Show PORTO RICANS AND AMERICANS I 1 I 1 CROWN KING CARNIVAL I 1 i our special correspondent miss clotilde P thomas describes the week of rand grand j rejoicing in our new possessions V I 1 I 1 NATIVES INITIATE THEIR deliverers DIGNIFIED BUSINESS MEN VISITING THE ISLAND mom THIS COUNTRY KICKED UP THEIR HEELS WITH THE MERRIEST WHILE THE STARS STABS AND WAVED TO THE MUSIC OP 01 PATRIOTIC AIRS I 1 I 1 1 I I 1 I I 1 1 I 1 porto rico march loit 10 at lit la but a short time elmo since I 1 hot her a rill n ith a roving commission am corr corra bilon f dent of itt the leslie syndicate hut but I 1 june learned already alre thol that americans are arc un lAby in concern concerning ng the inner life of oc the of their new mn for instance there his has been it a grand carnival here tile first of its kind ever hot hearl in nelch alch the americans and porto means hivo have h ivo fraternized fi hald ni rejoiced and danced together in kindly rood good fellowship it was A carnival that for clu ciu cless elca fun ind and cited easily led nil all festivals lut but yet aboul ahti h nothing was wag heard out aldo ide of oc the th island the porto ricans axe arc especially ada by nature for making a suc BUC afla os a 0 of f carnivals TY they ey have a ars loss of manner I 1 aliat it at impresses the ali new comer center a sort eort of genet ally pro nuite itlie busly dust highway A strange leht 0 I 1 grinned at cah cacti other from opposite 1 dideo of tile coach hideous 0 heads weeping cats val and grimacing parrots I 1 0 to the staso stage stopped to take up a in roan an and ami a 0 child the u uno annc no waa ati to loo much for th ih little one ile burat antu I 1 4 of terror E it il sign of cf enjoyment fit the sc alito ciCiL toJ ted tho the figures tumbled out over tile tho cheplo and with a bound ducre joba jn in tle tile crowd leaving the like chilt in of tho th catlett for I or thion days the run continued a niely I 1 jM fly childley bly fitly only conly on one 0 arrest was mad and alus it tta one of 0 our UMI oun countrymen A drun lot a allor who re bisted tile until lie he atad li ul to iw be dragged to the iho rala bozo by y 1 lie legi lef and ardih kicking like a bri bronco IO 1 etcor monday night tho the usual informal formal 1 li r coplion by jen gen and vjra fred D 1 grant took place a at t their e nce alvi in the old naval palace on rort eleza street I 1 1 1 N ft I 1 j k 1 6 I 1 I 1 k 1 I 1 1 k I 1 I 1 ll 11 ii I 1 af ILVA 5 IV I 1 44 4 4 1 r 4 94 6 r q IT I 1 1 N F V s 1 I if tn 4 I 1 q Y 1 1 I i j j I 1 ii K fin e Z i 16 i t RA 1 I 1 1 1 1 1 tir I 1 I 1 f I 1 a al 11 X k t I 1 I 1 lw aj I 1 I 1 st r 1 L f V ak f I 1 1 11 ial i al 1 1 1 I 1 tit I 1 Z 1 1 1 I 6 I 1 01 t I 1 k 1 11 g vo I 1 it 1 1 il 11 IA 0 L 4 I 1 P I 1 I 1 A f aie I 1 I 1 F 11 r I 1 10 I 1 1 A I 1 P I 1 I N I 1 lit I 1 photographed Photograph eol by our special correspondent staid american citizens attired matthed in dress dregs were cutting iad ind capers in th public highway v alling careless cai fless rood good nature that takes the th edge oft off tho the flagrant disregard of 0 conventionality practiced by the street population at alt all times but vil billich lich publicly at al least never degenerates into objectionable impertinence L carnival season here begins the sunday before I ent and though ostensibly closed with tho the alarde gras ball breads out again a sunday or two later the fun began early ott online the morning of the orel first lay day v n hen the people began straggling into the steep bairow streets 0 of tile OW capital arrayed in tile the most grotesque gro costumes and by afternoon every ono one that could exe iIse ingenuity in disguise A as aa dancing alona alon ing confetti and slinging graily colored serpentino serpentine paper ribbons at pas sers bern by there was no prearrange pre pie arrange lit ini the th pro gramme no liard hard and fast rule about anything it iwas ivas the niest niost mos t delightfully freo free and easy carnival v al ever beat d of every avery one went N with tiller tile tho fancy can led him carriages and coaches filled with fan fantastic paraded slowly before ba balcon conica crowded with laughing sign baltas who ihen hie elie revelers came cam athin range janiie pelted belted thern them with bilth eggs from chih ahl h tho the natural ni tural contents had been u a pungent perfume par F a and n 7 near the 1 e crowds rd flitted about nar bodil lining g tho h load for or toward I 1 santu ran ace tho the su suburban bur ban vi village I 1 age nn nit the n allilu r ll ilu land anil out of san juan it IL wit a an n PH oil sigh tItA see grave brave and alg r rallied trien inen min lil had come to potto oito nin 1110 on moneymaking money making expert blons latching tile infection of the hour and care to the ivings at tho the aanie time lime that they mildly burled tho