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El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1920-08-23
sALIDA DE PONCE

A las ocho de la manana, desde
el elegante hotel Metid, en- dondc Sc
hospedaron, salieron hacia esta ciu-
dad los bizarros marinos de Espana
en- union de distinguidas personals de
la colonia espanola de la prensa de
San Juan, que les acompanaron en- su
excursion a la. ciudad del Sur.
Desde las primeras horas del anna
necer empezo aglomerarse un in
menso gentfo frente al hotel Melid,
en- espera de la salida de los marinos.
Y era de yer como aquella gran masa
humana guardaba ell mas religioso
silencio.
En- su pensamiento solo habia una
idea: ''verles partir; decir adios a
los gallardos visitantes" Por ESQ,
cuando los AUTOMOBILES partieron, ell
contenido entusiasmo desbord6se, Y
hubo gritos vivas Espana Y los
marinos del Alfonso XIII.
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1920-08-23
-SERVICID FORBADE

@&@--------A
Ell HUPMOBILE no te-
me a las exigencias de
los duenos de automo-
viles. Su motor tiene re-
serva ilimitada de po-
tencia que lie permite
acelerar su marcha con
rapidez pasmosa, sin
dar thrones o causar vi
bracion e s desagrada-
bles, al igual que para
viajar en- toda clase de
caminos, subiendo cues
tas o atravesando ire
trechos arenogos o ba-
rTosos en- tercera velo-
cidad, todo este sin es-
fuerzo extraordinario.
Ell HUBMOBILE pres.
ta go minutes de servi-
clio por cada hora de uso.
BORINQUEN TRADING
CORPORATION
ranca No. 2 Belaval Bldg
relefono 1104 San Juar
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1920-08-23

vERACRUz (Mejico) La huelga ge
neral de los trabajadores, declarada
aver, ha producido numerosos tumultos.
La fiebre amarillo esta srrasando la
poblaci6n.
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1920-08-23

AMBERES. -Norte-America Gran
Bretaia siguen manteniendose EN- los
dos puestos de honor en- la justa olim-
plea.
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1920-08-23

MADRID. Los empresarios teatrs-
les muestranse preodupadisinsos, pues
estan seguros de que la pr6xima tempo
rada sera un desastre, en- raz6n de las
pretensicnes de los artistas y ell per-
sonal de tramoya, acoinodadores, etc.
Las peticiones que han hecho los en-
pleados en- general, son consideradas co
mo absurdas.
3. Tan critica es Ia situaci6n, Q,iee los
teatros n'Reina Victoria y "Apolo''
han sido cerrados definitivamente Sc
espera que otros muchOs seran clausu-
radios en- breve.
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1920-08-23

cian< banderas espanolas. Todos los
BALCONIES aparecian llenos de gente !;
que aplaudfa al paso de los marinos.
A las 5 de la tarde llegamos a San
Juan.
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1920-08-23

ATENAS.-La policia ha descubier-
to un formidable complot, con vastas
ramifeaciones en- algunas capitales eu-
ropeas, fraguado con el prop6sito de de-
rrocar al actual gobierno de Grecia pa
ra restablecer en- ell trono al rey Cons
tantino. Centenares de conspiradores
han sido reducidos prisi6n
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1920-08-23

GRAVES DIsTURBIos
EN- LA sILEsIA
Charlevoix county herald., 1920-11-05
NEITHER WARS NOR RENTS
DISTURB THIS CURIOUS
PEOPLE

The cone jewellers Of Asia Minor,
technically known as the Troglodytes
of Cappadocia, are harasSed not at
all by the housing problem, for they
live in nature-made apartment houses,
fashioned by trickling streams and vol
canic violence.
Nor Is 1t likely that they are con-
cerned in the least about their pollti-
cal fate, for, though they inhabit what
is characterized as the "cradle of civil
nzation," they are more primitive in
some particulars than the most be-
nighted tribes of Africa or the South
Pacific.
A communication by J. r. Sitlington
Sterrett to the National Geographic
society describes the Cappadocians as
follows:
"Residing within a stones throw,
metaphorically speaking, Of the won
derful civilization which flourished on
the banks of the Nile 6,000 years ago;
of the mighty kingdoms of Assyria and
Charlevoix county herald., 1920-11-05
THE TEMPLE CITIES OF
JAPAN

