Show W 1 THE DANISH ANTILLES I 2 t Inhabitants Products and Political Significance 5 stir 5 hi L in J 11 d San Juan Jail Jui 16 Danish n following the older In Which Wc to n they iro It usually named mimed by I nI t of ot lie the Islands lalands ot of St t t t Ft PL John nM Hi St Croix the last l lilt t n n let tut I II by y Its III Spanish title of lit 8 nta Celt St HI Thorn Thomas though thus thull placed tint In th lint Ilat stands rands t t only In hr extent of ot surface area while white In value It 1 I b the thel lout Important of ot the group l l Prom the time lime of at the earliest colonis colonisation atlon allon of flu thi We W Veit t Indie by y the Euro Eur pP n nation th the Island Inland of at 81 Croix a l th the largest lament of at the these Danish Islands has 1111 hast t lo been n known an as a one of ot the I productive of th the whole n a I In Id Ile yield of at erne cane sugar augur and andla a nil la 1 during durling urh th the that three and a halt half of ot occupation UN IU I I plantation own ere accumulated great fortunes fortune and arl b I lived upon Ulan their holdings h l r e of ot baronial I cacti tach generation Mending ill their offspring to foi tin n universities und and maintaining among anong a f M highly CAste canto It 11 Ik VM rue here lier It ft win wIll be to that tha t un I Alexander while In ids hit hi ox ux youth noting us ne manager of ot one ono I of ot those thOo lordly estates the property of or a n relative found his Ills u useful ful held heldI I I of at activity and anti gave gae precocious promise iU I of or thu Iho glue which were des dell to distinguish h his I career ISLAND OK OIn ST Sf enol 1111 St lies ileA lower tout the wn an Iff Ifft anthan than t an tho the other Hands Islands l ltd Its highest el dc It being baing Hindi less lass than those thOle of ot offit Ht fit Thomas In hl particular which last hot en g tIM nt ot one ono or two points Ints to an nn Udo of ot about 1200 ZOO feet Of or geological ago than Its It I MI t r Icier isler 1 the processes of ot mature through tin tho effect of lit long erosion have hunt rl whIt the thu lava laa oat east of et dissolving r r crusts und 11 II prepaid the thu fertile Cerille lit holds Ids whoso wh o virgin acres eagerly seized solz ir and laid tribute by b tin the I 1 first flut cotters ami von even now no In those thew tho c dOY of ot almost i production still HUll continue to glow low with the rich a t of ot nn an Intensive cultivation ft t t l Johns hOIl mn far tor more cultivable la In r proportion to Its Us size than tins las St Bt OU aU JJ TI it Thomas but so 80 much greater grenter are aru ar the III g advantage uttered offered by b St Croix In thus thin rl f WilY that little attention has hai been paid 1 I IP tic t these AH As I 4 with tho the small rural population upon UllOn St StThomas I Thomas Th the Iho chief pursuit of ot tho till In I of Ht St Johns linn hall s ben lx n hio snail bruit bout navigation hoot boot building and repairing anil and nailing p ST 81 THOMAS fAg ISLAND HE St Thomas lies flee scarcely 16 10 miles to In Inthe the eastward of ot Culebra tho rho little Ul 1 and ami which has hos lately become tho the cenI cen center r I Q a ter of ot BO so 0 much Interest as the tho base of ur i this thia winters Important naval maneu vore var er The 1110 two tIVO Islet Isles are arc nearly equal in size and are arc about ns as much itch alike an as assir sir I two peas In a pod pad They Tho are more mere Jl Is math ull rocky keys Icy In tho the chain Of oC tho rho c Islands of oC which there are un many 1 U IL such sueh along the course of If UK Its semicircular n F h al t cular color sweep weep over nver some C 00 OO tulles miles of sea 11 11 Ie t l unclothed by vegetation save did upon ullon the Iho littoral slopes elopes by narrow r 4 r fringes of ot native grass lands and upon the heights by b scattered clots of oC lower class elaas tropical growth such as Of certain I VA Inferior forms of cacti and some SOllie