Our Neighbors °f the Caribbean Sea * Charlotte Amalie -'Virgin islands - St. Thomas
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series Taken for yhe Omaha Bee in a ~£&ur of The Tropics
V »*He Sam paid Denmark $35,960,96# for this harbor in 1917 With the ptirch.ise
came new custom*—and the Volstead act \* a result a lucrative trad*' de>erfe<l
the three tiny island* of the Virgin group and went to the neighboring Itrirish
Wands, along with the coaling of the ship*
Blue Beard's castle. Hi Is place was
supposed to be the home of Kdxard
Teach, the moal vicious of all the cut
throat mariners of the West Indian
seas. He was the Napoleon of scoun
dreldom. He wore lone whiskers a-id
tied them bark about his face and nect,
with blue strines. hence libt name—
Blue Beard. His fare w .is repulsive,
his eyebrows lone and shaggy. his
beard crew close to his eyes. He sailed
the seas with his cut-throat crews de
manding Kidd and treasure If not
forthcoming lie burned the towns Many
ships' crews were outfitted to fry to
cateh this brutal pirate, but he was so
fierce a fighter he killed them all
South f'arolina offered .">00 pounds for
his head. He had IS wives. One wife
read some of his love letters, invited
the fair competitors to a tea and poi
soned the whole hunch.
The lone-uimr sal t
lor dream ine of
home.
Thr Munliing hridr and thr happy
er 04*11 Thr I nitrd Stairs aftrr at
trndine to drlnkine and eanihling on
thr inlands t»«rn«d to thr marrtaer
rrlation Polks hrrrahoiit didn't takr
thr trnuhtr to ert marrird \ mar
riaer llrrnar undrr thr t nitrd States
rost 10 rrnts, twice as niurh as a
day's war**, and was recar*k*d as
foolish. lint now 1 nclr Sam insists
on thr record* Somr rrrmt mar
riaers ha\c hrrn si»k*nn»ii**«| with thr
hridr ind erootvt surrounded h> their
erand« iiitdmi.
The natives lived to get I rent a bushel f<* muling ships,
hut were deprived of this Ineonie when the I ulted Stafr*
put in ma« hlnery to do the work The> formed a union,
rjiinwl the priee to 3 rrnt«* and demanded thr> be given
work I rule Sam *top|»ed the machines and let them work
So It runt a the government nearlt tlOO.lHH) i > rat to keep
natives from starting These islands are not produetlvr
They even struggle for ill inking wafer
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Here ts the beautiful harbor f>»r which our government
|mM $?.»,904.000 during the recent war. The pieture«u|ue
rif> of ( harlotte \malie in the distance.
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lf><tc Xmjilir \ rn
few attfi* want f»i
tackle thi* hill r \ »-n
on 'low.**
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1 hr I tilled Hi»ir* huHf fhl* off let ImlMInc
«»n fhi- oalrt front lo h«nt*r if* o('t« ial* under
t l*r direction of (hr nm >
Vlfw of Ihf harbor
from Ihr hilla.