JAMES A. FRANCIS
-(Lately from Porto Rico)
Begs
to inform the publiczin
general
that
he is
no longer in charge
of
MR. ROB’T.
L.
MERWIN’S GARAGE,
but
that
he
has
established
his
own repair
shop
at
No.
2 and 8 Western
Suburb,
Christian-
sted
(MR.
W.
S.
ABRAMSON’S PRO-
PERTY),
where
he is
prepared
to
take
care
of all
necessary
repairs
needed
to
your
cars,
giving
you prompt
and
satis-
factory service.
SAVE TIME!
SAVE MONEY!
Do not send
vour generators
and
self-
starters
off the
island
to await
two
or
three
months
for
same.
He
will
take
care of such
work also.
-
He
can furnish
yoeu with
spare
parts
for Ford Cars,
Trent
tires,
and tubes,
Christiansted,
St.
Croix, V. I. U. 8. A.
October
26, 1921.
Advertisement.
Y()U don’t
! ave
to send
your cars
out
of
this town,
the Garage
at
No.
5
Hospital
Str.,
is
turning
out
excellent
work at Moderately
low Prices.
Give us
a trial,
we
guarantee
our work
and
are
sure
to
please
you in any
line,
General
Repair;
Cleanings;
Adjusting;
and
Renovating,
Aatomobiles,
Motor-
Trucks
ete.
ete.
R. A SYLVIS.
Certified Motor Mechanic.
OF
THE
J
AN
YAJN
COLONIAL COUNCIL
FOR
ST.
CROIX.
lst
Member for
Frederiksted
Country
District (Andersen)
remarke:d:
Mr. Chair-
man.
I would
like to
know
how
much
money
was
spent
on
the
front
gallery
and
the other alterations
made?
If three
thousand
dollars
or
more
were spent
to
put
a
stairway
on
the
front gallery an'!
after
the
front
gallery
is
finished
to
change
the
stairway
to
the
rear o
the
building because
_it would
not look
good
on
the front
and
now
to
ask
three
thou-
sand
dollars again
is not in
keapirg avith
rigid
economy
as
cailed
for
ina
recent
Naval Memorandum.
2nd
Member
for
Christiansted
Town
(Canegata)
in
reply
to
the
last
speaker
said,- Mr. Chairmnan.
The
amount
spent
on
the
front gallery
did not
come
from
the Treasury,
but
from
Federal
Appro-
priation,
and
what
is
asked
for in
this
BT olX
&a¥ib
Money
Bill
is
the
only
money
we
are
spending
upon it.
We only agreed
upon
a concrete
floor for the gallery.
Ist Member
for Frederiksted
Country
District
(Andersen)
would
like to know
why this
matter
was
not put
in the
bud-
get for the fiscal year?
2nd
Member
for Christiansted
Town
(Canegata)
in
reply
saiq,—lt
was
npot
placed
on the budget,
because
the amount
already
expended
came
from
Federal
appropriation,
and from
that four
hun-
dred
dollars
was left,
which
has
been
used
to begin the back
gallery.
!
The
motion
made
by
lst
Appom‘;ed
Member
(Hendersen)
that
2nd Discussion
be closed
was put to the
vote.
12 members
voted for; none against:
2nd
Discussion
closed:
the
Secretary
read
the
Money
Bill
and
the
Chairman
put
same
to the
vote.
.
11 members
voted for; none against.
The
Chairman
remarked:
The
Mouey
Bill is
adopted
and goes
to
Government.
Item
2.
Colonial (ouncii
Bill No.
10.
[ntroduction
of
and
discussion
on
resoiution
introiuced
by
Ist,
2nd
and
38rd
Members
for Christiansted
Town, Ist Member
for Christiansted
Country
District
and
Ist
and
sth
Appointed
Members
concerning
the
serious
economie
situation
confront-
ing
this
island
at
present
and
the
seleetion
of
a
special
commission
to
investigate
and endeavor
to mediate
the present
agricuhural
dispute
be
tween
employer and employee.
