{"1": {"fulltext": "r fm", "height": "3469", "width": "2320", "jp2-path": "inportoricoparto00bost_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3464", "width": "2288", "jp2-path": "inportoricoparto00bost_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "^mm^mmmfmM^\\nPORTO RICO\\nTHE YOUTH S COMPANION\\nBOSTON, MASS.", "height": "3464", "width": "2288", "jp2-path": "inportoricoparto00bost_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "Publishers* Notice.\\n.he attention of the American public was\\ntamed to Porto Rico when Sampson sailed to\\nmeet Cervera. As interest in that island has\\nincreased, The Tenth s Companion has given its\\nreaders, from time to time, descriptions of the\\nprincipal events and conditions in Porto Rico.\\nThis book contains selections from those articles\\nwhich seem to be of permanent value to people\\ninterested in our national development.\\nThe Companion s record of Porto Rico is fairly\\nrepresentative of the way in which it treats all\\ncountries and all events prominent in the progress\\nof civilization.\\nBut its Editorials on Current Topics are only\\none feature of the paper. It Is pre eminently a liter-\\nary paper, with many departments, all calculated\\nto interest and inspire and help in all that is best\\nin family life.\\nUniform with this book are published IN THE\\nPHILIPPINES and MID-OCEAN AMERICA,\\ndescribing the latest acquisitions of the Qnited\\nStates.", "height": "3464", "width": "2288", "jp2-path": "inportoricoparto00bost_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "In Porto Rico\\nA PART OF\\nGreater America.\\nSELECTIONS\\nFrom The Youth s Companion.\\nCONTENTS.\\nPAGE\\nAMERICAN POSSESSION 3\\nPAST AND PRESENT 11\\nLIFE IN PORTO RICO 19\\nPROGRESS 32\\nA FOURTH OF JULY .41\\nTWO BOYS IN MORRO CASTLE 46\\nCopyright, igoo.\\nPERRY MASON COMPANY,\\nBoston, Mass.\\n1", "height": "3464", "width": "2288", "jp2-path": "inportoricoparto00bost_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "37977\\n74285\\nLiop^ry of Conpr\u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00abe\\n1 WO Copies Rtcei\\nAUG 23 1900\\nCopyrtght entry\\nM,A,./A ?/.o.,\\nSECOND COPV.\\nOri \u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00bbad t\u00c2\u00bb\\nOKOtK OIVIStON.\\nSEP 6 19\\nHOt^\\n..n-JH-T^", "height": "3464", "width": "2288", "jp2-path": "inportoricoparto00bost_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "American Possession.\\nThe first acquaintance that Porto Rico\\nmade with the authority of the United\\nStates was in May, 1898, when the Ameri-\\ncan fleet sailed along the shores of the\\nisland in a vain attempt to meet the Span-\\nish squadron under Admiral Cervera. At\\nthat time our navy threw a few shells into\\nthe grand old Castle Morro at the entrance\\nof San Juan harbor, like callers leaving\\ncards as an indication of a future visit.\\nIn July, after the destruction of the\\nSpanish fleet and the surrender of Santiago\\nin Cuba, a portion of the American army\\nunder General Miles invaded Porto Rico\\nat Ponce, without any serious resistance.\\nThe Spanish forces on the island were so\\nsmall that they were able to offer opposi-\\ntion only in skirmishes to the advance of\\nthe Americans through the country.\\nA fortnight after the capture of Ponce,", "height": "3464", "width": "2288", "jp2-path": "inportoricoparto00bost_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "4 AMERICAN POSSESSION.\\nthe President s proclamation of peace put\\nan end to hostilities, and the American\\narmy quietly took control of affairs pending\\nthe final treaty with Spain.\\nThere had been for years a strong feel-\\ning in the United States that the people\\nof Porto Rico, like the\\nCubans, wished to be free\\nfrom Spanish rule. This\\nopinion was strengthened\\nby the cordial welcome\\ngiven to the invading\\nAmericans. The Stars\\nand Stripes were raised\\non many private houses\\nas well as public buildings, and the\\nholders of civic ofifice gracefully yielded\\nto military rule.\\nPossibly the beauty of Porto Rico, the\\nproductive plantations and peaceful popu-\\nlation, and also a desire to get some little\\nreturn for the cost of the war may have\\ninfluenced our government to ask for\\nGENEKAL MILES.", "height": "3464", "width": "2288", "jp2-path": "inportoricoparto00bost_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "AMERICAN POSSESSION. 5\\npossession of the island. The prevailing\\nbelief that Spain would agree to this was\\nconfirmed by the Treaty of Paris.\\nThe United States took formal and com-\\nplete possession of Porto Rico on October\\n1 8, 1898, when the American fiag was\\nraised over the palace of the governor-\\ngeneral and other public buildings at San\\nJuan. The ceremony was witnessed by\\nthrongs of people, among whom were\\nmany of the late officials of the island gov-\\nernment, the evacuation commissioners and\\nAmerican military and naval officers.\\nThe event was a noteworthy one in\\nmany respects. The acquisition did not\\nhave the distinction of being the first our\\ngovernment made by conquest. California\\nwas acquired in the same way fifty years\\nago, but Porto Rico is both the smallest in\\narea of all additions to our national terri-\\ntory, and the largest in the number of\\npeople whose allegiance has been trans-\\nferred from another country to our own.", "height": "3464", "width": "2288", "jp2-path": "inportoricoparto00bost_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "AMERICAN POSSESSION.\\nThe change was made without the con-\\nsent of the Porto Ricans, but there is\\nreason to beheve it was not against their\\nGOVERNMENT BUILDING, SAN JUAN.\\nwish. Neither is there any ground for fear\\nthat the acquisition of the island will ever\\nlead to foreign complications. The island", "height": "3464", "width": "2288", "jp2-path": "inportoricoparto00bost_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "AMERICAN POSSESSION. 7\\nlies SO near the American continent as to\\nbe almost a part of it and no nation has\\nobjected to its annexation to the United\\nStates.\\nNevertheless, the annexation raised for\\nsolution a new and very important ques-\\ntion, How is this new territory to be\\ngoverned? The authority given our\\ngovernment is absolute. The Congress\\nshall have power to dispose of and make all\\nneedful rules and regulations respecting\\nthe territory or other property belonging\\nto the United States.\\nThat is the clause of the Constitution\\nunder which all our territorial governments\\nare organized. The system used for\\nOklahoma or any other may be adopted,\\neven to the total denial of self-government,\\nas in the District of Columbia.\\nIt must not be supposed, however, that\\nthe government of eight hundred thousand\\npeople, including nearly half a million of\\nmixed Spanish and Indian blood, and three", "height": "3464", "width": "2288", "jp2-path": "inportoricoparto00bost_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "8 AMERICAN POSSESSION.\\nhundred thousand negroes, hardly one of\\nwhom can speak the English language,\\ncould be accomplished without political\\ncomplications and civil disturbances.\\nPerplexity will probably follow perplex-\\nity. Only wise, patient, far-seeing states-\\nmanship will bring this new element of\\nour national life\\ninto harmonious\\nrelations with our\\nsystem of govern-\\nment.\\nThere is no\\nfixed principle of\\ninternational law which regulates the rela-\\ntions of the inhabitants of conquered\\nterritory to the conquering nation.\\nAs in the case of most other conse-\\nquences of war, there is a tendency toward\\ngreater leniency than was formerly shown.\\nIn ruder times, people who lived in con-\\nquered territory were given no choice.