Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-07-11

! winter temperature averages only sly
| degrees cooler than In summer
Under the Spanish administrators
| there were about IS centrals Tbsy
were ornate, stone structures. tut AZ.
unused now. Some of the ruins in tie
distance look like historic remains !,
! Europe. Cgly structures, larger
! covered with sheet iron and fitted VT.
/ American machinery, have taken the-
! place AMI run night and DAY. maki,e
| sugar at two hundred per cent Prof,
| The Fajaido central cost $500. 900; uses
six ocomotives and 40 miles Of track
| 10 bring in the cane; makes ! o tons D,
! sugar daily which goes in stee. car,
from the hacging platform 10 the
wharf 4 mile away, where a STEAMSHIP
| per week is loaded for its voyage /,
| New York. The central at Guanics il
| twice as large. The dry cane from the
rolls is just sufficient fuel for engines
and eyaporators.
A short blast from the BELLIES
meter gLase locomotive, On the morn.
| irg of May II. and We were OF for
second tour around the island Ths
Z
| Juan faded from View and immodatef
we were among the cane fields and
/ fruit plantations. The citrOus crop Ia.
recently been gathered and now ths
| pines were coming to the port hv
! trains and motor trucks at the rate o:
a ship load per weej. About half "
the care has been cut and the core.
VIII not he picked until December
| Farnins, is a continuous process in this
country and the harvest season for
many crops is regulated solely by h.
time Of planting.
All Porto Rican railways are ot one
meter guace for steam roads and
standard euage for electric ralwAyf
! except that the portable tracks IN care
| fields are much narrower. The reV
/ engines and cars are Of Amencar
models. but tho window cars anil
| Belgian engines are curioSitips. Theu
old cars are two feet narrower tina,
! the row ones, and a first class pas
senser in the wider rear car can hood
the length of the train on a stralgs|
track and watch the operations Of ,''
! ongincmen. The speed Is anou, 81
,
| are two trains per day each way. NJ
/ the three shorter lines there f. oy
! train daily each way. with stops NJ lnf
/ crossing. but there are few stations
except at the terminals Tho total
mileage on passenger lines is about
/ eco miles, but there may he ifo miles
I of permanent tracks additional on srs
! roads, where one secs iron iridE5s
! trains Of steel cars and modern loco
motives.
Transportation in Porto Rico e
; chiefly by highways, the main lines re-
! ing excellent and the others cXccrahlr
Many electric omnibus ines,carry pas
senGers over the mountains -aui sac
: distance, time ard carfare. The on
eric river dams, with heads Of ld3 a7.
4 Us feet, furnish electric power on ne
north side of the island and the CARTE
I Reservoir II ear GAIA ann on the sou
! side, hut This is used only for clf
! transportation. There are 1900 private
! automobiles and hundreds Of helV
/ motor trucks, The great, covered hui
/ carts, hauled h. one to three yokes q
! cattle, arc tho chief means of trans
portation on tho island. They lNns
/ down all the coffee and other produce
! from the mountains, and usually 'hs
J travel is by night with rest and graz
! ing by day during the heat.
At Yauco u lonr string Of covered
| bun carts, coming into the city VI
coffee passed my hotel at six . cIock
On Sunday r1ornins. These bulls are
ttNf~
one sees 4 hundred yolies of h1lls I"
one span of horses. Native hoFs"
weigh about $50 pounds ard are in
mune to CHAMBERS, which kills nearf
every American horse brought into tR
island. Tie cane lands arr r'ovHd W
some sections. bY steam tn tors - oD'
posite sides Of fro fc,F which hHI .
gang of plows back and foHrth 'x''
steel cables. but this toh common,
falls to the bulls Near S7~ta lsqfa
small boys rode hntveoen Tho ca''h
sitting on the yoke and enigma Wf'a
the boy stops SINGING. tho bulls fIp
walking and tho pillow does 20 woTf.
The yokes are dashed TO the buns
horns soAthat they draw ny their hesci
instead Of their shoulders
Twill Porto Piro adont prohhitie5
Of the linuor fra &c at it's special elec'
ton next Juiy. lG ." il being asked 10
the % "dry''. states at the north Are
two tours around the island addresses
at 81 Temperance meetings. conference
with 10 temperance committees anu
conversir2 with many individuals.
can give tire following evidences y
answer to the question:
| Over 1850 attended the "A temper
ance meeetinrs: at Areciho and Hnr
I macao linuor dealers are active mem
hers Of the committees on prohih'fin'
/ ct scme If our raIblic meetings h0u'
when the licerse supporters a. Tanfa
got I'D an opposition meeting on ~
! nlaza one block distant. we had 'welV'
times as MANY neople In attendanoes
our onnonents: the insular police fave
I prohibition: TIE insular and lcos'
| school boards favor it: the labor or
| CARNATIONS are for II. However y ~
/ * sugar producers. who avera-e "
! control 1000 acres each fearing loss "
/ their cane bv-product when dis+llliht
stops. oreanize to coerce their employ
ees: or Sf the Catholic church. WIN
/ looks askancc at prohibition actiTH
! throws Its influence against II: cr. y
| the liquor trade organiza lions Of 'n'
! north send money 10 Porto Rico 70 y
4! ~sed by under men where II will Q.
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