With Speaker Cannon through the tropics : a descriptive story of a voyage to the West Indies, Venezuela and Panama: containing views of the Speaker upon our colonial possessions . e Department of Public Instruction, we returned bjtrolley to the wharf. Early Monday morning, while some of us were sampling-American goods, which we found in profusion in SanJuan stores, Speaker Cannon, accompanied by McKinley,Sherman and Tawney, formally returned the Governorscall. They were met at the Castle, where the Governorlived in the splendor of an Eastern Prince, and were escortedto the Morro, where a regim
With Speaker Cannon through the tropics : a descriptive story of a voyage to the West Indies, Venezuela and Panama: containing views of the Speaker upon our colonial possessions . e Department of Public Instruction, we returned bjtrolley to the wharf. Early Monday morning, while some of us were sampling-American goods, which we found in profusion in SanJuan stores, Speaker Cannon, accompanied by McKinley,Sherman and Tawney, formally returned the Governorscall. They were met at the Castle, where the Governorlived in the splendor of an Eastern Prince, and were escortedto the Morro, where a regiment of native Porto Ricans,equipped and maintained by appropriation of Congress, was 42 WITH SPEAKER CANNON THROUGH THE: TROPICS. drawn up to receive them. Seventeen guns from the ram-parts of the historic fortification were fired in honor of theSpeaker. Following the salute, the regiment was put througha drill. The Speaker expressed his appreciation of the com-pliment and then the whole Congressional party assembledfor an automobile ride over the famous military road whichbisects the island from San Juan on the north to Ponce onthe south, a distance of about eighty GOVERNOR S PALACE^ SAN JUAN. It was a ride to be remembered, for going out I had ascompanions x^Iann and Judge Rodey, whose data, historyand anecdotes were illuminating; and, returning, GovernorWinthrop and ]\Ir. Cannon, I was able to again observethe Speakers grasp on colonial affairs and to size up thepolicies of the colonial officer. Our chafteurs were Spanish,but the machines were of American make, and as they flewlike the wind, over the road which had engaged the atten-tion of the Spanish constructors for half a century, theyrevealed a marvel of the roadbuilders art in a country teem- THE ISLAND Q-^ PORTO RICO. 43 ing with the picturesque in mountain and valley. The trainof a steam railroad was making its way into San Juan as wedashed out of the city, giving us to understand that sugarand tobacco planta
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