New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 14, 1929, Page 8

S/ DONINGO APES TANKEE PROGRES Caribbean Isie Would Follow Example of Porto Rico Washington, D. C. May 14.—At the request of the president of the Dominican Republic American ex- perts have visited the island of Haiti preparatory to drafting a budget and a program for fiscal house cleaning. “Taste of progress has whetted the Dominican desire for more pro- gress,”” says a bulletin from the Washington, D. C., headquarters of | the National Geographic Society. Would Emulate Porto Rico | “grosperity is returning to San- largely by mulattoes: who speak Spanish. How Geokraphy Splits Island “Two republics, two pcoples, and two languages are possible because of the topography of the island. No less than five mountain ranges fur- row the island. Nor are these toy mountains. Mount Tina in Santo Do- mingo is the highest peak in the ‘West Indies and its 10,300-foot ele- vation tops the highest point in the United States cast of the Rockies with footage to spare. High ranges separate Haiti and Santo Domingo like the Pyrenees barricade France from Spain. “Of all the lands he discovered Columbus liked Espanola (Haiti) best. ‘In it there are many havens on the sea coast’ he wrote his p tron, ‘incomparable with any othe! I know in Christendom and plenty of rivers, so good and great that it is a marvel—the mountains, and hills, and plains, and fields. and the oil so beautiful and rich for plant- and sowing. for breeding cattle ed west, waning as it went; the mil. ians Columbus found were wiped American slaves emancipated by a about 1830 in the Samana Peninsu. lion to three million Haitian Indi J]-‘lorlda planter was established out. A kindly people, they are now, virtually extinct. The headstones by which the world remembers them are a few familiar words: potato, tobacco, cassava, canoe, hammock. Then, the Decline “Slaves were introduced in 1505; Drake raided the walled capital in 1586; the island fell into eclipse. By 1819 the population of Santo Do- > {mingo had been reduced, it is esti- | mated, to 63,000, | “The recent establishment of air |service with Florida may serve to | popularize features of Columbus’ | paradise that have escaped attention 'ol tourists: the inland lakes. one 70 miles in circumference, more salty than the ocean, and a hundred feet below sea level; the dry desert of : the tangled mahogany forests of the eastern provinces; La Vega [Real, the Royal Plain of Columbus, |as wide and almost as long, home of spread- ling coffee, sugar, cacao and tobac- 10 Domingo after an absence of 00 |of all sorts. for building towns and | o5 b 0% L S nana Bay, so spa- years. Foreign trade more than doubled in twelve years and more villages. There could be no believing, without seeing.’ Travelers of later {cious and well protected that the United ‘States once considered leas. than quadrupled in the last twenty |times share Columbus’ optimism :mdi‘m‘ it instead of Guantanamo Bay years. Five times as many children are in school as there were ten years ago. The Dominican Republic is proud of its record—until it looks east to Porto Rico and southeast to Barbados. If the fertile valleys of Santo Domingo werc as intensively populated as neighbor Porto Rico’s acres, 7,000,000 inhabitants would swear allegiance to the Dominican flag; if as dense as Barbados’ pop- ulation, 21,000,000, Only a million Dominicans thrive on the tropical abundance of an area cqual to Ver- mont and New Hampshire. “Two republics, the Dominican | and the Haitian, divide the island of enthusiasm. “In response to the discoverer's last wishes his remains were brought to the New World for bu- rial in his favorite isle. Haven of Famous Explorers “Columbus discovered the island in December, 1492. Within 40 years it ascended to the proud height of capital and focus of Spain’s spread- ing empire in America—and de- [Eng] scended. Cortez, Pizarro, and Ponce de Leon sailed, conguest bound, from the walled city of Santo Do- mingo. “Gold and silver collected in San- to Domingo and awaiting shipment as a West Indies naval base, Sugar is King “An arterial highway system be- gun while the island was under the administration of the United States from 1916 to 1924, connects the chicf towns. One road runs from Port au Prince, Haiti to Santo Do- mingo City. Sugar is Kking in the republic. |England, Canada and Germany buy | heavily of the crop which ran to i‘u:.mm tons last year. The country |looks forward to the time when it | can bring production abreast of Por- to Rico which, by area comparison. | expo ) times as much sugar. Ca- Haiti. The Haitian Republic occupy- | on the treasure fleet to Spain, lured |coa, the chocolate bean, come: ing the western third of the island is peopled almost cntirely by de- scendants of slaves. They speak | French. The Dominican Republic, | often called Santo or San Domingo, | after the name of its chief port and | caplital, occupies the castern two-| to the ‘incomparable havens’ of Co- lumbus daring rascals who preyed upon the galleons. These pir lived on dried or buccaned meat. The buccaneers of Kspanola, first of their black order, terrorized the West Indies for a century. lin line. Yucca and corn and ¢ trees grow side by side in a triple |agricultural system. Bananas. gu- |avas and coffe trees also go hand in {hand on the same acres. | “In the Dominican Republic there [is a bit of the United States of the Shenandoah Valley | la. The colony has peraisted and has grown in nuinbers. Every stranger from the north who has labored to make his wants known in a Span- ish-speaking land grepts with de- light the ‘way down South’ dialect 'that he discovers in the Samana villages.” NAN, 70, ANNOYS WONAN: BEATEN Up | Sulliciently Panished, Judge Be- {lieves—Angry Husband Fined §7 Fred Johnson, 70, of €5 Rocky Hill avenue, was intoxicated on North strect about 1 o'clock yester- afternoon, according to testi- {mony in police court today, anl lused vile language towards Mrs. John Cesarino of 119 North streat. She told him to cease annoying her but he persisted and when her hus- band came out of his store and or- dered him away, Johnson threat- ened to “knock my nose off” accord- ing to Cesarino, who gave his age |as 49, and admitted that he pushed Johnson, who fell on,the sidewalk and cut the back of his head. Johnson pleaded not guilty to the charge of drunkenness but could not {recall anything about what hap- pened on North street. His left eye |was badly discolored and showed signs of having heen bleeding. He |denied that he was intoxicated bnt Judge Saxe advised him to leave |drink alone and he would be better |oif. According to the police records | Johnson was never arrested until weck, and he has liived in New Saxe he could stop drinking, an1 the latter gave him a, chance to prove it, suspending judgment with i Britain 38 years. He assured Judge | have been punished sufficiently. Cesarino was fined $7 without costa for assaulting Johnson, Judge Saxe taking the viewpoint that bhe should not have laid his hands upon him when he observed that he was intoxicated. Prosecuting Attorney ‘Woods scored Cesarino for pushing Johnson, and told him he might have been in serious trouble had Johnson sustained injuries causing death. Marcus Blackman testified that he saw Cesarino push Johnson, who fell heavily. Nobody else making a move to assist Johnson, the witness pick- ed him up and applied a handkev- chief to his head. William Skeng, 30, of 528 Farm- ington avenue, pleaded guilty to charges of drunkenness, breach of the peace and assault and was fined $10 on the first charge, with judg- ment suspended on the latter. He said he was intoxicated and did not remember anything about a fracas in the yard at his home about 7:30 {last evening. Officer G. W. Heliberg testified that a comfplaint was made to head- quarters and when he arrived he saw Skene, wearing only his trouser: fighting his brother, Earl Skene, and Michael and Stella Bichon, owner of the property. It was a slam-bang fight with knockdown after knock- down, according to the officer, who was compelled to use the handcuffs to subdue Skene. Inside the house, furnishings were upset and the sink was pulled away from the wall, the officer testified, and a large crowd of neighbors gathered and added to the excit ment. Skene's shirt was torn to rib. bons in the fight. 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