Evening star., 1925-06-07
Honduran Minister,
Recently Appointed,
Long Resident of u. S.
Senor Brogran Educated in
Polytechnical Institute,
Terra Haute-Represen-
ted Provisional Govern.
ment Here.

Senor Luis Bogran, newly accred
tied Minister from Honduras. is in a
way an American of many years resi-
dence. He was educated in the Poly.
: technic Institute of Terre Haute, Ind,
and only last year he was in Wash
>ngton for almost the entire II months
representing the provisional govern.
ment of his country which had been
established after the revolution in
, With DR.. Cordova, the last Minister
, to :. S3niEgtou before the present one
had Eeen recalled. = civil engineer
with an enviable record oS achieve
ment in Honduras and in MeA.>o
about three years ago, Senior. Bogran
gave up his profession and entered
. ts diplomatic service of his country.
His knowledge of English and his
years of residence in the United
States made him particularly accept
able as an unofficial envoy during the
months that the Central American re-
. public was struggling to enforce a
constitutional government.
This was successfully accomplished
when President Paz Baramoma was
installed in office in this past Febru
ary. He Immediately appointed Senior
Bogran as Minister here and the rela-
tions between the two republics. dis
rupted for a time, are happily re-
A;ored and under conditions of great
Promise. George T. Summerlin, re-
Gently appointed envoy from this
Government to Honduras. has been
detained by urgent business in Rome.
but he expects to proceed to Teguci-
galpa, the capital, in the early An
tumn.
in his new role as Minister Senior
Bogran is accompanied to Washing
ton by a charming family group. His
wife, who was Senorita Maria Girls
tina Fortin, of the Honduran capital,
and her sister and cousin, Senorita
Rovenda Forth and Senorita Beatriz
LAVA. form the group. There are
two small sons, Lis and Fausto, one
8 and the other less rie1 a year Old
The family during the w>ek has taken
possession of a pleasant, roomy home
on Eighteenth near Q street, and an
ticipate passing the greater part or
the Summer here. The climatic con-
ditions are not unlike those in their
own home, and the heat, though
greater, is tempered by the proX-
unity of the sea. The two young
ladies who have accompanied Sonora
Bogran will remain in Washington Tor
some months and possibly through the
Winter.
All of Central America is bound
bv such close commercial ties with
this country that Senor and Sonora
Bogran begin their permanent resi-
dence almost as citizens. Central
America has not yet completed that
union of its five separate republics,
for which this country so anXiously
wished and for which the late Pres
ident Harding called a special coun-
Gil Immediately after the arms con-
ference in 1922. But matters are
progressing satisfactorily. There is
free trade established between all the
FIVE countries and to be citizen OF
one confers every right in each OF
the four neighboring states. Ho1-
duras is a busy prosperous country
and a great fleet of ships makes rapid
voyages several times a week. bring
ing fruit, principally bananas, to
American ports. But native Hon
duranS like Senior and Sonora
Bogran, sympathiZe with the people
OF this country, in that unless they
take a trip to their shores they never
taste the banana at its best and know
nothing of its delicate alluring flavor.
The banana which the people of Hon
duras, and indeed in all the republics
where this wholesome fruit is culti-
waited, habitually use a small, slim
banana which it is absolutely impos-
sibIe to ship and which natures so
quickly that it must be plucked and
consumed in a few days instead of
a week or more as the better known
variety requires. Living in Wash
ington deprives them of this pleas
ure and bananas are part of the
daily diet in Honduras as oranges
and apples in this country, but the
Minister and his family are finding
abundant compensations. Few Amer
leans, unless on commercial missions,
visit that interesting land, the very
first soil on which Columbus set foot
on his first voyage. But as condi-
tions improve in the way of travel.
this beautiful and alluring land will
no doubt receive its quota of visitors
from the North, since so many Cen
tral Americans visit every part of
the United States.