dwarf dwarfed Wi Iii ed cal species of ot henring shrubs th they y I n present little that tutt Is le picturesque or nr striking ua nu they rise sullen and col orient u above the glittering blue plane plena of 01 Lv the ocean I AND MD ITS I Culebra has hils Inhabitants a 11 full tull r itt u D half halt of 01 which live In and ami near a 1 small In village end and the tho population of ot St Thom Thomas Thornt i as a Is practically nil all gathered In Its lit little tt tie tle city of ot Charlotte A II II II of at t I rull l eople Cattle arc are bred brell with some tome sue cut fv cess cem In tho the limited wild wIM pits pas pasture pallI I tore ture lauds lands of oC the lower louer levels level but th tha the a tr C d a rearing of at goats gnats seems to have been all that hat has been attempted In tills this way 1 III upon n any an considerable scale teale among AmOn the mid hillsides of ot St Thomas Iloth llott II Islands ug qu t ands ur LIre are without rivers or darts springs but has hl one or two hIlI III small email sluggish streams of ot a vile lie track Irack a hh character In III both bolh cisterns art are aret arti t i h alone depended upon ullon for public pubic and private gate ate water Crater supply It la is held however to by competent judges that fresh water 1 exists tH plentifully at certain depths and h 1 that a II quantity to solve olve all allI I problems could be reached through the tile medium of ot drive welts wells So tar far no ef lit effort fort tort In III this direction has ever evor been made mods That such will be undertaken At any time limo In the future for purposes of at oft agricultural Irrigation In III view of ot the thet 11 t and paucity of oC the soil coll Is II Isi t Lf 1 not among alto tho i tru OP Ol TUN ISLANDS DS fiG St SL Thomas ThomA and Culebra derive their lr I only Importance from the Ih fact tRet that each contains u II deeply Indented shore ril 11 i II line within which He lit the th only goal 1 ha tint bors bore to be lie found bete n Santo Domin DominI rr Ko go o and the Windward Islands lelands Culebra I has bee ha two of ot these one known knowlI as Great Oreal Oreall y I r Harbor and the other as RII Target Tare hay Bar If l Great Harbor Is s landlocked on three 1 Ii sides sid and Its It opening Into Inlo the th r ft raa a l I Ir is r partially protected by br a coral corel reef ree ii f which extends from the Ih of ot net the west coast coalt and end 1 bares aes un an entrance r ro channel unc narrow nann for Cor the pas paa passage IJa i I 1 Ie C sage cage of ot our larger naval ships There Thera The tine Is III anchorage fur Cor but bul u limited number i ca of ot vessels within this Gay buy and as a a ai i matter of fui CUI fact t during durin the tb maneuvers rn r none but ships of ot smallest draft dratt have le made mad us use UH of or Its II waters water Target Bay Ray farn I III fa R rn c a little more than Ihn an open o n roadstead road lit but Hf It Is l here that thul the ships the North have hu had and still continue to hue have hll their ren yen the e devour dou waning waiting orders lathe Inthe progress II IS 11 1 the thel i ress reu of the movements On 00 Del Iee In this were wen ni 11 l t ship drips lying at it anchor bay by Ia l 1 the J arl Indiana Illinois Iowa tion lon Alabama Atlanta San Francisco M Mae MII s i II IE a Chicago a Albany Dolphin nt 01 Nashville and sad Mayflower Ma ih 1 upA upon UROn ft a commanding point 4 i l C of ot the tilt harbors harbora shots hot at al that time lime only t the nu of ot some pome of these thee shiN china shiNn could l h he e seen een II by an observer as QI tho a iii m n a t of the largest clubs 10 were moored beyond the reefs In what hat may inay lna l be It fairly term lenn r ft Ill etl the o open n Save Sa as a to storms IlA 0 r from the north Target bay bar affords no nil f t shelter whatsoever 1 JI St fit Thomas Thoma has hall a an anti I Iun f un unequaled ll t harbor of or great grest reat sis sic II ni nod l t n