cargo
capaciiy
the
Company
ask
mer-
chants
to
cable
ord>rs required
immedi-
ately as lighierage
deliveries
2re slow.”’
The Governor
arrived
here
yesterday
on the U.
S. S. Vixen and
attended
the
meeting of the
Col. Council,
afterwards
receiving
several
callers
and
returning
to St. Thomas
at 6 p.
m.
We
have
been
informed
that
the
In-
dustrial
Band will play on the wharf
this
evening.
The
cine show
of last
night
was well
attended
especially
in
the
general
ad-
mission
which
was
filled.
The
S.
S.
Parima
from New
York
is
expected
tomorrow.
The
Creole
sailed
for St. Thomas
with
mail at 1.30
». m. yesterday.
It is understood
that
there
is a disposi-
tion
to
enccurage
the
circulation
of
3
cent
pieces
and
introduce
price
that
will necessitate
the
use
of
these
little
nuisances.
We hope everybody will sim-
ply have notaing
to do with them.
They
will prove
m re plagie than profit.
Frecdoriksted,
Nov. 17th.
1919.
The
mail
Chooner
‘‘Virginia’’arrived
at
this
por
yesierday
evening
about
6 o'clock,
wich
12
bags
of mail, 92 pack-
ages
and
tae
foilowing
passengers:
Maud Farre
v and
echild,
Sarah
Crutchel-
lor and
neplbew Alberto
Arturo
Mescus.
She
sailed
again
at
midnight
with
mails,
four
packages
and
passengers:
For Porto
Rico:
Miss Lorma
Hansen,
Anesta Francis,
Maud
Jackson,
Jacob
E.
Joseph.
Wor St.
Thomas:
Samuel
Mar-
shall.
Mrs. Jane
Ludvig,
l.eon
Redman,
Rob’t.
Henrv. Chas.
Archibald,
Wilmoth
Bryan, Elsia Jam
s, Sarah
Gumbs.
We
understand
the
‘‘Virginia’’ en-
countered
a
water-spout
on,the
las.
voy-
age,
nearly ending
disastrously.
Sailing nncer
a very light breeze,
about
4 waterspouts
were
sighted.
The
cap-
tain tried to zet out of the direction,
but
the largest of
them
pursued.
All sails
were lowered and all
hands
went
beiow.
The
ship’s
boom
was
touched
by
it.
Then luckily the water-spout
turned off,
but
drew
the vessel along
with it for a
considerable
distance,
taking her
out of
her course.
-
When this
storm subsided,
the captain
fearing
things
became
worse,
put
info
Fajardc,
P. K.
OF#iCIAL NEWS.
Thirty-two waists
havee been
received
from
the New
York manufacturers
who
seek
to have
work
on women's
apparel
done here.
"hese thirty-two
waists
are
cut
and
reacy
for
making
and
on
the
character
of
the
work
done
on fhese
waists
which wjll
be considered
indica-
87
LRUIS
AYiS,
tive
of what
can
be expected
here,
de-
pends
whether
or not
this
firm will ex-
tend its work here.
The
waists
are cut
out and
are
accompaniea
by
all
the
ne-
cessary
material
to complete
them.
SI.OO
each
is to be paid for makirg.
The
man-
ufacturers
stare
that they
desire
to have
at least
three
hundred waists
per
week—-
made
here
on the
same
basis.
.
The manufacture
of addi‘ional
benches
for
the
accommodation
of
those
who
come
to the concerts
in Christiansted
and
Frederiksted
has
been
tak n
in hand by
the Public
Works
Department.
U. S. NAVY PRESS
NEWSs.
WASHINGTON:
Repubiicans
and
De-
mocrats
joined today to shut
off
debate
on the peace
treaty and
put into effect for
the first time
in thehistory
of the Amer-
ican
Congress
a cloture
rule
which will
limit each
Senator
to one
hour
and
pro-
bably
bring
aetion
next
week.
Under
ruling of the Vice
President,
the cloture
stands
until the treaty is disposed of eith-
er by ratification
or by
sending
it back
to committee.
He will not
stand
for re-
servation.
TRIESIE:
Gabrielle d’Annunzio
who
lef
Fiume Thursday
night
on
a
new
ex-
pedition
has
landed
at Za:a
on
the
Dal-
mation
Coast,
according
to
I.ews
received
here.
®He made
a triumphant
entrcnee
into the city receiving
enthusiastic
wel-
come
from
Italians
who had been
wait-
ing
his coming.
He
left
“iume
on
an
Italian
torpedo
boat
accompanied
by
a
steamer
carrying
three
hundred
shock
troops,
says
the report.
