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this line. will leave New York on the Bth prox. | : . The post office will be closed tomorrow except from 8-9 a. m. There will be no exchange of mails between. the towns. The_ Creole is a bit late today, but will make ‘port by 10 o’clock we calculaté. The_Frederiksted mail is being held un- til she arrives. _ *“{nté"him. that hath shall more be given, and from him that hath not shall be taken even that he hath”. The, Navy Bands of this isiand leave ’;f_or"{.‘St. ;;'_l_%xomas. today to participate in the, Thanksgiving. Day celebrations over theré, St. Croix willlive up to its old ‘ré?gtgti(m‘_o,f“bping a graveyard. SiSh i "Correspondence. - foo ey eam ek R 7 ; 0 ; UHE W ATER,GUT FISH-QUESTION 'ANDTHE’SANITATIONSERVICE: Continugtion. of 'tet,gm? in "Avis”of 20th Te, BTEOROO, e Dl B T _ln the Editorialof ‘‘The Herald’’ of ‘l6thinst. 3¢ The ‘Herald"’ is theorgan in the" interest “oftthe promoters of = the ‘miverhent) iwe wead .as :follows;—""A ‘pedple: inast ksow their own wants; and «knowing ¥ho¥ wants, -must learn to ex- preésg them Hse: as to receive attention necessary to supply their waness: Apub- lic meeting will-be held this evening for the~purpese of-giving .public expression to the needs ofthe tommunity. =~ After expression of thoge npeeds. an attempt ‘Wil‘he.made tokndck ;;fthe'¢losed”” door o anws e owies Wiely trué soh of the ‘sqif'must be' interestedin the advance- ~ment of g}lthings gox:ydag ag it 8ex- .;Decé? that every effort will 'be made to make the decasion. worthy of the cause” éte. in the*sdme. strain, and of the same OB8 e b ;-;'lj)flow;‘,fytftb "all due regard for -his _ability, “and sincerity, fa%_thé esteem ‘in _which ‘the young ‘man who occupied the chgjr, is held, ,Q%jgct;mn must neverthe- less; be taken to, tHe manner in which he d Jt,(;:, _with the position taken by the . Wéxt_pjg Gut_ Fisherman Felix; and the remarks “from the Chaif as to the con- _sideration’ of. that speakers point or any ‘part ofthis grievance as stated. Ac- cording’ to the ‘purport of the meeting, thére could not bé any exception to any particular cause of grievance, for the benefit of any other cause—and the argu- ment is that, the Water Gut Fish-ques- tion or the Sanitation Service, as the latter bears upon_the former, or vice sersa, was'of more interest to a large - portion of the Tewn-folk including the ‘respectable-poor ofWater Gut; than is the matter of :the scheme to drive ou\ the Field Laborer from Towp. to Country residence. - ‘ pr i g , ST L E AV LS The Sanitation Serviee is.in » great mea- sureonly in its infancy. Officials concern- edin the methods adopted for beneficial results, may be more filled with zeal for the same, that with-a knowledge of con- - ditions governing the surroundings. Time will show. And therefore a hint or two thrown out by& party or parties better acquainted with such- conditions, and especially when these may be work-. . ing against, and threatening the eollapse of a necessary industry, ¢o say nothing of the great inconvenience to a consider- able portion of the inhabitants, should not. be pooh-pooh’d in a public diseussion of general or public grievances. Felix’s point, as to what he, considered a grave error, in prohibitin{ the sale of fish at Water Gut Bay, taken by fishermen of that quarter; and therefore compelling ‘the people residing there to go a consid- erable distance to procure their fish at Gallows bay—was undoubtedly a strong. point; beeeuse -it gontained much: that ‘béar§immediately upon and ;a%ai.nat’ the results -sought after by the Sanitation’ Service- and for that reason, if for no ‘other—though thege -are .