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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1909-01-08

Aiuo u CohChAoA Ca PSA'~c
tario: Il
Al Magisterio Esoolar do Puerto Rico.
SehOres:
En- la pr6xima Legislature estoy de-
cidido 4 hacer una campaiia energica
Y vigorosa, tendente, no va tan solo
& que mejore vuestra actual precaria
situaci6n, 81 que tambien 4 que Sc CO.
rrijan determinados procedimientOs o
metodos = como ahOra Sc dice = que
afectan, y no para mejorarlas, no va
tan solo 4 vuestra clase, 81 que tambier
v muy intensamcnte, a la educacion de
Ia ninez puertorriquefa.
En- mi poder existen datos muy i'm
portantes, pero necesito algunos mas,
y todos aquellos de vosotros, en- ejer-
cicio no, que quieran ayudarme en-
mis- empenos, ruegoles que asi me 10
manifiestcn por carta, & la mayor bre-
vedad possible, para enviarles ell cues
tionario 4 que deben contestar, en- la
mas absolute seguridad los "timidos"
que nadie sino yo, sabra ell origen Q
fuente de las noticias que reciba.
Anticipando ustedes las graciasy y
con el testimonio de mi mas alta y dis
tinguida consideration, quedo de US
tcdes.
Muy sinceramente,
Herminio Diaz Navarro,
Delegado la Camara.
Mucho pueden hacer la palabra elo-
cuente el genio parlamentario del Sc
for Diaz Navarro. por meJorar el SIS
te;,a educativo, las practicas escolares
ly La situaci6n de los maestros.
Ell BOLETIN viene siguiendo una
campana que jnzga trascendental, la
lie suprimir el castigo corporal en- laa
escuelas pnblicas, y 4 esa eampana ha
de cooperar seguramente el senor Diaz
Navarro.
El profesorado, esa clase numerosa
| y sufrida del pals, ha encontrado un
esiorzadisimo defensor en- el cOmba
tiente parlamentario, que es uno de
nuestros primeros oradores.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1909-01-08
R@v6soa Commercial


Nay Flower, LuQuille.
Guillermito, descargando.
BUQUEs ANUNCIADos
vap. srp. Puerto Rico. Sali6 u 80
del pssado de Bareelona para esta
hacienda las escalas intermedias.
Conignatarios, 8. do IsQu'srdo y @
vapor frances Quebec. Con proce-
dencia de Puerto Plata estar& squi,
al rededor del II del corriente.
Consignatarios, j. T. Silva B. Co.
vspor cubano Julia. Estar& aqui
procedente de Habana y escalas in
termedias, maiiana.
Consignatarios, villar y Co.
vapor amer. F. j. Luckenback. Sa-
li6 de New Orleans para esta, el 8
del que cursa.
Consignatarios, Insular Line.
Vapor amer. Ponce. Sc aguarda de
un dia & otro procedente de New York
via Mayaguez.
Consignatarios. The New York and
Porto Rico S.S. Co.
.Vapor americana Carolina. Saldr&
para New York el l3 del actual.
Consignatarios, The New York and
Porto Rico S. S. Co.
vapor americana Coamo. Del puer-
to de New York para el nuestro, sal
dra el del corriente.
Consignatarios, The New York and
Porto Rico S. S. Co.
vapor espanol Antonio Lopez. Del
20 al 81 recalara, procedente de Colon
y escalas seguira viaje para Espa-
ma.
Conagnatarios, S. de Ezquiaga.
vapor ingles Cayo Soto. Proceden-
te de Amberes llegara Arecibo, al
rededor del 25 del corriente y CONT
nuara viaje para la Habana y demas
puertos de su ruta.
Consignatarios, j. T. Silva B. Co.
vapor espanol Martin Saenz. Sal
dra de Barcelona para esta hacienda
las escalas intermedias, el Is del CO.
rriente.
Consignatarios, Sobrinos de Izquier-
do y Ca.
DELA LINEA DE BENNER
Goleta amer. Carrie Strong. Debe
naber sai..o de New York para es-
Ia, ell Is del pasado.
Consignatarios, S. de Ezqulaga.
Goleta americana Dean e. Bron. DE
be haber salido de New York, el del
corriente.
Consignatarios, S. de Ezquiaga.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1909-01-08