\\nThey became, in spite of themselves, fully\\nTHE WATER-FRONT, PONCE.", "height": "3464", "width": "2288", "jp2-path": "inportoricoparto00bost_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "AMERICAN POSSESSION. 9\\nsubject to the conquering nation, and were\\nusually treated with great severity.\\nNowadays their status is usually deter-\\nmined in the treaty of peace, although\\nmuch still depends upon the temper of the\\nconquering nation toward that which is\\ndefeated. We have a precedent of our\\nown in this matter in the treaty regulating\\nthe relations of the people living in the\\nterritory which we acquired from Mexico.\\nAfter the Mexican War we allowed them\\nto remain where they were, with their\\nproperty undisturbed and fully protected\\nby our laws, and to continue Mexican citi-\\nzens. Their position in that case was the\\nsame as that of any other aliens. But if\\nwithin a year they did not declare their\\npurpose to remain Mexicans, it was as-\\nsumed that they intended to become\\nAmericans.\\nIn the case of Hawaii, this question does\\nnot arise, for Hawaii is not ours by con-\\nquest, but by the joint action of the two", "height": "3464", "width": "2288", "jp2-path": "inportoricoparto00bost_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "10 AMERICAN POSSESSION.\\ngovernments. In the case of Porto Rico,\\nit is probable that the precedent of our\\narrangement with Mexico will be followed.\\nSuch of the Porto Ricans as prefer to\\nremain subjects of Spain are permitted to\\ndo so.\\nThey will not have to sell their property\\nor leave the island, and their rights are\\nprotected just as if they were subjects of\\nEngland or France; but if their definite\\nchoice has not been made within a certain\\ntime, it will be assumed that they mean to\\ntransfer their allegiance.\\nIt is gratifying to be assured that the\\ngreat mass of Porto Ricans have already\\nexpressed a desire to be American citizens.\\nUNITED STATES VESSELS OFF I OKTO KICO,", "height": "3464", "width": "2288", "jp2-path": "inportoricoparto00bost_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "Past and Present.\\nWhen the flag was raised over San Juan,\\nit overshadowed one house that, if insen-\\nsate things could ever awakei^ to feel\\nemotion, would surely have groaned and\\ncrumbled. That was the White House\\nthat Juan Ponce de Leon built and lived\\nin nearly four centuries ago but the White\\nHouse survived the American flag, al-\\nthough all that is left of the old conqueror\\nhimself is a handful of dust in a leaden\\ncasket that rests in the Dominican Church\\nof San Juan.\\nColumbus discovered Porto Rico on his\\nsecond voyage, in 1493. At that time it\\nmay have been the religious metropolis of\\nthe Antilles. The wonderful Latimer col-\\nlection in the Smithsonian Institution\\nseems to show that the other islanders\\nregularly resorted to it. It would appear,\\ntoo, that the natives, like the Aztecs of", "height": "3464", "width": "2288", "jp2-path": "inportoricoparto00bost_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "12\\nPAST AND PRESENT.\\nMexico, had a civilization of their own.\\nThey numbered perhaps six hundred\\nthousand.\\nPonce de Leon came over in 1508, and\\npromptly began their extermination. He\\nand his followers took everything the\\nWHITE HOUSE OF PONCE DE LEON.\\npeople had, and successive Spanish rulers\\nfollowed his example. They were disturbed\\nin 1595 by the attack of an English fleet\\nunder Sir Francis Drake.\\nThe Spanish colonies were then far richer\\nin treasure than in our own times. Im-\\nmense booty was looked for by the English,", "height": "3464", "width": "2288", "jp2-path": "inportoricoparto00bost_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "PAST AND PRESENT. 13\\nwho had received information that a great\\ngalleon or treasure-ship, laden with gold\\nand silver, had taken refuge in the harbor\\nof San Juan.\\nDesirous of capturing so rich a prize, the\\nEnglish admiral anchored off the entrance\\nto the port, with the design of carrying the\\nplace by a boat attack the next day.\\nThe rocky headland at the entrance of\\nthe harbor was then, as now, crowned by\\nthe Morro Castle, which opened fire on the\\nEnglish ships with disastrous effect. One\\nshot entered a port of the flag- ship, and\\npenetrating Drake s cabin, knocked the\\nstool on which he was sitting from under\\nhim, and killed two officers who were\\nsitting at the table by his side.\\nOn this occasion, at least, the Spaniards\\nproved themselves by no means deficient\\nin marksmanship and in the boat attack\\non the following day they gave an equally\\ngood account of themselves. The Eng-\\nlish assault, although made with the", "height": "3464", "width": "2288", "jp2-path": "inportoricoparto00bost_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "14\\nPAST AND PRESENT.\\ncharacteristic courage and persistence of\\nAnglo-Saxons, was checked and proved\\nineffective. The treasure which had been\\nconveyed to the Morro was so sturdily\\nCABRAS\\nSAN JUAN HAF\\ndefended that after three days Drake s\\nfleet withdrew, unsuccessful.\\nBut although the Spanish have held un-\\ndisputed possession for three hundred\\nyears, about the only noteworthy thing they\\ndid for the island was to lay out the fine\\nmilitary road that runs diagonally across\\nit, from Ponce to San Juan. Fortunately\\nthey could not deprive it of the natural", "height": "3464", "width": "2288", "jp2-path": "inportoricoparto00bost_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "PAST AND PRESENT. 15\\nresources that make it the most beautiful,\\nthe most healthful and the most productive\\nisland of the Antilles.\\nSomebody has aptly said that Porto Rico\\nis the only island in the world that is\\nshaped like a brick. If is thirty-five miles\\nwide, ninety-five miles long, and has an\\narea of about thirty-seven hundred square\\nmiles, making it five-sevenths as large as\\nthe State of Connecticut.\\nOf its eight hundred thousand inhabi-\\ntants, three hundred thousand are of African\\ndescent, whose ancestors mostly came from\\nJamaica. There are about two hundred\\nand twenty inhabitants to the square mile,\\nso that the island appears to be the most\\ndensely populated rural community in\\nAmerica. When the Spaniards first took\\npossession, it may have been as thickly\\nsettled as it is now.\\nAlong the island, from east to west,\\nruns a mountain range averaging eighteen\\nhundred feet in height. Between the", "height": "3464", "width": "2288", "jp2-path": "inportoricoparto00bost_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "16 PAST AND PRESENT.\\nhills lie some of the richest lands on the\\nglobe, capable of producing astonishing\\ncrops four times a year. The country is\\nwell watered, yet there are no fever-\\nbreeding swamps and marshes as in Cuba.\\nNature has been so generous to the land\\nthat, even in the cities, people have lived\\nunharmed in the midst of filth that any-\\nwhere else would insure pestilence.\\nEvery reader has heard of two of these\\ncities, San Juan, the capital, and Ponce,\\nnear which the army of occupation landed.\\nSan Juan, on the north coast, built on a\\nlong, narrow island from which a bridge\\nruns to the mainland, is a walled city,\\nwith the portcullis, moat, gates and battle-\\nments of the fortified towns of old. Thirty\\nthousand persons live there.\\nAlthough the port of San Juan is not an\\neasy place to enter during a stiff norther,\\nyet the city is said to have the best harbor\\nin the West Indies. Ponce city and district,\\non the south coast, with forty thousand", "height": "3464", "width": "2288", "jp2-path": "inportoricoparto00bost_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "PAST AND PRESENT.