The Resolution reads:
Colonial Council Bill No.
10.
Third
Council, First
Session,
1921—22.
RESOLUTION.
Be it resolved.:
That
this
legislative
body view-
ing with deep-concern
the
serious
economic
situation confronting
this
island at present
aspoint
in extraor-
dinary
session
a select
commission
to
investigate
and
endeavour
to
mediate
the present
agricultural
dis-
pute
between
emplover
and
ein-
ployee.
:
St. Croix, 4th of October
1921.
W.
S. ABRAMSON,
D
C. CANEGATA,
Ist Member
Chris-
2nd Member Chiis-
tiansted
Town & Su-
tiansted
Town
&
burbs.
Suburbs.
JOS.
ALEXANDER.
3rd Member
Christiansted
T'own & Suburds.
HOLGER JESSEN,
A. R. MCINTOSH,
Ist Member Chris-
sth Appointed
Mem-
tiansted
Country
ber.
District.
KENNETH HENDERSO N,
Ist Appointed
Member.
3rd
Member
for
Christiansted
Town
(Alexander)
in introducing the resolution
said,—Mr. Chairman.
Inintroducing this
resolution
to the Council
it is
with deep
regret
I
have
to state
that we have
not
a
representative
of
labor
here
in
this
*
body.
There
is
in
this
Island
today
a
very serious
situation,
and it is confront-
ing us with bankruptcy———
The Chairman
interrupted
the speaker
and said,—The
vote has
to be taken
as
to
whether
the resolution
should
be
furth-
ered before it can be introd ced.
It was put
to the
vote and carried
that
the resolution
ke furthered.
2nd
Member
for
(hristiansted
Town
(Cagegata)
proposed
one
diseussion
on
the
resoslution,
and
that
it be
discussed
within closed doors
and said,
--My reason
is,
I
have
a perrectly
free
conscience;
what I want
to say
on
the resolution
can
be said in open
Council
as
well as
within
closed
doors,
but I feel
membters
will ex-
press
their
views more
candidly
on
this
matter
within closed
doors.
We all want
the best
result and
to do
justice
to those
w.om
we
represent
here;
the
issue
is
complex
and
| do
not
wish
to
make
it
more
complex
here
today.
I would
like
to hear
ine
views
of other
members
on
the matter.
Ist Member
for Frederiksted
(ountry
District
(Andersen)
proposed
that
the
resolution
be
discussed
in
open
Council.
4th
Appointed
Member
(Blackwood)
moved
that
the
motion
made
by
2nd
Member
tor Christiansted
lown
(Cane-
gata)
be put
to the
vote firse.
2nd
Member for Christiansted
Town
(Canegata)
remarked:
Mr.
Chairman.
There
is
oniy
one
motion
before
the
House,
as
there
cannot fbe a
strictly
ne-
gative proposal.
If my motion falls,then
the
motion
made
by
Ist
Member
for
Frederiksted
Country District (Andersen)
necessarily
carries
(7o be continued)
iJCAL.
The
S, 3.
“"Parima’’ arrived
at Freder-
iksted
last evening,
with
977 Pack ‘ges
for
Frederiksied
and
947 for
Christian
sted,
leaving this afternoon
at
8 p.
m.
Some
Timely
Advices
About
The sirike In St. _roix.
By ASHLEY L. TOTTEN
The
reports
which
are
in
circuiation
with
reference
to the great
sugar
cane
strike,
are
so meagre,
that
itis difficult
to write latelligently on it.
Whenever
Capital
and
Labor
starr
turowlug bricks
at each
other,
the public
usually
get hits in the
face.
And
for the benefit of the public
who
are
not participants,
but
who like every-
where
else
have
grown
tired of strikes,
I advance
a few timely remarks.
Since
the
war,
there
has
been
a
de-