LOCAL.
i
The
Mystery
arrived
Saturday
even-
ing witha fairly hrge
Vew
York and
|
other
mail
which
was
distributed
and
|
delivered
to
box-holders
the same
even-
*
ing and yesterday
morning.
}
At
his second
public lecture
which had
|
been
planned
for
a
debate
with labor
representatives
on the
position that agri-
|
cultural
labor camnot
be paid
more
than
|
50 cents
a day exceptat
a loss, Mr. Theo-
|
?ore
Nielsen
was
surrounded
by a
fairly
|
arge
audience
yesterday
afternoon
and
exhaus.ively
expounded
his subject.
He
|
wetmmitiy, 01|y
speaker.
He
adduced
|
figures
to show
that
the
estates
owned
|
by the Labor Union
produced
less
in
the
|
five
years
they
have
been
administered
|
by the Union than in the four years
prior
‘
to their sale.
He compared
the purchas-
|
ing
value
of the dollar when
the laborer
|
was
paid
that wage with the purchasing
value of it today,
and from
the reduction
in
the
exchange
and
the cost
of mostly
all
foodstuffs
contended
that b 0 cents
a
day at the present
time is worth as much
if not more
a dollar then. He further point-
ed
out
that the
time
when
the
laborer
was
paid one dollar
a
day he could
have
secured
more but failed to do
so because
of
an
unwise
agreement
made by their
leaders binding them
to
accept
$1 a day
throughout
the crop
season.
It was his
belief
that
the
people should accept
the
50 cents
a
day
now offered
rather than
exhaust
their
resources
completely
and
|
by waiting complicate
instead of relieve
the situation
which
may
be corrected
by
the
importation
of
Porto
Rican
labor,
strike-breakers,
as
such
laborers
are
called.
|
.
The
Native
Brass
Band
entertained
:l
the
public
with
an
evening
concert
on
l
the wharf last night. It is requested
sug-
gested
that
the
aimiable
leader
of the
I
band be asked
to give
an afternoon
con-
cert
now and then
for the enjoyment
of
“kiddies’’ and
those
who
are unable
to
benefit by evening
music?
{
et
|
There
will be
screened
a fev
more
parts of
the popular serial
Who Is Num-
ber
One
at
the
Christiansted
Theatre
this evening.
See
programme
adve-tis-
ed in this issue.
©
o
——
{
It is advised
that the P. O.
Dept.
has
issued
an
advertisement
fora
new
bid
for carrying
the mail between
this town
and Frederiksted
on a reverse
schedule,
|
the trips starting from Frederiksted
inthe
|
morning
and
from
Christiansted
in
the
|
afternoon.
Proposals
will be received
at
l
the
office of the Fourth
Assistant
Post-
master
General
untii
November
11,
and
the
new
service
is
to begin
December
Ist. Blanks for submitting
bids
may
be
|
obtained
from the postmasters
and
bid-
ders
are requested
to state
their
rate
per
trip for emergency
service.
8¢
CHU
LL AN
TELISRAMS.
Sl. CROIX STATION.
London,
October
19th.—The
Portu-
guese
Govt.
has resigned
as
a
result
of
a sucecesstul
m’litary
movement
without
blcodshed,
savs
a Reater
despatch
from
Lisbon.
The
new Ministry will probably
be formed
with the
revolutionist
Manuel
Maria Coelho
as
Premier.
Paris,
Oct.
19th.—A
bomb exploded
in
the
house
of
Mr.
Herrick
the
United
States
Ambassador,
seriously
injuring
the
wvalet
who
opened
the package
con-
taining
it.
The
room
in
which
the
ex-
piosion
~cturred
was
wrecked.
Mr.
Herrick
arrived
at
the
House
two
min-
utes
after
the
bomb
blew
up.
The
re-
ceipt
of the bomo
followed threatening
letters
which
have
been
coming to
the
Ambassador
in
the
past
few
days
in
connection
with the
case of two
I‘alians
recently
eonvicted
of murder
n
Massa-
chusetts.
The
bomb
was contained
in a
carefully
made
package
addressed
per-
sonally
to the
Ambassador,
who, it
ap-
pears,
might well have
op:nad it himsel?
as
it
seemed
to
be
a
gift designed
for
him.
The
Ambassadors
valet
however,
happened
to
se=
the package
and opaned
it
tosave
Mr.
Herrick
the
trouble.
It
was during the afternoon
that the
pack-
age
was
delivered.
Immediately
after
the
explosion
Mr. Herrick
went
to
the
Hotel
Crillon
where
General
Pershing
is
stooping.
[ae
prefect
of
police
joined
the
(ien-ral
and
the
Ambass-
ador
there
and
this
evening
they
were
conferring
on
the
case
while
the
entire
detective
service
of
Paris
was
at
work
in
an
attempt
(o
trace
the
origin of
the
bomb.
