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La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1905-01-31
GuiIermo / y Alfonso XIII

Su Majestad Imperial Real Gui-
llermo II ha dirigido q s. M. G. AL
fonso XIII, el siguiente despacho
<Newes Palais, 23-12-194. .-Suma.
mente agradecido al testimonio de
nuestro irecfproco afecto que V. M.
tiene bien ofrecerme, me apresuro &
manifestarle mi profunda grtitud. Ten.
60 la honra y Ell gran placer de acep-
tar los dos halsguenos nombramien-
tos que me hacen formar parte del ej6r-
clto espafiol, y me coloca al frente de
un Cuerpo cuyo espfritu caballeresco
me es conocido, y cuyo uniforme lle-
ware con verdadero agrado, rogando
q V. M. haga llegar q mi regimiento
de caballerfa la expression de los SEN
timientos de particular inter6S com
paflerismo de armas de su jefe &C vi.
LLERMO.1
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1905-01-31
BUQUES QUE Sc ESPERAN
Y saIidas de este puerto

Ell vapor "Puerto- Rico" Saldra
dc Barcelona hacia ell 81 de Enero,
hacienda las escalas de Valencia,
Malaga, Cadiz y Canartas, para San
Juan, Mayaghez, Ponce, Santiago de
Cuba y Habana.
Vapor <Martin Saenz,. Sali6
del puerto de Barcelona Ell dia 20
del corriente hacienda las escalas
de Palma de Mallorca, Valencia, Ma
laga, Cadiz y Canarias.
Vapor Arkadia. Sali6 de New.Or-
leans para este puerto ell 26 del CO.
rriente.
Vapor Ponce. Sali6 de New FORK
ell Is del corriente coz rumbo q este
puerto.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1905-01-31
In buen seryiiciio

Ha sido detenido por robo de va
rias prendas de vestir el individuo
Francisco Lopez Ayala, que hace al
gun tempo SO dedicaba & este sport,
siendo sorpendido por los policias Sc.
hores Inocencio Dfaz y J. Galvarin.
Este seryicio es importante toda
vez que los citados policfas tenfan co.
nocimiento de vsrios robos cemetidoi
por este mismo suieto, siendo hoy des'
cubierto.
Las personals robadas son Silve
ria Monies, Felicita Cercafio y Soco
rro G arcfa, todas lavanderas de ofcio
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FL que suscribe, ofrece mulas do
madss s ind6nitas. FL que interese
Comprar slgunss puede dirigirse
ests villa. AMY.
Coamo Julio 81, 1908,
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1905-01-31
Tipografd ia DemocraciQ" !"

In eStd iinprsntd Sc haoen tOda csuss
de trubUOs tipoQTdac d tOdas hOrus del
dia Y de- a nOchs. PVeios Ice m6I bAretos.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1905-01-31

N6tese este ante todo; que el pG-
blico Sc deleita miranda los carruajes; /;
que, de una manera general, ell vehf-
culo nuevo le divierte, 10 mismo que
un gran iuguete, ,-un juguete. para per-
sonas msyores. Coupe, cGJiOlet, tram
6 wagon, el carruaie evoca en- su espf-
ritu impresiones deliciosas; la volup.
tuosidad de espaciarse sin fatiga, la
pequefa embriaguez de la excursion,
la dicha de ser 10 sufciente rico para
marchar c6modamente, de prisa y le.
jos. Los mas burgueses han sofiado
de este modo.
En- 1900, una de las exposiciones
retrospectivas donde los visitadares
del gran certamen Sc detenfsn de me.
jor CANA, era en- la de los carruaies,
de las bellas carr0Eas de otro tempo.
Ain recuerdo en- la Exposition de los
medios de transporte, en- Vincennes,
el destle interminable de la multitud,
los domingos, por ell interior de los
vagones de nuevos modelos, provistos
con una ingeniosidad de comfort tan
agradable, y esos refnamientos de lu-
10 q cuyo contacto Sc complacfa tan
gentilmente la tonterfa popular.
Seguramente este sentimi3nto es
uno de aQuellos que han llevsdo desde
hsce una semsna &los Csmpos Elfseos
tantos curiosos, tantas curiosas sobre
todo. Ell autom6vil es un obisto de
luio, un vehiculo para ricoS, que to-
dos los que no son ricos han acsricia.
do IL Idea Do poser, \ sGtos princi.
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Son las cinco de la tarde y me en-

