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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1904-02-05
Nota del dia

FAGpdI LdLuCutO uC uSClSld, C1i
defensa de su proyecto de re-
forma del sistema judicial; J
queremos nosotros, aprovechan-
do la coyuntura que Sc nos ofre-
ce, dedicar una serie de cousi-
raciones a poner en- claro algu-
nos conceptos del extenso dis
curse, que reproduce con marca-
do entusiasmo nuestro colega
radical, "El .Ag lila, de Ponce.
o ell Honorable Attorney ha
querido justificar la Erase con
que le despidio el Presidente
Roosevelt, momentos antes de
su partida para esta Isla, 8 repi-
tic en- tono de reproche una he
regfa, de dos aspectos, que fue
lanzada imprudentemente por
uno de los mas connotados con-
sejeros del Executive.
De SECURE que, por no perder
la costumbre, la intencion del
orador glosado por ell Attorney
General, fue para censurar la
conducta de los representatives
de Espafia en- ell tratado de paz
entire esta nacion y los Estados
Unidos.
Pero va sea porque no conoz-
can los bastante ell castellano al
gunos miembros del Executive,
8 por mandate expreso de la
conciencia, imponiendose a los
deseos manifestados de hacerle
la zala a los norteamericanOs, 10
cierto es que la forma de EXPIRE
sion empleada no correspondlo
al proposito sustentado, y cusn
do Sc trato de deprimir a Espa-
ma, resulto contra los Estados
Unidos enderezada la censura
Veamos ell parrafo de que tu-
vo Ell NAL gusto de enamorarse
el Attorney General; v. despues
de transcribirlo al pie de Ia le-
ira, haremos los concentrates
que merece tan extemporanea
manifestation por cualquier Ia
do que Sc mire y de cualquier
modo que Sc juzgue.
Antes de efectuar la trans
cripcion, debemos consignar, pa
Ta el mas claro couocimiento de
los hechos, que la version obje-
to de nuestro analisis no fue
recogida por uno de nuestros
reporters, sino que la hemos to-
modo, con puntos y comas, del
apreciable colega va mencio.
nado:
Como Sc dijo aquf el otro dfa en- el
debate, consigno e1 orador, por el ira
tado de Paris, celebrado entire los Esta-
dos Unidos Y Espafia, los ciudadanos
de Puerto Rico fueron absolutamente
abandonados, quedando su suelts er
nanos de los Estados Unidos por este
tratado.
JComo? JAbsolutamente aban.
donados, quedando su suerte-
Ia dc los c1udadauOS de Puerto
Rico-en manos de los Estados
Unidos7
mo habiamos quedado en- que
ha sido una gran fortuna para
este pals el cambio de soberanis
y de nacionalidad?
Pues 81 nos atenemos a este
dltimo ide que Sc quejan los que
han demostrado mas regocijo J
frnici6n por 10 acaecido. en- to
das las circunstancias Y ocasio
nesi
iAbandonados absolutamen-
te, quedando su suerte en- ma
nos de los Estados UnidosI
Pues 81 aqui nunca ha habidc
Iibertades hasta ahora; nj 10.
ciudadanos han tenido derecho.
de tales. hasta que Sc inici6 es
te periodic constituents; nj la,
conquistas de Ia democracis
oFraigaron en- amos y adn en- ST.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1904-02-05

