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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1905-11-20

En- la librerla del BoLETIN Sc halla
de ventauna nueva edici6n del Codigo,
Civil, completada con "a appendices, cue
Gentlemen las leyes que han modi6ca-
do derogado dicho cuerpo legal.
g En- la misma librerla sjgue de
venta el C6digo de Enjuicia miento CT
vii, con 81 APPENDICES conteniendo otras
tantas leyes 6 disposiciones del orden
procesal civil.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1905-11-20
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PONCE, PUERTO RICO

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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1905-11-20
BIBLIOTECA SELECTA

BlBLlOTECA SELECTA
Qufss,ica 0grtco!ss, Sac.
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por Gir6n.
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CORA.
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Ley hiDOfecartN, comentada por
Morell.
PeQMeneces, Co'oma.
PHf~Ay@s, Cald,r"n
TtMEHttU eit fNTfs, RevifsG
LeclaSraS, Coioma.
Obras completes dc Pecker.
La cOlitSs. Gonzalez.
CssftSrO lteI lx1g0d0Mey0, Shelly.
Escrdsos de pOl6MscM, Lombroso.
EstssdiOs tsss, Caro-
falo.
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.yesrtsa,rMdeAciA ciUig desde el afio
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P0togeMesiA NbrpUiNd0 Do lss
medicamentos home0paticosc
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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1905-11-20

Entire otros libros de amena lectura.
|se han recibido en- el BoLETIN> los,
"Ripios geograficos." nueva obra. de,
Valbuena; la preciosa narracion de
Guy Maupassant, titulada "Rollo de;
manteca los interesantes boceros ja-
poneses de Reynoso reunidos bal 10 ell
titulo de En- la Corte del Mikado,"
"Memorias 4 Ia familia'', de Tomas,
Lucefio y "Genealogfa de los simbo'.
Jos por Diegn Ruiz
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1905-11-20
Ensehanza de la Taquigrafia en- tres meSe

Ensehanza de la Taquigrafia en- tres meses
Glasses dc taquigraffa a domicilio, en-
San Juan y Santurce.
Glasses por correspondence para to-
dos los pueblos de Ia 1sla.
Precio m6dico.
SEBASTIAN MoLL.
San Juan: Tetuan 3.-Apartado s7S
Gale Dufaut, Santurce
El pr6fugo Bibiano Martinez (a) Pi
pa fue capturado por la policia antea-
noche en- el barrio del Rio de Il
jurisdiction dc Rio Piedras.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1905-11-20

La precipitation de aqua durante Ia
Ultima semsna ha sido generalmente
inferior 10 nu1mal IL promedio
por divislones fue: Norte, III pull
gadas; Este. $50 pnlsa'laS Sud, OLE
pulgadas; Oesie, / SO pulgadas, por
la isla, I.o9 pn;gads, La mayor can
|tidad informada fue 2.S5 pulgadas en-
Agras Buenas, sin que cayese lluvia
alguna en- Lares y la Central Aguirre.
La temper at Ia media en- San Juan
fue de 7S3 .r4dos que es un POGO mas
que 10 normal L temperature mayor
informada fue de oS grads en- la Gen.
tral Aguirre y la mas baja de 90 gra-
dos en- Corozal y Lares.
New-York tribune., 1905-05-12
Or NDTSTRIAL FUTURE.

