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1
OF
THE
FOR
ST.
CROIX.
(Continued from Saturday’s
Avis.)
It was
put
1o the
vote
and carriea
that
the reso!ution
be
furthered
and
adopted
at Ist
uiscussioh.
Th>
amendment
was put
te the
vote
and
adopted.
Despatching
Secretary
(Barrett)
re-
marked:
Mr.
Vice-Chairman.
1
would
like to invite the attention
of members
to
a4 matter
that
is in dispute
as
to
whether
the
waart
is
under
the
jurisdiction
of
the
Police
and
not
a
Federal
Officer.
The question
of
the removal
of the guns
and
of
the
engines
of
the
submarine
chaser
came
up
some
time
ago
in
this
Council.
No
one requesting
the
word
further
t e
discussion
closed,
the
resolution
r id, put
to th2
vote
as amended
and
un-
«nimously
adopted.
The Vice-Chairman
asked
members
to
prepare
their voting tickets
for the
elec-
tion of the
Cemmiitee.
13 voting tickets
were
handed
in,
one
was blank.
Klected
were:
Ist
Apprinted
Mem-
ber (Coulter)
with 12 votes,
4 h
Member
for Frederiksted
Country
Disiries
(A:-
dersen)
with 11
votes,
Ist
Memvoer
for
Frederiksted
Town
(Jackso:)
with
9
votes,
Ist
Member
for
Christiansted
Country Uistrict (Jessen)
with 8 votes,2ad
Member
for Christiansted
Town
(Cane-
gata),
ist
Member
for
Frederiksted
Country
Distriet (Fleming) and 2nd Mem-
ber for said
District (Curry with 7
votes
respectively.
3rd
Member
for
Christiansted
Town
(Alexander) received
6 votes,
Ist
Mem-
ber
tor said Town
(Abramson)
and
2nd
Member for Chrisuiansted
Town
(Berg)
received
4
votes
respectively,
4th
Ap-
point=d
Member (Blackwood)
3rd
Mem-
ber
for
Christiansted
Country
District
(Robt.
W. Skeoch)
and
3rd
Member
for
rrederiksted
Country
Distriet
(M.
M.
Skeoch)
with 3 votes respectively.
Item
6.
Colonial Council
Bill No.
19.
Fourth Council, First Session.
Intruduction
of and
Ist discussion
on
Colonial Council Bill No. 19, dratt
of
an
ordinance
introduced
by
2nd
Member for Frederiksted
Town (Mer-
win),
providing
for
a
revisivn
of
public holidays in St. Croix.
The Bill reads
as follows:
Colonial Council Bill No. 19.
Fourth Council, First
Session
1923-192}
DRAFT OF AN ORDINANCE
te provide for, and
set apart,
legal
holidays
for
the Municipality
of
St. Crouiz.
Be
it
enacted
by
the
Colonial
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ivas’VisitTo St Graix, Virgi
United States
Press Repressatativas’
Visit
ToSt
Groix,
Yirgia
Islands,
U, S, A,
THURSDAY February
21st,
1924,
AS REVIEWED BY BUMBLE BEE EN ROUTL
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(Continued frem Saturday’s
Avis.)
Here
we arrive
at
the
recreation
ground for the
employees
of
the
West
Indian
Sugar
Factory
tully equinped
with facilities
for
all outdoor
sports
and
a fine
elub hoise
as
well,
upon
the lawn Mr. Andersen,
our host,
assisted
by his associate
Mr. Wulff, lad
preparad
a fine cold punch
of temperate
origin, aereatad
waters,
most
toothsome
Da
ish
cakes,
cigars
and cigarettes,
but regretied
that our time did not ailow of
4
more su
a-
ous
table.
Any
way during our very pleasant
fifteen minutes
Mr.
Andersen
inas »
and anpropriate
address
of welcome,
said:
“Your Excellency,
Governor
Williams,
Admiral
Cooniz, Officers
of th= Navy
1d
Gentlemen
of the Prass:
Allow
me
to bid
you
weleomz
to the
recrearion
grounc
of
lierhlehem
Sugar Factory
It is indeed
a privilege for
us to be
visited
al
one
time
by
$) many represeatatives
of the finest
presses
in the world accompanied
by our Governor
aad
high
officers of the Navy.