| El secretario habla de la ane-
Enia.
Aldea Nazario dice que han
fmuerto seis mil y pico de infe-
tlices colonos, a causa de dicha
enfermedad.
Raldiris aparece en- la galerfa.
Si ustedes ven a Raldiris. df-
ganle que yo no tengo lombriz
ninguna.
Y que ST es cierto ESQ de que
los que tienen solitaria comen
mucho, que le saque la lombriz a
mister Hunt, gobernador civil
de Puerto Rico que Sc esta CO.
miendo el gran buey.
=.
Ell Delegado Rivea lee Ell
BoLETIN MERcANTIL.
lHombre de buen gustol
Y llega el interprete Cornwell.
Y hace aquello.
~
Y, a pesar de aquello, siguen
entrando ex6ticoS en- la consa-
bida habitacion.
Las dos y babucha.
Bosteza el presidente.
~
Sc desbanda el Consejo Eje-
cutivo.
Segundo Torres mira a los
consejeros con altivez olfmpica.
La joroba de este hombre SIM
gular y honorable patricia Sc al
borota.
Y sc nota.
IEl Consejo Ejecutivol
iEl jorobadol
Victimario y vfctima.
Convengamos en- que la ley
For0c0Y, como dice Hernandez
Lopez en- un ingles bastante TO-
rdcGr, tiene jorobado al pals.
iQue no jorobenl
Ell delegado Chtmene0 (sin
guion) emite su voz argentina
y armoniosa.
Goyco Sc tapa las orejas.
***
Sigue grufiendo Cornwell.
FL interprete jstme0.
iLo que es el contagiol
Dfaz Navarro Sc dirige a su
sefiorfa.
Su senoria es Hernandez L6-
PEE.
lQue fsnos (como dice Cruel
ta) son los Delegadosl
~
Y su sefiorfa contesta.
Sc trata de sentencias.
Sentenciosos estais.
~
iGracias a DiosI
Estan de acuerdo Rosy y
Dfaz Navarro.
lVamos ala union3
=.
lHombrel
Y tambien estan de acuerdo
Hernandez Lopez y Dfaz Nava-
rro y Rosy y Nadal Santa Co
Iona.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1904-02-05
En- la Canlara baia


don Juan y don Hermin5 q
Sc env1an Tin osculo. =. por mn :.
do de la telegrafia sin hilos.
iOscttlo caste y puro!
Nv
Y me dice Cwm6o: ell deleg -
do continental y su interpr st.
fuman a duo.
Y contesto 20: pero com nrar
fosforos. aall
~
Pero, sefior. 5que lio e : estea
IQue hace Olmedo en- la ca
mara2
El jorobado dice que Olmedo
viene a recomendar las reformas
judiciales del Attornf y General.
Las tres y aguacf ate.
Pepe Diego ems arta un pro.
yecto con ell lapiz.
Herminio lie di, ce aIoo
lDonde esta R aldiris3
Convengan os en- que Labra
dor es TN hor nbre grave.
iCon que sseriedad mas seria
escrlbe sus 'luminosas cartas ma
ra La Dem 5croc50/
***
cow engamos tambien ep
que el de;legado continental es (
mas ladl11o que cualquier ifbaro.
con mas o menos uncinariasis.
Habia mas castellano que Ca
rril Y Sc hace ell loco.
"De los gaaehinangos grandes
salen los lgaGelttnangu guitoS.'
IColabradori
{Que es ESQ, seflor traductora
Bueno.
Queda aeeptado .el co-labra-
1Colego2
1Que es ESQ, senior traductors
Pero, senior: Scomo demonios
Sc puede decir este que pasa en-
Camara?
iQue bravo esta CofnwellI
iQue bravo esta el traductorf
~
IDeteneos, por Dios santoI
~ y
iQue es ESQ de capsula7
Y dice Goyco: iesto es un duo
de tiple y tenor! =
Y dice Herminio Diaz: 20 de-
10 el bate y las pelotas en- mano.
del delegado continental.
Las tres y zapato de gonna
/atnsea Cumsb0
./sseseG Cornwell. =
-IssmeG el interprete.
.Isszue0 20
Todos jatmeamos.
La del hume.
O la del juno.
Como ustedes quieran.
Hasta manana.
Tn momento. sefiores.
Oiqan la Ultima Dalabra.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1904-02-05

lHombreI
Y tambien estan de acuerdo
Hernandez Lopez y Diaz Nava-
rro y Rosy y Nadal Santa Co
Iona.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1904-02-05