The solidity of our growth as an exporting
and manufacturing nation Is often questioned
by economists of the free trade school. who
hold that so long maintain a tariff against
the rest of the world never create n
genuine or permanent foreign market. It is
impossible for us, they say, 10 push the sale
abroad of manufactured products. Other
countries may, perhaps, continue to buy our
raw materials and food staples but when we
begin TO consume own food supplies our
foreign commerce will dwindle and the bal
ance of trade, now SO strkngy in our
favor. will be turned more and more decisive
~ against us. EX-Judge Parker on the stump
last fall pictured the rapid approach of the
period when our 'delusive balance Of trade"
is 10 vanish and ''idleness and demoralization''
are to Overwhelm industries.
1t is rather difficult to reconcile this forecast
of decay with the facts disclosed in n bulletin
just issued by the Bureau of Statistics of the
Department of Commerce and Labor This
bulletin summarizes our progress for the last
twenty-fOur years as a manufacturing and ex-
porting nation, and exhibits the solid basis on
which our present industrial and commercial
supremacy rests. Though during all this period
have lived under q high tariff, our total
foreign commerce has increased from 81 800
100000 to $2,5O0,O0000O. The worlds foreign
commerce has in the same period increased
from SlD.ttt,Ob,ND 10 SZ2.bU,WW.UDD, that
cur share of the total expansion has been rela-
lively greater than that Of any Of our com
mercal rivals. Nor has this growth been in
any sense fortuitous. It is not as Judge Parker
contended 'delusiOn," sure to be exposed as
soon as agricultural surplus vanishes. We
have become great manufacturing and export
Ing nation because our natural resources and
aptitudes equip us for playing a commanding
industrial role. That nation has an enormous
advantage in industry which can obtain most
freely and cheaply the mineral products which
enter so largely into manufacture pig
iron, copper, lead. zinc. petroleum and the pre-
cious metas-and in the exploitation of these
resources the United States has made eXtraor-
binary progress in the last twenty four years.
Our coal production IN 1880 was 6S,00O,0OO
tons In 1903 it had risen to 100000 tons.
The worlds production had increased, mean
while from 330,OOO0OO to SGGOOOOOO tons, so
that the United States furnished in 1880 20 per
cent Of the worlds total and in 1903 81 per cent.
The percentage of the worlds supply of pig
iron produced in the United States rose from
20 in 1880 to 30 in 1908; the percentage of cop
per from is to 30; of petroleum from 16 TO 81.
The United States to-day produces 81 per cent
of the worlds coal, 80 per cent of its pig iron,
ol per cent Of its copper, % per cent of its zinc
% per cent of its silver and IL per cent of its
gold.
These figures demonstrate the sodity and
security of our industrial growth. With our re-
sources and opportunities we shall continue TO
forge ahead as manufacturer and exporter
There is no danger that our balance of trade
VIII shrink, even if we cease gradually 10 send
New-York tribune., 1905-05-12
report.

The Mayors approval of the water bill which
commonly bears his title means, no doubt, that
that measure will presently become law ana
that prompt action will then be taken for that
extension of its water system which this city
much needs 1t is well, however, that while
approving il, the Mayor records n reminder
that the bill is not what 1t was when it was
introduced and that it does not embody all the
provisions which this city desired. 1t may be
that some of the changes in it were desirable
even necessary. We must regard some of them
as entirely uncaled for, and some positively
misChevOus and as making it seem desirable
that there should be some supplementary legis
laton. If ii necessary, for constitutional
reasons, TO eliminate the prescription of the
manner in which the new Water Commission
ers should be selected it is gratifying 10 see
that the Mayor is going right on TO select them
in the originally prescribed way, thus admin
istering Il we'll deserved rebuke TO those who
imputed inslncerity TO him in the matter. In
the matter of utilizing the water power, too.
the Mayor has won moral victory, despite
the nominal mutation Of his bill.
In two respects we must regard the changes
made in the bill with especial regret. One is
the denial Of authority 10 the new commission
ers. AS the bill stands, they will have
little real power. Not only will they he sub
ject at every step to the Board Of Estimate
and AppOrtlOnment, but also they VIII have 10
wait upon the pleasure OF the new State Water
Board which Is 10 be appointed. In such cir
cumstances there is too much danger Of delay
and OF maladroit meddling. If public works
are to be done by commission, the commission
should have both authority aud responsible
ity. This commission will have little Of either.
Again, we must doubt the wisdom of restrict
ing the power Of the city to safeguard its water
supply against pollution. or course the artid-
cial lakes which ii constructs afford fine fish
ing waters. which the people Of the neighbOr-
hood and hosts of sportsmen from the city
would like TO enjoy. But everybody knows
that if fishing in the lakes is freely permit
ted there will be not only danger but certainty
Of some very Objectionable pollution Of the
water. There is nothing more essential than
that the water shall be kept pure and clean,
and TO that end the city ought 10 have plenary
power to prohibit bathing and fishing in It. as
well as the drainage of sewage into H.
The remarks Of the Mayor in appointing n
new member Of the old Aqueduct Commission
will wake responsive echoes in many minds.
1t is quite true. as he said. that the public has
had Just cause 10 complain Of the conduct Of
that commission, though IT is to be added that
none of the complaints were directed against
the commissioner who has now retired and
whose service seems to have been n model
of what that of all the commissioners should
have been. What is now desirable is for that
work to a speedy completion. The new COM
mission will be a far different body and will,
we trust. do far more satisfactory work.
New-York tribune., 1905-05-12
FIFTH-4VE. BOULEVARD.
Municipal 1rt Commissioner Says
Plan Should Be Condemned.