\\n17\\ninhabitants, claims a still more desirable\\ndistinction, that of being the healthiest\\nplace in the island.\\nMayaguez, facing the Mona Passage,\\nwhich separates Porto Rico from Santo\\nDomingo, has a ^population of nearly\\ntwenty thousand; and Aguadilla, Arecibo\\nand Fajardo\\nhave each five\\nthousand or\\nmore inhabi-\\ntants.\\nSan Juan and\\nArecibo, fifty\\nmiles an art calle de candelabria, mayaguez.\\nare connected by rail, and in the whole\\nisland there are, completed or building,\\nabout three hundred miles of railroad and\\nfive hundred miles of telegraph. Street\\nrailways of a primitive type are found in\\nseveral places. The largest three cities\\nhave the beginnings of telephone systems,\\nand San Juan is lighted by electricity;", "height": "3464", "width": "2288", "jp2-path": "inportoricoparto00bost_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "18 PAST AND PRESENT.\\nbut the whole island is practically virgin\\nsoil for the American promoter.\\nPorto Rico has no barns, we are told by\\nan American visitor, and the vision of a\\nbarnless region, so far as sentiment is con-\\ncerned, is not welcome. How much the\\nchildren of that island have lost! No\\nhaymow sports; no hidings in fragrant\\nrecesses; no leaps into friendly depths of\\nthe harvest of the meadows no rainy-day\\ndelights, shared with swallows darting in\\nand out; no memories of such hours to\\ngive their pleasant sadness to later years\\nAmerican children will regard their con-\\ntemporaries in Porto Rico as fair subjects\\nfor sympathy. A typical barn, duly stored\\nwith hay, with children to illustrate its\\ncapacity for giving space and suggestion\\nfor fun, would be an importation which\\nboys and girls of the island would appre-\\nciate, especially in the rainy season.", "height": "3464", "width": "2288", "jp2-path": "inportoricoparto00bost_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "Life in Porto Rico.\\nWhen the American fleet of transports\\nsteamed into Guanica Bay, Porto Rico, on\\nJuly 25, 1898, I think the thing that most\\nimpressed us all was the wondrous beauty\\nof the island we had come to conquer.\\nClose to the shore before us lay a quaint\\nlittle huddle of white-walled, red-roofed\\nhouses, still and deserted in the morning\\nsunshine while but a little farther inland,\\nto the north, east and west, rose terrace\\nafter terrace of verdure-clad hills, stretching\\naway in darkening emerald to meet the\\nwide blue sky at the notched horizon.\\nDuring the months that followed we\\nbecame accustomed to the picturesque\\nappearance of the towns along our line\\nof march, or in which we were quartered,\\nbut the hills and valleys, decked eternally\\nin living green, never lost their power of\\nenchantment to the northern men.", "height": "3464", "width": "2288", "jp2-path": "inportoricoparto00bost_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "20 LIFE IN PORTO RICO.\\nFor a considerable period after my arrival\\nin Porto Rico I was kept sufficiently busy\\nattending to my army duties, but after hos-\\ntilities had ceased, and the people had\\nsettled back into the even tenor of more\\npeaceful days, I found much to interest me\\nin a close observa-\\ntion of their most\\nprominent char-\\nacteristics.\\nThe inhabitants\\nof this island num-\\nber nearly a mil-\\nlion, and of these\\nabout two-thirds\\nA MILITARY PRISON.\\nare white. The\\nremainder are every conceivable shade of\\nbrown, yellow and black. Those of the\\npeople who boast a pure Spanish descent\\nare not in large proportion, and form a\\nseparate class of extremely aristocratic ten-\\ndencies. They are well educated, chival-\\nrous and proud distinguished for a love", "height": "3464", "width": "2288", "jp2-path": "inportoricoparto00bost_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "LIFE IN PORTO RICO. 21\\nof good music, happy domestic relation-\\nships, bountiful hospitality, and devotion to\\nthe mother country.\\nLike all other dwellers in the warmer\\nlatitudes, the Porto Ricans are bitterly\\nopposed to any work that is not absolutely\\nnecessar)i and in a corresponding degree\\nare constantly in pursuit of pleasure.\\nYet, either because they are easily\\nentertained, or because of their chronic\\nlack of energy, the popular amusements\\nare exceedingly few and rather monoto-\\nnous in essentials.\\nNo town is so poor that it does not sup-\\nport a band of musicians, and concerts\\nare given twice a week in every principal\\nplaza throughout the island. Everybody\\ngoes to these concerts, rich and poor alike,\\nto promenade back and forth for two joyous\\nhours, clad in their best.\\nIn the houses one will always find a\\nguitar, and, as a rule, the natives are sweet\\nsingers. The standard of their music is", "height": "3464", "width": "2288", "jp2-path": "inportoricoparto00bost_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "22\\nLIFE IN PORTO RICO.\\nsurprisingly high, and their undoubted\\npassion for it is a hopeful sign.\\nSunday is kept wholly as a gay holiday.\\nThe churches are well filled at the earlier\\nservices, but in the afternoon every one is\\noff to see a cocking-main, or a bull-fight,\\nor perhaps to hold a merry picnic in some\\nfavorite grove of palms.\\nWhen night has fallen, there are count-\\nless formal receptions, dinners and balls;\\nthese last are very\\nexclusive and never\\npublic. The thea-\\ntres likewise thrive\\nbest on Sunday,\\nbut the drama in\\nPorto Rico is in a\\ncondition that needs decided improvement.\\nThe only bull-fight which I personally\\nwitnessed took place in a natural amphi-\\ntheatre of great scenic beauty, near the\\nromantic town of Aguadilla. The arena\\nwas defined by stone walls about five feet", "height": "3464", "width": "2288", "jp2-path": "inportoricoparto00bost_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "LIFE IN PORTO RICO. 23\\nin height, and the adjacent hillsides were\\nutilized in seating the thousand spectators.\\nThere were but few women present, and\\nthese were of the lowest class.\\nWhen the bull was led forth, he proved\\nto be a very sorry-looking animal, and\\ndisdainfully refused to be worried into\\nanything resembling irritation, although\\nprodded with lances and peppered with\\ndarts for almost an hour. At last, in\\nresponse to repeated calls from the on-\\nlookers, the band played a heraldic flourish\\nand the matador strode majestically into\\nthe arena. At sight of this gentleman and\\nhis glittering sword, the bull uttered what\\nsounded like a groan of disgust and lay\\ndown in despair.\\nApparently nothing could induce him to\\nget up again, and so, finally, the master of\\nceremonies announced that the slaughter\\nwould be postponed, as the intended victim\\nwas too inconsiderate for proper sport.\\nThe gazing crowd seemed to take this", "height": "3464", "width": "2288", "jp2-path": "inportoricoparto00bost_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "24\\nLIFE IN PORTO RICO.\\nending in good part, and slowly dispersed,\\nchatting and laughing in excellent humor.\\nFrom a business point of view, Porto\\nRico presents a puzzling aspect. The\\nisland is wonderfully fertile in some re-\\nspects, yielding coffee, sugar, tobacco,\\nvanilla, cacao and fruits in vast abundance;\\nbut wheat seems\\nto have a very\\nserious time of\\nit in growing, so\\nthat flour has to\\nbe imported at\\na discouraging\\n.w\\nTRANSPORTATION IN THE INTERIOR.\\nexpense.\\nNo\\none has yet succeeded in raising nutri-\\ntious hay or other fodder fit for cattle with\\nthe result that cream is an unknown luxury,\\nmilk is thin and blue, and butter comes\\nonly in cans from over the sea.