Show I 4 The transport McPherson reached the Quartermasters pier In Brooklyn I last Friday bringing seventyfive school teachers from Porto Rico All but eleven were Americans who had been teaching on the Island and who I I had come home for as vacation She l native Porto Ricans cam to Join the S Harvard summer school with the Cuban Cu-ban teachers there Thero were also fifteen young men pupils who have graduated from the Porto niean I j choolsand came north to take aprc paratory course for college at schools I in New York city Tho New York Sun Interviewed the Porto Ricans and says they all spoke highly Of the benefits i j of American rule In their country and 1 said that Porto Rico wafetfast becoming 1 becom-ing Americanized I Our people are very eager to learn American customs said Miss Zoralda Garcia who acted as spokeswoman fort 41 for-t the party most of the others speaking English with dlfllculty The children are deeply Interested In anything Americano and all that Is necessary to keep them at their studies is to tell them that only by mastery of their lessons can they hope to become Americano themselves They take to the new customs rapidly and the next generation of Porto Ricans will be very different from the past generations The American school teachers confirm con-firm this view and said that the Porto Por-to Rican school children were bright and quick to acquire ideas Tho Island they said was recovering from the tornado which was the greatest calamity In Its history and tho coming year promised to be a prosperous one |