Many feet have been treading their
way TO the shrines in the temple cities
of Japan in recent months.
In the temples of Tokyo many bits
of American pocket money went to a
priest for writing pretty prayer on
Il slip of paper which the visitor, in
true pilgrim fashion, pressed TO his
forehead and to his breast and then
fastened to the temple wall In order
that ii might be a perpetual petition.
There are 10000 deities to whom de-
vOut Japanese write, so "A few Amer
leans pleas scarcely clogged the ce-
leStial postal service.
There were many native pilgrims on
the way to the shrines. During the
summer months when the crops have
been taken care of, the village folk
though they have the temples of their
own patron deity and the fox god, feel
that they must send out pilgrim or
two to the sacred mountains and holy
places of Japan TO worship In behalf
Of those who cannot go, and so they
Nor does the emissary travel in
state. Life for him loses most of its
complexities. He is equipped with a
cheap white cotton shirt that can be
and a loose white cotton jacket which
he tucks in with girdle. He wears
an enormous broad, stiff straw hat,
and on his back he carries a piece of
mating which serves him as an UNI
brella by day and as bed by night.
He carries his luggage in two bundles,
one on his back and the other in front,
usually labeled with the name of the
shrine he is to visit, and somewhere
about his person there is hung a little
bell which tinkles as he stumps along
over the weary road from mountain
TO mountain.
In August the pilgrim rolls off his
mat and the visitor from foreign lands
climbs out of bed at the crack of
dawn to hear the lotus flower bloom,
for the buds burst with pleasing
characteristic sound
If Nikko is the most beautiful city
in Japan, Kyoto can be called the most
Interesting. Here the feminine visitor
finds herself bewildered by the most
exquisitely wrought of all the exquis-
ite pottery, cloisOnne, bronzes, fans
and velvets. After she has bought
more than she can comfortably get
home with, she probably will want to
see bit of the mikado's palace which
covers over twenty-five acres of
ground and is surrounded by great
wall with six gates, or journey out
to see the largest lake in Japan, Lake
Biwa, and the year-old pine tree
which stands near il.
Charlevoix county herald., 1920-11-05
WHEN THE NEAR EAST is
CIVILIZED

"ROughly speaking, turkey was Ill
vlded into five great provinces or dis
tricts-Anatolia. Armenia, Kurdistan,
Mesopotamia and Syria"
With this introduction William II.
Hall, writing to the National Geograph-
&c society, sketches the resources OF
Turkey, which have an opportunity for
development with measures that may
lessen the horrors of misrule, injustice,
deportations, massacres and famines.
He continues:
"The same broad plains that once
fed and clothed a population of 49,
100000 human beings are waiting to-
day for the pillow, the seed and the
reaper. The mountains still hold
riches of coal and iron and copper.
The quarries still have abundance OF
choice marbles. The rivers are po-
tent with power to turn the wheels
of industry. The natural harbors In
vite the fleets of merchantmen and
the river valleys and mountain passes
offer natural lines Of communication
and transportation, as In the days
when great caravans passed along
these natural highways, bringing the
merchandise of the East to the mar
kets Of the West.
"The whole land has been lying fall
low for centuries-a land that modern
exploration reveals as one Of the rich
est In natural resources and as unsur-
passed by its geographic location for
being the trade center Of the world.
Exclusive of Arabia, which was
never more than nominally under the
Ottoman dominion, the Turkish empire
embraced about $4,000 square miles
of territory at the beginning of the
World war. Only about 10000 square
miles of this were In Europe. The
Turkish empire was equivalent to the
combined areas Of the British Isles,
France and pre-war Germany. 1t was
larger than all of the area east of the
Mississippi and north of the Ohio and
Potomac rivers.
"The boundaries were the Black sea
and Caucasus on the north, Egypt on
the SOUTH the Aegean and Mediter-
ranean seas on the west, and the
Syrian desert and Persia on the east.
Turkey in Europe was almost
negligible area, as the Balkan wars
stripped the Turks of all their Eu-
ropean possessions except CONSTANT
nople and a narrow territory along the
Bosporus and Dardanelles some 4O
miles in width so that when the Turk
ish empire has been referred to In re-
cent years. Asiatic Turkey was nearly
all that the term embraced.
Charlevoix county herald., 1920-11-05
BIRDS HAVE YANKEE ACCENT
Iondoners Complain That Imported
Parrots Are Spelling the Pronun-
citation Of Their Fellows.