Considerabie
damage
was
done
to
the
Ambassacors
residence
outside
the
voom
where
the
explosion
occurred
as well as within it.
Todays incident,
in the
home of the
Am-
bassador,
tollows
various
expressions
of
prot st
whica have occarred
inrermittent-
ly
in
Italy
since
immediately
after tne
conviction
of
the
two men but have only
recently manifested
themselves
in France
Demerara,
Oct.
19th. —The Rev.
O. H
Parry
was
consecrated
Bishop of Guiana.
this morning
in
the Cathedral
Cnurch of
St. George
Georgetown
by the Bishop of
Antigua the Senior
Bishop of the province
assisted
by
the
Bishop
of Barbados
and
Trinidad
in
the
presence
ofa numerous
congregation
of the Clergy and Laity.
London,
QOct.
19th.—The
situation
in
England
as regards
trade
and unemploy-
ment
is worse
than
at
any
time since
the
end
of
the
Napoleonic
wars,
declared
Mr
Lloyd George in
the House of Com-
mons
today,
in
outlining the
Govt’s.
policy
on these
two
subjects.
At
pres-
ent: he said,
there
are 1,750,000
persons
unemployed
and
he
added
that
the
Zreatest
unemployment
to
the extent of
17%,
was
in
the metal
trade.
He
de-
clared
that the
cause for
this
situation
could
all be
summed
up
in
one
word,
War.
As part
of
the
Govt's.
plan
of
alleviation
he
said
the Govt.
propose
i
to
ask
Parliament
for
an
appropriation
of
another
three
hundred
thousand
pounds.
to
enable
ex
serviece
men
;0 emigrate
so
the
Dominions,
whither,
he
said,
sixX
thousand
alveady
had
s:tiied with
Govt.
assistance
Turning
to
the
question
of
trade,
Mr. Lloyd George
said
there
was
undoubtediy
signs
of revival in some of
the
most
important
industries
which
were
not showing
signs
of revival..
He
said
it was
rue that trade
was beginning
to
move,
but thata
man would
have
to
be
very
sanguine
who
could
predict
a
return
to normal
conditions
at
an
early
date
He
said
Great
Britain’s
interest
in
the restoration
of trade
rested
upon
the
revival
of trade
indusiry
and Eng-
land’s
purchasing
capacily
abroad.
He
said
that
the Govt.
proposed
to
amend
the
export crcdic
scheme.
He
declared
it was obvious
that neither
the
exporter
nor
the
importer
could build
upon
‘‘an
acrobatic
basis
of exchange’’.
If trade
was
to be started
up again
at
all,
there
must
be the
elemen!
of
risk,
but
that
the
Govt.
had
conciuded
that
the
risk
was
much
greater by
standing
still
and
doinz not
ing.
But the Govt
proposed
to
raise
the
guarantee
to
traders from
85%
to 100% and to fix a
maximum
for
each
firm,
to be determiued
by
an
advis-
ory
committee.
He
said
the first
pro-
posal of the
export
creditt
scheme
was
that
it should
apply tr
countries
whose
credit
was practically
destroyed
by
the
war,
but
that
it
wvas
now
proposed
to
‘
extend
it
to
other
couantries,
including
those
of
the
Britich
Empire.
Large
I
engineering
orders
for
the
renewal
of
transport
facilities
in
countries
whose
credit
was practically
destroyed
by
the
war were now available, if Great
Britain
was
prepared
to
give
an
extension
of
credit for repayment.
He said
the Govt.
had
decided
that
it
could
extend
this
credit for five or seven
years.
Touching
1
another phase of the situation,
the Prime
Minister said the
cost
oi production
was
too
high and that
a second
difficulty was
that
of raising
capital
for
some
enter-
prises.
He declared
that the Govt.
pro-
posed
o assume
power,
00 certain condi-
tions,
to
guarantee
the
payment
of
interest
on
loans
to
the
amount
of
25,000,000
pounds
tor
the
purposes
of
carrying
out
capital
undertakings
pro-
viling employment,
or for the purchase
of materials
for manufacture.
The Govt.
also
proposed
to emilocate
10 000,000
pounds
ror the
assistance
of relief work,
forestry
and
land
drainage.
Another
proposal
was for the
establishment
with-
in
six
months
of
a
fund
for
workers
dependents.
Out
of
this
fund th€
un-
employed
workers
who
are
receiving
unemployed benefit would
receive grants
towards
the maintenance
of their
wives
and ‘children.
These
grants
would
be
subject
to
a
maximum
limit
of
nine
shillings
per week,
at a
weekly raie
of