Arecibo z. La Corte Municipal de
este pueblo, ha tenido conocimiento de
haber sido muerto de una punalada, en-
FL barrio eSabana boyoss el individuo
Felix Maldonado, habieDdo sido dete-
nido el agresor Esperamos mas de-
TALES para ampliar In notieia-
Una agresifns
Yauco z. Aver el individuo iIip6li-
10 Cupill, de ofieio xapatero. hr'o en-
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1909-01-08
Diaz Navarro en- canpals

Ell eminente hombre pdblico dirije
Ia siguientc carta los maestros, pro-
Aimo & comenzar el periodo parlamen-
tario: ~
Al Magisterio Escolar dc Puerto Rico.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-05-14
GarmalY'S Canal System

In the last 20 years Germany has ex-
pended $3.50 900, 900 on waterways, and
she is now digging the German-Aus-
trian and the Rhine-Elbe canals, which
are to cost $3.50, 100000 more. And yet
Germany owns all the railways within
the empire, but she has the good sense
to see that wealth and contentmenr
lie in giving every section the utmost
means of transportation.
She has today 8278 miles of nayiga-
BILE rivers, canalized rivers and inland
canals. and freight transportation on
these waterways costs but three-six-
teenths of a cent a mile per ton. If
this country had proportionately as
many open waterways, it would have
network of them 40 miles apart. Our
consuls in Germany agree in saying
that this country Is making a mistake
in neglecting its waterways.
Germany's chief river, the Rhine, has
a foreign outlet, and she met this diff
Guilty by building a new outlet to the
sea 116 miles long at cost of $4,000.
900. These facts go to show why few
Germans are leaving Germany--why
the country is gaining industries,
wealth, and population-why,' in II
word, she is beginning to dominate all
Europe.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-05-14
ROAD BUILDING TO MUSIC.

From the Chicago Daily News.
Maj. L. W. V. Kennon, now command
ing a battalion of the Tenth infantry,
L. S. A, in building the famous Benguet
road through the mountains of northern
Luzon, Philippine Islands, accomplished
a feat called humanity impossible. 1t took
music, money and a mongrel army of
1000 men to do it, but Benguet road stands
today one of the remarkable highways Of
the world Major Kennons army of 1000
road builders did not like to work; when
they did it was with slow, sluggish move
ment.
One day Major Kennon assembled his
band, made up of men of all nations, and
ordered it to move quietly and secretly to
a place where several hundred Filipinos
were engaged In drilling holes in the can
yon walls and play a favorite Oriental
air. Instantly the Filipinos caught the
spirit of the music and began to beat their
drills against the rock in rhythm.
The band followed the Filipinos along
the way and played wherever they work.
ed From laborers worth about 10 cents
a day they developed into musical ma
chimes that worked to drum beats. Major
Kennon insists that his band saved the
Philippine government thousands of dol
lars
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-05-14
One Day In Seven to Loaf

The Steel corporation is managed
by wise and experienced men, and
those men have become wide awake to
the fact that employees who have day
off" after toiling six days do better and
even more work in week than do
those who toll without recreation. 1t
is just as necessary that man should
loaf and invite his soul occasionally as
1t is that he should sleep.
Acting on this theory, the Steel cor
poration has decided to close on Sun
day every mill owned by it, and it has
begun the reform by closing on that
day an important part of the tube
works at McKeesport, Pa. Blast fur
naces and coking plants cannot, how.
ever, be closed on Sunday, but EN-.
ployes in those works could be given
one days rest in every, seven. The
negro laborer can be trusted to get his
allowance of recreation, but the white
employee at blast furnaces and cokins
plants would be deprived of recreation
unless a system of rest be devised fol-
his benefit. The rule that is applied il
daily newspaper Offices could be fitted
to the furnaces and coking plants
The day of rest prescribed by the Jew
ish law stands approved in all civilized
lands by science and the best expe
rience, and the Steel corporation is sim
ply keeping step with modern though
and progress in the matter of needfu
recreation for it's tens of thousands O
employees.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-05-14
A heaven on earth have won by WOO
ing thee.
ALPS Well That Ends Well.
Progress Of Woman'S Suffrage

