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&Y /™ AN . | \ ißy v/, : | ’ i : \-\ e . : /-.\h* \ (\ ¢ o & J\‘\\ \Lf | /lm ! > \\f\Q}/\ '?\\'\’ /{\'s. \? \ /7 “\\,\ \,\!‘, A 'Ei:jl 4 ‘Ui AALLS : Bl (B 00, T = "R RIE , LW o A APN ‘&E —~y VN QY e 75918 YEAR. THE S}, CROIX AVIS s printed and published daily (Sundays a.ad Hotidays excepted) by G. Johansen at the Avis Office. DERMS---50 cents monthly wn advance, 2 cents per single copy. Entered as second-class matter aj 26th 1917 at the Post Office at Christian- aled, St Croix, V. L otthe Ul. S. A. un- der the Act of March 3. 1879. Contribution to this paper will be glad- ly received when the same deals with mat- ters of gemeral interest, and is accompa- nied with the author’s name, as a quar- antee of good faith. The editor cannot be responsible for the views o/ his correspon- dents nor does he necessarily endorse them. SUGAR FREIGHT RATES ARE IN- CREASED FOR NEW CROUP. Raised From 40 Cents to 50 Cents per Hundred as a vinimum Rate: 60 Cents if Crop is Moved in 6 Montbs. mugar freight rates have been advanc- ed 267 or to 5J.60 per hundred pounds for the new crop, aceorc.ng to recent an- nouncements made to sugar companies by potch the Porto Rico Line and the Bull- Insular Line. In addition to increasicg the rate from $0.40 to $0.50 per nundred pounds, the companies hiave announced an additional inciease in iales for the shipment of sugar within a specified period. Under the new rates, 0.50 per hun- dred pounds freight will be charged on ail sugar tcat 1s moved on alo month basys. if the centrals wisi to ship their sugar more rapidly than «¢ the rate of 10% oi their estumated total crop, per mnnth, there will be an additional ser- vice charge. As worked out by the corapanies, the freight rate wiil be on the basis of $0.50 per hundreo pounds for sugar to be mov- ed withio iv months, $0.55 per hundred pounds if the sugaris to be moved in eight months and $0.60 per hundred pounds if the crop is to be ruoved within six months. lhe steamsh.p companies nave already contracteu for 2 movement of a large voiume of sugar. As a general! taipg tne producers object to paying a service charge tor shipments guarantecd to be made within a given perod.—Por- to Rico Frogress. : A HUGE CARGO OF WHA LES. Afier months of battling with the | leviathans of the degp, Seattls’s fleet of whaling schuoners buvo reacned port with the record of 413 mammoth whales ' to t'eir ¢ edit for the seazon. which was . one of the most sudees: u! in the hListory of the industry here, says . despateh. | The arrival of the dariny little whalers ~ with their valuable eargo precedes the ' arrival or the Uuited States steamship Nanshan, carrying & cargo of ssa.ckins ' from the Pribilov Islands valued ats2,ooo, - - 000. Advices have peen received by the | Bureau of Fisheries %hat the Nanshan is " en route with 25,000 sealskins, waich, | measuted in present-day fur values, | maies her cargo as richr as the old days i of Alaskan goid bullien shipment. g {he whatlers have «been scouring the . wind-whipped astreu;hes of the Areti: . Ssa since last May ,_and’ have reaped a ' harvest of ocean mammals whose pro ' duews are valued at more than $1,000,000. i The Kodiak, a vei?se! of ninety tons, . had a thrilling encounter with an ocean { hercnles, a monters hlue mammal meas- | uring eighty-seven feetl in lengih, and . was harpooned by Capt. K. M. Pederson CHRISTIANSTED, -V. L. U&8 A} MONDAY. BtH DECEMBRBER 1919, I\'V( 7e ~)(.\& CHRISTIANSTED THEATRE S o ' 8.30 THIS EVENING 8.30 : . ;T 3 9 " 99 : W~ ; % ~ “The Buil's Lye. 'f EPISODE 15 T EPISODE 16 Come and sae tlte last two shows, the story is getting more and more avilling as the last episodes are nearing. WH AT ABOUT CORA AND CODY ?2? . t Show willbe concluded with a A M. i &Ql“lto 7 : ADMISSION. ADULTS Reserved Seats 40 cents, General Entrance 20 cents., CHlLDßEN—Reserved Seats 20 cents. General Entrance 10 rents. el Le WEDNESDAY EVENING “The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin.” & Aaiser, the peast of beri. X : \"\ 'Re(.ll? , i; 5 %7‘{ : off the Aleutians at a distance of 15 feot, The furious monster in the ihroes of 2 death struggle churned the waves to a foam and endangered the ship by sweeps of its mighty tail. It was finally sub- dued and kilied. [bid. ' ONE FLY IN PANAMA—MAYBE. “'l'ne Panama Z-ne is the cleanest place I have ever seen,” said Judee Hamilton this week following his refurn from the Isthmus. ‘I believe I saw one fly in one of the markets i~ Ancon’’, said the Judge, “'but lam not sure. [here are no mosquitoes and the ciiies are wondertully eclean and sanitary. By treaty agreement the United States has charge of the sanitation throughout the republie.”’ Duri g the sizx days that Jud e Hamil- ton was 1n Panama, he said that he had a wonderfully opportunity to study the ‘'sanitary conditions because one of the supervisors of sanitation for the republic of Panama was a former friend of the Judgee in Alabai.a. —ibia.