The American accent has invaded
even the parrot house at the geological
gardens here, according to a London
correspondent of the Detroit News.
A large consignment Of birds has
arrived from America. Many have
names that suggest cocktails. Hitler
to scientists may have doubted the
ability of cockatoos to acquire rec
ognizable accent, but two Of these
birds fresh from the New York zoo
speak unmistakable American.
They ask repeatedly for "clam
oysters on a half she'll" and beg their
amused visitors for hominy or Call
fornia peanuts. Sometimes In an out
burst of patriotism they repeat Cali
fornia" until II would appear that II Is
the only word In their vocabulary. And
now very small green parrot In the
cage next door Is trying to say
california" too.
A Disguised keeper stands outside
his cage saying London, London,
London" but the small green parrot
does not seem TO admire his accent so
much as that of his feathered trans
atlantic friends.
Charlevoix county herald., 1920-11-05

"The sugar extracted from this cane
ing from Havana to New York, with
a ship for every mile of the twelve
hundred that stretch between the two
ports. The great pyramid of Cheops,
before whose awe-inspiring proper
tons millions of people have stood
and gazed In open-mouthed amaze
ment, remains, after five thousand
years, unrivaled as a monumental pile /;
but Cuba's sugar output this year
would make two pyramids, each out
basing and overlapping Cheops.
1.-The wealth the outgoing sugar crop
brings In is not less remarkable In Its
proportions. Four hundred dollars out
OF single crop for every human be-
ing who lives on the island-a sum
almost as great as the per capita
wealth produced by all the farms, all
the factories, and all the mines Of the
United States.
what wonder, then, that Cuba to-
day is land of gold and gems, richer
than Midas ever was, converting
Croesus, by contrast, into q beggar?
"How much net profit the cane grow
er reaps at 1920 prices is hard to es-
innate, bu, that 1t is large will appear
when the methods Of cane growing are
stated To begin with, after the first
crop the planter does not have to
bother with seed time for about ten
years. The soil is so deep and so
fertile that one planting produces ten
harvests. Neither does cultivation
bother him after the first season, for
the blades stripped from one crop
form mulch that keeps the weeds
from competing with the next one.
Charlevoix county herald., 1920-11-05
LUCERNE: THE HOSTESS
OF SWITZERLAND

l.ucerne, scene of important confer
ences among allied statesmen, Is
precious jewel among Swiss cities
with the lake of the same name for
Its setting-a lake where varied beauty
anu historic association are blended.
On that lakes shores William Tell is
-TCted 10 have exhibited his marks
manship TO the discontinue of Gessler,
ami on its waters tradition holds he
won his revenge by Selling the rudder
of the vessel on which that tyrant held
him prisoner and guided it TO the rock
where he aimed, not at an apple but
at his oppressor's heart.
Less picturesque, but more signifi-
can't was the formulation of the per-
petual league. That famous instru-
ment not only was the antecedent of
the Swiss confederation, but marked
a mile post in humanity's political
freedom.
Beloved by tourists and crowded
with them in normal years, Lucerne
has retained many of its ancient as
poets. Its crumbling wall with its
Watch towers give it a medieval
Stamp; two of It's covered wooden
bridges also serve as art galleries.
On the walls of one are depicted
scenes of the citys history and the
other has paintings of the dance Of
Death"
Perhaps the most famed art object
of nj ic no / nf /
sidered by one critic "the most appro-
pirate and touching monument in ex-
istence." In Il grotto, hewn from the
natural rock, is a dying lion pierced
by a lance, with his paw protecting
the fleur-de-lys of the BOurbons. Thor
waldsen, Danish sculptor, designed
this tribute to the Swiss guard who
died in seeking to protect Louis XVI
against the mob of Paris revolution
lists that stormed the Tuileries in 1892.
Many quaint houses remain, includ-
Ing the wooden structures whose in
flammability gave rise to curious fire
regulations. Wood for building could
not lie i'm the streets more than "a
hours. No smithy could work between
vespers and early mass. Every citi-
zen was a potential fire fighter and
(the citizens brigade when called to a
fire had to await word from the mayor
for dismissal. Women were required
10 aid at night by holding lights in the
ooorways. Until two centuries ago
the city fathers were assigned special
duties in fire fighting.
Charlevoix county herald., 1920-11-05
HOW SUGAR MADE CUBA
A WORLD Ell DORADO

