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Notice of Auction IN THE MATTER OF THE JOINT ES- TATE OF WILLIAM ROCK. DECEAS- ED, AND LATELY DECEASED WIFE, HETELINDA ROCK. AT the request of Lawyer D. : HAMILTON JACKSON, as attor- ney for MARY MARTIN, the admin- istratrix of the above entitled es- tate, and pursuant to an Order of District Court of the Virgin Islands of the United States, dated *he 19th day of February 1924, the fol- lowing chattels belenging to the said estate will bz offered for sale at a public auction to be held at No. 17 Church Street in Christian- sted on SATURDAY, the 29th of March, 1924, at 2 o’clock in the afiernoon 1 Mahogany Card Table; 1 Side Board; 1 Half Press; 1 Round Ta- ble; 1 Glass Table; 1 Bedstead with mattress and Pillows; 1 citting Chair; 2 Office Chairs; 1 Rocking Chair; 1 Easy Chair; 1 Garden Chair; 1 Board Safe; 1 Board Table 1 Wa- ter Jar: 1 Lamp; 1 Trunk; 1 Male Donkey; 1 Cart; 3 Mules. Appendix 1 And further the following weli kept furniture and other articles heionging to sundry persons: 1 Mahogany centre table, 1 ma- hogany sofa, straw back and bot- tom, 1 mahogauy Card table, 1 ma- hogany Cup table. 3 mahogany Dumb waiters, 1 mahogany Press, 1 Bedroom toilet, 12 Mahogany frames with pictures, 3 Brass frames with pictures, 1 Fhonograph and 44 records, 4 Sitting chairs, 1 Wash- stand, 1 Wire safe, 1 Hat-stand, 1 Book case, 1 Rocking chair, 2 Kegs nails, about 500 lbs., 2 Ice Cream Freezers, 1 Pitch Pine Press, 1 Buf- fett 1 Easy chair, 1 Lamp, 2 Pick Axes, about 75 yards cloth, 1 Cook- ing Stove, 1 Mule, 1 Druging Cart, 1 Horse, Implements, 1 =ide-board, 1 Round Table (2 halves.) Conditions and terms of sale will be made known a} the time of the sale. Christiansted’s Vendue-Office, St-Croix, 19th March 1924. C. H. PAYNE, Vendue-Director. Fee Fr.lo. ! Say ten Francs.) 21T LEVI Y . . ,vn -t “’n . v- e United States Prass Rapresantativas’ Visii To 3t. Groix, Virgin Islands, U. S, A, N THURSDAY February 21st, 1324, AS REVIEWED BY BUMBLE BEE EN ROUTE —:0:—:0: 01— (Contined from yesterday’s Avis.) : P. R. Is any of that good old St. Croix Rum obtainable in the Island ? B. B. Naturally none for sale, and it has now becom= 30 scarce even in private hcmes here that it willi soon be gs scarce and as valuable as dinasaur eggs. P. B. But ‘‘white mule’’ can be had, 1 presume. : B. 8. Yes, that sprinzs from the hills compounded and stewed in empiy kerosinz-oil tins which seem to answer and have been converted to the purpose. P. R. Is the Volstead Act in force here? : B. B. Yes, and as effectually as can be expected of any body of land surrounded by water as you know what that means in the States. P R. Whatis the feeling of the public in general upon this question ? B. B. Pretty well reconciled to the inevitable, particalarly so when one considers how convivial the inhabitants of this island were in the past and of the great hosnirali. ty shown to ali strangers. Os course there are quite a numnber of ‘“‘die hards’’ or as you now call them in the north *‘spigots-bigots o P. R. Which town is the most desirable to live in ? B. B. Now! youn ask me a very delicate question and one that is hard for me to answer as thare is such a diversity of opinion on such a marter in every community. May I ask which vou would prafer to live in, New York, Cnicago or Pittsburg? No doubt you know the advantages and disadvantages of each city and so you can go to e:ery place with the same unsolved problem. And I can say try it and suit yourself. Jnour small community as you up North bhave with the *‘Barkers’’ and ‘‘boosters” for each town today as nearly a century azo the in- habitants of either town express the same feelings as the following des- criptions of a visitor to the island ir the winter of 1838-9, when that visitor records his okservations as: ‘A winter in the West Indies and Florida®’, publish- ed in New York City by Wiley and Putnam, 161 Broadway, in 1839: “The English language is spoken here by all inhabitants, except s)me of the Danish soldiers. There are almost as many KEnzlish and American innabitaonts as Danes. and the latter are more generally civil and polite to visitors than the former- On the birth- day of His Darish Majesty a ball is always given at Government-House, to which American visitors are invited, and every disposition appears to be manifested to make the placea pleasant resort for invalids. There are two boarding houses here, but they are not well supported, on account of the general preference for West End- The inhabi- tants of the place are very much surprised at this strange perversion of taste in the American in prefering a place, according to their accounts, the very worst on earth. They are almost indignant at any one who attempts to speak favorably of West ind and use every effort to prevent others from goinyg there, telling strangers on thei: ar. rival that the other place is without accomodation, &e. | was told on my arrival, tnat it was impossible to get lodgings at Nest find, but, to my surprise, found plenty of room there after twenty more passengers had arrived. 1f invalids wish to avoid difficulty they had better form their own opinions upon several little local matters but not by an\:v means express them, as, in a small community, every thinz affacting the interest of the inhabitants is told from one end of the island to tne owner in an incredibly short time.”’ (To be continued.) LOCAL Sloop ‘‘Mizpah”’ with mails for St. Thomas sailed from this port this morn- ing. We have been asked to mention that the Native Brass Band will give a con- cert on the wharf to-night. The Postal Bulletin of the 13th instant contains a notice from the Bureau of the Secon”. Assistant Postmaster General to the effect that the Moscow, Russia, po:- tal administration advises that hereafter the ci‘y of Petrograd will be ealled Le- mingrad. Persons addressing mail to this place will be governed accordingly. As regards the comment of the Herald of yesterday on the dazzling whiteness of the highroad to Frederiksted now un- dergoing repair, it is a fact that the material used does shine out very white