Son las clnCO Qe Id bafue y mo on-
cuentro on los Campos Elfseos. La
lluvia cae en- abuudaucia. Brusca'
mente, de cada lado de 10 avenida de
Nicolas II, Sc han encendido maravi-
llosas guirnaldas de fuego, es una
fantasmagoria de alegres claridades
en- la noche. El from ton del Grand
Palais cimbrea baj ell chaparr6n; el
viento extremece, on toda la fachada,
trofeos dc banderas mojadas y SO ven
rodar sobre ell aqua dirigiendose ha-
cia Ia inmensa rotonda luminosa, los
ooup6s elegantes, los facres sucios, los
automobiles y, baio los campanas de
los paraguss, Ia multitud rumorosa y
agitada de los pedestres. Els una ba-
rahunda de IA de Julio. Mas de $4,000
personals entran aquf tod0s los dfas,
desde hace una semana; y, cada me-
dio dia, &c suceden siempre los mis-
mos apretones y el mismo tumulto. La
Exposition de AUTOMOBILES ha venido
& ser.la primera attraction, Ell xclou.
de invierno parisi6n. 6Por que? Esta
es Ia pregunta que yo me hago tratan-
do de defenderme con los codos entire
la multitud que Sc amontona al rede-
dor dc los stands, que LENA los b,geHs,
SO desborda sobre las mas leianas sa-
las laterales, invade las galerfas su-
periores y, de allf, refuge hacia ell
anexo del Cours-la-Reine donde, ale
gremente, contin1a arremolinandose.
lPor que? En- primer lugar, esta
locura de curiosidades, desencadena-
da oil rededor de un exposition de ca
rruajes, no Sc explica facilmente; y
muchas personals juiciosas han podido
preguntarse por que razones el pueblo
parisiense, al que no faltan las oca'
stones de divertirse, acude con impa'
ciencia tan particular, desde amos, 8
la aperture de este sal6nS
Paris tiene tres grandes exposicio
nes de arte por aho, y <pequelIos sa
lones, cuyo ndmero es incontable; hay
un concurso agrfcola, salones de pc
rros, dc pajaros y de flores; exposi
clones industriales constantemente re
novadas, y donde la ciencia le prodi
ga las sorpresas y ell recreo de tod'
suerte de novedades: y no acude q to
do este sino por polftica, como un SO
berauo benevolo que consiente en- di
vertirse y al que desde hace va large
tempo NADIA le asombra.
Pero que en un vasto .espacio s.
hallen reunidos algunos centenares d.
vehfculos, cuyo empleo conoce, qu
conocia por haberlos visto, desde ha
ce muchos amos, corriendo por las ca
lies desde por Ia maflana hasta por Ii
tarde, 6 por haberlos utilizads: y a
primer aviso del espectaculo que le VI
& ser ofrscido, un intense frenesf S
, apodera de su Amino. Quiere encon
trarse alli, quiere YER, quiere tocar.. {.
No mahana, sino enseguida. Cael
alabardas del cielo.... .iqu6 importa
Diez mil concurrentes habia el dia de
vernissage de los salones de pintura; q
cambio en- este ha habido 10000 ell dl
de la aperture. 6Por que?
: Por muchisimas razones, que ere
haber distinguido q traves de la mul
titud de donde salgo.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1905-01-31
Alexandra Bozzo
Agents Comislonista y corredor
dc kduanas

