Evening Star Newspaper, May 18, 1924, Page 33

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WINDWARD ISLANDS NOTABLE IN TROPICS France and England Fought Bit- terly for Possession of Group Nearly 200 Years. RESIDENTS MOST BLACK Britain Has Important Naval Base on St. Lucia. The windward islands colony, to Which London is sending a new gov- “ernor and commander-in-chief, is one ©f the lcast known, to Americans, of British territories in the new world. A bulletin from the head- <uarters here of the National Geo- graphic Society describes It. " ‘Windward islands' means differ- ent things on different maps,” says the bulletin, “and to add to the con- several other quite distinct names are applied to the whole and 10 parts of the islands that sweep in & great arc from Porto Rico to the {op of South America. The entire £roup of litfle islands {s known most rroperly, perhaps, as ‘the Lesser An- tilles," ‘the Greater Antilles’ consist- ing of the larger islands, beginning with Porto Rico, that reach back toward.the Gulf of Mexico. All of the southern half of the lesser Antilles is sometimes called he Windward islands,’ the term in- cluding Martinique, St. Lucia, St. Vin- cent, Grenada and even Barbados, To- 120 and Trinidad. Britain's ‘Wind- rd Islands colony,' however, means nething definite; the three fair- °d_{slards, St. Lucia, St. Vincent Grenada, and the tin slets near ‘urrnadn known as the Grenadines. Long Cause of Warfare. _“About this little group of islands, ¥rance and ngland fought more stubbornly than about any other bit ©f American territory. Over and over zain they changed hands, 1,"-;‘0 and 1514, as the West Indian fleets of first one and then the other ©f the two great nations, were vic- torious. Stnce the latter date all three of the islands_and the Grenndines hayve remained British possessions. ‘The Windward islands are weil in the tropics, being in the latitude of Nicaragua, the Philippines and south- | ern India; and they are as charming | examples ‘of tropical isles as can be | found in any ocean. All are moun- | tainous, and over the sharp peaks, | deep valleys and more gentle slopes of all, is thrown an intensely green mantle of tropical trees, shrubs and xTasses. All were peopled by the war-like Carib Indians when Colum- bus and other Spanish navigators discovered them. But these were lergely killed off, or transported dur- ing the next few centuries by Brit- ish and French settlers. Most of the nhabitants of the islands today are black, and are traceable to the slave £hips that brought over their Afri- can cargoes during early colonial de- velopment. On St. Vincent, which was long left to the natives, several slave ships were wrecked and the survi- vors mingled with the Caribs so that on that island there is a more pro- nounced Indian strain than elsewhere. Few White Oficials. “On_each of the islands is a small minority of white officials, landown- ers and business men. Kach of the | three larger islands has its own local ¥overnment machinery under a Brit- ‘sh administrator, and over all is the governor, who resides in St. Georges, chief city of Grenada. The govern- ments are Town colonies,’ the offi- cials being appointed from London. France held on longest to St. Lu- cia, and in the enthusiastic days of Napoleon hoped to make it ‘the capi- tal of the Antilles' and ‘the Gibraltar of the Caribbean’ But the hope died when the treaty of 1814 gave St. lucia to Great Britain, and now only Martinique and Guadeloupe and_its iclets remain of the once im rench Antilles. Cliani St. Lucia, twenty-seven miles long by twelve wide, might be said to exist solely for its harbor—Port Cas- _tries. This superb haven—probably isurpassed by any harbor in the | mericas, was to have been France's iibraltar. Britain has made it one of her most important naval bases ;72 ccaling stations and has heavily fortified it. A narrow bottle-neck rissage of deep water leads to what is in effect a great, deep lake of salt yeater. Deep-draught ships of war or trade tie up directly to the piers, %% which lie mountains of coal. Ar- raies of black men and women coal e ships by carrying laden baskets oard. Most of the population of the is concentrated i between while & large part of the bac try s abandoned to its wia State: but It ls threaded with good roads at wind among its pict i and tropical forests, coaue hills Voleano Killed 2,000, . “St. Vincent, th in the eruption of its own volcano the time that Mount Pelee de- stroved a populous city and devas- tated a large area of country in Martinique in 1902, The northern third of St. Vincent was devastated «nd nearly 2,000 lives were lost on the island. Now the brilliantly green tropleal foliage Is creeping back over the ash heaps to hide the of this holocaust. Shitenbe “St. Vincent has in its botanic gar- den an importance to the western hemisphere ~little known. There were introduced first tropical prod- cts from the rest of the world vhich, distributed from there, have stablished some of the most im- .portant and lucrative industries of the West Indies and the Americas. Various vegetables and fruits and spices are in the list. “Grenada, southern most the three islands, is the most beautiful and most charming, and at the same time, the best developed. It forms almost & true ellipse twenty miles long and nine wide. Its port at i Georges cannot compare in use- fulness with that of St. Lucia, but it is a perfect gem of a harbor on & small scale, with a narrow en- trance and a small land-locked basin. From the basin's rim, St. Georges zrows up a ridge and down the other side, 1its housetops, half hidden among the palms, forming gigantic stairsteps. And the roofs only echo the surface, for the grades are so steep that many of the streets are Steps. Much of the town is beyond the ridge; and the British, unwilling to be forever climbing in the warm climate, have put through a tunnel that saves many steps. Cocon and Nutmegs Abound. “Grenada was long under French control, and many traces of Gallic in- fluence still linger in architecture, ‘customs and _religion. Good roads form a network over Grenada as over ihe other Windward Islands. Over them one may bowl in motor cars heside the numerous well-kept nut- meg and cocoa plantations that turn out Grenada's chief products. Many fourists learn for the first time on ihese delightful jaunts that nutmegs come from a luscious fruit that is itselt made into jam; and that cocoa ‘beans' are hidden away in the heart of big capsules that been described as ‘squashes growing on of trees.” AIR FEATS BORE PRINCE. ARIS, May 17.