The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-11-11
JERSEY NATIVES VISIT
TO SANTO DOMINGO.
Mrs. B. Mcmahon Gives Graphic
Description of Interesting
Trip in the Tropics.

absolutely necessary, at least once a
year, to a tropical mind. Perhaps it's
a sort of brain storm outlet for the
heat. and the West Indies latest de-
parture in this direction is quite as
full of life and venturesome as the
merry antics of Mexico. The revolu-
ton this time, a friend wrote me, is
the very worst one vet that she has
known in her knowledge of Santo Do
mingo, as New York secretary to
one of the largest sugar interests
there. And this is very evident, too,
in a letter regarding some missing
baggage of mine from a U. s.. steam
ship officer. 1t said further that his
ship had been located as a general
basis of movement, and that a fight
was taking place neal a small inland
town, which they expected to take in
a day or so, and that several of Jul
men had been lost in the skirmish.
Still another letter from a friend said
that the marines had located as far
as the long distance from Santo Do
mingo to The Plantation and had
camped there. In a personal expert
ence of both Mexico and Santo Domin-
go, one forms about the same idea
though in Santo Domingo there seems
to be ever a more willing desire to
copy good breeding and courtesy on
the part of the native plantation help.
When the characteristics are not in
evidence on the part of one or both
genders of the managing authority,
the result is very plain, not only in
the reproduction of the lack in the
foreigners, of a least authority, but
the natives in return have just that
little way with them of showing their
feelings, a substantial wav-of de-
stroying. This native help is just as
intelligent, too, as the better class of
foreigners there, in realizing the
worth of what they give, the consider
atoms rendered, and any cheapness of
what they receive in return. This
cheapness appears to be INDUCED in
by those that have the most-a fore
ed sale Of a sort for instance seeming
to make it very apparent. Fortunate
ly, though, these are the exceptions
that always exist, to prove the rule,
and perhaps the exceptions even are
thority is the right people in the right
place. A funny instance of native
devotion was told me by the younger
member of a N. Y. Sugar firm. Part
of the season he devotes his time to
the Plantation knowledge of his con-
cern-at one of their s.. D. estates,
and for several years past he has had
the same man attendant there, and
has endeared himself by an extra fifty
cents or dollar for a duty specially
we'll done. One day the servant made
inquiries as to whether there was any
one whom the Senior did not specially
like, or had done him an injury of any
sort, because if there is, I'll go out
and beat him up for you, sir" he told
him. The Senior added, he supposed,
that if he had given his brave admirer
two dollars he would have offered to
go out and kill any unliked human.
This time when we made our trip
home, a trip we were unusually glad
to begin, we We're delayed two weeks
after making the start at Santo Do
mingo City, though even this did not
affect our pleasure. 1t was impossi-
BILE to get a boat, because about this
time the nice Revolution had been
promised and at the end of the first
week the promise was about to be
kept. There were a few other swear
ing Americans held up at the French
Hotel, and together we had tried to
kill time carriage riding around the
barricaded city (barrels forming the
barricade, a sleepy guard danglin"
his feet from an occasional one), and
then to a moving picture show, if the
lights were not put out, as they had
been the night before. But again this
program was repeated, this time,
though, because an inspired patriotic
soul, here and there, decided to fire a
shot, and believing in that impressive
saying of "Dere he goes" instead of
"dere he lies, we returned to the
Hotels limited corridor and watched
some of Americas English cousins
move themselves and some of their
more priced household effects to what
seemed a safer refuge. One of our
people, a big man, had propped both
feet on the railing of the veranda,
and as he himself suggested, they
might be mistaken for another type
of barricade and be fired at, said once
he had awakened to find their surface
had been used for bill posters. We
retired in good spirits, and the pros
poets for a very early rise in the NOR
ming for the next move. Orders had
been given that all foreigners were to
go to the protection of their respect
i've ministers. We of course went to
the American Custom officers build
ing, and one by one the various Amer
leans gathered there. The Legation
Building is close by. Just as we had
emerged from the city proper, the
doors of the marketing places were
put in place and general scattering
followed. Word had been passed that
the battle was on. However the
Americans at the Receptoria were as
usual making the best of the situation,
playing tennis. cards, etc, and Won
dering when the fight really would
start. Our Lady of the R~eceptoria,
it seemed, was doing some worrying
as to the return of her marketing Chi
with the extra supply for her
extra American family-his non-ap-
p~earance would have been tragedy in
deed. However he did get by the
guard, and we had a mighty good lun-
cheon. Meantime the firing had star
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