Woman suffrage moves slowly in a
country where the militant suffragette
does not exist, but still it does move
forward, gaming here or there some
ground. In four states women have
full suffrage. These four states are
Idaho. Colorado, Utah and Wyoming.
No one of the four proposes to take
the ballot away from women. Denver
is the largest city in the four states,
and it has become an exceedingly pro-
gressive and humane city. Women do
vote in Denver, and they have to be
reckoned with in every election. Some
OF the best politicians in Denver are
women.
In twenty-four additional states and
one territory-Arizona- may
vote on school questions. These states
are Connecticut, Delaware, Florida,
Iowa, Illinois, Indiana. Kentucky, Kan
sas, Michigan, Massachusetts, Mime
sofa, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska,
New Hampshire, New Jersey, New
York, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Ohio,
South Dakota, Vermont, Washington,
and Wisconsin. In Indiana women
taxpayers may vote on taxation ques-
lions only. In Iowa they may also vote
on bonding matters. In Minnesota
they may also vote for public library
trustees. In Kansas they may vote at
municipal elections; in Montana they
may vote on bonding questions, and
in New York on questions of local tax
alton.
There is, therefore, woman suffrage,
in some form and to some extent, in
80 states, leaving but 16 states that are
wholly controlled by mere man. These
16 states are Alabama, Arkansas, Geor-
gia, Maine, Maryland, Missouri, Ne
vada, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsyl-
vania, Rhode Island, South Carolina,
Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West
Virginia Eleven of these states are
in the south, leaving but five states in
the north that have not adopted wo-
man suffrage in some form. The five
northern states firmly held by the men
are Maine, Nevada, Oregon, Pennsyl-
vania and Rhode Island. 1t is not a
list of choice progressive states.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-05-14
Money Turned Loose.

1.-THE American Trust and Savings bank
paid off the employees of the Alabama
Great Southern railroad this afternoon in
a surprisingly short time said an Of
fetal of the road.
"All the windows were put in commits
sion and manned By tellers, and as the
men began to flock in after quitting time
in the shops, an official of the bank cour-
teously directed them to the windows, and
by this method each man received his pay
with the least possible delay and had
ample time in which to visit the stores
before they closed.
MANY thousands of dollars were dis
bursed in less than two hours. The busy
scene and the clever method of dealing
with the situation were commented upon
appreciatively by business men who Wis
tied the bank during the period"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-05-14
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
LOOKING BACK


I wonder if the water murmurs as 1t
used to do
In pleasant Rocky Hollow, in between
the hills Of blue.
There was time it used to sing a meas
ure sweet and low
A happy cadence to my dreams-but that
was long ago.
I've often thought the butterflies had rich
er colors then
And every bloom was sweeter where It
Powered in the glen,
And ell the world was fairer in the golden
yesterday
Across the years, in Boyhood Land that
seems so far away.
A melancholy pleasure comes from
brooding DER the scene
The wooded slopes on either hand, the
rivulet between
That wound its way beside the road and
gossiped Ger the stones
And spoke along its changeful course a
voice of many tones.
A weary way my feet have trod since first
I wandered there
And days have dawned in darkness when
the cross seemed hard to bear,
And oftentimes when cruel cares were
sorely pressing me
I've searched my heart in vain to find the
boy that used to be.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-05-14

any civil or criminal case on any ground
unless the court, after examination of
the entire record, can affirmatively say
that the judgment of the trial court was
for the wrong party, and that but for the
errors complained of a different judgment
would have been rendered.
It should be entitled "A bill to give
clients an inning" The lawyers had
worked teehnicalities for all they were
worth until the people were thorough
ly tired with their endless appeals. The
upper house of the Missouri legislature
is full of lawyers, and they may refuse
to pass the bill. 1t is a reform that Is
tantamount to a legal revolution, and
revolutions, as all know, do not go
backward. So if the pending bill be
defeated it will come up again and
again until it becomes law.
As matters stand, the man with the
long purse has his own way in the
courts, unless indeed he encounters
another man with a purse still longer.
The appeals based on legal sophistries
and technicalities have driven the poor
man out of court, and he must accept
whatever terms the rich man may die
tate.
The lawyers would not welcome an
extension of the Missouri bill. but the
plain everyday man would, and Mis-
souri, can, by passing it, inaugurate
great and deeply needed reform. The
rule of the long purse in the courts
would in that way be abolished, and
Missouri should not ask to be shown
more good than that.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-05-14
WOMAN'S BEAUTY.