\\nAll the more important local products\\nfind a ready sale, when once they have\\nreached the market but transportation,", "height": "3464", "width": "2288", "jp2-path": "inportoricoparto00bost_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "LIFE IN PORTO RICO. 25\\nespecially in the interior, is uncertain and\\nslow, while labor, although amazingly\\ncheap, is unstable, refractory and for the\\nmost part dishonest.\\nEach of the large cities maintains a\\ngorgeously uniformed fire department, but\\nthe apparatus in actual use is of the most\\nfeeble and antiquated description. One\\nnight in Mayaguez, toward the end of\\nNovember, I was awakened by the ringing\\nof bells and yelling of people in the street.\\nSuspecting a fire, I hurriedly dressed\\nmyself and went out-of-doors, when I saw\\nat a glance that a large building near the\\nwater-front was a mass of flames. Upon\\nreaching the scene of conflagration, I found\\nthe hand-engines in full operation, under\\nthe excited manipulation of twoscore gold-\\nlaced firemen, while an immense concourse\\nof townspeople stood near by, their eyes\\nsparkling with enjoyment.\\nAs the burning structure stubbornly dis-\\nregarded the tiny streams of water thrown", "height": "3464", "width": "2288", "jp2-path": "inportoricoparto00bost_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "26\\nLIFE IN PORTO RICO.\\nUpon it, the efforts of the firemen grew less\\nand less active, until at last they ceased\\naltogether. Then, probably to recom-\\npense the assembled taxpayers for their\\nbroken rest, the fire-brigade fell into line\\nand went through\\na lively and well-\\nexecuted series of cal-\\nisthenics, after which\\nthey marched to their\\nquarters, headed by\\nthe local band, and\\nloudly cheered from\\nevery side.\\nThe young girl of\\nthe upper classes,\\nwith her flashing eyes\\nand flower decked\\nhair, is a captivating creature. Although\\nher conversation is seldom brilliant, she\\ncan portray whole paragraphs of meaning\\nin a single movement of her dainty fan.\\nShe is graceful, tender and merry, and\\nCAPTIVATING.", "height": "3464", "width": "2288", "jp2-path": "inportoricoparto00bost_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "LIFE IN PORTO RICO. 27\\nnearly always becomes a devoted wife\\nbefore she is twenty. Her brother is\\nusually good-looking, neatly dressed, indo-\\nlent and haughty, with a great fondness\\nfor fencing, ice-cream and horses, and a\\nknightly regard for all womenfolk.\\nThe costume of both sexes is but little\\ndifferent from the dress worn in summer in\\nthe United States, with the exception that\\nthe women seldom wear any head-covering,\\neven in the cooler part of the year.\\nAmong the poorer people, especially the\\nblacks, one finds, of course, a noticeable\\nsimplicity of attire, the fat little children\\ntumbling about in the dust wholly unclad\\nuntil they are about ten years old, while\\ntheir fathers and mothers are each content\\nwith but two garments, generally of white\\ncotton.\\nWhile in Mayaguez, it was my good\\nfortune to be quartered for several weeks\\nin the clean and comfortable Hotel Paris.\\nAmong my fellow-boarders were several", "height": "3464", "width": "2288", "jp2-path": "inportoricoparto00bost_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "28 LIFE IN PORTO RICO.\\nSpanish gentlemen, some of them being\\nofficers on parole, and the rest clerks or\\nmerchants.\\nAlthough they knew that I could con-\\nverse with them, in Spanish, as I was at that\\ntime an interpreter at brigade headquar-\\nters, these men insisted upon speaking\\nnothing but English to me as we sat in the\\nbroad veranda after supper and this in\\nspite of the fact that they were entirely\\nignorant of the meaning, even in transla-\\ntion, of the phrases they uttered.\\nFor instance, little Senor Ocasio would\\nsay, with a portentous frown, My boy,\\nyou are a lobster, and gravely await my\\nreply or fat Sehor Correa would sputter,\\nI deedn t do a ting to im my coal black\\nlady get out of here hot stuff! and beam\\nupon me for approval.\\nI could hardly refrain from emphatic\\ndisapproval. It made no difference that I\\nexplained, again and again, the lack of\\nsense in these remarks they had heard", "height": "3464", "width": "2288", "jp2-path": "inportoricoparto00bost_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "Life in porto rico.\\n29\\nthe Americanos say the words, and the\\nwords were English therefore if they\\nremembered the words correctly, they\\nwere learning to speak the language.\\nPerhaps the worst offender of all was a\\ncertain Estevan Castro, who knew but one\\nphrase in our tongue and always greeted\\nme with it, no\\nmatter where we\\nmight meet, often\\nto my extreme\\nembarrassment.\\nHola, senor!\\nhe would shout.\\nYou are one\\ngreat big liar Many times did I remon-\\nstrate with him and point out his uninten-\\ntional insult he was grieved and penitent\\nand offered me ten thousand pardons, only\\nto repeat his performance at the next\\nopportunity.\\nThe greater part of my stay in Porto\\nRico was during the rainy season, and at\\nGATEWAY, SAN JUAN.", "height": "3464", "width": "2288", "jp2-path": "inportoricoparto00bost_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "30 LIFE IN PORTO RICO.\\nfirst I expected to see nothing better for\\nweather than a constant downpour; but I\\nwas pleasantly surprised. Sometimes, it is\\ntrue, rain would fall in torrents for two or\\nthree days in succession, perhaps accom-\\npanied by blinding flashes of lightning and\\ndeafening thunder.\\nUsually we were let off with a single\\ndaily shower of not more than an hour s\\nduration. I have since been told, however,\\nthat if I had been stationed on the northern\\ncoast instead of the western, I should have\\nlearned in good earnest why the summer\\nseason is called rainy.\\nYellow fever, despite a general belief\\nto the contrary, is by no means a common\\ndisease in this island. Indeed, some local-\\nities, like Mayaguez and Aguadilla, have\\nnot known a solitary case of the dreaded\\nplague for many years. The chief excep-\\ntion to this happy immunity is the capital,\\nSan Juan.\\nAmong the insects of the island a", "height": "3464", "width": "2288", "jp2-path": "inportoricoparto00bost_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "LIFE IN PORTO RICO. 31\\nliterally prominent place is taken by the\\ncockroaches, for the entire island swarms\\nwith them. They grow to an almost in-\\ncredible size, and crawl about your room\\nand over your person, without regard for\\nnerves or shudders.\\nAs an offset to this pest, however, it\\nmay be said that there are practically no\\nsnakes, centipedes or tarantulas in any\\npart of Porto Rico, which is more than\\none would ordinarily expect in a tropical\\ncountry, and the cockroaches do not bite.\\nWhatever its faults may be, Porto Rico\\nis a garden-spot that sends one away\\nbearing a cluster of fragrant memories.\\nThe perfect sky, the fresh greenness of the\\nlandscape, the long, narrow streets, the\\nhuge yellow churches, the fountains,\\nflowers and murmuring guitars somehow\\nthese things fasten themselves about one s\\nheart-strings and refuse to be forgotten.\\nKarl Stephen Herrmann.", "height": "3464", "width": "2288", "jp2-path": "inportoricoparto00bost_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "Progress.\\nWith a sword in one hand and the heal-\\ning arts of civilization in the other, the\\nUnited States moved upon the islands of\\nthe sea. The American Tract Society has\\nmore than four hundred publications in the\\nSpanish language, and is trying to put two\\nof them, a primer and a New Testament,\\ninto the hands of every Porto Rican family.