From
September
llst price of
Mo-
lasses
willbe 6 cents
per gallon.
Smallest
quantity
=old:
10
gallons.
No sales guriru_;r Fridays
and Satur-
days.
WEST
INDIAN SUGAR
FACTORY:
DIED at
Pleasant
Grove
Mrs.
MARY
MADSEN,
85
years.
Funeral
430
this
afternoon
from
Pleasant
Grove o Lieth-
eran
Church.
OF
THE
FOR
51.
CROILA.
(Continued from yesterday's
Avis.)
2nd
Member
for
Christiansted
Town
(Canegata)
remarked:
Mr.
Viee Chair-
man.
The BDirector
of
Education
was
before
the Municipal Committee,
but
we
did
not get
much
information from
him
on this matter.
We
know that there
are
nineteen
boys
at
the
school—five
from
St. Croix and fourteen
from
St. Thomas;
but
the
question
is
we
are
spending
$l,lOO.
Are we getting si,loo worth
of
results?
In
his
remarks
before
the
Municipal
Commitize
the
Director
of
Education
in
referring
to
the
schoul
said:
‘‘This is like an old broomjand
it is
better
to have
an
old
broom
than
nene
at all.”’
Government
Secretary
(Zane)
remark-
ed:
Mr.
Vice-Chairman.
As
1|
under-
stand,
the
school
at
Leinster
Bay
was
started
by
St.
Thomas
and
St.
Jehn.
Now this Murnicipaliy starts
sending
boys
there
and if this
is done
it is only fair
that they provide
for their
main‘enance.
If it
is considered
best
to
withdraw
the
boys,
then the
money
can
remain
in
the
Colonial Treasury.
It
is difficult to furn-
ish the information
the Chairman
of the
Muniaipal Committee
desires.
2nd
Member
for
Christiansted
Town
(Canegata)
remarked:
Mr.
Viee Chair-
man.
From
a
semi-official
source
the
Committee
got the information
that
the
school
1s not
satisfactory
and
that
the
Goverpment
had
no intention
of sending
any
more
boys
there.
Now
we want
to
get
at the bottom
of the whole
affair and
know just where
we stand.
We
always
insist
§that St.
Thomas
pay
its
share
to-
wards
the maintenance
for
persons
sent
from
that
island
to
any
of our
instita-
tions here,
this | suppose
is only
a means
of getting back of us and for this
reason
we would like to do what is right, though
St. Croix supported
forty prisoners
from
St.
Thomas during
the
last vear.
c*
g EOLEA YVIIS
Ist
Member
for
Frederiksted
Town
tJaclkson) remarke
': Mr. Viee-Chalvman.
i have
been
told
by
‘an
offizial that
the
school
at St. John
has
been
unsatisfactogy.
With the
Vice-Chairman’s
p-?:'missiull
wish
to read
from Governor
Kittelle’s re
port for the
vear
1920,
“Reform
School for Delinguent Boys.
-
A
small
reform
school
for
dehnguent
boys,
under
the supervision
of Mre. R.
Clen,
has
been
conducted
in St
Jonn
for
several
years.
Living accomoda-
tions
very hmited
and
primitive at
this
institution;
only
a
sm~ll
numnber
ot
boys
ean
be
cared
for.
'n
his Annual
Report_for
the fiscal
yea:
>nding
June
20,
1920,
the
Dbirector
of
Education
reported
at
some
length
on the serious
problem
“of juvenile
delinquency
that
contronted
therDepariment
of pduca
tion
and
the
Government
in
gener-
al.
During the
past
year
this
menace
to the commuuity
has
been
less
in evis
dence,
and
it is
be'ieved
is
on
the
Ge-
crease.
Thereis
still, however.
a
cry-
ing need
tor some
suitable
place,
under
competert
management,
o
which
these
delinquent
cbiidren
can
be
com-
mitted.”’
.
and
continuing
the Member
said, —That
goes
to
say
that
the
Governor
at
that
time
considered
that
the
Management
was
not
satistactory.
['hose
conditions
have
ndßt
beeu
changed
since.
About
four
months ago[ visited St.
John
and
was asked
if leoudn’t do
something
to
relieve
the situation.
e
o9nd
Member
for
Christiansted
Town
(Canegata):
Couldn’t
the
Honorable
Ist
Apvointed Member
who visited St,
John
some
time a0 give some
elucidations
?
Ist
Appointed
Member
(Coulter)
re-
marked:
Mr. Vice Chairman.
lam glad
to
see
that
this
Council
1s snot
oppos-
ed
to
the
passage
Jof
this
money
bill.
