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Islands,
U. S, A,
THURSDAY February
21st,
1924,
AS REVIEWED BY BUMBLE BEE EN ROUTL
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(Continued from Saturday’s
Avis.)
Continuing
our journey to th2 east
certainly
in
search
of light,
we meet
new road
construction
now
underway
made
possible
by
the
generosity
of
our
late
Governor
Hough
who
approved
the bill of
the council
for a
twelve ton Road
Roller and
Scarifier
with its accompanying
Stone Crusher,
and
now raodern
repairs
ace going 00 apace.
We
now approach
the fertile estate
*"Whim’’, the residence
vn
which
was originally
built as
a Roman
Catholic Chapel but
never used
as such.
Whim
estate
was
a
large producer
of rum but since
the drastic Volstead
Act
has
stretched
its arins to St. Croix, it has
become
a cattle
estate.
Our
next
view
on the
left is the remains
of
“‘Two
William:"’ School
house
built
about
18340 and destroyed
in the hurricane
of Aogust 7, 1892;
continuing
on the right we
pass
the Estate
“"Carlton”” whose
old Great
House
was aiso
destroyed
in the
hurricane
ot 1899 completely demolishing the old
residence.
'The
house
occupying
the present
site
was built avout
1900 by the iate Robert
Skeoch
a famons
old Scotchman
and
one of the
best and
most just of our old planters.
Bafore
Lis time back
1n
the 50’s of the last
cen-
tury the
estate
was owned
by Dr. Sievens
to whom it was made
a present
by the King of
Uenmark
as
a reward
for his success
in performing
a
delicate
surgical operation
upon
the Queen,
the
estate
at that
tine being in the
hands
of the 2overnment
for
debt.
Dr.
Steven’s
residence
was across
the road
at Carlton
Garden
where
the good Dostor
very
much
honored
and
admired
in his
day lived, and
the famous
Cariton
Garden
Orchard
and
Garden
where every ire=, plant and shrub of known
West ladian
zrowth.
and
many
trees
[rom the Northern elimate
wzare
also seen,
inciuding apples,
peachas
and cherries,
but
these
(rom
the
north
did not bear
fruit undsr
the
sunny skies
of 3
nta Cruz.
Lhe eocoanut
and royal
paim
trees
that skirt ihe road
on either
side
aie
now noticed.
Years
azo
they stood
for iiie waoole
distance
of this load
as stately
sentinzls
and
at night
betoi~
ihe
days
ol auiomodiles
and electrie
lights
they
stood
out against
the sky
as
a
silvery lane
down
which
one
drove with horse
and
chaise.
but droights,
hurricanes
and
neglect
Lo replant
has
caused
aimost
all
so disappear
and
the present
drought of
1920-24
has
caused
many
more
to loose
their crowus
to the fate o time.
After the hurricane
of
1399 quite
some
replanting
was
done by
tne governmeni,
while after
the hurricane
of
1916 nothing
was done toward replanting
our
beaudilul
center-line
road
which
was such
a pride ol
our Inaabliants
of the
last century.
Aud pow
tu the
left
we
view
estate
“"Hogensborg'
one
of the
most
fruitful
es-
tates
ot the
island
and the home,
a
hundred
years
ago,
of
Governor
Sobotker with
a
tamous
stabie
of as
many
horses
as it is years
ago.
Proceeding
upon
our
course
as
we have
to hurry, time being limited,
we pass
"Moun-
tain
House’’
upon
the left,
one of the old time
bouses
now the residence
of a staid
son
of Krin an echo of by-gone
days.
Were it in 185 and
within the sound of his voice you
would think that you
were in New York City.
To the right we approach
"*Diamond School
iouse’”’ built many
years
ago
as an Aaglizan Caapel
but
never
used
as
such
but rather
put Into use
as
a part day school
by the
Danish
Government
in the middle of the
forties
in preparation
for
the aboiisnment
of slavery.