- otlL.ers —was fully worthy of consideration; and for him to be told at the end of his speech that Sapitation grievances or inconveni-- ences needed no comment or remark af’ a meeting such as that purported to be, was indeeda positive humbug, and may be characterizéd as nothing less than hypoerisy. ‘O : "~ The extraneous matter complained- of- -jiThe Herald:" a5 Jiolix o syniet, yas -rather morg ‘¢opspicweus in the speech ;0f another speaker wlio séemed gdertainly ‘more determined. on bruiting other. sub- -Ject. not at allcalled for,. either by the -advertisement of the chair. uig conglusion, itmust be said, that if "such ‘a - 'Tremendoys Success’’ 4s is “claimed by /'The Herald”. ‘was the result -of :that, meeting—then .it was a ""Tre- .mendous ~guccess’’: at. a_. ' ‘Tremendous -Sacrifiee’’; a sacrificeofhonor and princi- ple: ipcalling a meeting . together fora -highly commendable.object, and eventu- ally substituting another, “ndit should be a serviceable warning to future pro- moters .of the. like, to be careful after encouraging ope and all to speak and air their -grievances—nos. to discourage apd ‘snub >them asin the case of Jas. Felix onthe 16th instant..'- . e o T ALIBERALCATHOLIC.. C’sted 22nd Nov. 1920, ' ~ A Red Cross Nursing Committee for Bt. Croix to work .in _conjunction with, and supervise the work of Miss Florence R. Freeman, Red Cross School Nurse, who has been sent to St. Croix by the Nuarsing Division of the. American Red Cross Society has been organized. Regu- lar visits.to schools and . homes .y WMiss Feéeman,. and the .training of- native nurses to assist in _school nursing are among the achieve nents desired. The members of the Committee are: Robt. L. Merwin Esgr., Chatrnran. R, H. Amphlett Leader, Secretary. Dr. l‘%]ayward. Chief Municipal Physician. Dr. Hughens, Chief Sanitation Officer. Daniel R. Nase Esqr., School- Dvrector. Rev. William Allen. Mrs. Frank Coulter. Mrs. Alfred Dyer, Miss Colcord, F'ield Representative, Ame- rican Red Cross Society, Ex. Os. The Committee held its first meeting in the Municipal Committee Room, Gov- ernment Building, Christiansted, Novem- ber 22, 1920. Miss Colcord and Mrs. Nase were unavoidably absent. —Com. :e e Mr. A. Ovesen has informed us that he has received from London'%’ iforma- tion to the effect that ‘‘the Atheriean Line and ‘‘White Star Line” are ar-. ranging a series of 'Winter Cruises in the West Indies - daring the.coming win- ter. The .vessels to be’ touxtniss%r for this purpose. are .the:s. 's.' 'NéW- York”, “‘St. Paul’”’ and.''Megantic’’, all trans-Atlantie liners.—West Exnd Noig, Nov, 28rd. b yangess s TELEGRAM->. ST. CROIX STATION. New York, Nov: 19th; -Continued weak. ness prevailed in;sugar teday. Prices again fell to new low§records for the season. There were--sales ofm of Porto Rican,Nov,.-D’gq.,,sbi' ents & 5.60 and 7,000 bags of ‘Cuba’s on spot at B 3 cost and freight, equal to 6.14 for centrifugals. - Refined sugar: wasi-easier at $9.00 and 's9:Bo forfine ' granulatéd. Putures were weak and prices made néw low records-under renewed selling prompt- ed by the weakness in‘raw. At noon val- ues were 22 to 26 points net lower, Port-ua-Prince, Nov. 19th.—During the inquiry into the killing of several Hay- tians by American marines, several -of the witnesses made the thost serious ac- cusations yet heard against the marines. One witness stated that atLos ‘Angeles a lieuténant had shot threé prisonersin the back. 1 3 2 ROOT i ‘Dgorn, Nov. 20th.—Former 'Empress Augusta Victoria of Germany, whose eon- dition has for several days given-.alarm ' to her relatives, was somewhat worse this morping, according to':informatjon received from Doorn Castle, Heor tem- perature was said to be 102.2. Z- New York, November 20th.—AN six refineries of the American Sugar Refip- ing Company have been closed asa resqlt of the slight ‘demand’ for the commedi. ty, it was announced here today.. . An.of- ficial of the company explaining the shut- down said. We have ample stocks, on hand and. are preparedto make prompt deliveries of all grades of refined sugar Refineries have been closed temporari. lyowing to the lack of demand from the trade’’. . : :