New-York tribune., 1921-11-21
Governor of Porto Rico
Spirited From Vessel
by Secret Service Men
to Avoid Demonstration
Banners DenOunce
| His Insular POLICY
Members of Secessionist
Move Organize Protest;
Flames Laid to a Plot

J A twofold demonstration Of the un-
Friendly feeling harbored by Porto
Ricans toward E, Mont Reilly, Governor
ef Porto Rico, was disclosed last night
when Mr.. Reilly arrived here from San
Juan on the steamship Tanamo, which
had been on fire practically throughout
her fve-day run up from the Carib-
bean.
It is believed by the ships officers
that the fire was started by secession
lists when the Tanamo left San Juan
Tuesday, although the smoldering
cargo was not discovered until the ship
was two days at sea. Heroic work of
the crew in fighting the flames and the
coolness and common sense displayed
by Captain Hudson and his officers in
handling the situation are credited by
the passengers as the sole reasons for
the safe arrival of the steamer in this
port last night.
But the fire which terrified the wom-
en- passengers and kept nearly every
one sleepless for three days was not
the only exemplifcation of Porto
Rican hostility toward Governor Reilly
and his administration on the island.
Porto Ricans Throng Pier
a group of several hundred jeering
Porto Rican secessionists appeared at
Pier g. North River, last night soon af.
ter the Tanamo had been reported in
Quarantine. Their manner and banner
equipment were not unlike those dis
played by Irish sympathizers along the
Chelsea piers when Englishmen of note
arrived in this country
Soon after the crowd had attained tt
its full strength the Porto Ricans dis
played upon a half dozen automobiles
series of cloth sheets bearing such
inscriptions as Britain has it's Ireland
America has its Porto Rico; "Reilly
America never raised you to be ty-
rant; "the Porto Rican National Asso
cation in New York protests against
your autocracy" and North and South
America should be friends; Reilly makes
them enemies.''
Much of the conversation among the
sso"u was III GPdHlSn ana lnQ1cateC
that the main object of the Porte
Rieans was to get look at Governor
Reilly and tell him what they thought
Of him.
Secret Service Men or Guard
The United States Secret Service De
partment, however, had anticipated
such reception for the Governor, anc
Its agents, distributed about the Tan.
amo and on the pier, outguessed the as
sembed nationalists and spirited Mr.
Kelly away. He had received of late
many letters threatening his life and
the men of the Secret Service were not
taklng any chances of ain assault upor
the Governor.
George S. Mcclure, head of the Sc
cret Service Bureau in Porto Rico, who
accompanied the Governor to New York
conferred with his associates at the
pier and decided not to let Mr.. Reilly
pass out the gate where the crowd OF
5nscessIonists were awaiting him. Mr.
nehy himself wanted to face the crowd
nat the Secret Service men insisted or
laSing him from Pier to Pier A, few
sandred yards south, in police
sauhcn, Meanwhile the limousine that
nau 1 peen sent to get the Governor was
Pneu up conspicuously in front with
ssswd. p"'' '''e
Inc curtains of the car were partly
Sh ana the Porto Rieans close to
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