\\nThe progress of Porto Rico in American\\nideas is encouraging. The inhabitants\\nseem to welcome and appreciate all meas-\\nures designed to further their social and\\ncivic well-being. It is almost pathetically\\nsuggestive that a people so long under the\\ndomination of Spanish law, in whose\\nmethods of jurisprudence habeas corpus\\nhad no place, and of whose gracious mean-\\ning they were ignorant, should request its\\napplication throughout the island.\\nMuch to their rejoicing, the system of", "height": "3464", "width": "2288", "jp2-path": "inportoricoparto00bost_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "PROGRESS.\\n33\\ndirect taxation is abolished. Under\\nSpanish rule, its workings were bitterly\\noppressive, and the visit of the tax-collector\\nFIRST AMERICAN SCHOOL IN PORTO RICO.\\nwas the prelude of cruelty and despoilment.\\nBeginning with July i, 1899, free public\\nschools on the American plan were", "height": "3464", "width": "2288", "jp2-path": "inportoricoparto00bost_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "34 PROGRESS.\\nestablished in Porto Rico. The system was\\ndevised by Gen. John B. Eaton, superin-\\ntendent of schools, to give instruction to\\nall persons between the ages of six and\\neighteen for nine months in each year, and\\nto support the school by public taxation.\\nGeneral Eaton adopted a happy plan for\\na kind of educational exchange. Vessels\\non government business ply back and forth\\nbetween Porto Rico and the United States\\nduring the summer. Free transportation\\nwas offered to public school teachers in\\nPorto Rico who desired to come to the\\nUnited States in order to learn the English\\nlanguage, and to become acquainted with\\nAmerican customs and institutions. This\\nalso gave an opportunity for Americans to\\nform classes for the study of Spanish.\\nIn the autumn of 1899, for the first time\\nin her annals, Porto Rico enjoyed the\\nexcitement of a municipal election, and\\nexperienced the unwonted legal procedure\\nof a trial by jury. Eleven natives, with one", "height": "3464", "width": "2288", "jp2-path": "inportoricoparto00bost_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "PROGRESS. 35\\nYankee to act as foreman, composed the\\njury, and the result of their deliberations is\\nsaid to have been eminently satisfactory to\\nevery one except the culprit.\\nThe election, although promising as a\\nfirst attempt, was marked by innocent but\\nsomewhat embarrassing innovations. The\\nsupervisors became hungry at noontime,\\nand adjourned for dinner, taking the ballot-\\nboxes with them. This rendered the ap-\\npointing of another election necessary to\\nforestall possible complaints of illegality.\\nThese and other encouraging facts show\\nthat American ideas and methods are\\nmaking headway in Porto Rico.\\nA great step was taken toward the\\nunion of Porto Ricans and Americans in\\nheart and intellect when postage between\\nthem was reduced to the domestic rates of\\nthe United States. American publications\\nbegan at once to flow into Porto Rico, and\\ncorrespondence multiplied.\\nAnother important element of union is", "height": "3464", "width": "2288", "jp2-path": "inportoricoparto00bost_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "36 PROGRESS.\\nthe gradual substitution of United States\\nmoney for Spanish silver.\\nPorto Rico is the first of the new posses-\\nsions of the United States to receive a\\ndefinite civil government. The act of\\nCongress went into effect on May i, 1900.\\nThe form of government resembles that\\nof territories of the United States, but\\ndiffers from it in important particulars.\\nThe governor and an executive council are\\nappointed by the President a legislative\\nassembly is partly elected by the people.\\nThe island will be represented at Washing-\\nton by a resident commissioner.\\nThe law contains a suggestion of a future\\nenlargement of these privileges through\\nthe agency of a special commission which\\nis to compile and revise the laws of the\\nisland, and report within one year such\\nlegislation as may be necessary to make a\\nsimple, harmonious and economical gov-\\nernment.\\nThe chief interest in Congress did not", "height": "3464", "width": "2288", "jp2-path": "inportoricoparto00bost_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "PROGRESS.\\n37\\ncentre in the provisions for civil govern-\\nment, but in the tariff features of the act.\\nIt was argued that the island belongs to\\nthe United States, but is not a part of it;\\nTHE GOVERNOR S HOUSE, SAN JUAN.\\nthat Congress is therefore free to provide\\nsuch a system as it pleases, and that a\\ntariff is necessary to provide for the ex-\\npenses of the Porto Rican government.\\nThe act imposes upon Porto Rican\\nimports from the United States, and upon\\nUnited States imports from Porto Rico,", "height": "3464", "width": "2288", "jp2-path": "inportoricoparto00bost_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "38 PROGRESS.\\nfifteen one-himdredths of the duties im-\\nposed on similar goods under the Dingley\\nlaw, which would be, on the average, about\\nseven per cent, of their value. But more\\nthan half of what Porto Rico imports, in-\\ncluding flour, pork, agricultural implements\\nand other things most needed, is in the\\nfree list.\\nAll the duties collected on Porto Rican\\ntrade, whether in the United States or in\\nthe island, are to go to the island treasury.\\nMoreover, the tariff is to last but two years\\nat the longest, and may be terminated\\nsooner, if the Porto Rican legislative\\nassembly so votes.\\nThe first Governor of Porto Rico, under\\nthe new law establishing a civil government\\nin the island, is Charles H. Allen, of\\nMassachusetts, who held for two years the\\noiifice of assistant secretary of the navy.\\nThe reception of Governor Allen by the\\npeople of Porto Rico was encouraging in\\nthe extreme. Inauguration day was a", "height": "3464", "width": "2288", "jp2-path": "inportoricoparto00bost_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "PROGRESS. 39\\npublic holiday, and the streets of San Juan\\nwere thronged with enthusiastic citizens\\ndecorated with miniature American flags.\\nPrivate houses as well as public buildings\\nwere profusely adorned with the Red, White\\nand Blue, and everybody\\nseemed desirous to contrib-\\nute to the success of the\\nnew government.\\nGovernor Allen in his in-\\naugural address impressed\\nhis hearers with confidence\\nin his purpose to secure the\\nGOVERNOR ALLEN.\\nbest welfare of the island.\\nHe won their hearts by saying, I am now\\na citizen of Porto Rico. He spoke most\\neloquently of their grand opportunities, and\\npredicted a future when every resident\\nwould be proud to declare, I am a citizen\\nof the United States.\\nAt these words those of his hearers who\\nunderstood English burst into a storm\\nof applause, and when the words were", "height": "3464", "width": "2288", "jp2-path": "inportoricoparto00bost_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "40 PROGRESS.\\nrepeated in Spanish the cheers were re-\\ndoubled. That this popular enthusiasm was\\nnot merely superficial is evident by the\\ngraceful and dignified address of welcome\\nto the new Governor by the Chief Justice\\nof the Supreme Court of Porto Rico.\\nWith true statesmen guiding public\\naffairs, with loyal citizens throughout the\\nisland, and universal education in the\\nrapidly increasing public schools, Porto\\nRico may confidently expect a new epoch\\nof self -development along the highest\\nlines of industry and character.", "height": "3464", "width": "2288", "jp2-path": "inportoricoparto00bost_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "A Fourth of July.