New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 2, 1923, Page 9

OFFIGERS OF NAYY LABOR FOR HAITI U. 8. Neval Men Use Skill and Energy to Benelit Country Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, March 2qe- The technical sklll, the energy, the intelligence and the hard work of oertain officers of the American navy, all are belng expended in the inter- csts of the lsland of Haitl and its ‘eople, And the year 1922 was.one of peace and progress. Much was accomplished, and the work is still going on under American leadership. The Americans are teaching the Haitlans to help themselves; they are « endeavoring to train the'Haltlan per- sonnel so that they may eventually displace all foreigners in island ad- ‘ministration, Co-operation bé&tween ¢he two cloments, to this end, un- doubtedly is making headway. Early this year the American heads of departments made reports on the results of their labors in 1922 to John H. Russell, the Amerigan high commissioner for Haiti, covering ac- tivities in the sanitary service, in fire protection, in police work, in public works such as irrigation, road build- ing, and communications; in the bet. ter lighting of the coasts of Haiti, anil in increased shipping. The so-called prison disease, which in the old regime claimed 1,300 out of an average of 2,000 prisoners, has been reduced to the vanishing point. In 1922 the percentage of deaths in the prisons was .017. The death rate of the gendarmes, numbering 2414 Haitlans fell to the rate of 5.11 per thousand: The completion of the intensive campalgn against small pox assures the prevention of its spread fop sev- cral years, and the recent severe epl- demic of cholerine, a form of ba- cilla dysentery, has been largely wiped out. Haitians Respond. That the Haitians are responding in greatly increased number to the free opportunities of A'merican sur- gical and medical treatment is vinced by the fact that in the year 16 applied for treatment, as compared to 7,305 for the preceding year. Five free dispensaries were opened in interior gsections where medical facilities were nonexistent for a radius of several miles. The gendarmes have been encour- eged in field and track sports, bas- ketball, baseball, soccer and boxing, to their plysical improvement. There has been a material decrease in crime in the island, and outside of vaga- bondage and petty theft the infrac- tions of the law were inconsiderable. Only two automobiles were stolen throughout the year, both ‘being re- covered within a short time. There has ba2en no semblance of uprising on banditry, Gendarmes Receive Training. All gendarmes, in addition to their military training, are receiving a free grammar school course that has en- couraged enlistment and caused fa-| vorable comment among.the Haitians. Tor the first time in its history every man_in the gendarmerie has bwn thoroughly instructed in rifie practice and the contests held hage developed marksmansHip .of a Surptisingly high quality. The regulation of all ve- hicle traffic and the registration of foreigners were assumed by the gen- darmerie in the closing months of thie year. . Port-Au-Prince is now protected against disastrous fires through the recent eompletion of a salt high pressure svstem. The ment of the capital's fire forces now comprises two equip- fighting modern chemica land equipment motor trucks | | and a rccently acquired American horse-drawn engine -in which the firemen, resplendent in crimson shirts and shining brass helmets, race te the fires. The department of public works has operated f{rrigation service in three of the leading plains where agriculture is almost wholly depend- ent upon irrigation, made prelim- inary investigations of other needed irrigation projects, and determined that fully 100,000 acres of at present unproductive land in the great plain of the Artibonite are capable of frri- gation. The newly completed diver- sion dam in the Mathieux river is also serving several thousand acres of Jand without tax for the water. Work of River Control Service. The river control service, through- out the severe tropical storms of the year, kept the main road of the S8CENE FROM “THE NINETY AND NINE" There is something about the David Smith preduction “The Ninety and Nine,” which grips the heart strings. The audience is forced to laugh ahd ery with Col- leen Moore in the leading role in ber efforts to tear Warner Baxter as Tom Silverton away from the tavern and drink. FOX’S — Next — Thursday - Friday - Saturday" water | island open to traffic at all tim In addition its labors saved the city of Grande Haline, thé mouth of the Artibonite, from destruetion by flood, ‘Work has been bn:un on a 16.mile stretch of road that, when completed, will cut the present time of travel by automoblle between the capitals of Haitl and Santo Domingo from three days to one, The new road will run from Las Cahobas to Commendador on the Santo Domingo border, There are today 060 kilometers of road In operation throughout the res public. Forty bridges will be erccted at inland points ‘where traffic has been impagsable in the ralny seasons. A two-year program for new .road construction has been improved, Port-Au-Prince now has a. new