A prominent member Of the Municipal Art COM
mission IN a talk with Tribune reporter yester-
day regarding the proposition 10 take down the
wall bounding Central Park on the east said the
recommendation TO make boulevard IN etn-ave.
from 5sth to llOth-st. by encroaching on IeiltraI
Park should be condemned
The pIan was virtually one 10 increase the de-
bity and therefore the value OF the lots border
ing Central Park at the expense of the city. FOR
long time the purchase Of sites for small parks in
the congested portions Of the city had been urged
I-nanswerable arguments had been presented IN
favor Of such parks moral, sanitary ana hhih-
ciaI grounds but the answer had been that the
CITY could not afford it; that money was more
urgently needed in other directions As result.
such propositions as TO demclish the lung bIock'
in Cherrv-st had been sdetracked-
What reason could be offered for making a bouIe-
ward in 5th-ave while Delanccy-st. continued 10
look like n prairie dog village and the lung block
to be the breeding place ror tuberculosis bacllh?
The commissioner added:
If the property owners in upper 5th-ave, wish 70
move their houses into the park by making park
way out the street and thus materially increase
the value of their property. why should they not
bear the expense? II this should be done and II
the plan Will not materially reduce the area OF the
park the opposition would greatly diminish. Be
fore definite action is taken, however, TIE plan
should be passed by the Municipal Art Com
mi
New-York tribune., 1905-05-12
3-etn:1gork Dailn Q4ibn1ie
FRIDAY. MAY y. 1905.
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FOREIGN-Two Russian vessels were re-
ported Off the japanese coast. near the island OF
Hondo "A dispatch from Hua- -Shu states
that the Russian forces have advanced anu
formed a crescent, the base resting along the
railroad and the horns toward the south. -
Fnereetic sapping and roadmaking We're re-
front in Manchuria "A semi-offcial state
rnent made public in Paris defines Frances po-
siti0n regarding the maintenance OF heutldiIts ~,
the Far East. .= Premier Balfour, IN speech
in the House of Commons declared the success
ful invasion OF England an impossibility.
DOMESTIC-President Roosevelt returned to
washington from his hunting trip in the west.
80 Governor Cummins OF Iowa tesllIleu ~
favor of railroad rate legislation be1ore lne
Senate Committee and was assured py ChdII S
man FlhnS that the Interstate commerce ldN
,,-ould he amended - Twenty persons were
killed and more than 100 injured by an explosion
Of dynamite following the wreck OF an express
1raln on the PENNSYLVANIA Railroad, In Harris
burg Penn. = A tornado which pracucaly
DESTROYED the town of Snyder, Okla. causeh
nineytwo deaths and injured apout r~T nusio
dred. == The teamsters strike IN s Olcaso
was reported quiet - II was ahnouIiceIi ahi a. ~
Cambridge. Mass, that Andrew Carnegie had
offered SD 900 for lbrar- to RadciiHe College.
CTTy-Srocks were strong The
sistant secretary of the Equitable Life Assurance
Society was examined by Superintendent Hen
dricks of the State Insurance Department -
7 Carroll Reckwith voiced the opposition or q
minority of the National Academy or Design 10
The plan for d Columbia Fine Arts School. -
/ memorial statue of Abram 3 Hewitt was ull-
yelled and presented TO the Chamber Of Com
merce. - Bishop Coadjutor Mackay Smith
Of Pennsylvania condemned the STANDARD oil
Trust and its methods at the Episcopal Church
Congress in Brooklyn. - The Long Island
Railroad was temporarily tied up by health ofn-
GERS for violation of the soft coal nuisance -
4 canoeist was drowned by the capsizing of his
craft caused by the wash of a tug. - IL was
that a new plan for recognizing the
Sea board Air Line had become effective.
THE Observation-Disclosures for to-day:
Showers and thunderstorms The temperature
yesterday. Highest. 90 degrees; lowest, o0
New-York tribune., 1905-05-12
Business Notices.

