The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-05-21
TALES or SUMNER SEAS.
barbados ana Others Rich In Opport,,.
nifty for whites Win ~apitaI.

To THE EDITOR or THE SuS-Sr: The
tone of Mr.. Babson's article "Chances for
Young Men In Islands OF Caribbean" I'm
THE SUN Is very disparaging / believe
that there Is now. as In the last $50 years
plenty OF opportunity for enereetic white
blood In some OF the West Indian islands
provided the grip of the past can be
thrown on. ] believe that the era OF
trade with South America has now begun
and Will be greatly stimulated by the rela-
tions which this country has now assumed
with regard to Mexico and American
dominance by reason OF the Panama
Canal.
The subject interests me greatly. for
am a native OF Barbados and one OF n
white family that has been prominent
there since 1919. | mention this merely
to show that the tropics are not as fatal
10 the white races, Anglo-Saxon in partic-
ular as is commonly supposed. There are
several other families in the island which
nave lasted as long rs ours and have sew
eral represe natives in the English Who's
Who" Debrett &c. These families have
branches all over the British Empire and
are well represented in this country and
Canada. | have recently returned from a
short visit to the island after an absence
OF several years. | found little deteriora-
ton IN the whites, They gave the NJ. C. G
cricket team the fight OF their lives 10 win
and beat them in the first game played
This was only last year Football, polo
golf. tennis, but chiefly cricket are played
all the year with great enthusiasm
The principal portion OF the whites are
OF course, planters. and have been for gem
erations. The children. II not entirely
are partly educated In England. many OF
the boys going through the big public
schools there and afterward to the unlver-
stiles. II is quite impossible for a tour
list like Mr. Babson to get any fair Inn
preston OF an island such as Barbados a
the tourists flock to the Marine Hotel. the
life and environment OF which are quite
foreign TO the island and with which the
planter 81 dominant class has nothing in
common and pays no attention to- Bridge
town Is merely a place for the transaction
OF business and shipping The shops close
about 4 40 i. NJ. and every one gets
away to the plantations. the seashore or
residential suburb. That is, the whites
do. The blacks. of course. swarm every
where. The fact that they prefer to
starve In Barbados to living elsewhere
which Is quite true. as Mr.. Bahson states
would indicate that they find life there
worth living. The old white families are
just as attached to II. Lafcadio Hearn
in his book Two Years In the West In
dies" attributes the remarkable vIgor OF
the whites OF Barbados to the lime in the
water there. Mr.. Roosevelt. writing in
the Outlook OF his hrst visit to this island
also Is surprised at the fine showing Of
the whites I'm the Island.
or course no one without can,,al and
quite lot OF II could settle In barbados
M this time and make n living bu, I,
Young man who likes the omen and has
from $4,000 10 500, 600 10 n,,t into a
sugar plantation can get 10 per cent IN
his investment and live mighty well and
heaIthiIy in addition The island 10 a
motoring paradise with its splendId roads
and motor boating and Yachting can he
induIeed In 10 great ADVANTAGE
I was also surnrIsed 10 And a man of
Mr. Rabson's intelligence folIowinp the