New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-07-02
DIR. LINDSAY NOT ON HAND
Porto Rican "Schoolma' ans" Haze
to Stop at BedIosC's.

Just because man slipped up on his appoint
ment with them. fOrty-two young "schOOlma ans
| from Porto Rico could get no nearer New
| York yesterday than Bellows Island. DR.. Lind
say was to have met them. but he will not ar
rive from st. Louis until to-day. With 112 men
teachers the "schoolma ans going to the sum
rner school at Cornell On the voyage from Porto
Rico on the army transport Sumner the party was
chaperoned by John W. Zimmerman. district SUI
perintendent OF the schools at Grayamas: 5 W.
Eckman and J. ". Smith the interpreter.
The Porto Rican teachers dd not appear TO be
so much different from the genuine little red
schoolhouse" kind even IL they came from a less
rugged climate than New-England- Nearly all
wore the latest styles in summer frocks. and with
out exception wore 1.-THE white canvas hats they
had purchased from the sailors. around which they
wore the Summers hatoands
The Sumner sailed from San Juan on June Is and
had fine weather until Thursday night That night
the four occupants of two rooms went TO sleep with
the portfolios OF their staterooms open suddehEV
along an immense comber and before tney
were we'll awake there was foot OF water IN their
hunks A drenched quartet from each room fed
shrieking into the corridors
No one knew the reason of the sudden outcry, and
the whole ship below decks was a turmoil OF White
clothed shreking women. The crew. with the usual
dipsy gallantry rushed below and. discovering the
reason the trouble. closed the ports. bailed out
the hunks and gave up their blankets so that the
teachers might have dry place to sleep
Snakes. the goat the mascot OF the summer pro-
vided amusement during the trip La cartssina
cabra pequeno.' they called him on the first day
out, but by the close of the second he had been
unanimously dubbed "la cabra diablo." From being
called the sweet little goat to becoming that
devil OF goat" was simply matter OF a pair OF
gloves. Snakes found the gloves IN a stateroori
on the second day out Hs chewed them. found
them and also several mantillas. a few oonnets:
some light slippers and few other trifes. all OF
which disappeared somewhere into SnakeS's m
terror.
All the teachers the Sumner going to Cor
nell. Those the Fitzpatrick. some four hundred.
will land in Boston in a few days and go 10 the
Harvard Summer School They will remain at
which on board the transports. they viii visit the
cities along the coast This will include three
DAYS visit by rail Washington They viii then
be taken back to Porto Rico
The expenses OF the visit here viii be dsfcayed
from a fund raised by subscription by DR.. S. NJ
LINDSAY, Commissioner OF Education in Porto
Rico Each teacher assessed 81 Jay for the
mess fund the transports
Professor Zimmerman said that the progress OF
the people could best be illustrated by the Increase
in public schools In Porto Rico since It's transfer
10 the United States. Prior to the American
troll OF the island. IN the district OF Guayanas
there had been Increase IN siAty years or only
eight schools. Since 1898 there had been in
crease OF forty-fve. Where there were only a few
scores OF teachers IN the island there Eow
over 1900 At Ponce and San Juan there now
a high class Industrial school. in which are taught
blacksmithing, carpenterfng, electrical and me
chanical and civil engineering and other allied in
dustries There also several kindergarten and
night schools in Porto Rico. which were unhsard
OF before tas cession to the United States.