Gloucester County Democrat., 1909-04-08
MIcKLETON.

Elizabeth L. Engle left for Pitts
burg, Pa, on the second to visit her
son, James, and family.
The, next meeting of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union will be
held at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
William H. Hoffman on Thursday, the
18th, at 2.30 o'clock. All interested
in the work are cordially invited
Prof. Wilmer Pancoast of George
School, Newtown, Pa, called on friends
here on the second.
Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Redrow, of We
nonah, were recent visitors in our
village.
Howard Heritage's many friends
will be glad to know that he is stead
lily gaining strength after his long and
serious illness, and will probably soon
be out of doors. Farmers interested
in Mr.. Heritage's welfare, planted his
white potatoes on Monday.
Lucy A. H. Tyler, of Salem, with
her son were recent visitors in the
family of Theodore Brown.
The Young Friends Association on
Seventh-day evening, the third, was
well attended, and all enjoyed the
talk given by Joseph E. Haines, of
Swarthmore, Pa, on his trip to Cuba.
Mr.. Haines left New York City on the
Ward Line which leaves Wall street
wharf on the East River. Only GER
tain vessels are allowed to land at
the Havana wharves. Passengers
and cargoes were taken in on light
ers. The towns of Cuba as you ap-
proach present particularly attrac-
tive appearance, the houses generally
being rough cast and painted pink,
yellow or green. Havana was the
cleanest town ever visited; streets ex-
ceedingly narrow, business streets 12
feet wide; commerce was cosmopoli-
tan, one soon came to consider the
Spanish merchants as thoroughly re-
liable in bargain. Sebalos was the
point of destination of the tourist.
There a land company has instituted
numerous improvement schemes; or
anges and grape fruit seem destined
to be important articles, of commerce
from this section. The speaker saw
five hundred acres of these within one
enclosure; vegetation grows with al
most incredible rapidity. 1t is i'm
possible to cultivate the soil as it is
done here, disc plows and traction en-
gines being the usual method Sugar
cane is an important product, the
average crop being about forty tons
per acre; sixty or seventy tons being
considered big crop. The sugar
mills represent an immense outlay of
capital, small mill necessitating the
investment of at least one million dol
lars. A mill of this size is called a
two unit mill and turns out about two
thousand bags of sugar daily-three
hundred and twenty-five pounds in a
bag. Such mill will consume one
hundred cars of cane per day; three
tons in car, and employ from forty
to fifty people. There are no refiner-
les in Cuba, twelve per cent of the
cane is sugar, the mills give per cent
of weight of cane in sugar. Oxen are
used entirely; corn, oats, wheat and
rye will not grow, cabbages, potatoes
etc., are imported by the boat load.
The climate is delightful and promises
much in favor of development of the
country as winter resort; tempera-
ture from seventy-five to eighty de-
grees during the day, about sixty in
the morning, with little variableness.
The ability of the people to govern
themselves is yet to be demonstrated.
They are pleasure loving and un-
stable. All were grateful to our for
mer townsman for this glimpse into
an unfamiliar country.
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