Sehabla ingles, Frances, italiano
y espanol. .-Kstendido en- asuntos de
Aduans, Representante de importan-
tes sasas de Europa y los Estados
Unidos. Solicita correspondence.
OAcina, Sol II. Telefono, 19l.
Apartado, 447, San Juan.
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guard impossible. If every American war
ship in the Pacific were to be destroyed
it would not be many months before the
iron works at San Francisco had turn
ed out at least cruisers enough for
that service Fast merchantmen,
bought and manned and armed, would
suffice.
The problem of an attack upon armed
Honolulu would be a difficult one for
any power. The problem of a land at
tack would be problem that could not
be solved Literally. it would be to
achieve the impossible.
It viii be seen, from this, what is
meant when the United States an
nounces its purpose to fortify Oahu SO
strongly 1t is the chief outpost of the
mighty growing American power. 1t
will be. when the plans of fortIhcation
haze been carried out, the most import
ant American stronghold in the Pacific.
The power that holds Oahu will hold
the key to the ocean of the future.
America does not propose to lose the
KEY
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and the mainland, began carrying bz=
nanas to San Francisco a little nsorG
than two years ago. Ii was admitteS
at the time that this was an expert
ment, although why It should havR
been considered experimental is NOT
clear The Hawaiian bananas are at
least as good as any that are ralseA
anywhere else in the world. and thn
shipment of bananas even upon COM
paratiyely slow steamers. has alwayn
been successfully carried on. The bulk
of the fruit that is consumed in fhE
United States is shipped by steamer
from Bluefields to New Orleans, am
ocean voyage about as long as froru
Hawaii, and then distributed by ran
to the consumers all over the States
Experiment or not, the Enterprise
carried on her first trip up from His
between 400 and 900 punches of bana--
mas. The shipment reached the coasE
in good condition and the increase in.
the trade has been steady from THAI
time to this. On her last trip up tina
Enterprise carried anywhere from six
to eight thousand punches Of the frusE.
which found ready market upon aFs
rival.
And the Enterprise cannot carry aR
the fruit that is raised at and aroun&
Hilo. The steamer makes hut one
round trip per month, and the trip frofza
Hilo to San Francisco requires ten days
actual sailing time. If boats ran twic1
a month it is estimated by experts that
the shipments would be practically
doubled. as many punches now reach
the picking stage between shipments
and are of course useless for shipment
by the time the vessel returns. Also. IL
would be a great advantage to tina
shippers if a faster boat were put on
the run. AS il is now Letween twefvn
and fourteen days elapse between th@
cutting and the sale of the fruit, ana
OF course it would be IN better condI-
ton II 1T reached the consumer earlier.
ThAse, however, are minor difieultiess
Continued on page ~
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ceived and I hardly know how to an
swer same. If / only knew to What
extent this party desired 10 go into
the banana business I would give a
more definite answer to his sndufry.
You of course know that the lands
above Hilo are producing a fine crop
of bananas, but the growers appear to
be at the mercy of the California
Fruit Growers Union q think that is
their titIe), anc l am told that these
California people handle the market to
suit themselves and that the Hawai-
ian banana grower must take their
prices or, if the shipment lis of any
extent, go outside of file State for a
market.
We have many leases falling in soon.
all along the Hamakua coast, and so
will have much land available for ba-
mana culture. The value of the land
runs from Sd per acre for land not
cleared, to 800 Or 1925 per acre for
land that has been Cleared.
The cost of clearing averages about
$50 per acre. This land can be taken
up under the various conditions of
our law, the amount being 800 acres
on time payment and 1000 acres on
cash sales. However, you are famiilar
with our laws and need not repeat
the conditions,
We have smaller patches or remnants
at various places about the Islands that
would grow fine bananas-for instance,
I hope to open up several hundred acres
in Palolo valley, but in this case I
would like to settle this land in small
porfiopq inst pnoi10h for tbo ordfr a ny
family to handle. You see I am back
to the fact that I don't know how
much your correspondent wants TO han
die. I find this difficulty with nearly
all those who inquire about our lands
a man wants to go into the cattle BUSH
ness, another wants land to support an
CORA goats, another to raise coffee or
pines, and 1 always have to ask them
how much land they can handle before
I can give them location and prices.
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per month; from Hilo, $500 to $500
punches per month, increasing; from
Kahului, 1000 to 1860 punches per
month, recently started
II. 1t is unlikely that a banana plant
err could at present obtain employment
here as superintendent of a banana
plantation. Any opening would have
to be made by the settler himself. We
would recommend to you a personal ia
spection of the field
Hoping that we have satisfactorily
covered your inquiries, we are,
Yours very truly,
C. S. HOLLOWAY
The same letter as that answered by
Mr.. Holloway drew from the Commits
sioner of Public Lands this response:
Dear Sir: Yours of the 9th inst re-
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HONOLULU FROM ITS FRONT DOOR.


