, 1894-05-19

III" lWO towns, tne plans when are m0ntlOu"
ed carly IN this notice as being inserted in
the upper part Of the map.
First as 10 Christiansted The plan is
marked "Plan of the town Of Christiansted in
the island of St. Croix. 50 far as it has al
ready been built It is marked out in blocks,
but it is not shown what lots in each block
were built upon. The names of the treets
are not entered but by comparing the plan
with the plan Of the town as it now is we
find that the last street towards the hills ITO
SCI was East Street, and that street appears
only to have been built upon on the n. W. side.
The outer and scantily peopled streets, namely
Fisher Street, New Street, and Little Hospital
Street, do not appear to have been yet marked
ont. Very little Of Water Gut was built up
Towards the wharf the last street was Church
Street, named from the Danish Church, one
of few buildings then on its eastern side.
Neither the barracks nor any of the houses
in Gallow's Bay'were then built. The Fort
was situated as at present. Opposite it, where
the Yves India & Panama Telegraph station
1.-THE Depot now is, is marked on the plan
''The Company's warehouse; to the north
of this is marked The Company's old ware
house" in a line With which to the west was
the weigh house, and to the east "The Com
pany's brick building" In q line with the
Church and Sc. of it was "The Company's
framework building and near the Fort was
"The Oompany's smiths shop" The Com
papy, which figures here SO conspicuously, and
in honour Of which Company Street was
named, was the Royal Danish West
India Company. The Company was form
ed in 1911, and colonised St. Thomas for
Denmark. According to Knox, it was to
extend the power and resources Of this
Company that King Christian vi bought
st. Croix from the French in 1893. When
the map under consideration was drawn, the
Compamy's days we're, however, drawing to
a close; the map is dated 1854, and in 1855
King Frederik V. took over the colonies and
bought ont all the privileges of the Company.
ssThe purchase included the forts, estates,
buildings, stores, slaves, goods and money
belonging to the Company in the Colonies,
and its refinery, ship-houses and storehouses
in Copenhagen, % and the amount paid was
S1,4l8,000.
Besides its reference to the Company the
plan Of Christiansttd Of which we are
speakinA. exhibits some other points of
interest. In what is now Water Gut is mark
ed 80 masoned we'll . and as it is the only one
marked. it was probably at that time the only
we'll in existence in the town, and was per
hans the source Of the mime 'Water Gut"
An English Church is marked very near to
naut a little n. Il. of the site (. the pre-
sent English Church. A "keformed Church"
is marked opposite Government House, where
Mr.. S. Furey's residence now stands. The
two .mal kets' existed as now, but the Week
Day Market, instead of extending between
two streets az now, extended on both sides of
Company Street half way towards the parallel
streets, namely Kings Street and Qneen's
Street, TIL blocks to the Sc of the Week
Day Market are marked Meyer quarter"
whence the name Free Gut" still applied to
that quarter Of the town. We notice that a
iettv (Broen) ran out irtO the harbour, also
that to the south of the Fort there was a
small creek, which must have since been filled
up. running in from the harbour. just south
Of the creek there is OF the plan a drawing
of two posts with a cross bar and something
hanging from the cross bar. Ther reference list
calls this "Rettestedet, the place ofexecution.
hence the origin of the name Gallow's Bay.
The gallows must, however, have been re-
moved further to the southeast at a later
period. for, in the me DRY of persons living,
it stood on the shore near the foot of Mt.
Welcome, and part of the brick wall that
surrounded it still remains as q ruin, over
which the sea flows.
The plan of the town Of Frederiksted has
much less interest. 1t is not said, as in the
case Of Christiansted, to be the plan of the
town "as far as it has been bailt,"
and indeed it is plain that it is a plan Of