As you
see,
this pretty little spot,
and
as
you have
seen
the island
today, I feel
sre
that
vou
will agree
with us that
for beauty
of scenery
and
lovely climite s*.
Croix i
parhaps
one of the
most
precious
little possessions
of the
UniteL States
of
Amorisy,
located
only
twice the distance
from New York as
are th: Barmulas,
with
a
wonde-'u
difference
though—that
here flies the Stars
and Stripes.
You
have heard
of the
erisis
we have gone
through
with
four
years
of droisht
when
crops
have
failed
to the extent
of beinz reduzed
to
one fifth of normal
erop;
that
we
have
nevertheless
carried
on is because
there
is in the hearts
of the peoole here
a
larg2 portion of persistance
and perseverance
deserving
of
a helping hand from our fel-
low citizens
up north and
you gentlemen
of the press
can help
us a whole
lot by spread
ing among your
readers
for general knowledze
of
the attractions
of the island.
1 will
finally bez you to help yourselves
to the refreshmz2nts
on the rable.
lam sorry that while
Congress
in
their wisdom
have
not
seen
fit to giv> us th:
Constitution
of the
United
States
of America
nor any of the amendments
from N»
1 to 17 nor the nineteenth
they
have sent
us:— What shall
T call it?
Thne preseription
for how,
and
then "‘not’” to mix a
good cool drink !
1 thank you.”
The day, the view and
the occasion
bring back
m2m
iries that
upon this spot
in 1851
was pitched
a large
tent to serve
a collation
entertainment
to H.
R.
H. Prince
Alfred,
later the Duke of Edinburgh,
who paid a visit to the
islan{in that
year.
This
was
the
first visit of a scion
of Royalty to St. Croix and
the English speaking iahabitants
imbued
as
they
were with English traditions,
it is not to be
wondered
at that they turned
out in
full force
to show
their loyalty to the Crown which they claim allegiance by birth or even
several
generations
removed-
Prince
Alfred
was
at the time
a youth of 17 years
and
a
junior officer upon
a ship in charge
ofshis superior
naval
officers during the cruise
being
made
to the West
Indies.
The day referred
to, he
was
on
his
way
to Christiansted
to
pay
his respects
to Governor
Birch
and stopped
enroute
at
Estate
‘‘Castle’’.
Instrue-
tions from
home
w:s that
he
was
not
to be entertained
in private homes
bul the ingenu-
ity of his host, Mr. Frank
R. Newton
had devised
this
means
to fit the occasion
as
a tent
was
not a private
home.
Yet the hard rale
thus imposed
was thougit to be fitly broken
when
he
was allowed
to call
upon Sir
Andrew Lang,
the veneranle
sage
at "Kiza’s Reireat”’, who, by his
le-
searches
into
astronomy
from his observatory
near his home,
so marked
on every
map
of the island, published
during the past
century,
had gained
tur him an.international
re-
putation.
The position of St.
Croix upon the surface
of
the earts
is gonerally
referr»d
to in all books
of the island as that given by
him —l7 degrees,
44 min., 32 sec.
N.
and
in Latitude
64. 14 min.
W.— of Greenwich,
though
the position of L7 degrees,
45 min.
N.
and 64.45
W. is the approximate
centre
of the island
which places
the
cross
line of
ae-
mark
tion
just
a
little
soatheast
of the
building
upon
KEstae
'‘Rattan”.
Estate
“Castle”’
as
well as
the large property
called ‘‘River”’, to be seer
in thegdistance,
undear
“Mount Eagle’’, remained
in the Newton family from the earliest history of the
sett'e-
ment
of
the
island
until
1892 when
these estates
were
disposed
of
by 'he family
to
the proorietors
of
“'Lower Love’’.
The Newton family originating from England they
immigrated
to Barbados
in the early
part of tne eighteenth
century.
thus proceeding
to
Qr.
Kiits and
on
to Si. Croix when
the new and
unheard
of inducement
to settie
in
a
sugar
colony were proclaimed
by the Danish
Governor.
As the family grew and
pros-
pered
under
the sunny
skies of St. Croix, their sons
bacame
leaders of manly sports and
toeir race
horses
were the
best of
the day upon the turf of our course.
Thurlow Wood,
lormerly Editor of the Albany Journal,
New York. and later became
Editor
of the New
York
‘limes while spending
a winter here
in West End of 1844-45 in a leiter of
March
20, 1845 written from the island relates:
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