The hostile force that has been land
ed, say on Hawaii, in the meantime,
must be fed and clothed and guarded
against disease. 1t is an open military
secret that it is far more grave prob
lem to feed an army in the field than
to win victories with it. This army of
occupation, thousands of miles from its
base and with the wide seas between,
would be donbly hard to feed. For the
country of occupation would subsist it
but short time Added to that, its
transports must be kept coming and GO
ing, and even if the American squadron
of battleslips had been destroyed, or if
it had been bottled up In Honolulu by
the attacking feet, there would still be
American cruisers on the seas to harry
the transports and make their coming
and going without large squadron Of
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Plans

IN Asia, on the shortest line between
Japan and Europe should It ever come
that JaDan will want to play the part of
world power, past the gate of Oahu
there must pour the commerce of the
world and close by the forts on Oahu
must lie the warpath of the navies of the
nations
The power that holds Oahu, and holds
it strongly, will be the power that COM
mands the North Pacihc-and. the
power that holds the key to naval SUI
pren1acy of the greater sea. That this
fact is appreciated by the government of
the United States is becoming more and
In greater way to the Pacific, Oahu
must be what Malta is to tn. Mediter-
ranean Because Napoleon could not
dislodge England from Malta, the man
who had conquered the continent of Eu-
rope was overcome at last by the per-
sisterit enrnity of Great Britain. So
much does the strength of the fortifea-
tons of Oahu mean TO the greater
America of the future that there is no
far-seeing statesman of any party in the
United States today who would put
straw in the way of the plans of the
administration to fortify this island
strongly and effectively.
Honolulu, as it stands in mid-Pacific,
is almost two thousand miles from the
nearest mainland coast. 1t is more than
twice that distance from the mainland
coast of any powerful nation that can
by any chance become tlnfriendly to the
United States-and that would have the
power to wage effective warfare against
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possibilities Even landing upon one
of the other islands, If that were prac-
ticable, would not put the attacking
power IN a position to endanger the
American stronghold IN the Pacific.
In the first place, to successfully at
tack fortified Oahu, the hostile force
must be conveyed from the nearest
stronghold of any foreign power The
feet must be maintained and if any
power were mad enough to send a mill
tary expedition along with the first feet,
the transports must be guarded. There
is no harbor on Oahu where large fleet
could shelter and land, save at Homo
lulu or Pearl Harbor Landing on the
windward side would be dangerous
and. given that force were landed
there, it must be a tremendously heavy
force, with tremendously heavy guns,
to force the Notifications at the Pail or
at ANaianae Gap. 1t must drag its siege
guns and must itself rnarch across cotn-
try that is all but inaccessible-and it
must keep up a line of communication
across thousands of miles of deep sea.
But there is no power on earth that
would be so mad as to make an attempt
like that The American feet in the
Pacific would be strong enough to meet
and destroy the force before it ever
came in sight of Honolulu, let it come
from what direction it would. The first
attempt upon Oahu, if a first attempt
even were made, would be naval force
exclusively. The enemy would try to
do. as Admiral Dewey did in Manila
bay. The American power must first be
captured or destroyed before any power,
even Japan, would attempt to send
land force to occupy these islands.
And, while Spain was 10000 miles
from Manila, and in no shape to REIN
force the fleet and garrison there if
they had been closer to the home base,
Honolulu is but 1000 miles from San
Francisco, and the American might in
men and money is beyond calculation.
OF course, with the building 81 new
forts in and around Honolu,u, the ma
val force here will be greatly strength
ened also. The North Pacific. squadron
will always be within call, closer to
Honolulu than the feet of any hostile
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l suppose this answer will be very ua.
satisfactory to You, but it is the beaN
can do under the circumstance,
Very truly yours,
JAMES w. PRATT.
Commissioner Of Public Lands I
It will be seen that in the view of an
experts there is no good reason why tina
culture of the banana should not be-
come, and at once, one of the princip4z
sources of wealth for these islands. I'm
fact, the Hilo xperiment-which. szN
the way. is no longer an experiment.
has shown that the thing can be done,
and successfully done. and that in spite
OF conditions that are the reverse OF
favorable to the shipper. The steanA-
ship Enterprise, plying between tfA
port of Hilo, on the Island of Hawaii.
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BANANAS
IN HAWAII
CONTINUED from Page l.,

