A recent campaign in Puerto Rico by the Independent Regular Brigade under the command of BrigGeneral Schwan . RIAS the regular brigade had not been paid forthree months. Mayaguez is a darling little city on thewestern coast of Puerto Rico,— a place oflattices, balconies, and walled-in gardensablaze with blossoms. Behind it lies asemicircle of green hills, and before it is thelaughing sea. Columbus touched here inone of his earlier voyages, and historicalassociations have been accumulating eversince. It is the third largest town on the island,having a population of 25,000, the majorityof whom a
A recent campaign in Puerto Rico by the Independent Regular Brigade under the command of BrigGeneral Schwan . RIAS the regular brigade had not been paid forthree months. Mayaguez is a darling little city on thewestern coast of Puerto Rico,— a place oflattices, balconies, and walled-in gardensablaze with blossoms. Behind it lies asemicircle of green hills, and before it is thelaughing sea. Columbus touched here inone of his earlier voyages, and historicalassociations have been accumulating eversince. It is the third largest town on the island,having a population of 25,000, the majorityof whom are white. The harbor is nextbest to that at San Juan,— 102 miles distant,— and is an open roadstead formed by twoprojecting capes. It is a seaport of consid-erable commerce, and exports sugar, coffee,oranges, pineapples, and cocoanuts in largequantities,— principally, with the exceptionof coffee, to the United States. Of industrynot much can be said, save that there arethree manufactories of chocolate, solely forlocal consumption. The climate is excel-lent, the temperature never exceeding 90° YAUCO TO LAS MARIAS 73 The city is connected by tramway withthe neighboring town of Aguadilla, and byrailroad with Lares on one side and Hor-migueros on the other. It has a civil andmilitary hospital, two asylums, a publiclibrary, three bridges, a handsome market,—the best on the island, constructed entirelyof iron and stone, at a cost of 70,000 pesos,— a slaughter-house, a theatre, a casino, anda number of societies of instruction, recrea-tion, and commerce. It also has a post-office and telegraph station; was foundedin 1760, and given the title of city in 1877. A river called the Mayaguez dividesthe town into two parts, connected bytwo pretty iron bridges named Marina andGuenar, respectively. The sands of thisriver formerly yielded much gold; andthere is gold still to be had from the samesource, if one has energy enough to seekit. There are no less than 37 streetsand 4 s
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