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&7 £BEO L 2 A Yo If you wish your car to run smooth- ly, procure the Best Lubricating Uil FROM THE WEST INDIA OIL CO. ROB’T. L. MERWIN & CO., INC. Agents. Christiansted. Frederiksted, “What Wives Want” AT THE Sunday night 8.15 An ohvious tale finely directed and staged in %eeping with the manner of gmart soc'ety. fthel Grey Terry is at her best in this familiarly workea triangle. ADMISSION : Rt ety ... . ... i e R R e RAINFALL ON ESTATES BELONG- ING TO WEST INDIAN SUGAR FACTORY, ST. CROIX. Lines of Lines of raim in rain Jan, Es'atzs. Fe*. 192}. Ist- Feb. 29th 1924. Anguilla 2. 49. Adventure 29, 39. Barren Spot 42. Ho. Bethiehem 30, 5. Betty’s Hope 19. 21, Bonne Esperance 2. 39. Colq. Mt. Pleasant 30. 41, F'redensborg 28. 46. Fountain 32. 50. Glynn & Windsor 29. 30. t;olden Grove 31. 42, Jea ousy 34. 50, Lower Love 2. b5. Mannings pay 2. 42. River a2, 47. St. George's 28, 41. Stob 29, 43 Strawberry Hill 35, £B. Two Friends 31. 46. 1 line = 3 m/m. A PROCEEDINGS OF THE COLONIAL COURNCIL FOR ST. CROIX. (Continued me;s—.;rday’s Avis.) Despatching Seeretary (Barrett) in in. troducing the Money Bill =aid,-Mr.Vice- s : - : ’ 2 . . . e United States Prass Rapresantativas’ Visit Ta St Groix, Virgia : Istands, U, 3. A, THURSDAY February 21st, 1924, AS REVIEWED BY BUMBLE BEE EN ROUTE —:0:—:0:—0!: (Continued from yesterday’s Avis.) (' unt Mboltke in 1750 was President of the West India & Guinea Co., one of its principal supporters and owner of shares of the Company as weli as saares of the mono- polv of the sugar refinery in Copenhagen, a subsidiary company. In the list of sire hollers of the Company in 1751 he is placed with his numerous titles next to the .1l House being Danish Prime Minister as the title is expressed in mad=ra time. 09 this infllential family in Denmark sprung the late Count Moltke, German G:aeral of thi2 Franeo-Prussian War fame, . [he road now bears towards the west which after a short distance w: se> t 3 tho lixht and north a road which leads into Estate ‘‘Judith’s Faney’’, nam-d 11 im>mory of Judith Hoyliger, daughter of the scion of that influential family already mentionad. The rains of the roads apon the estate bear evidence of what a considerable p'ace it must have baen, ncluding a large burial plot for th= family situated near by with interes'ing monuments of their day. Upon the estate is the best golf coast in the ig- land, and near the sea, with its wind swept area which ailows the heaith giving exer- cises without the feeling of heat, a more secluded position would inlicate, : Continuing West the next plantation upon the right is estate *'St. John,”” the cen- tre in hygone days of maay social functions for it ever was one of the principal planta- tions of the island. Mounting the zrade we ris2 to a level of 3)) feet adyv3a th2s2a, nov udon the rizht we view the buildings of Estate ‘‘Montpellier”” more familiarly ealled "*Dolly Hill,”Fon nearly 21l the plantations have some other anpzllation other than the name they are ifi cially known bv. I'ne name ‘'Montpeilier’”harks back to the days when the Marko- family were sueh large owners of plantations in this island, the esiate beinz namad aiter their ancestral home in France from whenca thay iled as Hazuenots to Holland as already mentioned. : Just off the bounds of the estate at the sea shore where the rollers from the north dash so constantly is a reef called the **White Horse’', a m:nace to small tradins vessals that skirt the coast so near in shore, on frequent voyazes of passed diys betw-eyr 4> towrs. Many a vessel, tiadition says, came too close to the “"Lecls of t at horse’” suffap- ing loss of their vessel but not their lives beiny within swinning distanes of the shore. The water ail along the north coast is very deep to wiihin a few rods off the shore with this exception which no doubt lured them to their fate, : We now roll down hill upon an easy grad 2 wher2 w 2 piss on th2 right Estate “Morning Star’’, one of the petter plantations in the island’s hisiory As we sirike the level just below we enter upon a scene that has a long story dating back to prehistoric man, for here near by, was the principal settlement of the aboriginal inhabi- tants. Our route carried us with the turn to the right to even a more historic scene first is viewed a large mason work vat the relic of the days waen the growth and manu- facture of indigo was such a possibie occupation and which according to Dryan Edwards in his history of the West Indies gives the gross profit as £1230 {rom 20 acres employing but 16 men. A forgotten industry today and crushed not by eynihetic dyes so artfuily manufaciured in Germany. Thus bearing north along this road which during tha hal- eyon days of the isiand was the outlet from the northside estates to which it leads, we passed the estuary of Salt River, whichas it broadens is called “'Suzar Bay’’. Near this site was the Principal carib village as evidenced by the numerous relics that have been unearthed. Here hundreds of potsherds, broken stones, impliments, bone, awls, etc have been found. Soon our road brings us alongside the stream where the tide and brackish waters meef, where tiie shore is fringed with mangrove-trees whose over hang- ing branches take root In the water thus affording refuge for the spawn of oysters whieh completely cover the branches and thereby furnishing proof of the statement that ““oysters arow upon trees in St. Creix”’. The mounds heaps nearby bear mute evidence of the diet of Caribs for tho sheils are there in great quantities near the shore where their village was built. But while this neighbourhood has much interesting association, it is as well the scene of the first loss of life of an European upon the Western Hemisphere for into this bay came the boats of Columbus the 14th day of November 1493, when he discovered Santa Cruzin search of wool and water, the inward view {rom the sea no drubt en- couraging him in such expoctation. He records in the annalsof his voyage that his peace- ful expectation was here inet with such an opposition and onslaught of the natives whn plied their bows with such vigor in which the women fought as desperately as the men,