PARIS:
Importance
is
attached
in
peace
cireles
to d’Annuizio’s lasc
move
as
Sunday
was
election
day
in
Italy
with
Fiume
as
chief
issue.
It is
generally
thought
.hat
he
is
trying
to
carry
oute
spectaeular
operations
to strengthen
the
party which has
been
losing ground.
WASHINGTON:
President
Wilson
is
much improved over last week according
to
Philadelphia
Nerve
Spezinlists
who
visited him again
today.
Yesterday
the
President
was
allowed
to sit for a short
while on
the
south
portico
and
seemed
to enjoy it very much.
Twelve
thousand
Bolshevik
troops
\ ere
engaged
and
six thousand
casua'-
ties resultedin offensive rec:ntly started,
says
North Western
Army
report
which
adds
that red commissioners
not engaged
in campaign
were <xecuted.
PASSAIC.
N. Y.:
Lackawana,
a
con-
creté passenger
station
was
demolished
by
explosion
early yesterday.
' eaking
gas
caused
it.
No
one
hurt.
Pieces
of
concrete
was
blown
hundr:ds
of
feet.
WASHINGTON
:
After {wo hours
of
wrangling the
first business
session
of
coal
conference
operaters
and -miners
agreed
upon
old
policy
of
negotiating
scale
of
wages.
A
new
p:ict
is
being
framed.
Charges
of
bad
faith
were
made by both sides
at industrial
session.
PLYMOUTH
:
Lady Astor,
candidate
for Parliament,
voted
for
herself,
early
today.
The
first
woman
at
the
polls.
If elected
she will be first
active
woman
member
of Parliament.
BERLIN
:
Three
mass
meetings
have
been
called for today by majority
Social-
ists who declared
presence
of
Von
Hin-
denburg
is being
used
as
fire
on
which
the German
national
soup
can be brought
to a boil.
Aection
is result
of
demonstra-
tion Saturday
at
which
crowds,
mostly
students,
cheered
Hindenburg,
Luden-
dorftf and the former
Emperor.
LONDOCN:
British naval
losses
dur-o
ing the
war
totalled
one
thousand
and
sixty-nine,
says
a detailed report
just
is-
sued
by
the
Admiralty.
Os
these
two
hundred
and
fifty-four
were
war
ships
and
eight
hundred
auxiliary
vessels
of
“the
Royal
Navy.
Forty-two war
ships
lost
in action,
sixty-two victims
of
sub-
marines,
forty-four
to mines.
The ships
lost
included
three
battle
cruisers
and
twelve light eruisers,
including six block
ships
used
at Zebrugge
and Ostend.
TELEGRAMS
ST.
CROIX STATION,
New York, Nov.
13th.—In
lo~al
bznk-
ing
circles,
it
is
felt
that
the
trend
of money
rates recently
has
had
the
de-
sired
effect
and it
is
now
believed
that
the
worst
phase
of
credit
situation
is
passed
and conditions
will become
more
stable.
The
Secietary
of
Agriculture,
Mr.
Houston,
says
the
pyramiding
of
wages
to meet
living costs
and
necessa-
ries advanced
to meet
high wages,
must
stop if the country
is
to
be
restored
to
pre-war
conditions,
Paris,
N0v.13
h. —The
Peac~
Confer-
ence
has
received
information
from
Sofia
that the
Bulgarian
Govt.
will
ac-
cept
the peace
treaty
as presented
to
the
Bulgarian
delegation.
The
Bulgarian
Premier
who left Sofia for
Paris
yester-
day is
expected
to
sign
the
treaty
to-
morrow.
Honolulu, Nov. 13th.—The
evacuation
of Omsk by
the anti-Bolshevik
forces
of
Admiral
Kolechak
has
been
ordered,
it
was reported
here
today in cable
advices
received
by
the
Nippujiji,
a
Japanese
dailv newspaper.
the
cable
added
that
Kolchak would estabiish
his
new
seat
of
Govt. at
Irkutsk.
Columbus,
Nov.
13th.—The
Federal
Prohibition
Amendment
was defeated
by
Ohio voters
by a wet majority of 542,
ac-
cording to final official figures
announced
by the Secretary
of State.
Copenhagen,
Nov. 13th.
A Riga
des-
pateh
to the Lettish
Press
Bureau
says:
“‘Supported
by
the
Allied
Fleet,
the
Letts continued
their successful
advance
against
Bermond
to a distance
o* 15 kilo-
metres
from
Riga.
In
direction
of
Mitua they also
captured
the
important
position of Kekkiau,
south-east
of
Riga
and Baldosena,
30 kilometres
away.
The
booty
included
11
heavy
guns
and
11
machine-guns’’.