®
A Proclamation
By THE
GOVERNOR
OF THE
VIRGIN ISLANDS OF THE UNITED STATES.
BY
virtue of the
authority vested
in
me I do hereby set apart
12
February,
1921
and
proclaimita
Fublic
holiday
within
the
Virgin
slands
of the United States
for the
Bt_n'pose
of observing
LINCOLN’»
irthday.
:
J. W. OMAN,
Governor.
Governmems
House,
St.
Thomas,
V.
1. 26 Janaary,
1921.
Publicati
üblication.
THE
Gevernment
has
been
offi-
cially advised that,
at the regu-
lar monthly meeting
held 5
Janu-
ary
1921,
the
United
States
Geo-
graphic Board formally and officially
changed
the name
of the
principal
city of
the
island
of St.
Thomas
from
Charlotte
Amalie (Charlotte
Amalia Amalienborg)
to ‘St Thom-.
as.”’
Government
of the
Virgin
Is-
lands
of
the
United
States,
St.
Thomas,
28 January,
1921.
C.
C. TIMMONS,
Government
Secretary.
NOTICE.
HE
old
scuthside
road
leading
from
Big Diamond
Village, to estates
Good
Hope and
Whim, and joining the
cen-
treline
at Two Williams
old school,
n_t
repaired
by
the+Public
for
over
fifty
years,
is
now
completed
(including
twelve
new bridges
‘or large cuiverts’ of
reinforced conecrete)
and is open
for pub-
lic traffic.
For
the Road
Commission
.
v
F. LHNNEY,
Chair man.
St. Croix. V. 1.8
A. Ist. Feb.
1921.
€A T
L
R
A
R S
R T
S
T, SRS
We wish
to extend
our
sincere
sym-
pathy
to
Mr. and Mrs
Chas.
S. Mayhew
on the sad
occas on of the death
of Mrs
Mayhev’s
- brother,
Mr.
Alfred Kelly,
who
departed
this
life
at Barbados
on
wy
RO
LA
AV ED
'
the 15th
ultimo
following
an
illness
of
typhoid
fever
ahd
pneumonia,
at
the
early age ~f
19.
.
QN
ee e
e e
"
Qur asention has
been called to the
publication of
the Tupper’s
eargo
being
22
tons
for Christiansted,
as
incorrect,
'~
and
upen
investigation
at
the Customs
it is ascertained
that
the
boat
had
55
.
tons
of
cargo
for
Christj
sted.
The
figures
in yesterday’s
issug‘willbe
cor-
.~
rected
accordingly.
|
Readers
and
patrons
of the theatre
are
reminded
of
the
continuation
to-night
of the
new serial
picture
‘‘The Midnight
Man.”’
|
The
8.
s
Tnpperis
in por* loading iron
|
to-day.
Correspondence.
1 ost
Office, Christiansted,
Peb.
2
1921,
.
Editor of the St. Croix Avis :-
|
For
the
correction
of
.
erroneous
information
published
in West
-
End
News
of
this
date
to
the
effect
'
that
the
week-end
mail
via St.
Thomas
|
was
delayed
through
indifference
on
E
the part
of
the St.
Thomas
postal
ser-
'
vice which
is represented
as
having
ne-
.
glected
o forward the
mail by the
con-
.
tracted
schooner
or the
Raporel steamer,
[ feel constrained
to advise the public that
.
the facts
are
very contrary
to
what
the
|
West
End News promulgates.
In the first
'
place
the
contracted
schooner
is required
|
toperform but one round trip a
week
be-
.
tween
Charlotte
Amalie
and
Christian-
.
sted,
which
trip
had
been
completed
'
when
the
schooner
sailed
from
Chris-
|
tiansted
last
Friday.
The
Raporel
or
'
any other steamship
plying between
the
.
islands
is not available
for the exchange
-of mail between
these
offices
andthat is
~
sufficient
to explain =hy the
mail should
'
not have been
looked
for by
the
*"Tup
'
per”’.