wife eats Mt and accommodating depth Tn J nJ It tt would serve ere the tbt cf r th 0 States StatH excellently 10 ll 11 Is 4 sh alit cn t Vi Vin n by a chart that has hu been t Hn I ImI teA reri i ian h 11 han P i Cit an engineer r resident In th u In I in and InI I It 1 t Jl iI thoroughly familiar with h ih 1 h aIr a athe Arh rh the th whole COM Tile This L f w Ir t J design exhibits the ihs hh i j i i 3 hl American n fleet ot l lying ic HI al nm i n t ty t y the Ih bay ba The Th f i M tr nut carefully given gl ri ar 01 n II th i t i w wn 1 j gI inns Ings of ot tn tM the station t I wh hi h h II n h ht n assigned at this the il t n i id llie upon the dart nr at 1 i d n n tin r records n u As 11 Culebra will i u Ii r J lr pur mI poses pOPes liar nor will Mill sn any t I ii ni t r re of 01 oft y 1 ty Porto niCO meo It bemm 1 b the till t I re of or t on of ot n ri in sit Ji 5 1 and ant 1 1 n as well v all as in view II IIII II Ire tit of t our proposed of ot the thet t canal and the Ih for tor torI forn I n 1 its ample emple protection that we hart 1111 n a Nye great If Not and arill vital n nM d for St Thomas Thomase e C I Can we hope stilt to tl c In It i I I 11 I of ot little In these western cone coneA A recent visit VIlt to these thill Islands has hLl Ills die cloud clod an Intense sentiment of ot disappointment among the th colonists In con com consequence sequence of ot the tile recent nation action of ot the home government in the defeat of or the th sale lIal treaty Analysis of this feeling finds Ands the th motive differing according to 10 locality t In St lit CroIx the single and nl tab of ot the sugar gio k um lint u It hopeless outlook In the Continued ed e closure of ot the thi American Am markets to 10 their output Were Well a n 1 to to bo taken the writer do does not hesitate to 10 say III on an the beet i t information that t not half hair a score of ot votes v would be ed ell against a annexation So hitter r Is le the sense of ot injury that It 11 has hilI round found lh In III the ho pulpit with though It Is III un understood l hat hilt the out nut outspoken spoken clergy have Buffeted d some lome mild rebuke at III the hands hande of ot the church authorities In St lit Thomas ThomMS whose ho voice finds a 1 sympathetic echo teho In iii St Johns tin i r rIs Is II a II scarcely leu less prosale titan than in III St Croix although the go gu guv eminent Influence Is I naturally lit III strongest there them The rH reasons OIlS are ore lio however eer somewhat different They luny be he subs thUs given Th flit fI sole business of ot this thin Island bland Is IB centered In III Its ite It II port Mere Heie ships lime have hll Vl long been be n calling for coal and und other uther supplies and for tor repairs upon a IL large flouting floating duck dork but for reasons the ion meroe of or the Ih place has ha been steadily panning Into decay lIel a Thu fhe understood tood purpose of ot the United flutes States to establish lish lIah a naval station elation at Ht St t Thomas In inthe the thi of ot the purchase of oC the Id Islands l l ands hold held out a bright hope to the tho poo peo people co plo 1110 for tor times fhe The prevail Ing IIII local conditions of ot stagnation In nil lines with small promise of change opens little prospect of ot betterment as lit things arc uru so 80 In this we the main mainspring spring o of the lie discontent OPINIONS 8 CO FOIl liOn POI POL POLICY ICY lCY To 0 the tho outsider who visits St Thorn an nit and who whose e identity being known acquires the of ot the lending leading classes the pro sentiment IB Is frank Crank frankly ly Iy expressed Hut among the tho working fitment there therl Is 18 no nu sort of ot merit nent every eiery Individual therein not lint n Ol nc employed by the government may muy be openly naked asked and will till be b found almost without exception to tu be In fi fior a atom t tom or 01 of ot American ownership Among the mercantile and professional elates classes cl e