Show t Letters t JOSEPH BISHOP C NA RF INSTALMENT 29 t returned from his South- South 1 11 of t fight f He immediately el elen t work o on h his famous mo message 5 In n en Income t tax x was Vas demanded cries of ot Revolution Ism there rom from tho the conservatives of those thoe president also asked for th the ent of Df national legislation reG regu- regu and divorce a a. reform Is l EMU ml being l sought file Pacific was ras aflame with antl Japanese rand nd the talk of war between tween and the United States was freely treely All An of ot Roosevelt's energies to the maintenance of The e E On the Way to Porto Rico U. U S S. S li Louisiana I At Sea Nov 20 1906 1806 Ted rIed Ts Us the third day out gut Pan- Pan W We JVe e have hav been steaming steadily t eth of the trade wind It has pretty h hard rd and the ship has hasi i Ipa a little lime bu but not ot enough tp either er mother or me ether If una Ima was a great creat sight In th thI the lace dace I ce it was strange and fib fth its mass of lu luxuriant tropic with the treacherous tropic trailing here ere and there through h hd d da d' it was lovely to see the orand orand or- or and brilliant butterflies and the thee e birds and snakes and lizards iri finally the strange strang old Spanish nd d th the queer thatch apu lu pam pam- Us Ita of the ordinary natives In at place It is a tremendous to fo FB FA F- F B A the work on canal going on From the chief engineer and the chief sanitary officer down to ti the thelast last arrived machinist or timekeeper i ithe the five thousand Americans at work I Ion on the isthmus seemed to me an ap e ex exceptionally able energetic lot some of ot them grumbling of course but the whole a mighty good lot of men The West Vest Indian negroes offer a greater problem but they are doing pretty well also I was astonished at the progress made We spent the thc three days In working from dawn until long after atter darkness dear darkness dear Dr Rixey b being of course my faithful companion Mother would see all she liked and then would go off oft on a little littles spree by byh h herself and she enjoyed It to th the full What He Saw in in Porto Rico U U. S S. S S S. Louisiana At Sea Nov 23 23 1906 Dear ar Kermit We Ve had a most interesting two two- aa days at Porto Rico We Vo landed op on th the island and were received by the gov governor gov- gov ov ern or and the rest of the administration tion Including nice Mr Laurance Grahame Grahame Grahame Gra- Gra hame then were en given a reception by the alcalde and people of end then want went straight across across' the island in automobiles to San Juan o othe or the north shore It was an eighty eighty- mile trip and really delightful The road wound up to the high mountains of the middle Island them and then down again to the flat fiat plain on the north shore shor-e. The scenery was wag It was as ai thoroughly trop trop- 0 ical leal as Panama but much more livable There were palms tree ferns bananas mangoes bamboos and many other trees and multitudes of brilliant flowers flow flow- ers There was one vine called the dream vine with flowers as big as jr great at white e water lilies which close I up tight t in the daytime and bloom at I night There were vines with masses masses' of brilliant purple and pink flowers and others with masses of little white flowers which at nighttime smelt smell de- de There we were wee e trees studded over with huge white flowers and others others others oth oth- ers the such as I saw In Inthe inthe Inthe the campaign at Santiago are a massof mass massof mass massof of large largo scarlet blossoms In June but which now had shed them I thought th the tree ferns especially beautiful The towns were just such as you saw in Cuba quaint Cuba quaint brilliantly colored with t the tile e old c church or cathedral fronting the plaza and the plaza always full of flow flowers rs Of the towns are aro dirty but they are fire not nearly as dirty and offensive as those of italY Hay ants ancs there Is something pathetic and childlike childlike childlike child child- like about th the people We are giving them a good goed government and the he island is prospering I never saw a finer set of young f fellows than those agert n a E in the administration Mr Hr Graham Grahame whom of ot course CO yuu you I bei ber is the Intimate friend and ally any of the leaders of the administration that t is of Governor n Winthrop Winthrop Winthrop Win- Win I and of the secretary of state Mi Mr Regis Post lest Grahame is a perfect perfect per per- trump and such a handsome athletic athletic athletic ath ath- letic fellow and a real Sir G Galahad Any wrongdoing and especially any cruelty makes maltes him flame with fear fearless fearless fear fear- less Ius