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United States
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Graix,
Virgin
Islands,
U. S, A,
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THURSDAY February
21st,
1924,
AS REVIEWED BY BUMBLE BEE EN ROUTE
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(Continued from Suturday’s
Avis.)
And
now
as
we mount
the slope
we rise
on
the level
above
and turn to
the
right.
At this point a branch
road leads
to the north,
to Bulowsminde
as being
the eastern
and
southern
entranca
from the estate,
and made
at the tine of.the coastruction
of tha
resi-
dence
of Mjor-Generai
Von Scholton,
and
upon
oar left is estate
‘*Bzeston Hill””which
has
a long and interesting history but for which w 2 hava not tims today.
Preseatly
the
road
turns
to the north and
before
we descent
the grade
which carries
us to town
we
see
on
the left a branch
road which
previous
t) 1830 was
the
main line road to
Chris-
tiansted,
but instead
of taking
this road,
very little used,
we praca~d
along the
main
highway construc:ted
along the side of
the hill with heavy wall support
to hold
the road
up,
and it is
wvell preserved
as they built solidly in those
early days.
On our right
w2
now pass
estate
'‘Herman Hill’”’and
a grade of the road that will carry
a large
automo-
bile having good mymentum coasting
into town,
two miles away.
At Harman
Hill is
an
example of turning uaprofitable
stock
estate
into a very remunerative
one by the
ener-
gy, thrift
and
persaverance
of
the preseni
owners.
Continuing
upon
the downward
grade
we pass
on
the right estate
""Contentment’” whicn
a hundred
years
ago
was
the
country
seat of one of Cnristiansted’s
most
prosperous
merchants
after the
new road
was
built.
We are
now in
Christiansted’s
Western
Suburbs,
Presently
we
come
to
the eross
roads,
the
one
to the left being the old
main line
traffic outlet
as well as
the
road
to Evening Hill and
the north side road to
Frederiksted,
while
the road
straight
«head
is another
entrance
to
the
town passing
estate
‘'Rictkmond’” with an
interesting
history,
but our procession
takes
the road
on the right in town.
Christiansted,
formerly the capi:al of the Danish
West
Indies until the seat
of
gov-
ernment
was
removed
in the early sixties
to Si. Thomas
when
J.
A.
Stakemann,
took
office as President,
and Christiansted
then remained
the capital of St.
Croix.
The town
was
built by
the Danes
shortly
after their vecupation
of the isiand
in September
1734
though
the treaty of the transfer
was
made
in Copenhagen
on June
15,
1733.
Mail did
not
travel very
fastin
those
days.
Upon
arrival
on
that
September
day
they
first
cleared
away
the brush
which covered
the sight
of
the former French
town of
Bassin
and removed
the growth around
the old fort which they had
once
begun
to repair.
The
reconstrucced
fort with additions of after years
is an
interesting
old
example of s.ch
buildings
and constrnction
in the 18th
century.
Thaer2
has becn
very
little change
in
the architecture
in the past
100 years.
(Te
be continued.)
ScHOoOL
ATTENDANCE
REPORT
No. 28
Week
Endirg March
7,
1924,
Municipality of St. Croix.
Per-
Percent of
cent of
Pupils not
Attend-
School
Claxs
tardy.
ance.
Christiansted
Jr. High
98 71
100.00
La Vallee
Rural
100.00
100.00
Fredcriksted
Publie
99.56
=
95.62
Diamond
Rural
99.85
99.47
Christiansted
Public
9932
98.73
Peter’s
Rest
Rural
100.00
96 92
¥rederiksted
Jr. High
99.38
95.62
Friedensfeld
Rural
97.04
9462
L.a Princesse
Rural
100,00
9371
about eighty
mien
to
Christianstedfor
a
few days.
Minelayers
‘‘Lark’’and
‘*Mallard’’ar-
rived here
on “aturday
to spend
as
is
un-
derstood
2 days.
Captain
J.
W. Greenslade,
U.
S. Navy,
who
is
in
command
of
the Mine Force
U.
S. Fleet
comes
to
St.
Croix
on
the
U. S.
S. Shawmut,
Monday (today).
