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Public Night Schools Will open 17 October 1921 AT THE : : CHRiSTIANSTED PUBLIC SCHOOL and | FREDERIKSTED PUBLIC SCHOOL Classes in ARITHMETIC, READING, WRITINGes UNITED STATES HIS: TORY, and CIVIL GOVERNMENT will be offered. Egollment is FREE to all who have not attended the public Day Schools dur- ing the present year. Instruction in any class will be dis- continued when the attendance fails be- low fifteen students. y Applications for position to teach in the night school should be made by the first of October. For the Director of Education ' ARTHUR E. LINL'BORG, Asst. Director of Education. o e S RS e RTo P IR T 0 OBITUARY Died: at his residence at KEst. "'Little Princess’’, at 10.30 a. m. yesieraay, MR. EMIL ERIK SVITZER, proprietor of said estated, aged 81 years. Mr. Svitzer was born in Copenhagen on Mareh 31st 1840, and as a young officer in the Danish army he served with distinction in the war between Den- mark an@ Germany 1863-64, and he re- ceived the Danish War-Medal. He came to St. Croix 55 years ago and for many years represented this constitu- ency as a member of the Colonial Coun- cil. His death removes the oldest planter in this island. The funeral takes place at 4 p. m. to- day from Estate ‘‘Little Princess’ to the Lutheran Church and back to the estate where he will be buried. Our condolences are here extended to the many members of the family here and abroad. : AS RR RB A R TSRS EDITORIAL. « Referring toa communication signed “‘Fairplay’’ published in this issue, we have to admit cur inability to pass opini- on on the matter constituting the subject of the first paragraph of the letter, since we have not read nor heard of any at- tempts, abortive or otherwise, to ‘‘be- little’’ the imoportance of the ‘‘harbor” at Frederiksted, and what is more we have never before heard nor has anyone else here ever known of the existence of a harbor at Freder ksted; this being, we suppose, for the simple reason that there is unly a roadstead there. As for that 51T i X A YNLs part of the article pointing out that it was a resident of Frederiksted who spoke length.ly in favor of the prcject ‘to itaprove the harbor at Christiansted, this 'probably indicates the value of the . harbor ‘at this end, and kv cks the bot- tom out of any contention that the road- stead at Frederiksted would fill all needs. In recent issues. of this paper news- items pertaining to the condition of the sea at Frederiksted as it has been these days interrupting cornmunica- tion to no little extent, have ap peared merely as statements of fact. None of such ews items has savored of criticism or purported to be a history of the occurrences, and all comparison between Frederiksted and this town as regards harbor accomodations strikes us as odious. Editor St. Croix Avis. Dear Sir: - If it was not so sad (o see one sis- ter tiying to scrateh the face of another the abortive attempts of Christiansted to belittle the impertance of our harbor at Frederiksted would be rather amus- ing. Christiansted should remember that at the recent hearing to find out wt at could be done to make the reetf locked pond at Christiansted some kind ofa harbor the map who spoke most lengthily but without avail in favor of this prcject was a man residing in Frederiksted Dis trict,—— The truth is that including this last disturbance it has happened ONLY TWICE within the last THREE YEARS or MORE that the water in Freder- iksted Harbor has been rough enough to prevent even the smallest boat to land in safety. Yours truly ' FAIRPLAY. TELEGRA MS. ST. CROIX STATION. Lyons, Sept. Ilth.—Twenty-five per- sons are reported to have been Kkilled and sixty injured whe: an express train from Strasbourg to Lyons was derailed last night near this ‘city, while running ot the rate of fifty miles an hour. The accident is believed to have been due to a mistake on the part of a switch man. St. Thomas. Sept. 13th—The Schooner “‘Jobn Francis’’ arrived here yesterday leaking badly and with loss of sails and other damage. having encountered a hurricane about 150 miies N. W. of Grenada. She reports very high seas and wind of velocity of about eight miles an hour. She was bound from Curacao for 'l'rinidad to load asphalt for Tampa, Florida. The American steamers ‘‘West Faralon’’ and Seattle Spirit’’ also arriv- ed yesterday and report very heavy weather. The after steering gear of for- mer steamer broke and she had doors stove in and other minor damages The ‘aptain report that sixty miles south of Mena Islands his bagpmeter went s low as 28.30. The Seattle Spirit’”> met the hurricane south of Haiti. Barbados, Sept., 13th.—The schooner ‘‘Majestic”’ left Demerara for Barbados with passengers and cargo about elev- en days ago. Nothing having been heard of her. it is fear~d she was dis- abled in the recent gale. There are several passengers for this island on the ship. H. M. S, Valerian, it is stat- ed, left port yesterday for a 48 hour cruise in search of the missing schooner. It is reported two schonners have also gone in seirch of her. Houston, Texas, Sept. 12th.-—A wide area of central Texas is flooded. Thir- teen deaths are known to have resulted in nearby towns. The property loss out- side of San Antonio is estimated at milli- ons. ireluding crops and livestock. Tiflis, Sept. 12th.—It s believed that haif a million Armenians are facing death from starvation in the region de- vastated by the Turkish occupation. The rapid spread of cholera threatens an epidemic. Madrid, Sept. 12th.-- It is unofficially reported that Spanish operations at Melilla have already begun. : Geneva, Sep’. 12th.- Chile has agreed to an appointment by the League Assem- bly of a Commission to determine wheth- er the Monroe Doctrine prevents the Assembly’s jurisdiction in the Boiivian dispute. London, Sept. 12th. A Constantino- ple despatch to the ‘‘Times’’ says it is believed that the Greeks had nineteen thousand men put out of aetion during the recent drive towards Angora. The Turkis: Nationalist losses are placed at twelve thousand. Brussels, Sept 12th.—Four persons were killed and several injured when the central nave ofa church gave way to- day, during early mass, while a hurri- cane was raging. The storm did con- siderable damage in other Belgian cities, chimneys being blown. rocfs torn off and many persons injured. The gale, which lasted, two hours, was the severest ex- perienced for many years in Belgium. London, Sept. 12th.—The British in- telligence Department at Constantino- ple has discovered a plot, organized and subsidized at Angora, the Turkish Na- tionalist to capital, foment a revolution. According to Reuter dispatches, it was planned to spread disaffection among loyal Indian troops and assassinate leac- ing allied officials, and seventeen des- peradoes, it is reported, were brought to Constantinople to carry out the mur- ders. The British authorities have de- mgnded the arrest of those implica- ted, Belfast, Sept. 12th.—Sir James Craig, the Ulster Premier, returned to Belfast today and presided at a meeting of