I
didn’t
ecare
to
speak
before
because
1
saw
itwas
the
intention
of
the
Council
to
pass
the
Bill.
There
is
a erying need
in
this island,
not
only
for
delinguent boys
but for
incorrigibie
boys also.
There is
a
list
of fifteen
or
sixenteen
boys
who come
up at regular
intervals before the Juvenile Court.
They
commit
petty
thefts,
use
bad
language
and
most
of them
bhave
no parents,
but
guardians
who
save
not
proper
con-
trol
over
them.
We
have
complaints
against
these
boys,
but what
can
the
Court
do?
It
cannot
send
them
to
prison
where
they
will
he
placed
with
hardened
erimirals.
The
Honorable
Ist Member for
Frederiksted
Town
wit-
nessed
the carrying
out of
the sentences
of the Court
on
a few
boys
recently
for
disturbance
of the
peace.
I believe they
received
ten
lashes
each.
There
is
no
other
place where
boys could be
sent but
Leinster
Bay.
[
think
it
is ihe duty of
Government
to
lodk
aftter these
boys,
to
put them
in
a
place
and
give
them
an
agricultural
trainipg in
the field or learn
a trade—carpentry
or
some
other
trade,
In 1921
the question
of
a reform
school
on the island
of St
John
was taken
up by
Govemor
Kittelle.
At
the
opeuning
of
the I)?trict Court
at
St. Thomas
on July
5, 1921,
the
Director
of
Education,
the
Director of Police
and
the Aid for Public
Welfare
were
asked
to go
to 3t. John.
We left St.
Thomas
at
7
o’clock
in
the
morring and
on
our arrival
we
wen
all
over that island,
and
the
majority of
us
were of the opinion that the
site selected
on the
island
of
3t. John
was
the most
unsuitable
place
to
build such
an inst-
tution
We
visited
Mrs. Clen’s
school.
The children
were
taught
from 9to 12,
and they worked in
the afternoou.
The
accommodation
was very limited and
the
equipment
was
very
primitive
indeed.
I
was
under
the
impression
that
the
estate
was
the
property
of
Mrs. Clen.
There
seems
to
be
too
much
of a
com-
mercial spirit in the
school.
I do hope
that
this Council
will
vote
this
money
bill,
and
as
the
Honorable
20d Member for Christiansted
Town
bas
said,
as
a
temporary
measure.
In
the
meantime
let
us
get
some
information
rezarding
the
school.
1
heartiy
recom-
mend
the
mouney
bill
to the Courcil
2nd Member for Christiansted
Country
District
(Berg)
remarked:
Mr
Vice-
Chairaan,
We
have,
after
a!l,
a
good
deal of information
on the
matter
$9 00
per moath
for the
maintenance
of a boy
in
the
reform
School
at
Leinster
Bay
seens
high
considering
that
an
able-
bodied
man
on
this
island
works
for
forty cents
ger
day
and
gets
cnly two
days work each
week
which
amountsto
$3.00
per
month.
The
maintenance
of
these
boys is high,
the
matter
should
be
investigated.
Couldn’t
this
matter
be
glace(i
under
the
Poiice
and
Prison
De-
partmen:?
I cannot
see
where
the
De-
partment
of Educa
ion
comes
in.
Ist
Apponted
Member
(Coulter)
re-
marked:
Mr.
Vice Chairman.
1
don’t
think
we should
quibble
over
which
de-
partment
this
school
should
¢ me under.
I understar.d
that
this
lady, Mrs. Clen,
is
an
employee
of
the
Department
of
Eduecation.
Ido not agree
with the Hon-
orable
2nd
Member
for
Christiansted
Country District
whe ihe
compares
the
waves
of
a laborer
anl
the maintenance
of one
of those
boys: after
all two doliars
and
a haif
per
week
is
no
too much
to
pay for the eictiing,
shelter
and
educa-
tion of an incorrigible boy.
Ist
Member
for
Frederiksted
Town
(Jacksan)
remarked:
Mr. Viec-Chairman.
For
the benetit
of the Honorable
Ist
Ap-
pointai Member I
wisa
to state
that tnis
question
came
up
in the Municipal Com-
mittee,
but
we did not get
wmuch
inform-
ation
on it,
I don’t want
to
hold up the
bill on thataccount.
We are collecting our
meney
from St. Thomas,
and therefore\
I arree
that
we
pay
our
share
for
the
mainte:ance
of those boys.
.
3rd
Member
for
Christiansted
Town