Sugar, like shoes, we once took for
granted. But procuring enough for
the preserving season was problem
and sugar "speak easies" are still not
uncommon in lands where the supply
is rationed.
Writing to the National Geographic
society, William Joseph Showalter
says:
with n sugar production nearly
doubled and prices more than quad
rupled since 1912, one can readily see
why Cuba is the worlds El Dorado of
1920, and why sugar is its king.
"The imagination is almost over
powered i'm attempting to comprehend
the vast proportions of the sugar in
dustry OF the island as il exists this
year.
THE cane produced is of such ire
mendous volume that a procession of
bull teams for abreast, reaching
around the earth, would be required
TO move 1t. The crop would suffice to
build solid wall around the entire
two thousand miles of the islands
coast line as high as an ordinary dwell
ing house and thick enough for a file
Of four men to walk abreast on Il
Charlevoix county herald., 1920-11-05

both ancient and modern times are to
be found in greatest number In the
shadow OF Asia Minors loftiest peak,
snow-clad Mt. Argaeus (called by the
Turks Erjias Dagh), an extinct vol
cano whose eruption in the dim past
laid the foundations and supplied the
material for these remarkable habita-
lions. while the Hays river of the
ancients (now known as Kill IrmaD
in succeeding centuries became their
tireless architect.
The practice of living in caves, In
cliffs or in excavated cavities In the
open plain is to be traced to state
of society which we of today have
some difficulty In depicting to our
selves. And yet the central thought
of the Troglodytic habit il the basic
principle upon which ancient civilian
tion was founded.
'1hey have sought and found for
themselves complete isolation. They
seem To have none of the instincts of
agricultural man and they are wholly
inhOSli table.
he entrances to their dwellings
are high up In the almost perpendicu-
lar walls of the cliffs, and they are
reached solely by means of long poles,
which are light enough to be drawn
up when the lord of the den and his
family are safely housed. And when
housed they really are safe from in
trusicn. for it would require host to
force an entrance against the will of
the family.
cone ancient writer tells us that
some TroglOdytes made a practice Of
killing all those who were not in first
rate physical condition, on the ground
that man who cannot earn his own
living has no right to live; and when
one sees these dwellings, one can i'm
agine still another reason for killing
off the aged and the infirm-because
Of their inability to get in or out of
the house."
Charlevoix county herald., 1920-11-05
CUT THIS QUILT is WORTH
MONEY!

Cut out this slip, enclose with sc to
Foley & Co., 1885 Sheffield Ave-, Chi
cago, ILL.,, writing your name and adj
dress clearly, You will receive in re-
turn a trial package containing Fo-
ley's Honey and Tar Compound, for
coughs, colds and Group, Foley Kidney
Pills and Foley Cathartic Tablets.
Hite's Drug Store.-adv.
Charlevoix county herald., 1920-11-05
Mummies Should Be Confined.

A professor of bacteriology in the
Northwestern university found that
mummies are a source Of germ incu-
baton, and death and destruction is
likely to Turk in the household that
has mummy i'm its bric-a-brac de-
partment. Keep your nummies in
cased.
Charlevoix county herald., 1920-11-05
Travels of the Potato.

1t Is believed that potatoes were
frst grown in South America and that
the Spaniards took them back to Eu-
rope when they overran Peru. Pota.
toes were later introduced to Italy,
France, England, Ireland and to
North America. I'm the order named.
Charlevoix county herald., 1920-11-05
VAGUE Description.

Little Betty running from
luncheon where some very dainty
sandwiches were served said: "Moth-
er dear, will you make some Of those
nice little sandwiches for me some
day without any bark on?"
Charlevoix county herald., 1920-11-05
Bright

When school opened this fall. Har-
old had new teacher. He reported
on her to his mother as follows:
"Her name Is Miss Albright, and
she is bright and believe me, she is
going to make the rest Of us bright
o. know the reason why
Charlevoix county herald., 1920-11-05
ELEPHANTS on His Hands.

Order received by the grocer over
the phone: "Please send us 10 cents
worth Of animal crackers and take out
the elephants as the baby Is afraid Of
them. boston Evening, Transcript
Charlevoix county herald., 1920-11-05

Babylonia which arose in the valleys
of the Euphrates and the Tigris, their
power and splendor dazzling the world
1000 years before the Christian era
and at the very threshold Of ancient
Greece, with its unrivaled culture and
political advancement, the Troglodytes
of Cappadocia still retain toward their
fellow men. an attitude of mind akin to
that which obtained i'm the stone age,
when there was no such thing as hui
man society, but every man was his
own law and the mortal enemy of his
ncIghbor
'lhe caves, cones and cliff dwellings
of the Cappadocian Troglodytes OF
The Winslow mail., 1920-01-09