—Prince Regent Ras mopa ot Abyssinia visited the Le Bourget airdrome today, where the French government staged - an aero- hagtical display for his benefit Seven squadrons of seven planes each evo- luted over the field linmluneou,ly. “Is your highness interested?’ asked M. Lagarde, French minister to Ethiopia, Who acted s master of ceremonies, as the airplanes nose-dived, looped-the- loop and did all sorts of acrobatic feats. “Immensely,” replied the prince re- Shed n . "but Jet's cut it short” He left stm = Bsif-hour befors THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. REPRESENTATIVE WILLIAM P. CONNERY WAS AN ACTOR BEFORE HE CAME TO CONGRESS. THE PHOTOGRAPH SHOWS HIM ENTERTAINING DISABLED BOYS AT WALTER REED HOSPITAL. For more than ten years before he came to Congress Representative William P. Connery, jr, of Lynn, Mass., was a successful actor. During the world war, while in the trenches and under heavy scrapnel fire, he en- tertained his comrades and ecarned the sobriquet of “Cheer-up Billy Con- nery.” and while in Congress he spends much of his spare time at Walter Reed Hospital, helping to make the |time pass happily for the human wreckage of the war. “Billy” Connery had a notable suc- cess on the stage, but of his work as an_entertainer his most gratifying experiences were in enabling those who suffered mental and physical anguish to meet death with a smile, overseas. He is a poor man today, but admits that he profitecred out- rageously during the war in using his talents in such a way as to get for If the everlasting gratitude of who found relief in his merry- making from the hardships of front- line trenches. Connery Jeft college at the end of his sophomore year, when he was twenty rs old. to go into the show " business. He was president of his class, and the president of the college, thinking it was a question of finances, offered him his tuition if he would reconsider his decision. He opened with the Busch-Temple Stock Company in Chicago, run_ by Thanhauser, later of film fame. Con- nery stayed in_stock during that season and the following year went with George M. Cohan in “The American Idea” in which Trixie Friganza was star. He organized in the company a base ball team, which played theatrical and fraternal teams all over the United Connery pitched his team to victory, 16-to-4, against Fred Irwin's team on the Washington Monument lot twelve years ago. After he left the Cohan company Connery was with “The Aviator,” written by James Montgomery, author of “Irene” and other New York suc- cesses. This play was later changed into a musical comed 3 (By National Photo.) In it Connery played a French part and he speaks the language fluently, having specialized in it as a student at Montreal College, Canada. He then played the part of Clint Harkins, a newspaper reported in “Get Rich Quick Wallingford.” He went with “The Man Who Owns Broadway" for a short time. At the end of his Wallingford sea- son, Connery married and he and his 'wife became partners in vaude- ville. His father and her father had been partners on the stage forty years ago under the team name of “Connery and Le Gault” Mr. and Mrs. Connery went on under the same team name. After one season his wife quit the stage. Then Connery did a single in vaudeville on the Keith circuit. A little Jater he had his own theater in Salem, Mass., where he had a stock company in whicly he played as well as being manager and director. The last company he was with b fore the war was Miss Margaret An- glin's, managed by George Tyler, in which he played the part of a Rus- sian prince who spoke French.”When he was glven this part they were re- hearsing in the Globe Theater, Bos- ton, and he immediately went on, playing opposite Miss Anglin, the entire scene befng in French. When they got through Miss Anglin turned to Connery and said, in French: “Ex- cuse me, sir. are you a Frenchman from Paris?" He replied, from Lynn. Recently, when Miss Anglin was playing in’ Washington, Representa- tive Connery went to see her and she greeted him: “So here's the Irishman from Lynn and he's a con- gressman now.” Throughout the war, Connery was in the thcik of the fighting, but al- ways keeping up the morale of his comrades by singing and dancing. Whenever the opportunity offered Connery visited his buddies in the hospitals, singing to them and telling them stories to cheer them up. Later, when, for meritorious service, he No, I am an Irishman promoted to senior color sergeant of the regiment, his buddies expanded the name that had been given him to “Cheer-Up Billy Connery of the Color Squad.” The officers of the Yankee Division, who particularly noted his coelness and perpetual ~merrymaking under severe fire, say that he was the most popular of the 3,500 men of the 10 Infantry. Col. Logan, who command ed the regiment, made the statement that “Connery did more for the mo- rale of the regiment than any other twenty men put together. An example of this—and which Representative Connery considers the most peculiar incident in all his experience as an entertainer—was when he with two companions was in a dugout near the front, under heavy shelling. One of his compan- ions was shell-shocked and acting like an extremely hysterical woman, pleading with the two other occu- pants of the dugout not to let the next shell strike them. To take this man’s mind off the danger, Connery began dancing an Irish jig. the Tip- erary christening. The third fellow in the dugout was one of the coolest men Connery ever saw uner fire, and he helped to brace up the one who was suffering from shell-shock. After the war, this cool fellow went insan Connery recently got him compen tion and he is now in a hospital in ‘Worcester, Mass., where his mind is gradually being brought back to nor- malcy. The hundreds of instances overseas in which he sent men on their way west with a smile are too sacred memories to be reviewed in public print by Representative Connery, who treasures them close to his heart as the greatest achievements of his ca- reer as an actor. ‘While in service he was content to be “one of the gang.” and was always organizing minstrel shows and jazz bands. He becomes most sincere and serious when mention is_made of his rank as color sergeant. 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