Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-11-17

saw banana groves, pineapple ant
sugar cane fields and beautiful view!
at every turn of mountains and val
ley's and streams. In this place
every turn, means much, for a large
part of the way, we continued to gC
in straight line scarcely the length
of the automobile.
And then we began to climb around
the side of the mountains, the "ser.
pentine traiP' it is called in some de.
scriptiOns There are toward the tor
of the range sharp turns around peaks
and curves where one looks into great
depths across which may be seen the
road on the mountain beyond.
We decended into a valley, after
having passed many tobacco fields
covered with cheese cloth to protect
the plants from the hot sun, and came
to town with tobacco manufacturing
plants. The odor of the place was
delicious. After this perhaps a quar-
ter of a mile of straight road, and
then another climb, more crooked,
more wildly beautiful and scene than
before We passed coffee trees and
beautiful flowers all along the way.
From the Governors summer resi-
dence on the mountain side one can
see miles and miles away to the south
the Caribbean
We met several showers on the
way; and after one, we saw a rain
bow seeming to lay up against the
side of a mountain The marvellous
beauty of this against the green can
not be described. The mountains are
only about 1000 feet above sea level
and are covered to the very tops with
green grass, foliage and trees.
At several places we saw the clouds
floating below us above the valleys.
Six miles above Guayama the car
was stopped to give US a chance to
look upon our future home on a table
land; and beyond the sugar cane fields
and beyond these the sea To the east
we saw, from this point, one of the
irrigation systems of this section.
This is dry section Of the Island.
Cor a number of weeks there have
been heavy rains, these are nearly
over and then will come several
months of dry weather
These rains resemble Ohio rains in
only .one particular-they are wet
They come, perhaps when the sun is
shining, seemingly out of a clear sky,
with a great and sudden down pour.
In a little while it is all over Just in
the beginning of one of these down
pours as we came down the side of a
mountain and rounded a sharp turn
we had a-blow out. The chauffeur
calmly climbed out in the rain and
put on a new tire.
Presently on coming around a bend
in the road we found ourselves almost
in the City of Guayama
We were hungry people and enjoy
ed an excellent dinner at Hotel
Paris"
At the hotel, in the evening, we met
thevsupervisor of this district and the
President of the School Board, both
Porto Ricean gentlemen, educated in
the States; also the American teach
ers, there are six here.
Before leave the subject of schools
/ wish to say something of Mr. Miller.
He is a Wisconsin man, holds a chair
in the State University and at present
is on leave of absence. He is keen and
alert, has a wonderful grasp of the
educational problems of the Island,
is devoted to its best interests and is
evidently beloved by the people with
whom he works He has recently ap-
pointed a Porto Rieean gentleman
educated in the States as assistant
Commissioner of Education, not as
he says simply because he is Porto
Ricean, but because according to the
judgment of Mt Miller he is the best
man available to fill the position.
There are many problems here, and
man who can do the work so sue
eessfully and so conscientiously as
Mr.. Miller is doing, deserves the sup
port and the honor of the folks back
home.