From the Washington Post.
A hefty problem is that now wearing
down the Gallo mind. In an hour of
absinthian rhapsody some Partisan youth
propounded to the midnight stars his
query as to when woman is at her hand
soonest, and before next dejeuner all
France seethed with controversy. No
such morsel has been thrown to conten-
ton since the salons of the second en-
pire fumed over the location of Nine
de Marneirs beauty spot.
M Provost adorer of all that is femi-
nine from his nurses arms still retains
the ideals of his youth, and thinks of
his divinity most attractive between
80 and 40. M Abel Bonnard, the poet,
finds woman at her richest beauty be-
tween % and 80. His fellow poets, as they
grow older, find a correspondlngly greater
charm in more youthful faces, until that
snow-crowned old beau of the Bots de
Boulogne, NJ. Riquet Saint-Jacques, con-
fesses that he sees the most ravishing
loneliness in the girl of 16 to 20.
Thus the beauty experts of Paris among
the men disclose opinions varying great
~. But the women, the female savants
Nine. Marni does not think woman
beautiful until she is 40, and Nine. Dieula-
foy Is sure her sisters bloom at their
ripest nearer 80. Catl AS If a woman
ever reached that age unless she were a
grandmother and what use has a grand
mother for beauty, pray? One is sure
that Nine. Dieuafoy has not yet reached
so, and that she is not satisfied. Or else
she has reached 80 and suspects that
some of her dear friends feel sorry for
her.
Luckily the Partisan youths stupen-
dous problem weighs lightly with your
substantial American. He lives in a land
where women never grow old and are
never anything less than beautiful, so he
doesn't have to give the question of their
beauty thought. He simply accepts it.
If the little girl be his daughter, she is
at her most beautiful age. If the young
woman be his wife, her beauty never
loses its freshness, and every day finds
it ripper in his eyes than the day before.
And IL the old woman be his mother, hers
is now, as 1t was when 1t bent over his
cradle, the most beautiful face on earth.
And so If the excited Frenchman would
PROFOUND his his dreadful query to his
American friend he would receive the
reply, "A woman is at her most beau
tiful age from the time she begins to
, love until she is no longer capable of
being loved"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-05-14
HarFard'S Tribute to Eliot

The Harvard graduates have under
taken to raise as an endowment fund
$3.50, 900 to enable President Eliot and
his wife to live in comfort the remain
der of their lives. The couple have
no children and they are well past
threescore. When they are gone the
money is to revert to the university.
The fund already exceeds $4,000, and
no doubt the entire proposed sum will
be secured, and the best thing about
the subscription is its universally. No
large donations have come in, and the
larger part of the sum was made up
by contributions of $40 and under.
1t is to be a splendid tribute to the
men who have felt President Eiiots
uplifting power as an educator and
who now appreciate what they felt at
the university. His long life has been
spent among young men, and many OF
them are now men of middle age, fer
he has been president of Harvard 40
wears. The country holds no educator
of greater breadth or greater oppor-
tunities, and nobly did he bring to bear
at Harvard his best years and best
efforts, and his boys are now showing
their appreciation of what he did.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-05-14
A GARDEN ON A SHIP.
New York Herald.