ether there ther Is reason for tor caution In hl speaking This H Is I soon coon found to lie In h the quirt fluid punitive scheme through High the colonial administration gets guU oon oven All sorts of ot petty pell annoyances an 11 ire are plated pla d dupon upon citizens who lire are marked for tor their offensive partisanship hlll In the th sale propaganda This form Corm In va various II noun rious s ways On one ono occasion three lead leadIng I leadIng Ing citizens were here summoned before Lefore the police pollee and placed In a sort soil of ot Inquisitorial for Cor the purpose ot of ascertaining the tho share they might have hn taken taleen In sending out cei cel taut legitimate news telegrams to 10 the American which did not nul chance diance to bo he quite julto pleasing to the Danes un Of ot Official tidal I patronage Is in withheld and the payment of o hills blue quietly Coned forced among those who aro oro thought too tea active Yet Vet men In high places and unquestionably well to i euk tell lell you ou that tho I Inot not 5 6 pet per cent of or all the of ot the tho Islands Is If it given the opportunity would ast cast their votes the sale ale That the tho government does nut not wish to put Its Us action to the test by n it 1 plebiscite tins has been made only ani too clearly clearl e eIdent 1 ev evident Ident Outside the 1111 oMi lal class n II small number who oppose annexation are orl found among a n few tew wealthy colored per por lor Sons Hone who are said to 10 ft fear nr the mell Ameri con can prejudice against their race and ont the tho possible loss loal of ot social dignity and prestige II r 8 II II which they might suffer cutter In the Ihl event of or the Islands passing under tinder the control of ot the th states A t few rew others huts bine hll 11 taken the ground that the hit Island w ader d r such control would ouM no longer Inn er enjoy the Ihl advantages they now lOW tio hold Bold as fru fre torts ports of Qt entry The arguments of lit the latter are feeble and hind find almost no nu tance VIEWS OF OI THE TUR CITI Z NS In view of ot the tho opinions of ot the former i low class the th alleged action of oC Admiral luring during its his hi 1st III Isle tt visit to tc tott tt St Thomas Thomal in declining to accept an Invitation to dinner from fromn the Ihl governor the American Arn consul who lisp hap happens pens to be a man nian AIM waa to li It present Is II greatly aU to be Ive deplored but It should should not lIot be lw accepted as II reflecting toe national In such sudi matters Die St should note the handsome manner manlier In which downed a narrow II feeling when he hl paid 1 1111 honor hOllor to looker Hooker T Washington and w was honored In turn In by II all people le for Cor the theatt act att What t the government commission lon rein Denmark now In the domes colonies expect to do for their languishing In Interests treats tHet no one stems seems to know Yen very cl dearly It U Is III plain that t no la large if sum wll bo be expended n In the tho improvement I III II I of harbors harbora b by the th present owners What then will wild Ve lie lane Will Till there thee bv Ix an made mad to foster foiter fo IP in St Thomas Thoma and Ht SL Johns John The littler hitter I tier Is III too ton small mall to warrant much and the heights of oC Ht St Thomas offer little In this Ih way WilY The Island could never neer be fitted tu to compete with Its II rill fur more endowed nel neighbor St SI Croix could lei si scarcely rc l be bl Improved In ru ally III way wa lt Its lands are now marvelous Iv lv rich rh but the th of ot its t rune ran fields Iehl lId finds no market mark It is 18 a Hl situation and calls all for A 1 of ot unusual M et lust Just now nov no tit the colonist nf of th Ih Danish Meat Wt ladles Indies ho I hag his bis bl eat eai MTV vr it 11 to tin Ili ground nor dots does he h i n that flit his hi hopes UP lie Ira r any uny an great extent In 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