EDITORIAL.
In
this issue
we reprint from
the
San
Juan,
P.
R.
Times
of July 30th,
an
ex-
tract from the inaugural
address
of Gov-
ernor
E.
Mont.
Rgily,
newly-appointed
governor
of Porto
Rico, reiative
to
the
labor
question.
It may
be
found
inter-
esting and of value
here
at this time.
LLOCAL.
Mr.
Geo. L. Dederick,
Chief Clerk
of
the Railway Maii Serviee,
and Mr. A. F.
Buckingham,
'Mail-Clerk
on
the
S.
S.
San
Lorenzo,
were
passengers
on
the
Mystery
iast
Saturday
and
spent
some
time
with
the
postmaster
here.
Mr,
I)ederick.
the postmaster
tells
us,
is
as
interested
as
ever in furthering
efforts
to
provide
a
satisfactory
mail-service
tor
the Virgin Islands
and
is
working
to
still further improve the
present
service.
Mr.
Buckingham
is
an
interesting
per-
sonage
to chat
with.
He
works
the
let-
ter mail from Porto Rico, Santo Domingo,
and
the
Virgin Islands
for
New
York
City on board ship during the
voyage
up,
and
telis of
a busy
time in
his
occupa-
tion.
The
s
s.
Pulwico
arrived
at Frederik-
sted
yestarday
morning
and
here
at
noon.
She
is
discharging
cargo
trday
and
is
scheduled
to
sail for the Islands
early
this morning.
Mails close
at 10 a.
m.
as announced
at the post
office.
Fifty
bags
mail
for
Christiansted
arrived
on
this boat.
Patrong
of the
movies
should
n>t miss
seeing
the
grand
show
on
for tonight.
Tarzan
of the
Apes
is
understood
to be
a film of upusuzlly
entertaining
features
and
18
sure
10
please.
EKElmo
the hero
of the
last
popular
serial
will
be
seen
in Tarzan
of
the
Apes.
Correspondence
Post
Office Christiansted
HONOR
TO
WHOM HONOR
IS
DUE.
We had occasion
to visit the Post
Office
in Christiansted
recently,
and
were
very
much
pleased
to note the great
changes
that
have
taken
place
there.
Post-
master
Larsen
is indeed
taking
a
lively
interest
in
Postal
affairs
in this
town,
and
mere
passing
notice
would
be
an
injustice
to
this
Official of
the
Postal
Department
in
Christiansted.
As
we
approached
the door of this modern
place
of business,
our
eyes
met
the bold
let
ters
of
the
general
delivery
window.
The
letter-box
system
is
one
that
de-
serves
special aitention,
as
it is a marked
impression
over
the
system
of
former
years,
where
the
password
was ‘‘meekly
gl ORO
ILE
AV LD
|
wait and murmur not’’.
Those
who bave
.
secured
lock
boxes
can
depend
onim-
.
mediate
despatch,
and
we
must
admit
|
that
everything_is
well
arranged,
and
.
ought
to please
every lover of
improve-
i
ment.
The
door
that leads
to the
Post-
'
master,
the
money
order
window,
and
.
recevntacles
for
letters
and
papers
are
'
also
there.
In a
few words,
we have
a
|
Post
office that sp2aks
well for our town,
|
and
what is
more,
we have
heard
from
some
who
know,
that
il.ere
are
some
larger
towns
in other parts
of
the world
'
that cannot
hoas’ of such
a convenience,
as
f{ar
as
guick
mail
delivery
is
con-
cerned.
;
This
Post
oilice
handies
some
very
'
large
incoming mails, and
with
a
small
|
siaffione
can
readily
guess
that
there
must
be
som~
hustling _ Any verson
in
.
public
serviee
who evinces
tie
real
al-
'
truistic spirit ought
to be commended
for
"
so doing, and
there
is no betier
way
than
|
in
the
public
press.
Mr.
5.
R. Larsen
-
along with the help of
the higher offizers
|
of the Postal
Depariment
are doing their
best
to
meet
the
requirements
of
this
.
community
as
regard
Posial
matters.
|
A3
time
goes
on
we hope
1o be
able
so
|
put
on
record
otner
improvements
as
|
they are
observod.
Thank you.—Com.
The
Navy
Band
once
stationz=d
here
\
arrived
at St. Thomas,
V. L.,
from Coco
.
Solo
via Hainpton Rouds, Virginia on the
Transport
"Gulfpori”.
It
is
hoped
that before
the
Band
is
|
disbanded,
(as
it
is
so reported)
that
'
His
Excellency
the Governor
will give
|
St.
Croix
the
great
pleasure
of again
|
seeing
the
men
in
uniform
and
hear
|
them play their
fine music.
§
This
is eccmmunicated
for the
earnest
.
consideration
of
ITis Exceliency.
|
—Communicated.
|
ee
|
TELEGRAMS.
|
BT. CROIX STATION.
|
Washington,
Aug.
