Show PUERTO RICO OR PORTO PORTORICO RICO RICOA A correspondent rafts calls attention to the tact feet that Puerto Tuerto ni o as ii spelled Iid in The i Herald is Porto Rie RI Rice inh in be the Cors Co iosI Record Recent Re and asks which to Is cor refit reeL I Naturally The Herald spell spelling ing it uses to be correct else It would adopt the oiher oder It has bas been suggested ted hat Americans will eventually U us u the 1 I method employed mol ed in the th Coo r Il l J Record Perhaps If L congress would I take a day oft off and o t t itc t name Mine for our OUt new nev n j in tie Le 1 I t W Welt t Indies it might ight save sae type t and t H di feelings Until Uti I it I t does there is 11 ty for tor a other It her spelling than fr he the one into the p n of i i 1 Ift t f e t e 0 we came ame by the fortunes or tu tI l lt i So far W lit any official tk termination t of the matter is concerned the board lof of geographic names during Harri Harrisons H rl sons sans administration decided in favor of Puerto Rico This is the navy department de m In lustS aft att its official of men mentton mendon don of ot the island But the ot m mI md I department d spells spoils It Porto Rico which whick has likewise been adopted by bythe the Uie Ulear war department They pays moneys and takes their choice In 1493 this thin thi island was called Burt Buri nuen fluen according to Dr Chance In the following year Spanish ria changed cb nse the name to beita eoa In Ii Jill f it was wt w la Ta 1 Pray Fray Inigo Abbad one of or the leading g oon on the history ry e of It Borinquen But Bitt later the Spaniards the island from the seaport seap rt at atSo SasS So Juan and called it ft the tha tb rich port portor or 01 Puerto Rico under title we too It ItI I The name nahe u aS v tl I lui the island it Iti i 4 will be De teen een has lead had R Its Ito ups and ud nd downs dO |