muhl colonel paper balls at each cah other euid sit nt passersby passers by porto ricans and americans americana might havo have lccy eon all brought up nil under unac r tilt th soline haine roof from the hearty spirit la in atch they flatern iced the regular coach line file wits waa taxed to parry carry the venturesome hall equines that bounded into it one leap fear from tile ho it was the last ot of a series of charming social functions given by this gra gracious clous couple and formed a brillia tot close to the first porto rican american amerlean social season it aas as in the nature of things that the affair should par partake ite of of ea the I 1 carnival spirit and a nun number ot the guests came in mask and dornino 6 when I 1 these were doffed coffed young poi to rican alcan I 1 girls emerged irom from the chrysalis chry salla in I 1 dainty evening dress bright paper confetti fluttered at intervals Inter vala through tile the rooms settling upon hoot hoal hostess and guests like strange snow flakes the serpentine ribbons tined about the dabic ers snapping and falling hi fit gorgeous georgeona gor geona balls to roll about aboul under lying flying feet gigantic leaves of cocoi cocoa palms ten ond and velie beet lit ii length leneth hanking flanking the arches and door so suggestively still ut porting tho the national nat lonal colors colore a rotting decoration for the stately rooms the band ot of the he eleventh united state slates infantry alternated alth ith the a stringed t r instruments of native musicians 1 in n supplying music tor for tile the evening the late latest american dances succeeding in brilliant numbers the quaint melody and rhythm of boito poi to mean allcan folk onn sonam english french and hnat notches chea of coni ver sallon filled the Int and i kioupy ot of maskers now and ill then L camo came bounding tn in scattering more confetti it t its ia si a unable notable closing with nith tile the cotillion sword and nag flax anti and tan fan fig ures forming ail appropriate binalo to a boeltl which belongs to lo ills lil tury tory I 1 tile nt next night the great gros bill ball took place iuliu e at tile the theater thealor th this is w A distin aly porto mean affair tho the 0 e li o tire lire hour floor of oc the auditorium find and 4 stage N aro ere han handsomely diomelY carpeted the i blow Ild inz stile stale ot if dancing in vogue here was wah interesting to imin I 1 oe kalns i ilni and potted plants entered int into the decora decor Hony allono but predominating over I 1 lit were the american colors color AN ihli filch h banded the circling galleries about hu lit audit auditorium orlum every conce conceivable hable sort horl tit of I 1 disguise crowded tho the floors and the CZ I 1 I 1 U Q aj aim t I 1 0 ro 1 1 g 6 1 if N 1 R 1 I 1 W 1 pf af A g gaam R 0 5 gg ic Z k I 1 11 I 1 I 1 1 II 11 4 1 m 4 4 r f 1 0 r I 1 aa W P I 1 1 rl wa ij afi AYR 1 1 1 71 i ak r M 1 I 1 10 rv 1 I 1 aw sa s1 11 alm 0 t V 11 1 1 jp W 72 7 1 t 0 2 1 I 1 N J V P 4 i V it k le 0 I 1 W I 1 or ki 4 I 1 A I 1 I 1 aj oj r I 1 jl I 1 A 11 k vt 9 61 I 1 17 fail 1 b 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ali tile icille S nd it was a strange sight when aher the Cai carnival wits was at its height natives and americans wele Dl inking and rr fraternizing asif asic they had never known spain and had aliv ays beart fellow citizens Citi zons I 1 1 dancing pit n under tinder rn an utmost almost shower or oc c cn fUi once the keen dark irk face of oc H m elul t a arl 1 I i i im n k 1 I d a rj bared in n tho ih crowd IQ aa 1 l ui b fuu full Span lith lint form whether it was a fi fiuk tic or oc tho ih or r belated dp flanc no 11 knew lie I 1 to htay have been lull to lo I 1 leac that I 1 lif e pi corl and then th n vall aill if of thi the tute tale there Is in tf I 1 tyll tell the native band in n the ill wi ond end gullory ilkay il Kry local almost intermission and ahova I 1 tin tile tone of oc Us its jull full wind tho arasil ru sn or tho ihn eufra rip rt P and fal 1 P 1 17 1 r 1 r the th slow blow m en itzov c t or ant and bull bort bons bom v apro ere served arvil rv il on tin tile upper rotors 0 of if ihfe ah 1 1 r 1 fand tho the I 1 in ladled cohea I 1 i the lie approach ot 0 aaen I 1 kllc they y c on ended 1 e d as aa they began and deco decorously r F 1 y I 1 th r he bolln ill ving morrill aih wadna d L th the streets were ere stripped at da dan rt I 1 of elie the wai ing fringe ot of serpentine pa ars rs that had decked the balconies even the iho dried palm leave baves 9 that haj had for so long ions been strapped fiti appod to the rail were carried away it as aa said lid they hey ere taken to the churches to be burned a and Z blessed sed for ashes hes for tile lh penitential season on and so ended the first porto olcan american cas carnival I 1 PILARD all THOMAS |