Y cow engamos tambien en-
que el de;legado continental es
mas ladi,1o que cualquier jfbaro.
con mas, o menos uncinariasis.
Habia mas castellano que Ca
rril Y Sc hace ell loco.
"De los gnachfnangos grandes
salen los gaGc,Eiuang utt0S.''
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1904-02-05

Ell delegado Chimene0 (sin
emite su voz argentina
y armoniosa.
Goyco Sc tapa las orejas.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1904-02-05

lColabradori
{Que es ESQ, sefior traductora
Bueno.
Queda aeeptado .el co-labra-
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-04-10

When they are caught, they go to
the unknown prisons of Siberia.
When they escape, they fit into the
fog and presently lie up against an
other island of the misty cold seas
and load on more of the seals that
are sacred to the White Gear and
protected by tremendous international
agreements.
The Russ never can catch enough
poachers to scare the rest. The brown
New England and Oregon sailor
men will tell you that they can sail
around him every time. And even
when he takes to shooting, they rarely
heave to; for there is a message on
the Okhotska Sea, and it runs that few
Russian gunners can hit a schooner
that is Unanswered by an American
skipper.
Tough men are they; and they know
each year as they swarm out to the
forbidden grounds that capture means
loss of everything, including their
liberty. For they are not men who
can well appeal to their home govern
ment to help them.
Real War.
So it is a very real war, with a bitter
end for the poacher if his skill is lack
ing in a sudden emergency. There
are fights that would make books of
stirring stories when the sealers, hem
med in, resort to the land and make a
last run for 1t, willing, in the final act,
even to use their great repeating rifles
with the soft nosed bullets that they
use for seal.
There are enraGed men on a cruiser
in Vladivostok who have prayed stead
lily to get hold of an especial one of
these poachers and his ship; for they
will never forgive him.
When that poacher and that cruiser
first met it was near Boring Island.
The poacher lay under riding sail
off the land. while all the crew were
wading around ashore among murdered
seals, covered with blood as they skin
ned the carcasses in mad haste.
They had made a great killing-won-
derful even for those wonderful seal
roosts. But on the line of the horizon
keen eyes had sighted smoke. And
smoke in those waters meant cruiser.
Some poaohers might have cut ana
run. But these poachers hung on, fill
ing their boats with bleeding pelts and
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-04-10

his hold, and sailed to Nagasaki.
There he was just about landing the
Russian prize crew. when the cruis
er came in, and it struck him at once
that it would be a pleasant courtesy
to send the men back to the ship with
his regards.
The Last Straw.
That was the straw that broke the
Russian back. The Russian officers
swore that they would get that
schooner the moment she stuck her
nose out of the harbor. They stayed
and stayed, and so did the schoon-
err.
After a week, however, an Ameri-
can cruiser came in. And when she
went out, the schooner sailed along
under her beam; and it was observed
that, although the cruiser could easily
have out-sailed the schooner, the two
seemed to go at just about the same
rate of speed The Russian came
slowly astern, wondering, but conf
dent that before long the American
cruiser would draw ahead and thenl
Siberia.
But, strange to say, the American
cruiser did not drawn ahead of the
schooner at all And at last the Rus
sian went back to Vladivostok; and
that is why a certain Russian cruiser 8
wardroom mess prays every night to
meet a certain American poacher just
once more.
There is another American sealing
schooner in Vladivostok at present
whose captain and crew were not
so lucky. This craft Is acting now as
coal carrier for the whaling ships of
a Baltic nobleman, Count Keyserling,
whose company has the government
monopoly of the salmon and sea fish
ing off the mouth of the Amur and the
whaling throughout the Sea Of Ok
hotsk and along the Siberian coast to
Vladivostok.
This sealer was once one of the
swiftest racing yachts of the Ameri-
can Pacific coast. She was owned by
San Francisco man, who built her
to beat the yacht owned by a rival
sportsman. She was constructed with
out regard to expense, and great
sums of money were wagered on
her.
When It came to the test she out
stripped her rival with such ease that
the owner, who had been drinking
generously to her success, suddenly
took it into his head that he desired the
honor of steering her across the finish
line himself. His captain and friends
tried to dissuade him. as he was not
a good yachtsman; but he insisted,
and sailed her so badly that she was
hopelessly defeated.
The resulting jibes and jokes so
Disguised him that he had the ex-
pensive fittings torn out of the
racer, and sold her to sealer. Her
new owner took her into the Okhotsk
Sea, filled her industriously with seal
skins, and then got caught by the
Russians. They sent him and his
crew to Siberian prison, and now the
beautiful, expensive racing yacht is
being used as a tender to wh&leships,
and the Count pays the government
a monthly charter price Of eighty ru-
bles for her.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-04-10

