WEST END MOVIES
FREDERIKSTED
Saturday
Night 8.15
Triflins With Honor
3 REELS.
OBITUARY
It is our melancholy duty
to record
the
passing
awav ves.erday
at
11. 30a.
m. of
Mr.
FREDERICK
C.
JACKSON,
SR.,
ex-
policeman, and jriner in his 76th year,
fol-
lowing a pericd ot
failing health,
he hav-
ing
been
confin=d
to
his
home
for
the
past
weeks.
The
deceased
was
a much
respeeted
member
of
this
commu-
nity
where
he
wus
born
and
resided
all his life, 37 years
of
which
were spent
in
the
gervice
of
the
Police
Depart-
ment
until 1916,
when
he
left the force
through
conscientious
objections
to
exe-
cute
an order of the
Captain
of
the Gen-
darmery Corps.
Later
on Mr.Jackson
was
engaged
by
the
Danish
administration
as
street
inspector
for which job he show-
ed himseif
to be well fitted effecting some
good
work
in
the
repair of
the streets
of
this
town.
He
was
in receipt
of a
liheral pension
from
the
munricipal
trea-
sury,
passed
by
the
local council,
which
indicated
the sympathy
and regard he
en-
joyed as
a deserving public employee
and
citizen.
Os his immediate relatives
alson,
Bandmaster
Jackson,
and two daughters,
survive
him,
and
our
sympathy
is
ex-
tended
to all bereaved.
*
The funeral is fixed for
4.30 p.
m. this
afternoon
from the resjdence
No.
43 and
44 Company
St.
to the
Lutheran
Chureh.
LOCAL
The
musical
and dramatic
entertain-
ment
given at the Labour Union Hall last
night by
the ‘*Mite Missionary S)ciety’’
of the A. M. E. Church,
was well attend-
ed and offorded
an
enjoyable
evening
to
an
appreciative
audience.
Talent
and
humor
were n>t lacking and
the parts
by
the
littie
children
were
commendably
rendered.
The sloop
‘‘Mizpah’’with
St. Thomas
mail is here
this morping.
We
have
been
asked
to
say
that the
new
post
office boxes
are
now installed
and ready
to be rented,
Those
who filed
application
for
boxes
and
others
inter-
ested
will kindly
call
at
the post office
and arrange.
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AYILB
TELEGRAMS.
ST. CROIX STATION.
Washington,
March Is., —l'he
leveuue
measure
arrived
in
the
ceaate
(uday,
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United States
Press
Reprasentatives’
Visit 1o
St
Groix,
Yirgi
Islands,
Y. S A,
THURSDAY February
21st,
1924
AS REVIEWED BY BUMBLE BEE EN ROUTE
Yo:—:0:—0::
(Continued from yesterday’'s
Avis.)
As we motor
on,
we pass
through the well cultivated
fields of
“Strawberry
Hill”’;
incidentall7, this is
the
most
eastern
plantation of the West
Indian Sugar
Factory.
And
now
turning
south
and
again
east
we
pass
estate
‘‘Diamond
and
Ruby”’,
the
pro-
narty and residence
of the
Hon
Robt,
W. Skeoch,
Vice-Chairman
of the
Colonial Coun-
¢il, and
an eldest
son
of
the famous
o d Scotchman,
the late Robert
Skeoch.
B:ginaingz
with this estate,
the cane
grown
goes
to the
St. Croix Sugar Factory
on the coast
near
Christiansted.
Continuing with a turn to the right and
then
to the left
we pass
esiate
“Jion Farm’’,
one of ihe largest
estates
in the island, and
some
seventy
years
ago
toe
property
and residence
of Admiral Christmas,
a retired officer of the Darish
Navy.
He
was
a jovial
and kind-hearted
man and frequently
entertained
his
friends
with
most
sumptuous
banquets.
No mansion
of the day was better
known for its festivities
than
Sion Farm.
On the right
is estate
‘‘Castle Coakley”’. The cones of its former
two wind-
il towers
is an evidence
of keen industry looking toward increased
production.
Steam
mills for grinding sugar
canes
began displacing wind mills shortly
afier 1340.
Motoring along,
to the left in the
distance
is a hill on
which
is situated
esta’e
‘‘Sion
Hill”” with its old eone
standing
out against
the sky line.
