would
like to have,
so
that
I can
carry
back
to my constituents,
an
interpreta-
tion of
the
Ordlnance.
The
Interp:lla-
tions
are addressed
to the
Chairman
of
the
Council who, I believe,
is capable
of
giving the necessary
information.
4th Member
for Frederiksted
Country
District (Andersen)
objected
to
any
dis
cussion
on
this
matter
on
the
grounds
that it
was not placed
before
the
House
&
by the Vi.ce-Chairman.
During
a
debate
on
this
question
in
which
many of the
members
participated
the Viece-Chairman
called upon the Chair-
man of
the Munieipal
Commitee
(Cane-
gaia)
ta
assist
the
Chair.
Accordingly
the Mem
;2r
took the
word and
sad,
—A
sow
ind. vidual
owners
have
asked
for
loaps
an
! he
has already
taken
the
mat-
ter
up w:h
Government.
The
original
intention
of
the
Ordinance
is
to
grant
loans
to swners
of real
proper:y
on
be-
half of
“heir
squatters.
But,
said
he,
owners
o estates
who do not squat
their
lands
are
not entitled
to loans
under
the
Ordinanca,
‘There
being
no
further
business
the
Vice-Chairman
declared
the
mee
ing
glosed
a:
5 50 p,
m.
LOCAL
:
The coming
of
a
Tortala
sloop
with
liquor having been
reported
to the Police
in Frederiksted
same
was
seized
on
ar-
rival
yesterday
and
quite
a
shiiment
of whiskey and
gin
confiscated.
Milion
Dowdy is understood
to
have
been
the
one
who put the
police wise in the
case.
A squadron
of
destroyers
passed
the
roadstead
of
Frederiksted
yestorduy
afternoon.
It is contemplated
to
give the commis-
sioners
arviving here
by
the “Grebe’” on
Saturday
evening
a hearty
welcome
fron
the people
of
Christiansted.
It
is
suud
that
there
was
no
popular
reception
in
St. Thomas
and St.
Croix does
not
want
to be equally flat apart from there
beiug
a spirit
of
real
encouragement
worked
up
here
by
the
prospect
of
mucin
good
arising from the visit of these
gentiemen.
It will be
remembered
that
the mails
for
the
States
by “"Parima’’ cose
u'
4
p.
m. today.
SPEECH
DELIVERED BY LIEUI'ENANT
J.
C.
GEBH ARD,
AS~ISTANT
PUB.IC
WOLKS OFFICER,
JANUARY
28,
1924.
Mr. Sezretary,
Honorable
Members of
the Colonia! Council,
Ladies
and
Gentle-
men:
)
I feel
like
one
of
our
sailor heys did
the other
day
when
he tried,
rather
in
vain, to .ocate
some
of
the frbidien
li-
quid.
After much hunting about
he final-
)y came
upon
an
old
colored
gentieman
in the country whom he thought
he could
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s
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XxX
A VIS
trust with the secret
question.
So walk-
ing up
to
hin
he
whisperoed,
"‘Got any
Johony
Walker
Whiskey’’?
‘*No”’, re-
plied
the
old gentleman,
‘‘aim’t got
ao
Johnny
Walker,
but
I
got
some
good
white
mule’”’.
‘‘Don’t
want
no
white
mule’’, replied the sailor,
‘'l want
John-
ny Walker.””
*'Why not’’? answered
his
colored friend,
“"White
mule is the
soar-
inest
stuff vou’d
ever
want
to drink’’.
**That may
be,
old
man’’,
retorted
the
sailor,
‘‘ButI ain’t aiming to do any
soar-
ing, I just aim
to flap around
a littla.”’
-
That is all | aim
to do {or the next
few
minutes,
‘‘just
flap
around
a
iitile”’,
All
the
important
things
have
already
been covered
or will be covered
by theoth-
er speakers
before
this
meeting
is
over.
As I think of this
little
ceremony
and
its symbolic
meaning
to
our
httle
eom-
murnity I think of
a
similar
event
which
must
have
taken place
in that nld seat
of
civilization, Rome,
2,236
vears
ago,
when
Emperor
Appius
Claudius
turned
over
tae first spadeful
of earth
whieh marked
the beginning of the
construction
of the
famous
agqueduct
which
bears
his
name
ty this day.
It was in the year 312
B. C.
tnat
he started
construetion
on
the first
system.,
whieh
eventually
brought
the
first
pure
water
into
the
city of Rome,
trom
a distance
of eleven
iriles.
In three
hundred
years,
nine such
aqa:ducts
were
built with all their
appurtenant
cisterns
and
baths.
