Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-03

consular service.
A RR1VED at San Juan, the party was
L \ greeted among others by the president of
the Senate. who speaks Spanish only; the
president Of the House of Representatives,
the Hon. Juan b. Huyke, lawyer and edu
GATOR. whose father was associated with DR..
Martin g. Brumbaugh, of the University Of
PENNSYLVANIA, first commissioner Of educa
ton after the American occupation. and the
vice president OF the House of Representa-
tives, the Hon. Miguel Guerra Mondragon.
Signor Guerra, who is a lawyer and bunch
of nerves like George Brennan, of the Pen
and Pencil Club, became interpreter for the
party. Upon inquiry it was found that Sig
nor Guerra was educated at Nazareth Hall
Military Academy. in the cement region of
Pennsylvania. He spoke in terms of affec-
tionate remembrance of Mrs. Blum, thewife
Of the president emeritus of that institution.
Then along comes r. V. Perez Marschand,
University of Pennsy ylvania, 1914 law class,
who desired to be remembered to Dean Will
liam Draper Lewis. Evidently there are
enough University Of Pennsylvania boys in
Porto Rico to form an alumni association,
a matter which they are now actually con-
sidering. In business circles was Charles e.
Lawton. of Philadelphia. at the head Of the
American Colonial Bank in San Juan, an
institution which is now interested, along
with other independent banks. in the efforts
Of the local Legislature to establish gov
ernment bank and land banks in addition
and in religion. the Rev. f. +. Mcclure,
minister of the Union Church. Mr.. Mcclure
was formerly of Pittsburgh, but is conduct
ing a self supporting institution vastly diff
ferent from the ordinary South American
mission one finds asking for assistance in
out of the way places. Captain j.. B.
Howarth. of South Lambert street, Phila-
delpha, has been in Porto Rico about two
years, attached to the quartermaster' de-
partment, L. s. army, and Simon j..
Mesirov. an active young Philadelphia, is
assisting him in the adjustment of the quar-
termaster's account on the island. Pay
master Archy Wright Barnes, U. s. N.
Pennsylvania long in the service; Lee II.
Vendig, San Juan business man, whose
brother built the Hotel Nendig in Philadel-
pbia; Edward A. E. Coplan, of Wilkes
Barre. who represents the Armours, and Ed
ward Jefkins, of Bradford. district deputy
grand exalted ruler of the island Elks. also
came to notice during the stay in San Juan.
DENNSYLVANIANS bobbed up at various
l. points on the island along the military
road which runs to Ponce and up around the
east and north coasts in the sugar and fruit
districts. At Rio Pedras and in the orange
and grapefruit districts there are many
persons familiar to Philadelphians. The Ed
son Brothers. of Dock street. are largely in
terested in the Hatillp Fruit Company aud
are I'D against the same problems of trans
portation that af6ict all the products of the
island The American concerns are getting
some fruit out, but they are greatly handi =
capped for shipping space and hundreds of
thousands of crates of oranges and grapefruit
20 to waste annually. while the people in
Philadelphia are paying extravagantly for
what they use in the hospitals and on the
breakfast table. Several fruit men congratu =
lated themselves upon securing upper berth
accommodations on the return trip from San
Juan, One of these was Roger Sherman
| of Brookline, Mass, who made earnest in =
| ouiries about the Rev. DIR. Russell H. Con
well, who he said would always have a
crowded house in Springfield, and Edmund
| Rushmore, formerly of Plainfield, n j.. but
now sometimes Of Hudson, n. Y. Wilbert
| Parkhurst, who has a 100 acre farm in
Porto Rico. was also on board, bringing hi:
pretty Porto Rican wife and baby to visit
| the folks at Millville, n. j. Pnrkhurst was
| not strong for Porto Rican independence
but wanted the American flag to float ther,
forever and day.
QUITE bunch of Pennsylyanians are 10
Vt Gated at Mayaguez, which suffered som,
months ago from devastating earthquake
| the ruins of which are still exposed n &
| T,au,yood who has University of penneyl