10th -—A
Cuaban
f
economic
mission,
headed
by
S-=hastian
Gelabert,
Secretary
o Finance
of Cuba,
I
has arrived here
from Havana,
to coufer
’
with
a‘ministration
officials,
regarding
|
the
proposed
2 centsa
pound
duty
on
|
sugar,
2 loan
by
t
e United
States
to
i
Cuba aad present
economic
conditions
in
the island republic,
Tomorrow
the mis-
sion
expects
to meet
Secretary
Hughes
at
the State
Department.
It is
under-
stood,
that, in its conference,
che mission
will
lay special
stress
upon
what
it
is
|
claimed, would
_bevthe disastrous
effepts
'
upon
the Cuban industry,
if the dnty
im-
|
posed
upon
sugar
in the
Fordoey
Tariff
|
Bill
becomes
effective.
A
oriel
opposi-
|
tion
to this
duty
has
been
sent
to
‘the
|
SQenate
Finance
Committee
by
Mr.
Ru-
|
bens,
forme* counsel for
Cuban
patriots.
f
New
York,
Aug.
10th. —American
|
Sugar
Refining
Company today
passed
"
its
dividend
of 1.75
dollars
on
common
stock,
but
dectared
its regular
quarterly
dividend
of
1.79
dollars
on
preferred.
The stock
immediately broke 3 points
to
625,
the low record of the year.
Madrid,
Aug.
10th.—The
Spanish
Ca-
binet
will resign
tomorrow after
King
Alphonso has consulted
with
Senor Alba,
the
liberal leader,
according
to a
state-
ment
made
tonight by the Premier.
On The Letvian Frontier,
Aug.
11th.--
Even
their
own children
are
being
left
behind
to
starve
by
the
hunger
mad-
dened
peasants
fleeing
to
Siberia
or
the
Ukraine
from hunger
and
death
in
the
German
Volga colony
which is
the worst
affected of all
tho places
in
the
Russian
famine
zone,
according
to
a German
col-
onist
arriving
at
the
f[rontier
yester
~
day.
‘‘The roads,
along
which
swarms
~
of
people
are
migrating
are
liberally
sprinkled with the
nodies
of children’’,
'
the
colonists
said.
‘'‘Cholera
is
not
in
|
evidence,
but
death
from
hunzer
is
threatening
everybody.”’
London.,
Aug.
11th.—An
urgent
ap-
|
peal
to the
British
people
for
a ‘'gener-
|
ous
national
effort’”” on
behalf
of
the
|
starving
Russians
has
been
issued
by
i
Ale Imperial War Relief
Fund,
~f
which
|
the King
is
a patron.
Tae
sionatories
|
among
whom
are
the
Archbishop
of
'
Canterbury,
Lord Birkenhead,
Lord Higzh
'
Chanecellor,
and.
many
_prominent
writ-
|
ers
and
clergymen,
a]?ter
emphasizing
'
the
desperate
conditions
in
Russia
say
.
"‘Of all the
countries
seoured
by the
war
'
none
has
suffered
so terribly
as
Russia
.
and
none
has received
=o little of the heal-
|
ing gift of sympathy’’
3
Ottawa,
Aug.
Illth.-—Fire ofa
disas-
trous
charaeter.
fanned by
a strongz
wind
'
from the
sea
swepi
Aylmer Quebec
yes
.
terday
aft:ruoon,
ard
leftin
its
wake
'
a parched
and
blackened
ruin
of
what
.
was
formerly
a
quiet
and
picturesque
'
town.
At
least
one
death
was
ciused
by
the fire,
700
persons
were rendered
homeless
and
the
proparty
loss
estimat-
.
ed
at
$750,000.
Most
of
the
principal
'
buildings
in
the
town
were
razed
by
flames,
and
the
homes
¢f
some
onehun-
'
dred and twentyfive families
lost.
London.
Aug.
11th.—The
‘'Times’’
understands
that
Mr. Lloyd
George
ful
ly
intends
to
accept
the
invitation
to
.
the
Washington
Confzrence
as
the
offi-
cial representative
of
Great
Britain.
|
Dublin, Aug. 11th.—Viceroy
Fitzalan,
.
accompanied
by Lady Fitzalan,
yesterday
paid
a
state
visit
to
the
horse
show.
This
was
the
first time in many
years
that the Viceroy
has
a tendad
the
func-
tion.
Their visit
was
carrvied
out amid
the
oldtime
pagentry
and
gave
an
im-
pression
of
peace
and
goodwill
which
hal
been
lacking
in
recent
years
at
this
national
function.
Several
of
the
membhers
of
the
Dail
Eirann
recently
released
from
prizon,
including
.John
-
J.
Mckeown
were present.
Dablin,
Aug
11th,—The
*lrish Balle-
tin’’ pleads
strongly
for
‘justice’”’ in
the
case
of
hundred
of
Irish
soldiers
serving
prison
sentences
for
bearing