New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 4, 1924, Page 3

WINDI/ARD ISLANDS | ARE LITTLE NOWN They Are, However, Famed a5, “Isles of Spice” ‘Washington, D. C., - April 3.—The| Windward Islands Colony, to which loondon is gending a new governor and commander-in-chief, is one of the least known, to Americans, of | British territories in the New World, | A builetin from the Washington, D. C., headquarters of the National Geo- | graphic society describes it. “‘Windward JIslands’ means differ- ent things on different maps,” says the bulletin, “and to add to the con- fusion several other quite distinct | names are applied to the whole and | to parts of the isiands that sweep in a great arc from Porto Rico to the top of South America. The entire | group of little islands is known most properly, perhaps, as ‘the Lesser An- tilles,” ‘the Greater Antilles’ consisting of the larger islands, beginning with Porto Rico, that reach back toward the Gulf of Mexico. * Scene of French and British Strife | “All of the southern half of thc Lesser Antilles is sometimes called ‘the Windward Islands’ the term in- cluding Martinique, St. Lucia, St Vincent, Grenada and even Barbados, Tobago and Trinidad. Britain's *‘Windward Islands colony,’ however, means something definite; the three fair-sized islands, St. Lucia, 8t. Vin- , cent and Grenada, and the tiny islets near Grenada known as the Grena- dines. “About this little group of islands, France and England fought more stubbornly than about any other bit of American territory, Over and over again they changed hands be- tween 1650 and 1814 as the West In- Ilan fleets of first one and then the other of the two great nations were victorious. Since the latter date all three of the islands and the Grena-| dines have remained British posses- ‘them one may bowl'in motor |'nunsts learn for the first NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 1924. steps, Land of Cocoa and Nutmegs “Grenada was long under French control, and many traces of Gallls in- fluence still linger in architecture, customs and religion. Good roads form a network. over Grenada as over the other Windward Islands. Over STONE'S GHOICE problems of the:east; but to whom are the deflated farmers’ of the west to look for support of their case? “A parting of the ways vas reached {in the appointment of a new attorney general, under whose jurisdiction the | government’s fight for return of its ) plundered oil Jands must be made, |On the one hand stood the candi- beside the numerous well-kept ;::iHimm‘JflhflSOD Ga"s NBW A"y-‘da!el of progressive thought, on-the meg and cocoa plantations that turn out Grenada's chief products. Many time on these delightful jaunts that nutmegs ‘beans’ are hidden away In the heart | of blg capsules that have been de-|W here today that appointment of Har. \lan Fiske Stone of United States attorney general stitutes a rededication of the present | administration to ciples. come from a luscious fruit that it is scribed as ‘squashes growing on itself made into jam: and that cocoa trees.' " m Gen. Child of Prosperous East |suara schoot ing his drive for the state presiden- other the représentatives of the old The president, admit- téedly unmoved by any thought of political expediency, made his choice. It was a rededication of the adminis- Chicago, April 4 —S8enator Hiram tration to the causs of reaction.” - Johnson sald in a campaign speech New York as| Achievement Club Makes 39 Toys in Single Week The Altogether Junior Achievement Senator Johnson was reopen-|qup apd the Ever Active club of the same organization, each composed of |a dozen boys averaging ten years of reactionary prin- ary, “Whatever doubt may bave existed | age, have entered a toy making con- |in the public mind as to where Mr. | test at thelr own request, the contest | Coolidge stood in the national strug- |to terminate May 1st. The local Wile of Naval Paymaster Returns. Money | San Diego, Calif., April 4,—!.1eu—; ténant Ervine R. Brown, missing navy | paymaster, «, whose accounts were | found to be $120,000 short, was here | Monday and ir Los Angeles Tuesday according to navy officlals who an- nounced yesterday that Mrs, Daisy D. Brown, his wife, Wednesday returned $75,000 of_the missing funds. 