Positive Evidence.
Positive evidence OF THE NETWORK TRIBUNEs s
popularity advertising medium is shown by giant
advertising first months OF 1908
An Unparalleled Growth.
During January. February March and April. 1905. THE
NEw-YoRK DAILY AND SUNDAY TRIBUNE printed
876 lines Of advertising Excluding TRIBUNE adver-
tisements) more than in the same months Of 1908.
GAIN OF OVER I.1s1 COLUMNS;
OF. IN OTHER WORDS.
AN AVERAGE GAIN OF NEARLY
800 COLUMNS OF 8l6 LINES EACH a MONTH
TO GET RESULTS ADVERTISE IN
THE NEw-YoRK TRIBUNE.
CIRCULATION BOOKS OPEN.
New-York tribune., 1905-05-12

rears and who has served the city or county
thirtv-fve wears. Certainly opposition to this
biIl was iustfable on general principles ana
while # was waived when it appeared that only
one deserving person would be at present Dene-
flied by it, we think the praiseWorthy ooJect
should have been achieved In some olner way
tto, bv charter amendment which may al
low an unlimited number of pensions hereafter.
whatever NAV be said for the bill as perhaps
+bo only available method of doing single act
Of charity. the wisdom of allowing it to remain
op tbe statute books, in case the Governor signs
#. long after it has achieved its Immediate pur-
nose, is open 10 question.
New-York tribune., 1905-05-12
DF4TH BY DYNAMITE.

Tho list of causes to which railway accidents
ir this country are due received a fresh addl-
lion Yesterday morning at South Harrisburg,
Penn where a westbound express ran into
several freight cars which blocked its way.
Paar-end collisions are common enough in the
T-nfted States. and the burning of a wreck thus
produced is not unknown, but coliiS'oh III
which loss of life resulted from the "xplo-
sion of dynamite that was III transit Is prood-
bly, without a precedent
AT Olean. ~ Y. about two years ago,
freight train on the Erie road broke IN two,
the severed portions came together with
shock gasOlene carried on some of the cars
took fire and number of persons were fatally
burned The victims, however, were spectators
who had visited the scene of the accident and
had been bespattcred with blazing fluid by
the explosion of the tanks containing it, They
suffered from their own rashneSs, and were in
no sense in the care of the corporation on whose
line that singular mishap occurred. In fact. no
messengers were involved in the complication.
The accident at South Harrisburg in one re-
spoct resembles that which happened near Con-
neIlsville, in the same State. about eighteen
months ago. An express train running at high
speed was derailed by a blow from a piece of
timber projecting from n freight train that
was moving in the opposite direction, but on
another track. Somebody's Carelessness led to
the loss of sevcnty-SiX lives at that time, but
the carelessness was not of a kind that could
have been readily detected until too late to do
any good. Perhaps the same may be said OF
yesterdays horror whose proportions seem to
have been somewhat exaggerated in the first
New-York tribune., 1905-05-12
STREET NUMBERS.