Indignation He lie p perfectly de- de ll the Porto Borto Ricans and al also o Im Immensely Immensely Im- Im puzzled them by coming in an pis nis Scotch kilt to a n government ball Accordingly Ac c cordingly at my special r request I had him wear his 1 kilt at t the state dinner and reception tho tha night W we w were rc at atthe i the palace You YO know Tie he is a de descendant descendant de- de of ot Montrose and althou although h born bom in Canada hl his hip parents were Scotch and he was educated in Scotland Scot Scot- lan land Do Po 0 t tell Ml Mr Bob p b V about him and his Kilts when ou next write him We spent the night at the palace which is half palace and half halt castle I and was the residence pf of the old Sp Spanish governors Itis It is nearly I years old an pl 1 is a delightful bundIng buildIng bund build Ing with quaint gardens and a quaint Sea sen ea wall looking the bay T Tere ere were colored lanterns lighting up the gardens for tor th the r reception c and the view across the bay in the tho moonlight w was s Our rooms were attractive at- at j at-j as possible too except that they were so very verv ery airy and open that w we found It U to sleep sleep not not I that that much mattered as ass aSI thanks to the earlin earliness ss of pur start and start and t the e lateness of our reception we had I barely barcly four hours in which we even I tried to sleep The ne nett t moving morning we came back hack I II I in ip automobiles over different and I even more mora beautiful roads The rhe mountain passes through and over which we went made us feel as if we I were In a tropic Switzerland We had to cross two or three rivers w where ere bl hip big cream oxen with with I yokes tied to their pulled the I automo automobiles automobile nc the water yater At Atone Atone one ono funny tunnY little village we had ap open air lunch very good of ot chicken and d eggs and bread read and som some wine contributed by a wealthy Spaniard rd w who o rode up from a neighboring coffee ranch Yesterday afternoon we embarked and that evening the again crew I gave pave p. p theatrical entertainment op on I the after atter deck closing with three boxing boxIng boxing box box- Ing bouts outs T send you th the program ram It was great the audience being equally enraptured with the sentimental sent senti I mental songs about the flag an and the I I sailors sailor's true love and his mother and I with the Jokes the most relished of which related to the fact that bedbugs w were r supposed to be so large l that they h had q to be shot and the skits about the commissary and various persons and deeds on the ship In Ina a way the freedom of ot comment re reminded reminded reminded re- re minded me a little of the Roman triumphs when len the excellent legendaries legen legen- daries darles recited in verse and prose anything anything any any- thing they chose concerning the hero who e deeds they had shared and whose triumphs they were celebrating The stage stege well wen lighted was built on onI the aftermost part of the deck We I sat in front trotH with the officers and the behind us in masses on the I 1 der u der-u on the aftermost turrets on the I budge bridge even in th the fighting top of ot the fhe aftermost mast malit It was interesting interesting in- in to se see their faces in the light i s P P. 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I forgot to tell you about i the banners anners and inscriptions of ot welcome welcome welcome wel wel- come to me in Porto Rico One of ot them which stretched across the road had lad op on It t Welcome Vel come to Theodore and Mrs 1 Roosevelt Last evening T I Tle le ny enjoyed a ra rather her funny exI ex- ex i I There is an Army and andI I I Navy union composed chief chiefly y of en- en men but also of ot many officers and they suddenly held a garrison meeting meeth g in the torpedo room of this i ship There were about fifty enlisted men together with the captain and myself I was wag introduced as comrade comrade comrade com I rade an and shipmate t Th Theodore odore Roosevelt Roose noose velt of ot the Unit United d States They were such a nice set of ot f fellows and I was really so 50 pleased to be with them so self-respecting self so earp est and just Jutt the right type out of which to make the w typical fighting i iman man who Is also a good citizen The I meeting reminded me a good deal of ofia I 1 a lodge meeting at Oyster Bay and andi I of course those men are nt- nt ally of ot the same type as the ship ship- ship 1 fights railroad 1 men and fishermen whom f I met at the lodge and who by th the W way Y are arc my chief backers politically and are the m men n who make makeup up the r real aJ strength of this nation To be continued |