1 Announcement of Brown's move- | ments after the return of part of the | missing funds by Mrs, Brown, it was | sald, is still at large. i Mrs. Brown, it was stated, brought“ the money to San Diego Wednesday in | two of the grips carried by her hus- ! band when he left his ship, the U, §. §. Somers. According to her story lui navy officers, Brown was in San Diego up to Monday, when he joined his wife and children at Azusa. Wednesday, she said, she managed to obtain the two grips which she be- lieved contained the $120,000, Then, le between progress and ras dispelled by the appointment of | winner. the new attorney general,” | Johnson said. | justice department, child of the pros- | the contest began last Thursday. The perous east, look with tender sympathy upon the | from. reaction, ‘ foundation has offered a prize for the President Willlam Helm of Senator | the Altogether club reported today “The new chief of the | that his club had made 39 toys since may be relied upon to|Ever Active club is yet to be heard The Last Few Days of Qur Gyrafoam CLUB SALE ARE HERE “Blue Monday Made Rosy” slone. Charming Tropic Isles. "lh! said, she left Brown and drove to “The Windward Islands are well In | navy headquarters here, where she the tropics, being in the latitude of i turned the grips over to navy officers, Nicaragua, the Philippines and south-| Mrs. Brown's aceount of her hus- ern India, and they are as charming band’s conduct has given navy officers examples of tropical {Sles as can be here the impression that he is men- experience in the man- ufacturing business. First found In any ocean. All are moun- talnous, and over the sharp peaks, deep valleys and more gentle slopes | of all is thrown an intensely green | mantle of tropical trees, shrubs and grasses. All were people by the war- like Carib Indlans when Columbus| and other Epanish navigators dmm-.: ered them. But these were largely | killed off or transported during the | next few centuries by British and | French settiers. Most of the inhabi- tants of the islands today are black | and are traceable to the slave ships! that brought over their African car. goes during early colonjal develop- ment. On Et. Vincent, which was long left to the nativ veral slave #hips were wrecked and the survivors | mingled with the Caribs so that on that tsland thers is & more pro-| nounced Indian strain than else-| where, | “On each of the islands is a -mnni minority of white offic land- owners and business men. ach ot the three larger islands has its ow 1scal government machinery under a Rritish administrator, and over all is the governor, who resides In &t ' George's, chief city of Grenada. The | governments are ‘Crown Colonles’ | the officlals being appointed from | Yondon | St. Tucla Was to Have Beem | “Caribbuan Gibraltar” | “Irance held on longest to Bt | Lucls and in the enthusiastic days of | Napoleon hoped to make it ‘the capl- | tal of the Antilles’ and ‘the Gibraitar | of the Caribbean.’ But the hops died when the treaty of 1314 gave Bt Lucia to Great Britain ,and now only Martinfque and Guadaloups and its islets remain of the ones important | ¥rench Antilles. | “3t, Luecis, 37 miles long by 13/ miley wide, might be sid to exist | tolely for its harbor, Port Castries, This superd haven, probably unsur- passed by any harbor in the Americas, | was to have been France's Gibralttar. | Rritain has made it one of her most | important naval bases and coaling stations and has heavily fortifled it | A narrow bottle-neck passage of deep | water leads to what is In effect a great, deep lake of salt water. Deep. draught ships of war or trade tle up directly to the plers on which 1l mountains of coal. Armles of black | men and women coal the ship by carrving laden baskets aboard. Most of the population of the fsland 1is roncentrated in Castries, dependent on the coaling activities, while a large | part of the baek country Is abandoned | ts its wild state; but it is threaded | with good roads that wind among its | picturesque hills and tropical foreste. ‘ Hiad Volcanic Tragedy. “gt. Vincent, the middle »f the three islands, had a terrible tragedy in the eruption of its ewn voleans at | the time that Mt Pelee Aestroyed a | populua city and devastated a large | area of country in Martinique, in| 1902, The northern third of Bt Vincent was devastated and nearly | 2,000 ljves were lost on the Island. | Now the brilllantly green tropleal follage 18 cresping back over the ash | teaps to hide the evidence of this holocauet “St. Vincent has in its botanic gar- den an importance to the Western Hemisphere little known Thers | were introduced first tropical products | from the rest of the world which, | dlgtributed from there, have estab. | lished some of the mest important and lucrative industries of the West Tndies and the Americas, Various | vegetables and fruits and spices are in the list. “Grenada, southernmost of the | three islands s the most beautiful | and most charming, and at the same | time, the best developed. It farms almost a true ellipse 20 miles long | and nine miles wide. Its port at St cannot compare in usefulness of §t. Lucla, but it is & perfect gem of & harbor on & small | scale, with & narrow entrance and a | emall land-locked basin. From the | basin’s rim St. George's grows up a | ridge find down the other side, its| housetops, half hidden among the | palms, forming gigantic stair-stepa 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 tunne] that saves many tally deranged, according te Captain Jensen. 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