The dispute over the street number of the
buiIding at the southwest corner = 5th-ave. and
21st-st has reached another stage but not yet
n conclusion. At any rate, ii suggests the
need of a pretty thorough reform throughout
the city in the numbering of houses and other
buildings 1t would not be well, save in some
extreme cases, to alter the existing numbers of
buldings, though that should be done in n few
cosos in which the numbering is actually false
,,,d misleading But it should be required that
zach building shall bear the number which prop
erlv belongs to ii in its regular order on the
street and Iegibly display it. At present far too
many buildings are not thus numbered, Dwell
ing houses often bear numbers SO placed as
10 he invisible to the paSSer-by upon the street.
One must ascend the steps TO the door. and
after dark perhaps strike Il light, to ascertain
tha number of the house; or he must find the
number of which he is in quest by counting up"
TO ii. for perhaps half a block, from some house
upon which, by happy but rare chance, the num-
bcr is visible.
we have so often argued for, pleaded for and
demanded decent system of street signs, and
the city government has so long manifested
either inability or unwillingnesS to establish
one that we are half moved to give up that
matter in despair, and to conclude that for some
inscrutabe but inSurmountable reason New
York is for all time doomed to go without what
is in every other city regarded of the
prime requisites of urban civilization. Now, we
wonder if il will be possible 20 persuade the mu-
nicipal authorities to provide this only slightly
less necessary thing a proper numbering of the
houses Every street ought, we have said
TO be marked at every intersection with a sign
plainly legibe at all times. So ought every
house or other building TO be marked with n
legibie number and on the streets and avenues
which have elevated railroads il might be wei!
TO require the placing of a number on one of
the upper stories of each building, where 1t can
be seen from the elevated trains. Only by the
adoption and maintenance of such system
shall we be able to say that, while the city is "a
mighty maze it is yet mot without a plan"
New-York tribune., 1905-05-12
4museRents.

ACADEMY OF MUsIc-s:15-ouincy Adams Sawyer.
ANERICAN-S:I5-Ths Liars.
BIJOC-s:l5-The Music Master.
COIlONIAIs-2-S-Nauoeville
EDEN MUSEE-Wnrid IN Wax
EMPIRE-S.30- Freedom Of SUZANNE
CARDE-N-S. .20-The College widow
FIAMMERSTEIN'S NICTORIA-2-S:lo-Na
HARIIrM-s:Ib-A Blot the 'Scuteheon -
HERALD SQUARE-S:lb-The Rolicking O5isl ! rrh.
HIPPODROAE- E-2-S-A Yankee Circus on MATS anu Inv
Raiders.
F4IrDsoN-s :so-The Heir the Hoorah
KSICKERBOcKER-S:l5-S Brue
LYCEIJM-8.3o-A Dolls House
1IDySON OF Cunningham
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN-7:l5-Miitar 4ourla-
ment.
NEW V-AAfsTEzRDAM-s:15-T -Trilby.
new -YORK-S:15-L1ttie Johnny Jones
WALLACE S-S:25-The School for Husoanos'
WEST -s:3O-Sapho.
New-York tribune., 1905-05-12
TUE v4yoR ON PENSIONS.