It should
also
be
understood
|
that
the post offices have
no appropriation
-for carrying
mail
between
the
landing
|
place and
the
boat,
which
means
that
}
should
it
even
be
possible
to
for-
|
ward
mail
by
boats
that
will
carry
it
'
gratis
the
postmaster
must
defray
the
.
expense
of carrying the mail to the "boat
'
from personal
funds.
It may
b 2 of inter-
'
est
to
know
that i
was
because
the
.
crew
of
the Creole
refused
to
fetch
"
thie
mail
when
it
was
offered
at
~
St.
[homas
why
it
was
detained.
Writing
upon
this
subject
Postmas-
.
ter
Streich
at
Charlotte
Amalie
re-
gretted
this
delay
very
muenh.
[
will
.
quote
a
part of
his letter:
|
“I regret
very
much that
I.could
not
.
get
the States
and
Porto
Rico
mail
to
"
you
before
Monday next
but inasmuch
as
~
the
''Virginia’ is
not
making
the
trip
and
the
"Pocabontus’’
sailed ,to
Fred-
eriksted
direet
instead
of calling here,
there
was
no
course
open
but
to
decide
to hold the same
Lere.
You may
be
sure
that
I
have left
nothing
undone
to
ex-
pedite
its handling.”
I consider
the reference
to
the
post-
master
at Charlotte
Amalie unwarranted
and trust
this -xplan~tionwill prove
ade-
quate
to
remove
false
impressions
that
may have
been
occasioned
thereby.
B LARSEN,
TELEGRAMS.
ST. CROIX STATION.
London,
Jan.
30th.--Members
of
the
Prime
Ministers official family
in Down-
ing Street
today ridiculed
a
report
that
Mr. Lloyd George
had warned
the
party
whips to prepare
for
a
general
election
in June.
New
York,
Jan.
29th.—Raw
sugar
was
unsettled
today,
but
no fresh
busi-
ness
was reporfed,
and prices closed
un-
changed
at
3,77
for
Cuba’s,
cost
and
freight,
no change
was
reported
in
re-
fined, which
was quoted
at 7.50
for fine
granulated.
Business
was
light.
Trad-
ing was dull in futures.
Prices
however
were steadier
on covering,
and
the
clos-
ing was 2to 5 points
higher for January
4.03,
March 4.09,
May 4.23,
July 4.40.
New
York,
Jan.
30th. —Appeal
for
practical ‘‘Neighbourliness’”
between
the
United
States
and Canada
was
made
by
Sir George
Foster,
speaking
last night at
a banquet
of
the Superintendents
of the
Metropolitian
Life
Insurance
Coy.,
At
the
Hotel Astor.
'~We
aie pretty
good
neighbours
to
yon’’,
said
Sir (jeorge,
we
came
over from
Canada
in 1920
and
bougbt
$921,000,000
worth of
stuff from
you
in the
United
States.
This
means
that
every
man,
woman
and
child
lin
Canada
on
afl average
ot sllsin
pur-
chasing
frum the United States
last year.
The United States
by the
same
statistics
came
into Canada
and bought
$500,000,-
000
worth only, exactiy five dollars
for
every
man,
woman
and
child
in
the
United
States.
Let
us
be
neighbours.
Buy
as much
from
us as we do from you,
and
when
we come
down here
with
our
goodwill security,
be
above offering
us
88 cents
for our
Canadian
doliar’’.
Dis-
claiming
any
desires
to
meddle,
wiih
publiec
affairs
in the United States,
Sir
George
referred
to
the
Fordney
emer-
gency
tariff bill, now
before the Senate
in Washington,
as
a measure
that wouid
“prevent
us from
sending
down
our cat-
tle
and
sheep and agricultural
products
in
order that
we
may pay
you’’.
Well
there
are but
two things
for us to
do'’,
continued
the Minister.
‘“'One
is to buy
the
extra
fourhundred
million
dollars
worth from the peopte of the U, S.- That
is my appeal
to
the
commercial
portion
‘of the United States.
It
may
be a good
thing
to think of
the things
before
we
legisiate
too far’’.
London,
Jan.
3lst.—The
ediu?rial,s
in
the
morning
newspapers
approach
the