
Likely to Prosper In the Calamity.
The colored American., 1902-05-03
Races Best Hustler.

Editor Cooper of the Washington
ID. 9 J COlOred American isl the best
newspaper hustler of the aIe, bar
ring no one -TImes-Speaker, Denver,
Colorado.
The colored American., 1902-05-03

Call at the Metropolitan Store and
News Depot, 1901 NJ street. n. ". for
The Colored American, which Is 81
ways on sale there. If
The colored American., 1902-05-03

Beet trust, ice trust, coal trust but,
after the deluge-the chicken trust.
The colored American., 1902-05-03

Education is the pr .msry need Of the
roor whites of the South.
The colored American., 1902-05-03

Southern congressman fetl cold chills
running down their spine every time
they hear the word Investigation"
The colored American., 1902-05-03

A little, well done, counts for more in
the long run than much half done.
The colored American., 1902-05-03

/ NtN "HohO thOLu SJtOhR Ia UuA IL nee.
Nevertheless and notwithstandire
this coun ry is Lot reunited-unl s. the
northern white voter is satisfied TO be
a fraction OF man.
without quesIUn, Goth parties sra
scsred over the far-reaching possibili-
ties of the harmIess-appearirg Crum-
packer resolution.
C9cil Rhodes Upeus to US anot' er
door in giving ia a chance at those OK
ford scholarships. How many of us
are wiling TO enter?
NJ lynching 10 nece sary anywhere
No m N guilty of sn unnatural crime
can escape the penalty of the law, un-
der regular procedure.
And the Negro Insists that he is not
g.ing to be abolished, "-we believe
''aboli. he'd" is the term used by the
st Lpuia Globe Democrat.
Il is to be hoped Juat the thousand
lynch one poor Negro in Alabama feel
satn Fl d with their prOwess.
| As TO the charge That Negro votes
eau be bought, did the colored men get
all of those crisp So bills that were said
to have carried Indiana a few elections
ago?
Il is queer why some northern re
publicans will sell their birthright for
little hypOcritical southern applause.
Mr.. Litll field, of Maine, is the latest
horrible example.
Andrew Carnegie ought to do little
communicating" with tie narrow
minded trustees of the Atlanta library
he w2s thoughtless enough TO place
under their juris diction.
Baltimore can stand for Negroes in
her public library, but Atlanta cannot /
GeOrgIs's 6 capital ought to be ashamed
to let MaTyland's metropolis beat her
out in ordinary politeness.
Washington theaters insist that the !
cOlOred people shall "stay on dis side of |
the high-bo'd fence" If our moneyed |
men we're W So, we might have a back |
yard Of our Owl to stay in.
Vlrginia's trOnOle over the sufffage
question has been caused by the fact
that some Of the delegates to her CON-
stitutIOr al convention possessed that
inconvenience known IS a conscit nee.
Felix Adler the RIeat social eformer
of New York, d livered a lecture re-
Gently IN which he deela ed that Booker
T. Washing on Is q great man and a |
greater benefsctor Of humanity than |
Cecil Rhodes
We cannot secute righ-s by reso-
luton, nor civilization by act of Con-
gress-but the people can cry out and
Congress cen enforce the laws that
give an equal chance TO every citizen,
to make of h'mself what he can,
Let's have the Los angeles WON sn's
convention and end the color ne
agony, for the benefit of our white
southern sisters wno are afraid that
The colored American., 1902-05-03

There is no demand for disturbance
of the ministerial balance of trade be
tween Baltimore aud Washing ION.
The colored American., 1902-05-03

Without quesuUn, Goth parties sra
scsred over the far-reaching possibili-
ties of the harmIess-appearirg Crum-
packer resolution.
The colored American., 1902-05-03

Caucasian Journals print the crimes
of Negroes under ''scare heads" snd
their virtues. If printed at all are usual
ly found Ia the "too late TO classify"
The colored American., 1902-05-03

Public offices, federal or private, are
n t lOsfing places.
The colored American., 1902-05-03

Let's have the Los angeles womsn's
convention and end the clor | Inc
agony, for the benefit of our white
southern sisters VINO are afraid that
comforting with respectable Negro
women will cOntamipste them.
The colored American., 1902-05-03

Nevertheless and notwithstaudire
this coun ~ is Lot reunited-unl 50 the
northern white voter is satisfied TO be
fraction OF man.
The colored American., 1902-05-03

The Roosevelt. ties are having
difficulty in finding some candidate
willing to accept their support.