PAGE TWO THE WORKMAN, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1924 Interesting News from The West Indian Islands Wanted! Wanted!
While escorting her to the station, and on reaching at a pood on Mr. John Miller property, Sheckles Pen, the girl suddenly escaped from the constable, jumped over a wire fence and with the words: rather to die than go to prison, jumped into the pond and was drowned, Quite a crowd soon gathered and up to the time of writing (4. 10 tn. she has not been recovered The pond is very ceep, and is used for domestic purposes: Sergeant Major Clarke and detective Shaw were soon on the scene, and attempts are being made to dive up the body.
months, and West Indian Labourers for United Fruit Company Farm Minimum Wages 25 Per Day The Weather Conditions CONTRACT WORK At Bluefields.
AT SPECIAL PRICES Farm Men only wanted 50 will be sent to Bocas weekly Transportation Furnished NO MONEY ADVANCE Apply to WINTER Standard Oval Mondays Thursdays at 10. a.
somag SONORA which started in the parts a PORTION OF ROAD DESTROYED BY ACTION OF WAVES OF THE SEA.
MAIL COACH STOPPED The Superintendent of Public Works Construc a New Temporary Road.
in Dr. Gems BLOOD ELIXIR For strengthening the BLOOD JAMAICA.
it is understood has been some.
what of the bone of contention between the Director and the contractors, will cost about 200 Railway Might Not be Finished the contractors pay for this.
THI February Morgan Siding, and the stations at Crooked River, Trout Hall and Frankfield, are well built, and as far as can be learnt, AN ESTIMATE GIVEN, quite suitable for the traffic they will have to bandle LARGE QUANTITY OF EARTH AT SMELL HELL HILL.
STILL TO BE REMOVED FROM There bave been almost SMELL HELL HILL, unprecedented rains in Upper Clarendon for the past two Section of Work Will Cost retarded the work at Smell Hell this bas greatly Thousands of Pourds More Hill It might have been almost Than Original Estimate, through by now but for the incessant heavy downpours.
The hill from the centre of LINE IN GOOD ORDER.
where the track will run, to its crown, is 135 feet, and the section (By a GLEANER Staff Reporter. long. Here the contractor has that is sliding is about 300 yards Smell Hell Hill!
been having a beavy fight against Time and again in latter days bature. The stroke of a pick the elevation near Frankield in almost starts a small slide, and Uoper Clarendon which is the workmen have to exercise known by the above sinister the greatest care they might be name, has been mentioned in the buried under a great landslide Gleaner and always in con at any moment.
nection with the railway exten No engineer, r, said one speaksion froin Chapelton to ing with authority at Frankield, Frankfield. could have forseen what has The 10 mile stretch of addi happened at this bill, and up to tional railroad, about which there now one can only roughly guess has been so much trouble in the as to how much more earth will past year, would have hen have to be removed before the been completer and operation job is through. But it looks like And months ago, but for Smell Hell a pretty big quantity.
Hill. It has, to the contractors, the slipping hill, the reporter looking up the scarrel side of proved a veritable Culebra Cutsliding Hill. For 18 won h3 or or agreed.
more men have toiled ceaselessly One thing is clear. The rail.
at its face for the full. ngth of way from Shapelton to Frank!
about three hundred yards, field has been already too long in trying to get a slope that would the building. The original estigive stability to the soil and mate has already been exceeded rock underneath, and up to the by some thousands of pounds presens they have not succeeded. sterling. The line must earn The entire bill consists of hun money, and the quicker it is put dreds of thousands of cubic in operation the better.
At yards of rotten rocks and lose pre present 108 men are workiog earth, and it keens tumbling day and night on Sm Hell Hill down all the time. When it will An increase in their numbers cease to slide to the level along would decrease the length of which the track will be laid is a time the work will take to finish MATTER FOR CONJECTURE and from the taxpayers point of up to the present, But from an should be at the earliest possible view, it is desirable that this imete given Gleaner date of that it will reduce the Reporter, it is computed that a cost, but it will put the railway least 50, 000 more cubic yards of earts will have to be removed, aste.
to earning money at an earlier and dumped into the Rio Minbo Vállay before a one and a half Cultivation in the Frankfield slope will be obtained at which area are looking forward with it is hoped the hill side will eagerness to an early compleremain at rest permitting the tion of the railway. At the uncompleted section of a few present time they estimate they hundred yards of rail to be laid would be able to offer 10, 000 and remain laid.
stems of bananas at the station in their town alone for shipment, The attempt to carry the rail and this would be increased as road along the base of Small Hell time went on, for there are Hill is proving a cɔstly affair to large areas of land in Upper the tax payers of the colony. Clarendon, and the region to be As far as can be gathered, the tapped by the railway, suitable Bedford Construction Co. the for banana cultivation: Then builders of the railway, con there is sugar cane for the tracted with the Governo. ent to haul to the factory at Sevens, re move 29, 000 cubic yards of earth and grass, firewood and ground and rock from this particular bill. provisions for Kingston, provid.
The contractors have, it is said, ed the rates are such as will moved up to the present fully compete with the trucks.
80, 000 cable yards of soil from the bil and as said before, it is estimated they will have another When the Canadian Dele50, 000 yards to remove before gation is Here: Oranges they are through with the job.