Ine road,bearing
south
also
carries
us
to Christiansted
but we have
not time today
to explore the oid
historical trail.
As
we
proceed
along
the road
we
see
(o the right
estate
""Mt. Pleasant”’ for many
years
own-
ei.by ine
Kerr family but
now bzlonging
to the group
of tne
Weast Indian
Surar
Fae-
tory
estates,
and
consicered
with
estate
°Piessens’”
across
the road
the
most
fertile
estate
in
this
island.
Estate
“‘Plessens’’
recalls
to
mamory
‘‘Count
von-Plesscns”
who lived duricg the
early part and
nmuddle
of the 18th century
when
he acquired
this
property
which he
named
‘‘Plessens’.
Does it not seem
strange
that he
as
organizer of the
almost
defunct
Danish
West
India & Guinea Company
should
procure
as
his allotment
& property
that proved
such
a
successfnl
estare?
Surely he must
have
nad
an astute
vealtors(as
we
know of
them
today)
to pick out such
a choice parcel.
!
(7o be continued.)
LOCAL
On
Saturday
last
we had the
oppertu-
nity of seeing ancther mammoth
pumpkin
weighing 46 pounds,
grown at
Friedens-
feld school garden.
Mr. Alpheus
S. Adums,
torier
bands-
man U,
S. N.,
has
been
added
to the staif
in the bookkeeping
depariment vl tne gov-
ernment
office.
On the
2nd instant
M~
Chr. Espersen
compieted
25 years
of sarvice
with the
:’“'qh't
a&l t'
Administrator’s notice,
In the District Court of the \irgin ls-
lands
of the Uniled Stafes.
Christizn-
sied
Sub-Judicial
Districk.
IN THE MAITER OF THE ESTATE OF
JENSINE
NEUMANN, DECEASED.
OTICE
is
hereby
given,
that
A.
k.
N STAKEMANN, administrator
of
the
above
entitled estate,
havirg filed
in
the
Distriet Court of the Virgin Islands
of
the United
States.
his
final
account
of
the
administration
of
the
said
es-
tate,
tte hearing
of
the
same
has
been
tixed for MONDAY THE
71ta
DAY
OF
APRIL A. D.
1924 at
10
o’clock
in the
forenoon
of that day,
at the Office of the
Judge of said Court in the Town of Chris-
tiansted,
Island
of St. Croix, and
all
per-
sons interested
in the said estaie
are
here-
by notified then and there
to
appear
and
show
cause,
if any they
have,
why
the
satd
account
should
not be
settled
and
allowed.
Christiansted,
St.
Croix,
March
Ist,
1924,
A. E. STAKEMANN,
Admanistruaior.
SCHOOL
ATTENDANCE REPORT
No. 27.
Week
Ending Feb,
29,
1924,
Muniecipaiity of St.
Cruix.
Per-
Percent
of
cent of
Pupils not
Attend-
School
Clas
tardy.
ance.
Frederiksted
Publie
99.56
99.75
Diamond
Rural
100.00
99.47
Christiansted
Jr. High
9972
99.44
La Vallee
Rural
100.00
99.13
Peter’s
Rest
Rural
100.00
98.46
Christiansted
Puoblic
99.31
98.40
Frederiksted
Jr. High
99.58
96.67
La Princesse
Rural
9957
9391
Friedensfeld
Rural
9443
9263
CEITUARY
Miss ALICE MARY PAULSEN, for many
years
a teacher
in this town, died
yester-
dav at her home
at 5.30
p. m. after a long
illness
The funeral has been fixed for sp.
m. today from the house,3s
Strand Street,
to the Roman Catholic Church and friends
and acgeaintances
ave invited.
Our con-
dolences
are
extended
to
her
bereav-
ed sisters
and niece.
poiice department
of this island: congrat-
ulations.
In
Leadeatt’s
cabaret
last
night Mr.
George
Williams,
master
mason,
law-