Alavor McClellan's veto of the Yale pension
bill was generally expected. in view or his veto
last year of the somewhat similar measure III
troduced by Mr.. Remsen. 1t is never popular
to resist any form Of pension for anybody at
The taxpayers expense. and the Mayor deserves
corresponding credit for his sturdy opposition
10 this scheme of government largess.
Even if the propriety Of pensions for civil ser
wants in general were TO be conceded, this bill
could not be regarded proper one. 1t vio-
lated sound actuarial principles, and, while pro-
Tossing to grant annuites almost entirely from
the payments of the benefcaries, made no ade-
quate provision for such payments, but would
most certainly have saddled upon the taxpay-
ers Of the future an enormous bill The sys-
TEN once established, there would have been no
going back and the city would have had to retire
its employees the pensions ordered, no matter
how far short their contributions came of meet
ing the charge. The principle of the bill, more
over was as bad rs were its details. The civil
servants which the bin proposed TO pension are
well paid for their work and encounter no spe-
cial risks. They not, like firemen police
men, protecting the community at the hazard
OF their own safety, nor they underpad
specialists. like teachers who have little chance
TO save and little opportunity to use their tai
ents in other business If separated from the ser
vice The ordinary clerks place. even without
any pension, Is so attractive that there hum
drods OF applicants for every vacancy. Pen
slcns attached 10 positions of this kind are a
premium on imprOvidence. They also tend 10
create an idea of property right in public en-
ployment and TO make practically even if not
legally, difficult the wedding out of iucomne
tents. This means deterioration of fbe sar
vice and endangers the reputation of tho ,rbolo
merit system. In this day. when his marty is
cSpousinS all sorts of paternal doctrines tho
Mayor shows himself devoted 10 the OLD nop,o
cratic idea Of the OfficehoIder as member NJ
the community without special privilege 4
Civil Service pension would he Il remar,ob,e
privilege. not enjoyed generally by persons In
similar private employment.
While yetOing the general pension hill the
Mayor has signed a measure to retire ON half
pay employees Of the Finance Department II
Is explained that this bill is intended merely n
beneiit one man long i'm the service who has he.
come blind and the Civil Service Reform AS
sociaton was severely satrized by the Mavor
Tor It's preliminary opposition to this niece of
benevolence. While there are MANY reasons
why the city should save from want n faitb,,,
servant thus afflicted, il should be noted tl,o,
the Din on It's face shows no such particular mr.
pose. Ii is general in form, adds a new title n
the cnarfer and authorizes the retrement ON n
pension OF any incapacltated empIoye of tho
FINANCE Department who has been IN n ton
New-York tribune., 1905-05-12
NOTES OF SOCIETY IN WASHINGTON.
rFnoM THE TRIBUNE BUREAU.l

IFRoM THE TRIBUNE BUREAU.l
Washington May 1.-THE Nice-Presldent ana
,,rs E,airbanks will close their Washington house
ON saturday and go to their home IN Indianapolis.
Frederick Fairbanks will accompany them. Robert
Fairbanks who is a student at Yale. will sail on
June % for a bicycle trip in Europe.
Miss Mathilde Townsend, daughter of Mrs. Rich
ard H Townsend. underwent another operation to-
day and her condition causes grave anxiety TO her
friends DIR. Deever, of Philadelphia, who per
formed the nrst operation about two weeks ago,
came 10 Washington this morning by special train
to make the second. Miss Townsend seemed 10 be
convalescng. but suffered a relapse last night
Senator and Mrs. Elkins entertained guests at
dinner tonight.
New-York tribune., 1905-05-12
sTEPDAUGHTER SUES FOR ESTATE.
Declares George W. Kidd Promised to Make
Her His Sole Heir.

The trial of a suit by Grace C. Kidd stepdaughter
of George W. Kidd who died in 1901 TO get all of
his estate estimated at from $4,000 Sl,010,00O
was held yesterday Decision was reserved
Mrs Kidd formerly Mrs. Anna K. Slocum. de-
sired that the interests of her daughter should be
protected in case of her death. and it is said.
ante-nuptial agreement was entered into by which
Mr. Kidd consented if his Stepdaughter should take
consideration of this he agreed TO leave her all his
estate when he died. Mr.. Kidd left a Will, but IL
did not fulfil the alleged promise. On the part of
the beneficiaries under Mr. Hidds will it is main