At the rate at which it is re and Tobacco ported the work was contracted for 6 per cubic yard is the fixare heard by a Gleaner The Gl aner states that an reporter this section of the opportuoity will be afforded for line might cost the tax payers the consideration of the proposal any thing up to 16. 000 OD the that the Canadian Government original estimate. It should should give preferance turn out that as much as 50, 000 oranges and tobacco imported cubic yards more of earth bave direct from Jamaica to the to be removed, then at the Dominion, states the Colonial present rate of progress, given Secretary (the Hon. Col.
even tair weather, the work will Bryan) in a letter to the Jamaica not be completed before the end Agricultural Snciety, referring of February to the forthcoming visit of deleA Gleaner reporter visited gates to British West Indies Unper Clarendon Thursday The letter dated 15 October from the Canadian Government.
afternoon and inspected as much reads: of the line as he could. The Sir track runs in continuous line from Chapelton to the beginuing am directed by the Goy of Smell Hell Hill on the side veroor to state for the informafurtberest from Frankfield. It tion of the Jamaica Agricultural was laid down some months ago. Society that the Governor and, as far as could be seen has General of Canada has intimated stood up well under the exceed that it is the intention of the ingly beavy rains that have been Canadian Government to send a past two montbs. Before the In dies before Parliament meets falling in the district for the delegation to the British West heavy rains started work trains again to look into, general trade had been run right to the rail conditions in Jamaica and the head at Smell Hell Hill, but other Islands, The Governorthere has been a stoppage since General has also intimated in a that period At present the separate despatch that during bolts, originally put in the steel the visit of the delegates an work at the viaduct near opportunity will be attorded for Crooked River, are being cut out the consideration of the proposal and the structure rivited. It is that the Canadian Government estimated that this work which should give preference experiThe Bluefields Correspondence to the Jamaica Gleaner writing to that paper on the 25th ulto.
Says. The heavy rain and winds a few days ago, increased in intensity. On Sunday night the 19th inst, when about five chains SSSSSSSSSSS SSSS of main road in the vicinity of Belmont, about one and a quar.
ter mile from the Bluefields post office was washed away by the wavey of the sea, The mail coech from Blck River to Savla mar bad to change its route on Monday morning the 20th inst, on account of the large volume of the water and frage ments of rocks. The Public Works authority were com municated with. Mr. Walcott, the Superintendent, promptly res.
ponded along with his staff of men and set to work in carrying out repairs. Owing to the condition of this road. the Superintendent had to carry out Recommended for Removing the Humors of the construction of a temporary Scrofulous Diseases, Pimples, Boils, Blotches, new road Tetters. Useful in Chronic and Syphilitic It is said that the track of land where the new road is Rheumatism, Mercurial Affections and Disbeing constructed is bought by the Public Worke Department eases caused by Impurities of the Blood.
from small settler. Your representative has been informed An Alterative recommended for purifyby a prominent gentleman that this is not the first occasion since ing and enriching the BLOOD.
this portion of the road has suffered, as 38 years ago the residents of Belmont enced a similar calamity when For Sale at all Drug Stores the sea washed away a large por tion of land.
And ia Large Quantities by The opinion of the general public is that this section of the road should be entirely changed JAVIER MORAN. American Pharmacy as it is surrounded on one side by the sea and op the other side AGENT by a swamp. Since Thursday there has been a cessation of the rains, the rain clouds bave dis90 appeared and beaut ful sunshine Dow prevails. The sea is now in a state of perfect calmness.
oranges and tobacco imported direct trom Jamaica to the Dominion.
TRINIDAD IF YOU WANT TO BE GIRL DROWNED HERSELF GERMANY S, AGGRSSIVE IN DEEP TANK TRADE POLICY.
TELL YOUR SECRETS TO THE MUR While being Taken to Jail. Trinidad War Memorial Set RIGHT MAN Writing from Four Paths on In German Goods.
the 27th, ulto the correspondent to the Gleaner Says: The Port of Spain GAZETTE HAPPY IN FRIENDSHIP, BUSINESS, ETC. This town was thrown into a state of excitement shortly Whatever else might be said Love Appeals in All Forms after two o clock today, when Germany, it is undeniable Louise Prince. girl of that as far as her trade is conAll kinds of highly appreciated Roots and Herbs about nineteen years, committed on who is determined to lose BUSINESS DONE BY MAIL ONLY no opportunity in restoring it From what your correspon vue enviable position of preCASH OR CREDIT dent gathered she was arrested war days.
at May Pen on Saturday for the instances that can be cited in Among the many Will Credit You, It Matters Not Where You Live alleged larceny of yams, and was this direction, one that would buted by Mr. Isaac Rattigan, hardly be thought of in view P, to before the of attendant circumstances, is Money refunded it No letters answered Court on Thay.
dissatisfied with unless 10 is en the manufacture of glassware closed.
merchandise within Mr. Rattigan had reasons to with replicas of Trinidad War 15 days after receipt.
suspect that she was going Memorial and that of Queen away, and reported same to the Royal College emblazoned therepolice here. District constable on. Of course the photographs ALEXANDER Phillips was detained to re were duly despatched from this arrest her at a district called colony, but it certainly speaks 99 Downing Street.
Brooklyn, Goshen. about three miles away something for the German spirit from here. Continued on page 7)
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