The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-01-23

-, -,aG in 1892 and was TIA
tHat ,hort $4,000 8 mile. |
IT, ~ nv You will lind roads nc 1iat
,r the chief parts Of .r'to
,,;no anI YOU can go III All "'' -
III cyer the island. ~ foaus
ha,a cost only $4,000 a nlile anu ~
- AK ~st,ndinG ABOUT *?"o H''
49, nn,:, y, to keep n = II -
- .rara~ate length OF the in.tIa'i3n,
IL - thaf if they ,snTe Ii.:"ed
+, : 4 they Ynnle r"2'-,l i.nat
york almost 20 Chicago, ana ma
roula be q better a~utornobilc Ioaa
800 - i, were composed OF asps
s.n,,, tbe t,.>st roads OF New L.ietA.u
IN addition to this wagon roaos
bar,. been made in the mo'ih'ai,9
cnnnect;ng With these an'orlopiie
tiyhUavs. and new trans nav -
an, {, 4haf transportation ia every
where possible. ~,
/, treat deal Of the luSlneSS .. ,hG
- Il nov done II autonl"hllt5.
-,;,a,. ar,. more than 400 IN Use tnd
80, are added e<trt day. liner
,...nt. something liz. : hundred ftN
ones last wear. There art f"Sntar
lines Of freight and passenser 'notoS
cars between the chlct cl'l's' "hi
regular automobile BUSES run oN't
ne military road from San Juan 10
sitt. AZ A'g
s,n .Iuan after breakfast in the
morning and be 1t Ponce. on the
southern side OF II island for lunch.
# used to hustle one to get there in
two days.
The New Steam Roads.
WEN Wa in Porto Rico. st the
lose Of the h2c. there was oni3 one
steam railway. Il>is was made up o.
.:nn,t strips IlltlHS tom san JUAN
az. u. d to foA~c with numerous
l.. "a ks. II was % :: 81 a system thAt
had been planned to belt the island.
h., co.. bits OF Nt.ch had been built.
sauce We have t.Ecn hold this
has r.. :, loved and extended. The
hre:k~ have. been tied. n the steam
cars now u clear along the north
err and western ends OF the lslau0
| from San Juan 10 I'"nce. and from
: there ia the port Of G~uayanna. This
t completes four-tfths f the circuit 81
: the island, and. in addition. there are
many short line railroads., which sup
ply the z plantations. \ very lit
) tie more track would give ROADS
through all the coast lands OF t'ortt
i I.icO.
Iii 1898 the car service was !aiSeT
t able. The passenger coaches Wt~a 1T
y tie hotter than cur box freight car.
s and il WAS !. rare occasion when tn
r dinizy engine did not break town. To
day there. are oOd American loco
e motives and comfortable paSSengel
q cars.
d Steamships to Porto Rico.
Since the United States TOOK hold .
Porto Rico the steamship lines con
Q Meeting With i have steadily fnlprov
2. ed. New ones have been added, an
Is the island has now steamers for al
le parts OF the world. The WharfS @
San Juan and Ponce are crowded wit
American goods. There are no,
le twelve different lines which call a
d Porto Rico. The chief ones going t
is the United States are the New Yor
ana Porto Rico Steamship Line, tn
Red ID Line and the Insular Lin.
e The latter has three steamers whic
m ply regularly between New York an
I'd San Juan. The Red D. has fv,
which call at San Juan on their wa
10 to Venezuela, and the New York an
10 Porto Rico Line has a weekly seryic
It's boats leaving New YORK every Sa:
urday and reaching Porto Rico Wee
llesdaE. The fare is $40 or $50. Tt
a. Spanish transatlantic Company pli,
v hetHeen Spain and Santo DOMINO
as Gaining 81 San Juan and a French l1
goes from France to Haiti. calling
IN the same port. The Hamburp-Ame
lcan Lin has boats to Porto Rico. ar
,rs there are Italian and Cuban boats
is- well. one can go TO Porto Rice FRO,
in the United States two or three tim
no every week.
Sc. Posts and Telt.graphs.
nd me Geographic and postal seryi
an % the island. which was very DO
m. Ten years ago, is now us good as tn
Q! any part Of our country. TT
ed United States government manae
.es, the post offices, and the ~telee-a,
or. system is under the government
lth Porto Rico, being directed bv its. a
I'd. partfnent Of the interior. There :
a 1hlrty-seven telegraph stations. co
/ a ering all the larger places, and the
ing are connected by telephones with
the me sulaileF towns. Mesa es are Sc
100 oy telegraph and transmitted frc
n stations by telephone. The tej
phones are Wned by private part
o. ne island has also a good cable s.
the s.ce' competing it with all parts
in 4ne world. and 1t has wireless Ia
ads graph stations maintained by I
,rk. United States Navy. It has also IT,.