From the New York Herald.
Sighted in latitude 81 degrees north,
longitude 70 degrees west, kitchen gar
den, dollhouse gone, strawberry bed miss
ing gardener asked to be reported as
steering for New York"
This may be the form of a marine re-
port one of these days if steamship COM
panies keep on with the evolution of a
big shop into floating hotel The Kaiserin
Auguste Victoria of the Hamburg Ameri-
can line came in recently from Hamburg
and channel ports with not only mush-
rooms and lilies of the valley and let
tuce growing on her sun deck, but with
a fine crop of strawberries hourishing in
close proximity. So far as is known IN
marine circles this is the first sea-going
kitchen garden that ever came into this
port. 1t was the wonder of the passen-
gers during the voyage, and women who
ate in the Ritz-Carlton restaurant COM
ing over had the privilege of picking
their own strawberries for breakfast
The garden is usually contained In a
steel dollhouse with big glass portfolios
on a slanting roof, or deck, to be nau-
tically correct, which has been built Just
aft of the deckhouse on the sun deck.
When the wind is not too heavy the gar
den is taken out bodily and given an
airing, in charge of the gardener. who
is a member of the ships crew. All
the lettuce. mushrooms and strawberries
needed for the restaurant during the
voyage were supplied from this garden.
and the outlook is for a fine crop on the
voyage back.
According to August Keller, the man
ager of the restaurant, on the next voy-
age westward the Kaiserin will have a
small orchard as WELL composed of peach
and cherry trees, the fruit of which pas
sepgers will have the privilege of pluck
ing at "carte du jour- rates.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-05-14
in HOTEL LOBBIES
Regarding Retail Trade.

A. W. B. Johnson, president and man
ager of the steele-smith company, al
though comparatively recent conner, has
been here long enough to be thoroughly
identified with Birmlngham's mercantile
interests and to be a sincere Birming-
ham optimist. About eight months ago
he acquired an interest in the Steele
Smith department store and took active
charge of the business One will not
be long in his society without knowing
that he is glad he came here When
saked yesterday about business conditions
from his point of view Mr.. johnson re-
piled with pleasant emphasis: It am sat
isfied."
Mr. Johnson remarked that as he had
been here less than year he could not
make comparisons as to the general
trend of retail trade in the Birmingham
district, but that he saw great flu
ture for this city as a shopping CEN
ter. Yes" he said, our business has
been very satisfactory. Birmingham IS
recognized as one of the most attrac-
tive shopping cities in this country, and
it will draw more and more trade from
the state at large. 1t has a great fu-
ture."
Mr.. johnson is a member of the board
of directors of the Business Mems league
and, like all the other merchants who are
active workers in that organization, he
expects fine results. The object of the
league is to expand Birmingham's trade
and plans are now being perfected which,
it is believed, will prove of far-reachinS
benefit to every interest in this city.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-05-14
A Fine BuiIdino,

"I have never seen a finer or a more
impressive building than the Empire
said M. II. Dooley. chief claim agent
of the Southern railway who spent yes
terday in Birmingham with Joe Wiley,
who has charge of that department in
this district. 81 think that the Empire
will be one of the handsomest Office
buildings that the south can boast.
81 am also surprised to see how well
the Chamber of Commerce building is
progressing. This will be another
building that will be a credit to Biz
mingham and to the public spirited citi-
zens who are building it.
you know Birmingham is a good
city, and a coming CITY, Some day this
will be the largest southern city which
is off the sea. 1 can remember when
there was no Birmingham. I came
through here when they were first
building the Alabama Great Southern
railroad, and there was a little box
car down yonder for a depot. Elyton
was the city then. A man looking at
Birmingham now can hardly realize
such changes could take place in three
decades. think mighty well of Biz
min CHAM and have great faith in her
future"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-05-14
Improved Health.

II. NJ. Beck, one of Birmingham most
prosperous and highly esteemed business
men. after having been under treatment
several weeks at Johns Hokpins hospital
in Baltimore, it at home again and is ap-
parently enjoying good health. Just now
Mr.. Beck Is giving much Of his atten-
tion TO knights of Pythias affairs. The
grand lodge meets in Florence next week
and as Mr.. Beck is at present vice grand
chancellor. he will, it is said, be ad-
vanced to the highest position, that of
grand chancellor without opposition.
A prominent Pythian said last night:
1.-The rumor printed in some of the pa
pers that Mr. Beck would not be can
didate for the office of grand chancellor,
owing to poor health, is without founda-
ton. He has been an active member of
the grand lodge of Alabama for ten years
and has been in line of office five years.
He will be chosen grand chancellor next
week practically by acclamation.'