The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-02-24
AMONG THE BARBADOS
C0EEESPONDENT WRITES ENTHUSI-
ASIICALLY or THE SUNNY LAND.

Delightful Change From a Cold Climate
Only Familiar Thing IA Mckinley But
ton-Natives Regard Mckinley as Their
Savior and Are Ready to be Annexed.
Steamship Madiana, Barbados,
Feb s, 1897
no the Editor of the Journal and Courier:
There is a considerable difference be-
tween circling on Lake Whitney ice in a
temperature just above Zero and null
ing up a Dominica mountain, especially
when on the back of an active, long
cared animal anxious to precpltate you
headlong through an atmosphere which
would make you SILVER at eighty-siX
degrees.
But trifle more than seven days has
transported me from one to the other of
these diverting extremes, and when
read meagre message at Trinidad re-
Gently I gave thanks for an existence
and the charming climate of the Carl
bees. The message said New York was
fioundering in a coolest of cold worlds,
and that the north Atlantic coast was
storm swept and snow laden. 1t re-
called home and New Haven's thirteen
kinds of weather 1t saved me the usu-
al inference that while Fair Haven
right be blizzard-struck, the good. peo-
pie of Westville should be well along in
the variations of a thaw, while else
where, dust, frozen ashes, drifts and
sIusn- might vary the cold monotony
without preference or matter OF choice
Aye, but there's more of that here,
and while 1 pen of the weather l might
just as well say it's hot, and hot with a
Very big capital H.
Yet it's a delightful change, and In
more ways than one. A change where,
thank the goddess of fortune, Billy j.
Bryan was never heard of; where the
everlasting trumpet of the politician
never sounds; where no one ever heard
Of Hartford's statesmen; where gold is
a standard and the silver question an
unknown quantity, and telegraph or
other news, all are lost in tropical FRA
GRANGE and mellow sunshine.
Ills here the fresh trade winds temper
the heat, and the mucilagnous humidity
which in August sets the Nutmeg state
a steaming, is noticeable only by a
gratifying absence.
This is paradise" said passenger
to me yesterday. I agreed with him,
not because was of theological turn
of mind, but because it is nearer than I
ever reached that desideratum before.
Geographically, the little dots on the
map, off the coast Of South America,
known as the Lesser Antilles, cut but
a trivial figure. The statistician has
overlooked them as without thought.
Now that its commerce is going back
ward and its sugaries are falling rapid
ly into decay, the shrewd exporter is
also looking elsewhere and giving them
the metaphorical go by. But the de-
lightful Carfbees are mountain monu-
ments of great natures freaks and fol-
bles. A pilgrimage to these ATTITUDES is
among the most superb in the world.
One where aside from beneficial condi-
tons, there is an everchange of en-
chantment and where it is useless to
travel farther to find as beautiful an
Eden.
Even "Periander, of New Haven, y
eminent and travelled correspondent,
might forsake his chair in the club, try
these Antilles, change from B. & S. to
''swizZle" and perhaps find solace here,
True, he has shattered the shades. of
RameseS in the Orient; pronounced the
Atlantic one vast dose of emetc and
smells; condemned Italy to the Cata-
combs and the continent a nuisance.
Even though the white man is almost a
curiosity in these Businesses, if he de-
clared the Antilles only a sham or COM
fortress reality, am sure nothing can
be left him but Litchfie1d's good old
hills and Dreams
1t took this sturdy steamer less than
sixdays to land us at venerable St
Thomas in the Virgin Islands. St
Thomas has seen it's best days, but the
main street of Charlotte Amelie is still
bustling one and we'll alive to bust
ness. 1t reminded me of Chapel street
only because it was so different Ice
was selling at three cents a pound and
shade was at a premium. In imagina-
ton I saw President Parmelee's trolley
cars at home travelling through the for
rner because of the latter, and less thar
fifteen hundred miles away. I saw but
one thing familiar. That impressed me
1t was the button of Mckinley. True
it was little late in the day or year
or next year. but on an average every
ether man I passed had the larboart
lapel of his coat decorated with the vel
known features of our next president
Possibly they were not aware of his
election as yet but they should have
the benefit of the doubt. Anyway I an
sure they had never heard of the Other
fellow. That is where [ got my pointer
heretofore referred to on that vile
western exponent of silver at 16 to /.
In curiosity I endeavored to discover
the advantages of travelling round I'm,
der the Danish flag labeled with the
great emblem of American protection
and wished had brought along peck
etful of these now historical buttons. il
there was anything in it. Investigation
only proved the old story that the peo
pie of St Thomas want to join hands
with Uncle Sam, and see the stars ant
stripes waving from the ramparts thai
Notifications now patroled there by the
soldiers of Denmark. The residents are
still smarting from their disappoint
ment of thirty years ago, when nothing
but a congressional faux pas prevented
the purchase of the island by the Uni
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