IA. As previously stated, further in
formation in regard to Government
lands will be forwarded to you from
the Land Office.
Is. There are no large syndicates
now engaged in the banana business.
Most of the fruit is grown by Chinese
lessees of small holdings, who sell their
fruit t. two or three buyers in Ho-
nolulu. The latter make the shipments.
A number OF Americans are raising ba-
nanas in tht vicinity of Hilo.
16. At present the shipments of ba-
nanas are approximately as follows:
From Honolulu, 1900 to. 10000 punches
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According to high military authority
those are the sites fer Notifications in
and about Honolulu which the govern
Tnent of the United States desires to
secure in order that the island of Oahu.
may be transformed into the Malta of
the Pacific.
Of these sites, the property at Putt
1oa has already been bought and paid
for. That is the site for one of the
forts that is to be used in the defense
of Pearl Harbor The Waianae Gap
property has also been purchased, al
though the purchase price has not been
paid. The money to pay for this prop
crty is, however, in Honolulu, and will
be turned over as soon as some slight
defects in the title have been explained
away.
And when the chain of Notifications
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power can possibly be should war i'm
pend and the islands be endangered.
Conceding the possibility, however,
of the landing of hostile force on one
of the other islands, it must be kept in
waiting for the reduction of Honolulu
The town, when the chain of forts that
it is proposed to build are completed,
will be next to impossible to capture
by sea assault-and, of course, will be
largely garrisoned and amply provision
ed. The United States government
takes nobody into its confidence relative
to the strength of the forts it is pro-
posed to build here, but they will be
furnished with the most modern guns of
the largest calibre An attacking fleet
must stand far outside to escape their
fire and even then will not escape.
For the Yankees are good gunrlers.
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thus outlined has been completed, it
viii take a stronger naval force to re-
duce Honolulu than any power so far
has been able to put in the Pacific
Ocean. It is doubtful, indeed, whether
even England, mauger her strong force
at Esquinalt. could do it and it is
becoming more and more apparent as
the years go by that England will never
try
The island of Oahu, after the Panama
canal shall have been completed, will
hold the strategic center of the stage
Ia the North Pacific. On the shortest
line between the American possessions
on the Isthmus and in the Far East, on
the shortest line between the canal that
is to open the ocean of the future to the
commerce of the future and the posses
sions of any of the European powers
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America on land or sea. 1t is more
than two thousand miles from the near
est German possessions-and men who
read the future of the nations have de-
clared that Germany is the only power
whose r.retentions in the Pacific Amer
lea will ever have need to fear. 1t is
twice two thousand miles, and more,
from Russian or Japanese territory
and both Russia and Japan have such
present troubles of their own that they
may be counted out OF the calculation
for the moment.
Honolulu, as it stands strategically,
must be made strong enough to resist
attack by sea-and then there need be no
worry over possible attack by land. At
tack by land, in fact, if the forts and the
fleet here be strong enough to hold a
hostile fleet at bay, IS not among the
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! Fort at Paaloo.
Fort at BARRIERS Point.
Battery at Old Weikiki. Z
Battery Near Lighthouse, DID :
mtond Head.
Battery at Mia. G
Mortar Battery at Home for In q
enrobles
Battery at Wasanae Gap. J
Platform for Field Battery at G
PaE.
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Continued on page T.,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-22
ALL BIDS REJECTED.
Departures From Terms of Circular
 Are Alleged.

Washington, December 21.-All the bids for concessionary contracts or grants for the construction of railroads in the Philippine islands recently submitted to the bureau of insular affairs were to- day rejected because of departures from the terms of the circular calling for pro- posals
 Secretary Taft after number of con ferences with Governor Wright and MT. Forbes of the Philippine commission and Colonel Edwards, chief of the insular bureau, today decided to readvertise for proposals, and January 20 at 10 a. m. had been fixed as the date for the open ing of news bids for these concessions. The terms will be modified in some par ticulars.
 Where bidders propose to construct the road without guarantee they will be linn ited in their bids only by the terms of the Philippine government act of 1902 and 1903. But where the bidders wish 70 take advantage of d guarantee of a cer- tain interest on their investment they can vary from the original invitation to bid only in point of time or in the cost of construction per mile as affected by contractors profits. As to the latter the Philippine government reserves the right to fix the maximum cost of the road. The time in which the road can be completed and the contractors profits will be inn portant considerations in making the awards.
 New circulars will be prepared at once for the guidance of those who may wish to enter the competition for the railroad concessions in the Philippines.