hustling them aboard. Not till the
Russian ship was plain in sight did
they tumble aboard themselves and
stand out for the open sea.
They had cut it a bit too fine. AS
the Russian headed toward them, both
sides realized that the cruiser would
head off the schooner in another mile;
and, fast as the booming sails were
driving her, steam was sure to win
against canvas in a mile race.
The cruiser, tearing along, threw a
shot across the poacher's bow. At once
the schooner came about and headed
straight toward the warship. The lat
ter stopped her engines and waited, for
naturally all aboard thought that the
seal thieves, seeing themselves caught,
had decided to surrender.
On came the schooner, flying. The
Russian lay still, waiting. Suddenly,
within a hundred feet of the Prov OF
the cruiser, the schooner went about
and was off again like the wind, run
ming wing and wing.
The sudden maneuver took the Rus
sian by surprise-the more so as the
sealing captain, standing at the helm,
nut his fingers to his nose as he went
under the warship's very bow. and
twiddled them derisively, adding
few choice compliments in voice
that could be heard for a mile.
Before the astounded and infuriated
officers could get under way again and
acquire speed, the impudent schooner
was far ahead.
A Long Chase.
Twice the Russian fired blank shot
as he went in pursuit but the palmetto
request remained unheeded. A third
shot sent a solid steel projectile
through the poacher's rigging but did
no harm A fourth and fifth shot
went wide.
The Russian, eager to save the val
liable prize, thus wasted half hour
in fruitless attempts to cut away the
masts of the thieves without damaging
the hull; and the poachers were on the
point of making their escape when the
wicked wind played prank on them.
1t headed them a bit and then died
away just enough to give the cruiser
the advantage.
At the end of another quarter of an
hour, cruiser and schooner were al
most abearn.
At that moment when the Russians
were rubbing their hands, the Ameri-
can turned again, ran straight at the
cruisers sides and rammed her.
Just in the nick of time the warship
was swung enough to make the blow a
glancing one. Otherwise the impudent
attempt might have succeeded AS 1t
was, the deck of the schooner was fill
ed in a moment with Russian sailors,
and the schooner, made fast inglori-
olisly to a tow rope, was being drag
ged southwark along the Siberian
coast.
That night the warship and her
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-04-10

