New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-08-08
A POLITE" REVOLUTION
Evans R. Dick Thus Describes the
Recent 0verturn in Hayti.
CANES THE CHIEF WEAPONS
Man Who Had Charge of Yacht
American Believes Country
Will Now Prosper.

Will Now Prosper.
Evans r Dick the New York broker
who took the steam yacht American 10
Hayti and there delivered It to the govern
ment which had bought II. returned 70 New
York Yesterday on the Allemana, OF the
Hamburg American Line. 90 far as the
recent change Of government in the black
republic goes. Mr. Dicks impression OF that
matter was that II was largely a polite
little game.
When some one with influence gets
erudge on ss TO a government which is in"
he said. he collects his followers and
marches TO some place where there can De
a showing of strength. II he has more men
in his following than the party at the mead
of the ms the ms go out; they retire
and the disgruntled one moves In That
all there is to Il. and so far as war, as we
know the term. goes. there is none OF H.
Mr.. Dick declared he had felt as secure
I'm Hayu as in New York, and added thaI
he had walked aSout that country unat-
tended and without any fear whatever Oh
encountering revolutionsts or any one else
who would do him harm.
II said to a newspaper correspondent
whom met down there said Mr.. DICK
that II he wanted TO do the fair thing ne
would send up q rst Of casualties IN THIS
revolution about which he had been wiz
ing stories since the first Of the year. AND
then 1 think II would be a good idea II
the paper would prepare list OF the cas-
ualities from Sunday subway car rioters
for instance. and print these two lists side
by side. 7 an OF the opinion that the Ne"
York list would far outnumber the Hayuan
! list"
Seated II his office at No. 30 Broad
street YESTERDAY, attired in a linen ONCE
coat and pausing now and then 70 give
natter-of-fsct instructions TO occasional
assistants. clerks and office boys. Mr.. Dick
certainly bore no traces NJ having been
through any recent worry or agitation
such as one might look for in person
who had been intimately connected with A
revolution.
Across his desk lay a heavy bamboo cane.
r was apparently loaded az the handle
end. and the rings ~ the bamboo made "
convenient 70 grasp and swing II by me
bottom. 50 as 10 get good action out Of the
loaded end
Now. with few canes Ike that. Mr..
Dick explained this so-called revolution
was practically dissipated so you can
easily sec how much of var that must
have been"
II appeared from his story that occasion
al individuals in the towns and cities or
Havtl. who had private reasons for want
ing n get rid If some one NJ their fellow
citizens. could and did seize upon the rev
olution as q preteIt FOR shooting their IN
dividuaI enemies in the back. but com
n1ittees If safety. provided with canes Ike
the sample IN NJ Dicks Office. went about
by night after issuing = proclamation that
snv one found with a pistol, revolver or
gun would be tapped on the head. and the
indiscrin1inate shooting vas promptly
stopped
our only concern was Tor tho white
women and children" said Mr. Dick. and
that was not worry as to anv revolution
ists but simply the danger that might crop
I'D in anv city in the world where crowd
~ black men had an opportunity 70 loot
LIQUOR store Of any kind. and who might
while drunk attack or insult white
woman. Because OF that We did take
aboard the Yacht tho few white women
who were there, but that was only for one
night BY the next night the word had
gone around concerning the committees OF
safety and their weighted canes ana there
was no more disorder
Commissioned 10 Buy Vessel
Concerning the Yacht itself. which was
the reason for Mr. Dicks visit 70 Hayti az
this time he said ne had been commits
stoned bv the Haytian government, the
government which the United States and
other powers recognize 10 purchase such
n vessel He was then asked 70 deliver II
in Haytan waters
"1t was simply a part n my business.
said Mr.. Dick. and when they later ordered
an equipment 70 be added 70 the boat
purchased that. Meantime, and before /
left this country with the boat. that vessel
had been paid for by the Haytian govern
ment and the only payment left 10 be
made to me upon delivery was FOR the
added equipment which had been ordered
after the boat Itself
Mr. Dick declared the new government
would take fully as much interest IN tne
DEVELOPMENT OF the country, whether oy
American. French or German capital as
had the old. These changes in govern
nent and so-called revolutions ne
+ thought were occasioned, in part az least.
/ by the fact that the great mass Of the pop
uIation lived cheaply and had little 10 do
/ French company. he said, has CON
oession or franchise 10 install sewerage ana
pavements throughout the cities and towns
/ NJ the island. and a German concern mas
/ telephone franchise, and ne thought that
actual work on these concessions would ne
started in the near future. The develop
monte I'm which he is interested. said the
+ broker. would be pushed forward immedi-
+ ately. " -, -
/ He described Hayu as an island rich N
, ,atrroI resources and needing only sufti-
Gent capital 10 develop.
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