New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 6, 1923, Page 12

lSMNn [I l'"' season. When bait was plentiful FMI ”FL[]N St Plerre was a real base of opera- I'I M ’I‘fl HE llulln Now the decimated French L] L] |fshing fleet operates from France, NEw EuMH‘R“lLER putting in at St, Plerre only inci- |dentally, BEconomically these last of ‘I-lnuc«‘u North American possessions {amount to little, but France values them for the same reason that Great Little Gronp Has Come Into!srivainhas vaivea Newtoundiand as| BrOChEP of Former Oficial to Be P 2 a fleld for the training of seamen, and 1 |therefore as o strengthener of her Tontinence During Past Year e Harding's Choice Washington, D, €, April 0, ¢ A Bt. Augustine, Fia, April 6= Miquolon, 1aland group oft the souin- | rye e Mielon, some 18 eulies | prosident Harding let it ‘bo knawn ern short of Newfoundland, has come | | onglede. o trifle smatler, and St |6 on returning to Washington he into the headlines for widely differont | peree. only seven miles by twe, In|fCuld appoint Henry M. Dawes of reasons lately, and still few readers |adition (hLere g Bl M;‘ tiny | Chicago, a banker and & brother of KNOW anything of this bt of France | o taets me Jittle tmante o ey | Charles G, Dawes, former director of in the New World. rocky fslets of little importance. 8t ltne budget to be controller of the cur. A high French officlal has l‘mll"h*rrf though the smallest ?( lhe‘r,ncy‘ solemnly promised that the fslands| three major islands, has always been Mr, Dawes will take the office filled SN B0t pase from Frence. the center of population because of [py D, R, Crissinger before his appoint- Almost every rum-ship captured lly.- harbor, In' the days of I.(u pros- iment to the governorship of the fed- hovering near the coast of the United perity the town had 6,000 residents|eral reserve board. He will be the States is “officlally” bound for St and 10,000 additional Frenchmen |gecond member of the Da family Plorre—Miquelon, until prohibition sometimes thronged its streets during|to be controller of the currency, his agénts who have forgotten some de- the fishing season. Now the village|brother Charles, having held that post talls of geography might consider the | C . T, 2ee8 more than 3,000 people at|in the administration of President Mc. port as mythicel as Atlantls or E any time, Many of its discouraged |Kinley. Dotado. That the islands are ‘”vlrr\uldnnu have emigrated to the Unit-| The prospective appointee is de- definitely on the map s vouched for | 0, StMtes: | soribed as & man well fitted to take by the Natlonal Geographic soclety |y The \lw]lor‘utl‘pv‘nx ashore at St.|charge of the controller's office, hav« which has just issued from its Wash. | ©.crre, enters F'rance as truly as when | ing had extensive banking experience tezton, D. C. h Juarters s bulletin he disembarks at Calais or Bordeaux. | He is a member of the Executive com« dealing with them. !)w language s surprisingly pure and | mittee of the Central Trust. Company “Consolation Prize” free from patios. Wooden houses of Chicago and a director of the “New France, which once meant | V\th characteristic French w{ndow: Drovers Natlonal Bank of Chicago most of the Missourl and Arkansas and roofs line the streets. Natlves|and has other banking connections. valleys and pretty much everything clatter back and forth in wooden- | He is 46 years old. between the Ohlo river and the North |%°1¢d shoes. Huckster children, quaint-| It has not been expected that the Pole,” says the bulletin, “now means| ¥ _@ressed, peddle strings ot cod- president would make his selection only the tiny granite-ribbed, fog- '°nEUes from little wagons drawn by|until he returned to Washington. Co- shrouded Miquelons. And even this patient dogs. On every hand are|incidentally with the transfer of Mr. poor parish that recalls a rich em- hrines testifying to the religious na. | Crissinger from the Controller’s office pire hes had a story time of it re- tUr¢ of the Miquelalse. to the Governorship of the Federal maining under the French flag. | “What was long the only French|Reserve Board the President early in “It had been captured from CaPle to the New World emerges | February nominated James G. Mc- France by Great Britain before (T the Atlantic at St. Plerre and|Nary of New Mexico to be Controller. Wolfe's victory at Quebec marked the | then continues from that station to The Senate Banking and Currency beginning of the end of French con- tNe Massachusetts coast. But even as| Committee had Mr. McNary’s nomina- trol in Canada; and when the de- & NeWws door to America the Miquelons | tion under consideration for several feated nation ceded its vast areas m‘na longer seem essentlal. Since 1898 | weeks and a few days before the end Britain, the latter gave back the Mi- ® second French cable has stretched |of the sessions voted to recommend A Breath of Old France. | "“The Miquelon archipelago consists | confirmation. Final action in the sen- quelons as a sort of ‘consolation prize.! The little islands were to terve ad¥a base on this side of the| Atlantic for the French fishermen who had bullt up an important in-| dustry on the Newfoundland banks as had the British themselves. The un- settled status of the isiands continued, however, and between 1763 and 1815 théy changed hands half a dozen times, sometimes being depopulated. | Since 1815 France has held undis- puted control. Leading Fishing Port “St. Plerre, the capital and chief| port of the islands, became very| prosperous as a result of the thriving/| French fisheries, and in 1884 it was| the leading fishing port of the world. | There were handsome homes in the little town and a social life that made | Bt. Pierre a miniature Paris. But the | Miquelons’ prosperity and galety were | cut short by a prosalc factor-bait. Af-| fairs of empire in 1904 moved states- men in Paris to sell the French treaty | rights .to catch small fish on the| Newfoundland coast for some millions | of francs and territory in Africa. The| Newfoundland fishermen had been| jealous of their French rivals on the banks, especially since a g?nerous‘ government subsidy enabled the! French to undersell all competitors in the principal world markets. Nevw‘ foundland soon passed the ‘Bait Act’| which prohibited the saie of bait to ships of aliens, 4nd from that time the prosperity of the Islands has waned, *'St. Pierre is now only a gray little | village with a past but no appagent! future. A quarter of the houses are vacant, and the quays, once thronged with vessels whose yard-arms inter-| locked, now have but a sprinkling of | ships, even at the height of the fish- | | directly from France to the United States. ate, however, was blocked by Senator “A political detafl i{s eloquent of | Couzens, republican of Michigan, who the changed status of the Miquelons. |At St. Pierre is the '‘Governor's resi-|the Southwestern banker. |dence.’ But no governor now graces Mr. McNary then, on the day the it. 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