Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1920-11-02
FORMER TEACHER
IN PORTO RICO
MISS RUTH MOODY TELLS
OF TRIP AND LIFE
IN TROPICS.

Miss Ruth Moody who taught in our
schools last year is now teaching in
the College of Agriculture and Me-
chanic Arts in MayagueZ, Porto Rico.
The following is an excerpt from a
letter received by one of her friends:
81 had about forty hours in New
York, but | had to go to Hoboken, as
soon as I got there and that took prac-
tically all of Thursday afternoon.
slept Friday morning and had a sham
poo, so | did not have time to do much
except go to the Hippodrome.
Saturday morning l went over to
Hoboken where | got the harbor boat
to Brooklyn where the Cantigny was
docked. 1t was a beautiful morning
and the trip down the harbor was
most interesting to me. Even the Le-
yiathan was there.
eve had dinner on board and shov-
ed off about two thirty, although we
were not really way out until about
seven. We docked at San Juan before
dinner the following Wednesday, so
we made fine time-373 miles one day.
We had fine weather and | did not get
sick.
Cantigny Army Transport
THE Cantigny is an army transport,
and this was its maiden trip, so we
had inspectors of all kinds on board.
The army officers were almost all
Porto RicanS. Most of the men had
been practically all over the world,
and it was very interesting to listen to
them talk. There were twenty-five
girls or from eighteen states, and they
were very congenial jolly crowd. l
shared my staterOom with Florence
Stetfy, New Jersey girl and she and
and two girls from Maine Stayed to-
gether in San Juan.
"On Thursday | came to Mayaguez,
a lovely ride following the ocean most
Of the way. DR.. Horn is the new pres
ident of the college, and he met me
and took me to his home where | stay
ed until Sunday noon. The college
IS on the edge of town on a hill, so
nave a walk of over mile four times
a day. However, | am not going to
nave to work very hard so that will
even things up. We have school five
days week but each of my four
classes meets four times, so that
makes only sixteen class hours and
[ can go home when l am through; !;
there is no assembly room duty or
anything OF that sort
Pupils All Shades
MY pupils are all shades and their
names are next to impossible
"One of our teachers, the mathe-
mates teacher, is a Porto Rican girl,
isabel Baco. She has been very nice
to me and got me room with one of
the incest P. R. families Don Haime
Piquot is in the coffee business but
he suffered great losses in the earth
quake.
There are about a hundred Ameri-
cans in town. One just came in the
library mere to invite me on a swim
ming party Wednesday night. l
haven't been swimming yet as it rains
every afternoon. This is the rainy
season. The climate is delightful,
quite warm mornings, but the rain
cools off wonderfully.
Sunday is the big day here, and
| all along the road we passed political
rallies. At night there was a political
parade here. We went to see Doug
Fairbanks in "Triunfante" (He Comes
Up Smiling). The movie is really a
very good one. They call it the Cine.
After the movie we went to the plaza
and rented rocking chairs for ten
cents each and watched the prone
made The band played, too; so you
see Sunday is quite a gala day. Buy
ing and selling and the market are
the most fiourishing on Sunday. No
matter how small town is, it has its
plaza or cemented square with the
church at one end: Every one prone
nades there on Saturday and Sunday
nights, first class on one side, second
class on the other.
1T is beautiful and mountainous
and Of course tropical in vegetation
There is a lovely breeze all the time
but l do get hot climbing college
hill"