city. | learned that there were five
hrst class hotels besides twenty or
more rooming houses While true the
town now possessed a trictly modern
electric light plant. operating day and
night [ learned that natural gas was
main fuel for heat, cooking. and light
L noted several Aeroplane Stations
and learned that there were two lines
between Holbrook and Winslow and
three that operated mainly out on the
field to and from Holbrook and Win
SLOW | was invited to lunch with a
party of Chicago Friends at the Cbica-
go-Operators Club at Winslow so 7
took passage in the 40 Aeraplane.
arriving at the landing of the Club
Building the 18th floor at noon. After
meeting many of my old friends at tbs
Club, | departed for the field of opera-
tlons with party Of friends and was
much Impressed with the great num-
Der OF derricks, all along the great
Antlcline, and few on the southern
slope, and a trifing few in the Svn-
cline, and small domes, or so-called
minor or sub-anticlines, near the river
between Winslow and Holbrook. 7
was also much interested in the great
tanks and pipe lines system now com
Dlete and in operation as well as that
under construction. l was told that
more than 1000 miles of pipe line un-
der construction, including the leads
and the mains to the refineries. I
earned that there were two refineries
at Winslow, one at Manila, one at ST
Joseph, and three at or near Holbrook.
On this visit l was permitted to
witness the bringing in of a great
gusher on the holdings of the Win
sliw Oil Company, and it was surpris-
ing how many wells we were able to
visit in so comparatively short period.
1t seemed that the aircraft made if
stops and starts and travelled to much
better advantage than the old auto
mobile service which was in use a few
years back. We returned to Winslow
distance of more than 20 miles.
reaching there is less that number of
minutes.
learned that Winslow claimed q
population of more than $4,000 and
their streets were all paved, no mud
or dust, and Second, Third and Front
Street were lined with huge buildings
and places of business. There was to
be reception at the New Julian Hotel
in Holbrook, and I was told that Pres.
LoWden, (being elected over McAdoo
last November) with Gov. Boyce of our
own great state were to be present.
After meeting few old acquaintance
took passage on the O'Clock Aero
plane for Holbrook.
After seating myself in the aircraft,
noted that there were only ten or
twelve passengers, mostly men, and
only a couple that l knew. felt
rather tired and did not join the con-
Versatfon, but gave my attention to the
papers which 1 had the Evening
Mail" and the Noon edition of the
Needles Nugget" same reaching here
by aircraft; l was told only an hours
run. l was interested in the following
The Winslow mail., 1920-01-09

L seemed to be more or less dazed.
and after l had got seated at my break
fast table [ again gave my attention to
the paper. [ noted heading across
the first three columns reading, FThree
gushers, four bumpers one monster
gas we'll last twenty-four hours" In
finer print below was this notation.
THE Seventh for the Holbrook Oil Co.
now matter of history. The Great
Sinclair Syndicate the only real com
petitor with nine gushers, and fifteen
bumpers, the two leading companies
on the field" Looking across the ton
OF page l noted a double column head
ing, showing the Score" as it was
called, which read in part as follows:
For the last seven days IL Gushers
1900 to 1000 barrels per day, Is pump
ers, Five gas wells, three reported dry
holes" There was also complete
record of the different companies that
had brought in wells during the last
week, and below was the score or re-
cord to date, or rather a recapitula-
tion. 1t read in part as follows: "AIl
wells flowing and producing an aver
age of better than 95 percent of the
original flow or production"
After giving list of companies that
had brought in wells listing the num-
ber, and production, there was a re-
capitulation divulging the following
information: "122 Gushers, seven OF
which are bumpers; 1872 bumpers OF
which five have gone dry, or ceased tc
flow; SO gas wells nine of which have
developed good oil flow, two of which
have ceased to produce; 27 dry holes
that were abandoned five of which
have since been brought in as gooG
producers. Total daily average pro
duction (estimated) $4,000 barrels
crude oil, average market price $3.SE
per barrel Wells now drilling, 282
40 Of which are on or near sand and
should be brought in during following
week Rigs now erected and being
erected that have not yet spudded in
127; Contracts let providing for opera
tions on or before August 1st 1921
(not including the above), 175."
The train I arrived on was simply
special, and carried only private
cars. There were seven private cars
in this train, there were eleven out OF
Needles, but four had been set out at
Wihslow. Yes there were two private
spur tracks both at Winslow and Hol-
brook, having capacity of "a to sc
cars each, and l was told that they
were generally crowded.
L noted many new buildings in Hol-
brook since | was last there. The
oil Operators Building" had recently
been completed with 20 floors. The
"Meiklejohn Building" a structure of
stone and glazed brick of only IA
floors. 1t was stated that the new
Julian Hotel was now the most modern
west of Chicago, being 16 stories and
having 800 guest rooms. l noted the
streets were all paved and clean, and
L was much reminded Of Detroit.
Washington City, or Minneapolis. or
any other first class clean well lighted