The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-08

We are made to understand that tho boohings for frst-ciass passengers for America by the KorcnA and Fontabelle on their return voyages from this colo ny are enough to shut out a1l others. ,'.,s And siiil thsro arr many more ,,..s only of q few dollars. ere they. too, shake on tropical dust from their feet
 There Is no help for 1t. unfortunately. The States can find room for all. we opine. and 1t may be that by and by the West Indian element over there will be so strong and 90 satisfied with Republican rule as to influence and render less dlf- hcult to be solved the problem oi annexa- tion. ~5a.r Nssi
 A small circle of west Indians in New York have formed a society which they call the carib Cannibais. They meet at one another's houses. talk over old times and common friends down south. and arrange to give helping hand to other West Indians who have not yet made good. s
 One evening they were talking about their own experiences-why they came here. how they came. and what happen II r wac a soysrnmen. clerk down in president of the club. If I had waited another i've years I would have got an increase of 50 year. As for promotion. there was no chance of 1t unless one of the old fogies at the top of the tree was ob.iging enough to die.
 Well. I logged along contentedly until fei in love with q planters pretty daughter. We became engaged, but when asked the planter. for the parental bless sing he told me not to be fool, and asked me what proposed keeping . wife coa,r1n | lonfrn1 iikA h,Ht told him meant to have her all the same. "a
 ".well. then. my iad.' he said. looking at me rather more kindly. you shall have your chance. When I was your age I was in the same boat. But didn't stick in the mud here on starvation pay. I went to the States. made money, came back and bought this plantation and married Mary's mother. Yoa go and do the same.' a
 :. .But I have no money to 70 there
 -.And yet you propose to marry q wife. he retorted, adding: Well. here are $50. Take them as a loan. Your passage will cost you &f2. and you'll have about $S to land with, provided you don't drink too many cocktails on the steamer. If you can't make position for yourself and come back for Mary within couple of years you need never expect her.
 ''i took the money and came here. Ii was rough sleding at first, and many q time was tempted to go back to the easy. if unprofitable. life in Jamaica. Bu, the thought of Mary kept me steadfast and in less than the two years I was able 10 so back. pretty we'll hxed. and demand her from the old man. And what do you think his wedding present to me was. Tho same fifty dollar note, which I had repaid him out of my first earnings.
 "When you sent that, my boy, he said. I knew you were safe to come back for Mary, so I had 1t framed, and kept it waiting for you
 When came here,' said another mem- Der of the club. "I had an even greater incentive. l was an ovefseer on q St. Kitts plantation, working for my board and S week.
 "I didn't wait, as you did. married her and we managed to get here by pawn ing the few bits of jowelry we possessed We bluffed the immigration inspector 1t was only two years ago-and landed with just over g in our possession. The same afternoon I walked into the first newspaper office I saw, and got q job as reporter at C a week, though l knew nothing of the work. It was pretty tough work living on that small wage, but
 
 better paper, and now I'm making 6 iiv. able salary"
 "I know a West Indian" spoke up a third member of the club. who is now | head of the American organization of a big English bank. He came to Philadel. phia for holiday soon after leaving school. liked the place, took a position as junior clerk. and rose very rapidly to the top of the tree.'
 Do you know" remarked an old Ja. maican, that a great many West Indian women come here and marry rich Ameri- cans? They are the daughters of the aristocratic old planting families who have lost their money through the ruin of the West Indian sugar Industry. They come here by shoals to earn q living. suppose there must be hun. dreds of them in Boston, to say nothing of Philadelphia and New York.
 Some of them become stenographers but most of them do the best kind of fancy needlework. The West Indian wo- | man of the higher classes is an adept al l that kind of work, as you know. "Sooner or later she meets the million. aire and marries him. Americans seem to find them irresistible, and that's not strange, for. of course we all believe here that the West Indian girl of the good old planting families is the best girl on earth"