\\nThe American newspaper at San Juan,\\nthe News, had announced that the capital\\nof the island would celebrate the Fourth of\\nJuly, and do it on no small scale. This led\\nus to wonder if we could not organize a\\ncelebration at Fajardo.\\nAt San Juan there are many Americans,\\nand therefore it would be easy to organize\\na celebration. At Fajardo, which is a com-\\nparatively small place at the eastern end of\\nthe island, we had less than a dozen Amer-\\nicans, all told. If we were to celebrate, it\\nwas plain that we must interest the Porto\\nRicans.\\nOne of them, a prominent citizen and\\nthe former American consul, had been\\neducated in the United States. He re-\\nsponded with enthusiasm when the subject\\nwas broached to him, and through him the\\nwhole population soon took it up.", "height": "3464", "width": "2288", "jp2-path": "inportoricoparto00bost_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "42 A FOURTH OF JULY.\\nWe felt that we had to begin with the\\nsmall boy. We had misgivings, for the\\nPorto Rican small boy is very tame,\\nso tame, indeed, that we doubted if he\\ncould raise an old fashioned Fourth of\\nJuly yell. But soon our doubts were\\nentirely dispelled.\\nOn the evening of the third the word\\nwas passed around that one of the Amer-\\nicanos had firecrackers to sell, and before\\nlong he had sold his entire stock. The\\nsmall boy, and the large one, too, became\\nvery much in evidence, and proved that he\\ncould make a noise as well as his brother\\nin the States.\\nThe Fourth, according to the program,\\nwas to open with a salute of cannon-\\ncrackers at four o clock, after which the\\nband was to parade the town, playing\\nAmerican airs. However, the saluting\\ncommittee overslept, and the band paraded\\nfirst. This awoke the saluters, and they\\npromptly attended to their part of the duty,", "height": "3464", "width": "2288", "jp2-path": "inportoricoparto00bost_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "A FOURTH OF JULY.\\n43\\nsomewhat to the confusion of the musicians,\\nwho faithfully performed their part.\\nNext came the singing of extempora-\\nneous poems by their authors, with guitar\\naccompaniment. All the Porto Ricans are\\nTHE PARADE.\\npoets, and all the participants in this part\\nof the program, which was a great success,\\nbelonged to the laboring class. Their\\ntheme in every case was the Fourth of\\nJuly and the event it commemorated.\\nOne of the poems, taken down during\\nits recitation maybe translated: Monroe\\nsaid, America for the Americans; and", "height": "3464", "width": "2288", "jp2-path": "inportoricoparto00bost_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "44 A FOURTH OF JULY.\\nthis is to-day affirmed by a Porto Rican.\\nWe are all brothers, let us live prudently,\\nand, united with growing faith under the\\nfederal union, let us learn to respect\\nIndependent America!\\nSome of these efforts called out pro-\\nlonged applause, which was heartily re-\\npeated at each award of the prizes for\\nthese compositions. The first prize was\\none peso (dollar) and a flag, the second,\\nhalf a peso and a flag, and the third a flag.\\nThe prize winners, on the spur of the\\nmoment, favored the audience with ad-\\ndresses appropriate to the occasion and\\ndevoted to the flag.\\nAt one o clock the Declaration of Inde-\\npendence was read in Spanish, and some\\nshort addresses followed. Then the crowd\\nadjourned to the Plaza to see the races\\nand contests, which were as follows: A\\nsack race, a three-legged race, an obstacle\\nrace, in which the contestants had to\\ncrawl through two barrels, a mango race", "height": "3464", "width": "2288", "jp2-path": "inportoricoparto00bost_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "A FOURTH OF JULY. 45\\n(mangoes in place of potatoes) and ordi-\\nnary running races greased pig catching,\\ngreased pole climbing, and a contest in\\nsnipping with scissors for the girls.\\nAfter dark came the fireworks. They\\nwere not remarkable for quantity, but were\\ngood in quality. They were followed by\\na play at the theatre presented by native\\ntalent. Finally the festivities wound up\\nwith a ball, or rather with several balls, the\\nlargest of which was given at the house of\\nthe American family. The young people\\nliterally crowded the house.\\nWe regarded our celebration as a bril-\\nliant success, especially in view of its\\nexperimental character and the limited\\nmeans at our command. The first Fourth\\nof July in Porto Rico will bear a shining\\nmark in the annals of the island.\\nJennie D. Hill.", "height": "3464", "width": "2288", "jp2-path": "inportoricoparto00bost_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "Two Boys in Morro Castle.\\nIt was a great and glorious day for Mark\\nand Chester Gray when their mother\\nreceived word that they were all to join\\nMajor Gray in San Juan, where, after the\\nevacuation of the Spanish troops, he had\\nbeen stationed in command of Morro\\nCastle, the grand old fortress which guards\\nthe harbor entrance.\\nMark was fourteen and Chester twelve,\\nand they possessed all the enthusiasm of\\ntheir years for military matters, although\\nthey really knew very little about them, as\\nthey had spent most of their lives in New\\nYork, while their father had been stationed\\nin the far West and Southwest.\\nThey had been living on the promise\\nthat some day they should visit him and\\nsee all they wanted of Indians and cow-\\nboys, but the blowing up of the Maine", "height": "3464", "width": "2288", "jp2-path": "inportoricoparto00bost_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "TWO BOYS IN MORRO CASTLE. 47\\nupset their family plans, as it did the plans\\nof a great many other people.\\nThe boys will never forget the weeks of\\nsuspense that followed. But the war was\\nover, the major had escaped its dangers,\\nand the boys, with their mother, were to\\njoin him where they would meet with\\nadventures far more fascinating than\\ncowboys and Indians.\\nOne of the first things the boys did at\\nSan Juan was to gain their father s permis-\\nsion to explore the old castle. Then,\\nunder the guidance of an artilleryman, they\\nexamined every part of the old fortress\\nknown to the Americans.\\nThey saw the Spanish gun which had\\nbeen dismounted by a shot from the Har-\\nvard and another which had killed two men\\non the New York the watch-tower through\\nwhich a shell had passed, killing the\\nSpanish sentry inside, and the great scar\\nin the wall behind, where it had burst.\\nThey climbed up into the lighthouse which", "height": "3464", "width": "2288", "jp2-path": "inportoricoparto00bost_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "48\\nTWO BOYS IN MORRO CASTLE.\\nthe American government had built after\\nthe old one had been destroyed in the\\nbombardment.\\nThey followed their guide into the men s\\nquarters: cool, cavelike rooms in the walls,\\nMORRO FROM HARBOR ENTRANCE.\\nlooking out over the rocks and breakers\\nfar down below. They went down a flight\\nof broad, low stone steps into the great\\ncourtyard which now served as the kitchen,\\nfitted with the best of modern cooking-\\nstoves set in convenient archways, with a\\ndozen soldier-cooks at work.", "height": "3464", "width": "2288", "jp2-path": "inportoricoparto00bost_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "TWO BOYS IN MORRO CASTLE. 49\\nAs they mounted the steps again, they\\nmet a little white dog trotting leisurely\\ndown; a very white dog indeed, with a\\npointed black nose, who stopped and\\ncocked an inquiring ear at them.\\nHullo, Spigotty said the soldier. I\\nhaven t seen you for a week.\\nWhat a name said Mark, as the litde\\ndog jumped up against the soldier s legs,\\nwith much wagging of a curly tail. What\\ndo you call him that for?