Show CONDITIONS IN PORTO RICO SURGEON CALDWELL U S A DISCUSSES THEM Ho Tolls of tho Devastation Wrought by Hurricanes and Cloudbursts Indolence of the Natives Surgeon R ID Cnldwell U S A passed through the city yesterday en route from Porto Rico to the Presidio where ho will be assigned to a station In speaking of his Porto Rican experience experi-ence the doctor said There has been an Immense amount of devastation caused by I the hurricane and cloudbursts cloud-bursts And the worst feature about It IK that the entire coffee plant has been washed Into the ocean Coffee there Is I grown in the gulches ravines and canyons and when tho rains defended de-fended and the floods came the whole business moved uuawaul As It require re-quire five years to mature coffee shrubs the island will be that length 01 tlnu out oC the worlds coffee mar hot Then the banana and plantain trots were all destroyed However I there was not so great a loss because they grow right up again in a fow weeks and It will be a comparatively short time now before bananas and plantains will be sulllclently plenty to support life In thu meantime the United Suites Government and phll anthroploal soolotlis In this country are sending in Immense quantities of pork beans salted fish rice potatoes etc for the starving Those people I fear do not appro elate tho aid extended to thorn As long us they can be fed without effort of their own there will be no incentive to exertion and they wont work I So Just as soon as the bananas and plantains plan-tains are ripe again the beat way too to-o would be to exemplify > in their case that little homely but very practical maxim or President Lincolns Root hog ordfo It will take a generation of patient work to Americanize these I people San Juan is a model winter roaort especially for Invalids But American hotels are lacking There aro hotels that call thomHolvos American but It goes no further than iho name If an American with capital should go in there and put up a big hotel and advertise ad-vertise It the hotel would be croWded I all winter |