This estate
enjoys
the unigue
‘distinction
of being the
last
estate
to make
sugar
by
windmill
power,
taeir
last
crop
season
being in 1886.
Necessity
of the times
forced
a change
as it vus better
to recoiva
the value of
six pounds of sugar for 100 pounds
of
cane,
the
very best
the oid windmili
could produce
with its erude machinery
than to pay
the cons2quent
bilis for manufactur-
ing, receiving
not
more for the gross product
than
was obtained
by delivering
the
caae
diveet
1o the Central Factory
at its grinding station
not far
distant.
Cont nuing, before
we make
our rext turn
to the right we
see
on
the hill to the north
the ruins
of the resi-
dence
of former
Governor
Von Scholton,
which
is
estate
“‘Bulowsminde’’.
It
is
fre-
quently
called *‘General Hill’”by the old natives
as
beina
the residence
of the Governor
General
of the Dapnish
*West Indies.
The building
was
6JO fest
above
sea
level
with
a
clear
view to the north of St. Thomas,
40
miles
away.
I.ven the houses
on
the hiils
of
the
town
are
visible almost
any
day, and the
steamers
entering
and leaving
the
harbpor,
while the tiny fishing boats
form an addition
to the scenery
as
thay pl7 their trade.
[l'ne
view to the west from this
elevated position
was
a beautiful
landscape
of sugar
estates
and cane-pieces
streiching
for miles
in the distance
forminy
a
gizantic
chess-board.
Here Major-General
£,
von Scholton,
one of the
most
active and
versatile
yov:rnors ihat
ever
held office under
the Darish
regime,
who was
Governor
from
1327 to
1848,
made
his country residence.
It was
a large
massive
structure,
with many
rooms
and spacious
halis and
marble
steps
leading up
to the
main
entrance.
Adjoining was
a large
stone
building called
‘‘Hafensight’’ and modestly known
as
“"the cottage”’,
built as
the resi-
dence
of his house-keeper.
The estate
had
been
carved
out of three
idjoiniog estates;
to the
west,
from
estate
‘‘Constitution
Hill’’;from the
estate
'‘Reeston
Hill”’;and
to
the north
estate
*‘Belivue’’.
This
made ,"'Bulowsminde’’
an estate
of 75 acres.
A road
with an easy
grade
was laid leading up
to the residence
while another road
was
built as
an exit to the
east
and
west.
To accomplish
this estate,
owners
on the island
were each
requested
to send
artisans
and
laborers
from
their
properties,
a
levy being
about
ten
each
week.
Thus
each
estate
contributed
toward
the erection
of this
summer
palace.
The property remained
intact until the
summer
of 1839
whe
it was badiy
damawzed
oy
the hurricane,
then, shortly afterwards
by fire, and finally by the hurricane of 1916.
she
largeness
of the building and the absence
of anything like a remuucrative
tenant
pre-
verted reconstruction
by the owners.
As
we look around from our
position,
away
to the north
the experienced
eye
can
discern
the
rewaining building of estate
‘‘Rattan’’.
That estate,
until sold some thirty
years
ago,
was the property of the Towers
family who had
held
it for
a
great
many
years; and large-hearted
though peppery
Patrick
Mc Dermott from Connought,
Ireland,
had been
its manager
andfattorney
for the family for many years.
He had
come
to St.
Croix in the year
1828 at the age of 28 years,
and quickly assume
a responsible
position
in the
life of the i.wwud.
il2 lived
cer2 until his geatn
in
104, dyag at the
excelient
age of 104 years,
«.i
active and energetic
man until kis last
days.
dad the visitor of to-
day come
in his time,
ne would have insisied that every mother’s
son of them,
no matter
how
many,
take *‘rot-luck’ with him”’,
no maiter
woen,
waere,
¢ 'how it
was to
be
accomplished
Hi- heu.t
was
so biy, kis hosoitaliity so
spon
anevas,
and his personality
0 strong
that it
wuwd uave
veeu uupossibie
10 piead
siress
ol business
as a
pretext of
refusing.
Now
as
we continue
our journey,
we turn
to the right and
upon our left is Peter’s
Rest
School House, another of the
educztional
monuments
erected
ia
preparation
Zor