\\nBecause he s a Spigotty pup, replied\\nthe soldier, logically. You see, he went\\non in an explanatory vein, we fellows call\\neverything down here Spigotty, and we\\nfound this little chap in the fort when we\\ncame. We tried a lot of American dog\\nnames on him, and all the Spanish ones we\\nknew, but he wouldn t answer to any of\\nthem, so we just concluded to call him\\nwhat he was.\\nThe Spaniards left here in a hurry,\\ncontinued the artilleryman, and I guess", "height": "3464", "width": "2288", "jp2-path": "inportoricoparto00bost_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "50 TWO BOYS IN MORRO CASTLE.\\nthey forgot to take him along, but they\\nmust have thought a lot of him. When\\nwe tried to teach him tricks, we found that\\nhe could drill as well as we could, with a\\nstick, and there isn t a sentry he doesn t\\nvisit every night.\\nSpigotty, having duly sniffed at the new-\\ncomers golf stockings, and having been\\npatted and tumbled over on his back, con-\\ncluded to approve of the situation, and\\nfollowed them as they continued their\\nexplorations. Both boys were true lovers\\nof dogs, and the halo of mystery surround-\\ning this little furry waif added strongly to\\nhis attractions. They determined to culti-\\nvate him.\\nAt last the soldier led them into a dark,\\ngrim -looking passageway, in which he\\ncould just stand upright, and which led up\\nand down, right and left, till the boys were\\nthoroughly bewildered. He finally brought\\nthem out most unexpectedly in front of\\ntheir own quarters, with Spigotty, who had", "height": "3464", "width": "2288", "jp2-path": "inportoricoparto00bost_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "TWO BOYS IN MORRO CASTLE. 51\\nscurried ahead, waiting to receive them.\\nThe soldier laughed at their surprise as\\nthey stood blinking in the glaring sunlight.\\nThere are lots of those old secret pas-\\nsages in the fort, he said. There s said to\\nbe one leading all the way to San Cristobal\\nfortress at the other end of the town, but\\nthe Spaniards covered up the entrance\\nwhen they left, and nobody has been able\\nto find it.\\nAnd then his heels came together with\\na thump and his hand went up to his\\nhelmet, as Major Gray appeared and sum-\\nmoned the boys to luncheon. They waited\\nlong enough to thank their good-natured\\nguide and to try to induce Spigotty to go\\nwith them, but he brusquely started off in\\na direction of his own.\\nDinner s getting ready in the men s\\nkitchen, you see, explained the soldier,\\nstill stiff-backed and at attention in the\\nlight of the major s receding figure, and\\nhe knows the time of day as well as we do.", "height": "3464", "width": "2288", "jp2-path": "inportoricoparto00bost_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "52\\nTWO BOYS IN MORRO CASTLE.\\nThe chief result of this initiatory trip was\\na fixed determination on the part of both\\nboys to find the secret passage to San\\nCristobal. Having come to an under-\\nstanding with their father as to where they\\nSAN CRISTOBAL.\\ncould and couldn t go, and what they\\ncouldn t do, they began a systematic\\nexploration.\\nThey continued it day after day, discov-\\nering over and over again several queer\\npassages, which always brought them out\\nat a different part of the Morro from where", "height": "3464", "width": "2288", "jp2-path": "inportoricoparto00bost_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "TWO BOYS IN MORRO CASTLE. 53\\nthey thought they were. But the rumored\\npassage leading to San Cristobal they still\\nhad failed to find. Their father was not\\nsurprised at this, for he scarcely believed\\nthat such a passage existed.\\nBut the boys, scorning all discourage-\\nment, persisted in the search, usually\\naccompanied by Spigotty, who had always\\nlooked wise and said nothing, even when\\nat last they did make a discovery, or\\nthought they did.\\nOn this occasion they had brought their\\nbicycle lamps for the first time, and in one\\nof the old passages they found a spot where\\nit branched to the right. The branching\\nhad been concealed by a big heap of earth,\\nbricks and general rubbish piled up as high\\nas the roof. On previous occasions the\\nboys had passed this rubbish heap without\\ninvestigation, but now they proceeded to\\ndig into it, to the detriment of clean hands\\nand white duck suits.\\nSpigotty, probably supposing that his", "height": "3464", "width": "2288", "jp2-path": "inportoricoparto00bost_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "54 TWO BOYS IN MORRO CASTLE.\\nfriends were seeking rats, assisted them\\nferociously, burrowing at the foot of the\\nheap with such vigor that the whole mass\\nsoon came down like an avalanche, bury-\\ning the boys to their knees and Spigotty\\nentirely. They pulled him out by his hind\\nlegs and left him to shake himself, while\\nthey inspected what the rubbish heap had\\nhidden.\\nIt s a wooden door, said Chester.\\nAnd very rotten, said Mark. Let s\\nsmash it.\\nSo they pulled and tore at the decayed\\nboards until the ancient, rust-eaten hinges\\ngave way all at once, and two boys and a\\nbig door fell in a heap, while a small dog\\nfled as if for his life.\\nThe boys picked themselves up and saw\\nan archway, about eight feet high and\\nwide enough for two men to walk in\\nabreast. It opened a passage whose floor\\nand walls were composed of the most\\nprimitive rough bricks, so far as they could", "height": "3464", "width": "2288", "jp2-path": "inportoricoparto00bost_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "TWO BOYS IN MORRO CASTLE. 55\\nsee, which wasn t very far, even with the\\nbicycle lamps. From the dense blackness\\nbeyond vision came flowing chilly air which\\nencompassed them in an invisible and\\ndiscouraging cloud.\\nThe boys stared at the archway and at\\neach other. Finally Mark spoke up reso-\\nlutely. You wait here a second. I ll go\\nin and see what it s like. Holding his\\nlamp up, he stepped gingerly within the\\narchway.\\nBut Chester would not wait. He was\\npromptly followed by Spigotty, who now\\nsquirmed between the boys legs, and\\ntrotted confidently forward into the dark-\\nness. The boys proceeded cautiously,\\nusing the lamps to inspect the floor before\\nthem. Soon they came to a downward\\nflight of steps, broad and shallow, and\\ngreatly worn.\\nAs the boys were descending very care-\\nfully, Spigotty came up out of the dark-\\nness below as if to see why they didn t", "height": "3464", "width": "2288", "jp2-path": "inportoricoparto00bost_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "56 TWO BOYS IN MORRO CASTLE.\\nhurry, for he immediately turned about and\\nvanished again.\\nAt the foot of the steps the passage\\ncurved to the left and then led them to\\nanother door, a massive one covered with\\nstrange, rusty bolts and bands of iron\\ncuriously wrought. It was slightly ajar,\\nand in the opening lay an old-fashioned\\nmortar-shell.\\nMark poked his lantern around the edge\\nof the door and peered in.\\nIt seems to be a big room, he said,\\nand I can hear Spigotty sniffing round.\\nI guess it s all right; let s go in.\\nHe stepped over the shell and squeezed\\nhimself through the opening. In a\\nmoment he called, It s nothing but a\\nroom Come ahead in Chester, edging\\nhimself in, stepped upon the shell, which\\nmust have been very lightly balanced, for\\nhis weight suddenly set it rolling, and off\\nhe slid into the room. The uneven floor,\\nsunken a little in the middle, was of broad", "height": "3464", "width": "2288", "jp2-path": "inportoricoparto00bost_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "TWO BOYS IN MORRO CASTLE. 57\\ntiles cracked and broken, over which the\\nshell rolled to the centre, with hollow,\\nreverberating bumps.