The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-09-27
HlYHI is SEEN By WOMAN
TEE OFFICIALS ANNOYING BUT
THE PEASANTS KINDLY.

TEE OFFICIALS ANNOYING BUT
THE PEASANTS KINDLY.
MRS. hniier spied On By soldiers and An.
uoysd win Demands for Her Passport
-she saw No signs Of voodoeas1A
Neglected Riches OF the Country.
The Haytian Official can do mo re ex-
aspsrsting things to annoy q foreigner
and live him more trouble in a polite
zeav than any other man In the same
oaDacity on the globe. Demanding ones
nasaport et the most inopportune times,
writes Mrs. @. H. Miller In Lcais's Weekly,
4 his principal occupation just nov.
II I had not felt absolutely sure that a
Haytian officer feared the American
Government as heartily as he hated her
o-itisens, / might perhaps have beeA
alarmed when, In Janmel. Two soldiers
were cent out to bring me before their
commanding Officer. As i walked into
the in smelling ROOM, whore q tawdrhy
dreseed negro sat. the soldiers stacked
their guns in the door In order that I
might not escape.
1rhis official demanded my passport
which he scrutinized carefully. at the
same time cycling me suspiciousfy. Then
my camera must be examined 4
Finally, after fifteen or twenty minutea
1 wa allowed TO 60. but ever after thin
during my stay In the town ! was under
the watehful ere Of . soldier. The do
manding of my passport and being
brought before negro officials finally
became . habit with me, q vnenevef
soldiers beckoned Il followed ana went
through tho came disagreeable waste q
,ine 4,
The p-atronizlns air Of The Hsytiaa
officials Ia almost unoearaoie. Ihsif
show Of authority crops out In many
wsv. ana tbis vas exemplifed durinr
!. an. - ~. 1900 tovns
my seHS = ~ N.- - -.
when q erna snip was IN ~ osd
stead.
n.r,h.r N tba German oolonv. 10 ootos
emnels an.-Sas "a a.
out 70 pnne o ehu ehoee
women. all beattifui1y goWned, appeared
at the wharf TO 10 out In the boat sent
~ hrino them. vhen. lol the captain Of
2 port 'na' NO sn'
In am the ladies pleaded. but he wa
n ol,talv obdurate. Word yvas sent TO the
~.aA;n - dat.rrn, nac MT - A,s.n.
oup'an, ~lo, 80 - 49, -. ~.
q launch and sent on land. The oficiAl
Of the mort informed the captain that
ha cos,,d NOT rsrnain IN sbore After 4
49, nsrht ond yras or ia 400 al Thai
S hns.r ~ az that his orasrs %sre carisJ
ont
y Tia so,5;a,. "a rerhana ,,ore N he nit;ed
49, ert ~ tha 10 tiya5 .vcent fhe yvarnan
Ina any = ,,aiS sna n ~ word Il ~
hh ne rs,teJy INN III nav "a sonnetimsS
pi.hhaiS NV his r,nario2 ofscsr n IA
TTnnarnm ~ nElngae ha feras NJ hattor.
snS h Ia lax in rrahe,iion he n sSot
IL 80 h.va - cerrv 49, - co6as
~ bs11 tn Iosd cotton In 70 caa !
raan.d ga IN IL N.""''
ira crmmerce NJ the ;eland n mar.
dcaiiy In the hands ~ a few foreigners.
To- yhiia az syarag a not;va he tes IN
NJ fran, az shisgsr isnds hn cennnt
rst On witbn,,t him Hayfi n a .neryact
Garden ~ Eden for the codea ;mporter
aa the harry crows wiid on the old French
esnscjsiiv in Germany
The f~oreioner h nrobibited nv Law
from o,ynine land b,,t there Ia nothing
70 prevent the peasants from gathering
the oo6ee and brinuinr IL 10 the ware
house. of the seapert Town, For this
thew reosiye four cent DER bound from a
ms a. German ~exportere- -
The coffee is often lspread out on nail
cloths In the dirty street, 10 div md
frequently allowed to remain out over
niRht. vet IL IL never stolen Mem are
EMPLOYED to bag and weirh the one
for a trifinR sum. Il II then taken 10
the custom house for reveighing for
customs duties. The export duty charged
Ia three cents per pound.
Another set OF laborers. who can bear
the weight of iO pounds ON their heads
with q carry II to the barges, on which
It IA iehtered to the stesfners. These
are typioal negroes. IL is NOT I'M.
common for A eteamer which stope Mt n
~seacoast town In Hayti once n month TO
take seven or eight tbo,lsand barr or
barrels OF this coifee TO sc. Thomas FOR
reshipment to Germany.
Cotton too grows wild and In also ship-
ped under heavy EXPORT duty. Oranges.
arapefruit. shaddocfs' ~naseberries. roe'
corn and vans are also plentiful.
The mountains TEEN With lignum vitr,
the famous hardwood Of the West Indies,
lockwood, no valuable for dyeinR q
poses, Is easily obtained. The Weighing
Of this il done on the beach for export
duty, as the Haytian Government allows
nothing to no out or TO come In FREQ OF
charge.
C~ocoanutS grow In large quantities,
and the luscious green jelIy nut Il one OF
the articles NJ food Evarvwhere IN nm.