prize anchored in a little bay in the
Gulf of Kamtschatka. Ten big, husky
Russian sailors sat on guard over the
Americans on the deck of the schoon-
er. The cruiser, lined with sentries,
lay at anchor within a few hundred
feet and between the schooner and the
exit from the cove.
The Americans, penned together in
the cabin, could hear the songs and
laughter of officers and crew on the
cruiser celebrating their rich haul.
"In the Morning.
Next morning when the dawn came
the men on the cruiser looked in vain
for their prize. 1t had disappeared
prisoners, seal pelts and prize crew.
The cruiser steamed out in all haste
and searched the sea- in vain. With
helpless rage the ship was turned
homeward at last, and some weeks
afterward her officers had fine time
in Vladivostok trying to explain not
merely what had become of the prize,
but what had become of ten good sail
ors of the Car.
1t remained a mystery, for all their
rage, until few days later, when the
Russian ship was sent to Nagasaki.
AS she steamed in, an American flag
was run up on a schooner lying in the
channel. A crowd of lean, brown men
lined up along the rail, and, led by
the captain, sent out three roaring
cheers for the Gar, and then three
more for the cruisers captain, who
glared from the bridge, crimson in the
face.
1t was the captured" schooner,
adding insult to injury.
Scarcely had the cruiser come to
anchor when a sampan left the
schooner's side and made for the
cruiser The grinning native boat
men delivered to the captain his ten
men with the compliments of the
American poacher
The ten men were happy to fearful
ness. They were jammed full of good
American whisky.
1t was not the first whisky that they
had tasted. In the course of their
examination the furious captain learn
ed that they had been enjoying a
glorious time, and had Jared rather
better on the American schooner than
they had ever Jared in the Russian
navy.
They reported that they had been
sitting quietly on the deck that night
in the cove when suddenly each of
them got a terrible whack on the
head, and before a man could cry out
the whole ten were gagged and tied
and thrown down into the hold on top
of the skins. Then the schooner
slipped out under her jib alone. and
stole softly along the coast to another
cove not more than a mile away. Here
the captain hid his craft for two days,
till the cruiser had started southwark.
Then he steered out boldly, went calm
ly back to the sealing grounds, filled
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-04-10

America. In all the events that have
followed, are but the aftermath of this
one great event. Virginia has been the
hot bed of American expansion, and
Gen. Lee declares that there was not
a foot of land annexed to the govern
ment in all the long period between the
founding of the government and the
opening of the Civil War, but that the
leading part in the proceedings were
taken by native born Virginians.
The History of jamestown.
The history of Jamestown is more
than a history of romantic associa-
ton, 1t was the beginning of English
speaking America. Jamestowns soil
gave root to the first successful plant
ing of Anglo-Saxon civilization in
America Contemporary with this it was
the first regular establishment of the
Protestant religion in America. The
first church was here. and consisted of
a sail cloth stretched between trees,
and the pulpit was a board fastened
between two trees. Here the first re-
corded English wedding took $lace,
when Ann Burras, who was brought
across the sea. became, the wife of
John Laydon. Here, in 1915 fixed in
dividual property rights were first es-
tablished by the granting to every free
man. fifty acres of land to be held in
fee. Here the first representative body
that ever met on American soil DELHI
Grated. 1t was the Virginia House of
Burgesses. Here-and this to be re-
gretted-African slavery was first in
troduced. Here began the principle of
resistance to taxation without repre-
sentation when the House of Burgesses
forbade the Governor to lay any taxes
1t had not authorized. This was in
1924, a century and a half before the
Revolution. And here the first proto-
type of the great American jury system
was irnpannelled. Here started the era
of American progress and development
that has spread itself from ocean to
ocean, and from Mexico to Canada, and
is now reaching out, even to the Phil
ippines, and which it being felt the
world over to-day.
And ii is to bring the minds of the
people back to this, and to stir anew
the patriotism of the American people
that this exposition is planned.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-04-10
OUR LITTLE RUSSO
AMERICAN WAR
Constant Fighting Between United States Seaers and
Russian Cruisers IN the japan Sea.
BY JULIAN MORTON.
English they be and Japanee,
That hang on the Brown Bea,