Rome
was
great
before
this
time, but it
became
even
greater
after
these
systemis
were
consiructed
And
too,
I
think of
a
sinilar
event
which
must have
tzaken
place
in
taat
cther
fa-
mous city
in
the
old
world, Jerusalem,
whe=n
it, less
fortunate
than
Rome
in be-
ing able
to lead
water
{rom a
pure source
eleven
miles
avay,
started
to
build
its
first undergrouad
eistern
witnin its
walls,
to-store
the
rain
which
fell
there.,
la
later
years,
this
old city
built other
cis-
terns
outside
its
walls,
and
pip:d
the
water
from
them
into
those
witain
its
walls.
A3
1
think
of
thos2
ancient
cities,|
feel
more convinced
than
ever,
that
our
water
problemy
with
all
its
attendant
econoamic
phases
is a
very ancient
one
in-
deed
I'he ancients
believed
that
there
were
only
four
elements
—four
thinsgs
which chrmposed
the entire
earth,
name-
ly, earth,
air, tire and
water,
and
I dare
say
thaft the
one
most
important
to them,
as
it
is
to
us
right
here,
was
water.
Every eommunity
that
has
ever
amount-
ed
to anything
in
times
gone
by,
or
at
the present
time,
has
solved
its
water
problen
in
some
way.
It
has
made it
possible for
its
people
to
get
water for
their domestic
needs,
and
by
so
doing it
has relieved
its
people of
ona labor and
care
and
so
wave
them
more
time
to
direct
their en-ryies
along
paths
of pro-
ductiveness.
Rome
got
Its
waters
from
rivers
and
streamns,
Jerusal-ey)
caught
the rain
which feil
and
stored’i.
for the
times
when
there
was
no
raia, but each
place got its water.
And
coming
dowp
to
our own
very
present
time,
I
am
glad
to think
that
we right here
have
at
least
followed
in
the
footsteps
of other
con musities,
and
bave,
thrceugh
the
initiative
of
one
(f
our lecal
citizens,
and
through
the
co:-
operation of
his
fellow
citlzens
and
the
local Government,
at
last
made
a
start
in solving
our
own problem.
It isonly
a start,
but it
is
a
start
in
the right di-
rection,
and
1
for
one
hope that
it will
be
productive
of greater
results
in
the
future.
'
We,
like
Jdorusalem,
will attempt-
to
colleet
the rain
whice
falls
and
store.it
In
a
reservolr
outside
the
toxn limits,
and
then
conduet
it to
the other
reser-
voirs
seattered
throuzhout
town as
the
reeds
demand.
The reservoir
we intend
to construct
en
this
site
will be
small
in
comparisen
with those
in the aneient
city
but
it will
be
a founds=tion
for
a systeni
which
can evertually
be made
to
supply
all the
needs
of the
town.
It will
bLe
a
coverad
reservoir
of
about
300,000
gali-
ons
capacity.
Such
rains
as
wiil
ecauso
the gutter
to flow will be caught
behind
a4 dam located
a little upstream
lrom here
and
will
be led into
the reservoir.
The
smaller
rains
which
are
lost on
the hili-
sides
will be eollected upon
a paved
water
shed
on yonder
slope,
aud will be
used
to avument
the
heavier
rains.
The
wau-
ter from the reservoir
will then
be piped
into
town
and for
the present
into
ihe
well in the Market,
As
funds
then
be-
come
available
in
lat r
years
the
pipe
h.e
will be
extended
and other
cisteins
can be
built in other
paits
of the towr.
When
our
present
plars
are
complet-
ed,
and
if
cur
prayers
for
rain
are
cnswered,
we
will have stored
erouglh
water
to give
easch
person’in Christian
sted
vne hundred
gallons.
Having
that
how
then
will it help us?
We
bhave
gotton
aleng
for
a
hundred
years
without
such
a
system.
Do
we
need
it now?
And will it do
us
good
anv
atter
we gel
it?
1 believe
1t
witl,
if
wi
but
et it.-
Fiist,
it
ought
to relive
us of anxien
concerning
a futuredrouwht.
Theniteugh:
to decrease
the amount
of time and
ener-
gy
which
we
pow
have
to
expend
1o
haul water
to our houses:
and
then
hav-
ing a certain
supply
of
water
it
ought
to make
our Lomes
a little
more
comfor-
table.
Having done il
this
it ought
to
enable
us
tv
devite
mwote
of
our
time
and
energy
to
productive
oceupation
-
occupations
which wiil yield
positive
re-
turn
to our island.
Unless
it
enables
me
even
ina
very
smail way—to preduce
more and
te better
our economic
condition
it
will
be
a fail-
ure.
Which
will it
be?
The
people of
Christiansted
will have
to
give the
an-
swer.
CORRECTIONS.
In yesterday’s
Avis,
2nd
page,
3rd
column,
Sth
line
from
top
please
read
“exorcising’’ insiead
of
‘‘exercising’’;
also in 10th
line
the
word “contraction’’
to be amended
to
read
‘‘eoneentration.’’