\\nAs the boys watched it with some alarm,\\na most unexpected thing happened. With\\na quick creaking of rusty Hinges and a final\\ngrinding, noisy click of locks, the massive\\ndoor closed. Evidently the bombshell\\nwas all that held it open. Now the great\\nold steel springs, aided perhaps by the\\ndraft that freshly traversed the long-closed\\npassage, had pushed the door shut.\\nNeither of the boys could see how pale\\nthe other was as, without a word, they put\\nthe lamps on the floor and pushed at the\\ndoor with all their boyish strength. It\\nseemed as immovable as the very walls of\\nthe fort, and* soldier s sons though they\\nwere, the boys were thoroughly frightened.\\nWell they might be They were prisoners\\nin one of the deepest dungeons of a medi-\\naeval fortress, built with the ingenious\\nsecrecy of the great days of Spain.", "height": "3464", "width": "2288", "jp2-path": "inportoricoparto00bost_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "58 TWO BOYS IN MORRO CASTLE.\\nWhat shall we do? asked Chester.\\nI don t know, answered Mark. Then\\nremembering the duties of an elder\\nbrother, he braced up. Oh, we are all\\nright, Chester. We ll get out some time,\\nfor they ll find the door that we pulled\\ndown, and the guard knows that we\\nhaven t left the fort. But he knew that\\nthe broken-down door was in one of the\\nleast frequented parts of the Morro.\\nLet s look round, he added. Where s\\nSpigotty?\\nThey whistled and called, but no\\nSpigotty responded. The only sound\\nthey could hear was the pounding of the\\nsurf and the rushing of receding waves.\\nHe was here when the door shut,\\nsaid Chester. I saw him getting out of\\nthe way of that cannon-ball. If he can get\\nout of here, perhaps we can.\\nSearching for an outlet, they found they\\nwere in a long room with a high, arched\\nroof. A row of plain wooden benches.", "height": "3464", "width": "2288", "jp2-path": "inportoricoparto00bost_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "TWO BOYS IN MORRO CASTLE. 59\\neach about two feet wide, stood on stout\\nlegs at right angles to the wall, with\\nroughly rounded blocks of wood nailed at\\nthe ends. At the foot of each bench, fas-\\ntened to a strong ring bolted to the stone\\nfloor, lay a rusty chain with another ring at\\nthe loose end.\\nIt s a dungeon where they used to put\\nprisoners, said Mark, and those benches\\nare beds. Ugh what an awful place to\\nsleep in!\\nWe re lucky to have these benches if\\nwe ve got to sleep here, replied Chester.\\nBut where is Spigotty?\\nWhy, there s a window! exclaimed\\nMark, who had begun again to search the\\nroom.\\nWhat he had discovered was a square\\nopening in the wall, about two feet wide,\\nwith strong, upright iron bars some six\\ninches apart. Outside of this was fas-\\ntened a plate of iron, bolted to the wall and\\nheld several inches away from the window,", "height": "3464", "width": "2288", "jp2-path": "inportoricoparto00bost_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "60\\nTWO BOYS IN MORRO CASTLE.\\nSO that it would admit air to the prisoners\\nand at the same time give them no glimpse\\nof the outside world.\\nAs the boys were examining this con-\\ntrivance, they were startled by a sudden\\nscratching and scrabbling sound outside,\\nMORRO, FROM THE CITY.\\nand who should appear but Spigotty! He\\neasily squeezed between the bars and\\njumped into the room, apparently thor-\\noughly at home.\\nWell, I declare! cried Mark. Then\\nhe gave a jump of joy. Here, I know\\nwhat! Got a pencil?\\nYes Chester was excitedly fishing in\\nhis pockets.", "height": "3464", "width": "2288", "jp2-path": "inportoricoparto00bost_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "TWO BOYS IN MORRO CASTLE. 61\\nLet s have it! You hold on to\\nSpigotty! Now what can we write on?\\nDinner was on the table in the major s\\nquarters, and they were just beginning to\\nwonder where the boys were, when a tall\\nsergeant loomed up in the doorway, hold-\\ning Spigotty in his arms.\\nWell, sergeant, what is it? demanded\\nthe astonished major.\\nHe came popping into the kitchen, sir,\\nfrom out of a hole in the wall, the ser-\\ngeant saluted with one hand and held the\\nwriggling Spigotty with the other, and he\\nhad this hitched to his collar.\\nHe handed the major a cuff torn from a\\nboy s shirt and scribbled all over in pencil.\\nThe major put on his glasses to read the\\nstrange-looking hieroglyphics, and then\\njumped up.\\nCall the blacksmith and half a dozen\\nmen, sergeant, he ordered, with lan-\\nterns and tools! And don t let that dog", "height": "3464", "width": "2288", "jp2-path": "inportoricoparto00bost_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "62 TWO BOYS IN MORRO CASTLE.\\nget away from you Then, with a few\\nreassuring words to his wife, he hurried\\nafter the sergeant.\\nMark had described on his cuff their\\nlocation as well as he could, but the first\\npassage was in a very old, deserted part\\nof the fort, and it was not until Spigotty\\nscrambled out of the sergeant s arms and\\nwent trotting in that the major felt sure it\\nwas the right one. The dog led them over\\nthe heap of earth and the broken door,\\nand down the steps to the great iron-\\nbound door.\\nA shout from the major brought from\\ninside a faint but hilarious reply of That\\nyou, papa? We re all right!\\nBut it was long before the two powerful\\nsoldier-blacksmiths could break through\\nthe mighty prison door, for only one could\\nwork at a time in the narrow passage.\\nThe major went back to report to Mrs.\\nGray, and returned in time to assist in\\nhauling the boys, in a state of grime beyond", "height": "3464", "width": "2288", "jp2-path": "inportoricoparto00bost_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "TWO BOYS IN MORRO CASTLE. 63\\ndescription, through a great hole in the\\nmass of twisted iron and spHntered wood.\\nThe second candle has just gone out,\\npapa, burst out Chester, blinking in the\\nglare of the lanterns, and we were saving\\nthe grease to eat!\\nWell, there s something better than\\ncandle-grease in the dining-room, said the\\nmajor, quietly. Come up and get a bath\\nand some dinner, and we ll discuss this\\nperformance of yours afterward.\\nDinner! exclaimed Mark, as they\\nwalked through the passages, followed by\\nthe perspiring, grinning soldiers and the\\nhighly self-conscious Spigotty. Gracious,\\nwe thought it was breakfast-time!\\nAnd after all they had not found the\\npassage to Fort San Cristobal, which\\nremains undiscovered.\\nSome time after their adventure the boys\\nwere told by a Porto Rican, who had been\\nemployed in the Morro during the Spanish\\ntimes, and who had heard of Spigotty s", "height": "3464", "width": "2288", "jp2-path": "inportoricoparto00bost_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "AUG 23 1900\\n64 TWO BOYS IN MORRO CASTLE.\\nwonderful rescuing performances, that the\\ndog had been the special pet of a Spanish\\nsoldier who was always getting into trouble.\\nWhen he was confined in that dungeon, he\\nhad trained his faithful little friend to carry\\nmessages in and out of the window\\nunknown to the officers.\\nHe always brought these messages to\\nthe cook, added their informer, who was\\nthis bad man s dear friend, and the cook\\nwould send him back with lettuce and\\ngarlic for the prisoner to eat with his\\nbread, but nobody knew how he found his\\nway.\\nAnd do you suppose he would have\\nbrought food to Americans asked\\nChester, anxiously.\\nSurely, indeed, replied the dark-\\nskinned native. **For he, like all good\\nPorto Ricans, is now a true American,\\nmy little general!\\nCharles B. 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