English they be and Japanee,
That hang on the Brown Bears
flank,
And some be Scot-but the worst Of
the lot
And the boldest thieves, be Yank!
Kipling's Ballad.
The keen brown hawks of the Amer
lean Pacific are ready to pounce with
twofold impudence this year on the
seal and whale preserves of the Russ
In the Okhotsk and the Japan SEAS
and even in the Gulf of Tartary itself.
For they who laugh each year at Rus
STA when she is free to move against
them will not fail to take advantage
OF her stress.
There isn't much that is secret
about these buccaneers of the TWEEN
ueth century. They don't rush into
print; but in the Asiatic ports-Yoko-
mama, Nagasaki, Hakodate-men talk
as matter of course of 1.-The poach-
ing fleet just as the folk in New
bedford and Gloucester speak of the
fishing fleet
But Kipling is wrong when he says
IA MS ballad that the sealer that is
caught must lie for a rotting contra
Dand on Vladivostok Slip" for the
russian naval men and civil govern
ors are of too economical a turn of
mind to waste a swift, beautiful Amer
lean schooner that way.
Nladivostok is full of captured
american poachers; but they are busy
working. The prizes taken by the
RUSS in the Russ-American warfare
OF the Siberian coast are bought and
chartered by the Russian traders and
fishermen.
h"ssian Prize Money.
The Russian sailors do not aim to
SINK poacher who has seal skins on
ooard, because the officers get a share
u the prize money accruing from the
sdle OF the seized pelts, and from the
smarter price that the vessel brings
N Nladivostok Consequently, they
WI exhaust every inch of speed in
Sue cruiser before they resort to the
shot.
The poachers know that. as they
AloW pretty nearly everything else,
@,pout their chosen grounds, from
oAe ways Of the fog to the exact
81 ihament and speed of every Russ
1p tnat patrols the Siberian coast.
81, ~ there are pretty races every
tasoh between sails and steam. be-
1%een egg shell wooden craft of New
-. slano and Oregon and steel-clad
,,s Sfshlps from the Nevy yards. and IL
w win sit in the sailor taverns Of
os oh 3, or Nagaskf, YOU viii hear
tNeIn as told by the chief actors.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-04-10
THE JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION OF 1907
The NavieS Of the World to Be Invited to Rem
devious in Hampton Roads

washington, April 9-The James
town exposition in Hampton Roads,
near jamestown Island, in 1907, COM
memorative of the Booth anniversary of
the first permanent English settlement
in America, win be an historical event.
1t will be known as the jamestown
Exposition in the popular mind just
as the Louisiana Purchase Exposition
is popularity known as the st. Louis
Exposition. 1t will he designated Off
cially as the jamestown Tercentenary
and Naval and Marine Exhibition and
will commemorate the birth of the ma
ton, Just as the Philadelphia centen-
NAL commemorated the birth of the
government. But 1t will differ from
any of its predecessors, not less in the
Importance of the event that 1t wiA
celebrate than in the unique manner
of the celebration.
AS the name implies, one of the fea-
lures will be a great naval and ma
rine exhibition. 1t will indeed be the
predominating feature. The exposition
of Industrial arts will not be forgot
ten, though. There will be all of the
best that is at St. Louis there, and
all the progress made during the years
sitions will be represented there. And
in addition to that will be the naval
and marine exhibition, one that prom
Uses to be the greatest drawing card
in the history of expeditions. 1t has
never been adopted before because the
location of all the expositions that will
have passed into history by 1907 have
not been such that 1t could be. Not
so at jamestown. There is Hampton
Roads, where, 1t is the proud boast of
Virginjans, the navies Of the world,
and it's commerce, could ride in safety.
To Invite the Nayies of the World.
1.-THE President will invite the navies
and the merchant marine of the world
to rendezvous there. Already assur-
ances are being received that the ma
tions will respond most literally to
the invitation.
Chairman Tawney Of the House
Committee on Industrial Expositions,
said at the recent bearing, that he had
discussed the matter with representa-
tives of foreign governments, and with
men who had Travelled abroad in the i'll
terest of the st. Louis Exposition, and
that he had been assured that the for
eign nations would be more than glad
to furnish a great naval and marine
display.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-04-10
To Invite the Navies of the World.
what 1t VIII Commemorate.

The exposition will also differ from
all of its predecessors in the nature OF
the event it commentaries. 1t is prob
ably not going too far to say that II
was the most momentous event in the
history of the American continent, ex-
cept, perhaps, the discovery by Column
bus. The Eden of American life, the
genesis of American civilization,
jamestown stands pre-eminent among
the red letter dates of the history OF
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-04-10

Copyright. 1904, by d. 8. Mcclure.)