automatic- telephone system which will be extended to care for 800 sub- scribers, Pole ilnes for a distance of 1,600 kilometers were maintained in 1022 for the Haitian teelgraph serviee, The figures for last year show that telegraph traffic increased 26 per cent and the telephona traffic doubled. The lowered cost of operation and maintenance was 17 per cent, Four new automatic flashing acety- lene type of lighthouses with a visi- bility of 16 miles have been placed in commission in the past year., These additions to the lighting of Haiti's thousand miles of coastline, formerly regarded by seafaring men as the| most dangerous stretch of coast, in the West Indies, have given . Haitl cight excellent lights. Other sites have heen inspected and prepared that will afford a total of 15 of the| new automatic type of lighthouses. Gain in Tonnage, | There was a gnln of 22 per cent in the tonnage of merchandise car- ried by both steam and sail craft into | Haltlan pprts in 1922 over 1921. Tim | tota lof steamships ot foreign nation- ality that arrived and cleared for the year was 2,297, with a total tonnage of merchandise of 115,057, The sail- ing vessels, both national and foreign, | numbered 421 with a total tonnage of 36,186, The American naval officers who have done so much for Haiti are on special assignment from the depart- ment at Washington. They. include Commander Archibaid L. Parsons, corps of civil engineers, U, 8. N, chief enginecr of the island; Major General Douglas C. MacDougal, 1. §. M. C., chief of the gendarmerie; i ——" i oo T A Cupof Good Tea is a “freshener”’ at any time, day or night Enjoy the stimu- lating fragrance of tea at its best by drinking | Lieutenarft Commander James M. Minter, medical corps U, 8. N,, chiet of the sanitary service, and Lieuten- ant E. J. Norcott U. 8. N,, retired, |captain of the port of Part-Au- Prince. REMIBEFANCES DECREASE Tokio, March 1.——Remittances from panese residing abroad appear to ve fallen last year to less~than one- | third of the total of boom years. The |amounts handled by the Yokohoma specie bank may be taken as a fair index. 1In 1918 the homeward remit- {tances through this hank amounted to 1,884,200 yen, in 1921 they dropped to 916,600 yen and last year to 463,- 500 yen, The largest decrease was in the sum sent from the United States, but the trend was the same every- where. FOR TRUE NEW St. Paul, Minn,, March 2.-<~Any per- son who wilfully furnishes a Minne. sota newspaper with ‘a false state- ment is guilty of a misdemeanor, une I\Tourcune u might as well Your Spring der the f a law enacted by the present legislature, It is aimed a7 practieal jokers and malicious persony who send in false notices of weddings engaggment or other “events", and any person who glves such misinfor- mation to ‘a newspaper “wilfully, knowingly and maliclously,” cemen under its provisions, PICTURES WANTED Burritt Mission Also Desives Good Books for Boys' Club=—People Asked to Search Their Attics, Pletures suitable school elubroom, are Burritt Misslon, according to Louise M, Coates, superintendent, Miss Coates desired pictures of Lincoln, Washington, Bible paintings of a gen- eral and non-denominational nature, natural scenery, ote. Any kind of a pleture that will serve as an inspirne tion to the young men who attend the mission will be acceptable, Gopd books are also needed. Books of adventure, nature study, animal |books, stories with a moral, instruct- |ive stories and even good fiction are desired. A cabinet to hold the books is wanted also. Miss Coates requests that people having anything of this {character lying neglected in thetr at- tics send them to the Burritt Mission at 61 Cherry street, Saturday after- noon between 2 and 5 o'clock, * The club was started under the |leadership of W. 1. Schneck, son of Rev, Q. H. Schneck, and has 15 char- ter members, WEARS \H )l \«Ah l-/\l{ll for a Sunday needed by the Twelfth ‘Century Adopted at London Wedding. Londagn, March 2.—Twelfth century styles- and manners were adopted re- cently as the background to a fash- ionable London wedding. The bride wore a dress designed after the period and carried the once famous court train, held by two pages. Her attendants were children, four pages and four bridesmaids. The boys were dressed in the quaint 12th cen- tury hose and jerkin of hlue and silver brocade with silver belts, and the girls wore long frocks of white and silver brocade, and the head-dresses of tall, sugar-loaf style, with floating white weils, Hat ls Here Chic———-Nobby——Snappy 'TRIMMED HATS All the Latest Creations and Styles you will find here. See them and be convinced. THESE SPECIAL VALUES FOR SATURDAY 300 Beautiful Trimmed Hats Special $5.00 Value $8.00—This is the best $5.00 value ever offered Wonderful Assortment of Pretty Ready to Wear Hats Special for Saturday $2.95 and $3.95 Value $5.00 See Our Other HATS from $7.50 up to $14.00 Headquarters For Millinery Supplies Goldenblum Millinery Co. 188 Main St. New Britain Value $6.50 Y. M. C. A. Bldg’ Miss | § Styles and Manners | . Schaffner arx Make a feature of Young Men’s Models. You'll like the new Norfolks we are showing — $30.00 and higher. 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