R:putation ofter. precedes
one and
the
good
reputation
which
comes
ahead
of
Captain Greenslade
is that he has always
been
a
skipper
with
a
‘‘Happy Ship.”’
In Navy parlance
this
phrase
is
one
co-
veted
by all officers.
Nuring
the
war
Captain
Greeunslade
was
in command
of a unit of the famous
Mine Planters
whicn laid
the North
Sea
Barrage
which the late President
Wilson
aptly termed shutting
up
the
hornets
in
their nests:
From
(he
inception
oi the
Barragesthere
was
a steady falling off in
the
activities
of
enemy
submarines.—
Com.
LOCAL
We
are
informed that
the
.U. SS.
“‘Shawmut’’
is
expected
at
Frederik-
sted today
with
three
or four hundred
men
aboard
and
will
put
fifty
men
ashorz
daily
under
canvas
and if ar-
rangements
can
be
made
they will send
TELEGRAMS.
€T.
CECIX STATICN.
Londen,
March,sth—The
Miners Fede-
ration
Executive Committee
met in
com-
mittee today to consider
its policy in
an-
tisipation
of
a
joipt meeting
with
the
coal
mine
owners
tomorrow,
in
connec-
tion with the mipers
demand
forincreas-
ed
wages.
President
Herbert Smith,
of
the
Miners
Federation,
issued
a
state-
ment
that
no fewer
than 1.105
men
were
killed and 4,822 seriously linjured
in the
coal
mines
of Great Britain tn
1922.
In
addition
to
these,
185,497
men and
boys
were disabled for,more
than
seven
cays.
London,
March
bth. —News
of
the
desposition
of
the
Caliph at
Constanti-
nople
was
received
among
the
Indian
Moslems
with mingled
incredality
and
consternation
according
to
the
Daily
Mail’s
correspondent.
'The
prominent
Caliphatists
were distressed
at the down-
fall
of
their hopes,
he
writes.
Opinion
in constitutional
cireles
favours electing
a new Caliph,
which
has
the
sanction
of
the Koran
and th2 Calipbatisfs
are sepd-
inga mission
to
Angora
to
diseuss
the
question
with the Turkish leaders.
Moscow,
March
sth.—lhe
Red
Star,
organ
of the
Soviet
Army,
commenting
on
the
fifth anniversary
of
the
Com-
munist
Internationale,
be2ing
celebrated
here,
says.
‘“‘The anniversary
of
the
Communist
Internationale
must bring out
the
statement
made
in
most
decisive
form,
that
all
the
aims of
our enemies
to divert
the
Red
Army
from
the
Red
goal
are
in
vain.
Our
Red
Army
has
been
and
remains
an
army
of
Com-
munists
and
as
before,
will
always
throw itself into the struggle,
with world
revolution’’ as
its slogan.
Nagpur,
B. I. March sth.—T'he
Swara-
wists,
or
Home
Rulers,
summariiy
re-
jected
three
g¢overnment
bills
in
the
Legislative Council
for
the Central
Pro-
vinces yesterday.
Dethi,
March sth. —General
Lord Raw-
linson, Commander
in
Chief
of the Mili-
tary Forces
in
India,
in a
speech
today
on
the budget
in the
Legislative
Assem-
bly
said
that
18,000
Briiish and
20.000
Indian troops
had
been
cut off
the mili-
tary
strength.
The
total
strength
of
the
combatant
arms
in
(ndia
now
was
200.000.
General
Rawlinson
declared
that
no
further
reduction
was possible
if due regard
was o be had for the
ccun-
try’s
safety.
H¢
would never
agree
to
further reductions.
Brussels.
Mareh sth—M.
Theunis
has
undertaken
the
task
of forming
a
new
cabinet
to replace
the ministry which
re-
signed
last week.
Washington,
March sth Amnesty
was
granted
by the President
today
to all de-
serters
from the army and navy during the
period between
the armistice and the offi-
cial conclusion
of the World war. The
ac-
tion was taken by
a
presidential
procla-
mation
and affects
more than
a hundred
men. It does ‘not affect the status
of Gro-
ver Cleveland Bergdoll.
so