Omaha daily bee., 1907-03-19
.SVETTLSHAM IS DlSlIEED
PsUplB Of KnVstOn Zeal Bittsrly Toward
GoYJrnr CvsT DAYS EpiVOaa
THINK He DEPRIVED THEN OF EEEDED HIP
Harry DOor1y Returns from west
Indies and Gives Interesting
sketch of Conditions in
stricken city.

'sT-be people Of Kingston are very bitter
AGAINST Svettenham, who is stfll there as
acting representative Of the British govern
ment" said Harry Doorly, who, with Mrs.
Doorly, returned Sunday from a winters
trip through the southern countries. The
people feel that had It not been for his
action the United States would have sent
81. COO, 200 or 100000 to their aid instead OF
nothing and the British government has
sent nothing, either. They surely need aid
II ever a people did"
Mr.. and Mrs. Doorly left Kingston forty
hours before the disaster, but passed
through there last Monday on their return
to Omaha.
THE entire business part Of the city is
| gone and there is not one building that
was two stories high that has two walls
! left standing. The negro shacks stood the
shocks better, as they are small affairs l
talked with one old chap who had accumu-
lated considerable property during his forty
/ years residence on the island, but he told
me he had no more today than his oficy
| boy had before the earthquake. He showed
| me his home in the midst OF magnificent
drives with palms, but nothing remained
but a pile of brick and mortar. He was
living in tent.
! No VeCOnstructiOn work,
"Tho people have not done a thing toward
rebuilding the city except to clean the
streets. The British government has only
talked of doing something and has done
( nothing and meanwhile Jamaica is holding
the sack While waiting for the British
government to act the natives have de-
| serted the city and have gone to the
country. on the island the negroes own
most Of the land The percentage Of white
a..
lation.
"swettenham behaved the way he did be-
cause he was veXed at the United states
for taking the best negroes to work at
| Colon When the governor found the best
negroes going to help build the canal ne
ordered fine of $25 on each negro who
left. Swettenham was used to handling
| negroes and he thought he could handle
Admiral Davis the same way, but soon
| found he was mistaken. Because Of the
1850 negroes who went from Barbados to
| Colon that city had the first strike In It's
history They could get 81 a day at Colon
and a shilling a day at Kingston.
1--WE spent about five weeks at Barba-
does, where l was born, and during that
time played tennis and bathed in the sea.
Most of the West Indian islands are de-
pendent upon the United States for their
food supplies, but get their clothing from
England because It is cheaper.
I'VE visited the only walled city in
America, Carthagenia, In Colombia. This
is the city Drake stormed three or four
times and the wall was built to keep him
out The wall is thirty feet high and fifty
feet wide and surrounds the city, which
has a population of about 10000. There
we visited the palace Of inquisition and
saw the dungeons and places of torture
American tourists spent $10O0O,OOO in
Jamaica last year.
Kingston found itself without anaes-
thetics during the catastrophe and talked
with one physician who performed sixty
amputations in one day without the use
of any"