The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1916-12-13
FORMER GREENWOOD
RESIDENT BACK
FROM RIGA, RUSSIA
Consul Douglas Jenkins, Who Once
Lived Here is Visiting in Char
lesion.
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Mr.. Douglas jenkins, now United
States Consul at Riga in Russia, is
visiting relatives in this State after
an absence of four years. Mr.. Jen-
kins once spent two years in Green
wood as stenographer for Mr.. F. Bar
ron Grier. He read law while here
and after his admission to the Bar
went to Pickens. After a short stay
there he went to Greenville and be-
came city editor of the Greenvlile
News. After being in Greenville two
years he stood an examination Tor !ap
pointment in the consular service
and was at once appointed to st.
Pierre, a French island off the coast
of New Foundland. Mr.. jenkins is
now visiting in Charleston, and the
following from the Charleston Even
inc Post about him will be read with
interest here:
An interesting visitor here is Doug
las Jenkins, American consul at Riga
Russia, to which port he went from
Gottenburg, Sweden, six months be-
fore the outbreak of the great war,
and where is now stationed within
the sound Of the big guns that roar
between Russia and Teutonic lines.
Mr. Jenkins IS here visiting relatives
Sc his deceased wife, who was Miss
Charlotte Furman, and he brings with
him his little girl, Caroline, ten years
Old and little son, Douglas, who is
seven. It has been four years since
fhey have visited their relatives here
The children speak. German and Let.
tish fiuently along with English, and
Formerly spoke Swedish and French,
hut have forgotten much OF the lat
Mr two languages during their resi-
Eence at Riga Mr.. Douglas Will re.
turn to Riga with his children about
the middle of January, having leave
6f two months in, the United States,
s holiday which he has very well
earned, since he has not only been In
charge of the United States affairs at
Riea, but at the outbreak OF the war,
took over Germany's and Austria's
Interests and. a year later the affairs
of France and Great Britain.
I, & However, although the chief OF an
Office that Is rushed with work OF va
RED sorts, Mr.. Jenkins has borne MS
burdens remarkably well, and those
who recall his newspaper work on the
Greenyille News, eight years ago, Will
not he surprised to learn that he can
relate some absorbingly apt stories
about conditions in Russia and In
Europe, the only trouble being, from
the newspaper standpoint, that most
of these stories are sub rosa since It
would not do for Mr.. jenkins to tell
sshop'' to freely, especially since he
expects to return to Riga and con-
,tinue his official duties. He left the
affairs of his consulate in charge OF
Vice Consul Broks Afford, OF Dillon,
s. C., recent graduate Of the Uni
yersity of South Carolina and only
four months at Riga. -
Part of the trip from Riga to Char
lesion where Mr.. Jenkins and child
rem arrived Snday from New York,
was made by rail, through Fmiano'
thirty miles only from the Arctic Cn-
cles. Crossing mile and q half river
In a sleigh, between Finland and
Sweden. to make connections with q
) waiting train, the Charleston travel
melteers drove over ice that was part.
" melted in the very warm sun OF
that particular day, and consequently
the runners of their sleigh frequent.
" dipped into deep pools OF
water ON the ice, the sensation being
too close that of sinking to be com
Portable.
Mr.. Jenkins has fund of anecdo-
tes to relate. He declares there is
no doubt but that prohibition in Rus.
sia prohibits, especially where ne Is
located, the territory there being
under martial law.