Perth Amboy evening news. [volume], December 26, 1918, LAST EDITION, Page 2, Image 2

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St. Helena Prepares For Former Kaiser
t -o
Hi Helena, tale of Napoleon's exile.
Is : etting ready to receive William
IIoIh nzollern.
The Island's 4.000 inhabitant!) -
ninltteers, plantation owners, sol
dieis. even the Hoer and Zulu politi
cal prisoners from Booth Africa- -
confidently <xpect the ex-kaiser will
soon he brought here to end his days.
At tiie St. Helens club, officers in
kheh wonder whether the he.ad of
the hens will oc< upy l-ongwood.
which was Napoleon's home from
]»lo to 1821, or Kir.gihou.se, which
sheltered Piet i Tonic, the famous
beer leader.
l.om.wooU is li e more spacious and
dignified. Klngshouso tl;e more com
fortable.
KUhei Is too good for him, says
tli Hf. Helena Advertiser, while the
Guardian, tho other weekly paper,
a -erts that, if the people of James
town and the hack country are to he
Wilhelm's hosts, they must treat him
a* politely but ss firmly as possible.
Not slnec 1901 has there been so
much excitement here. In that year
it was reported among Hoer prison
ers and thi p.< it-Dutch islanders that
. - - . I 1 I
Germany, friend of the Boers, was
about lo intervene in their war
against Great Britain. Secret watch
was kept from an inland peak for
the German fleet—which never came.
i.ongwood. if the kaiser is sent
there, will be found a rambling.
* tory-and-a-half structure, on the
plateau that embrace:' much of the
island, about three miles southeast
of Jamestown, the only town. The
nmnn was originally that of a wood
td farm. The house which Napoleon
occupied was built in the eighteenth
century, and. until Napoleon's arriv
al, >vas iho home of the vice gover
nor.
Nearby is another structure known
as "Rongwood New House'' to distin
guish It from the "old house” In
which Napoleon lived.
Napoleon's tomb is in a wooded
glen half-a mile away. His body is
no longer there, having been re
moved to France in 1S<0.
Recalling that the savage /ulus
Imprisoned lino in the nineteenth
century accepted civilization and
helped Britain rule their native
countrymen after their return to
Africa, the St Helena Guardian re
— -e»
marks:
“It Is quits possible that, bearing
our experience with the black Zulus
in mind, we St. Heienans may suc
ceed in civilizing the blacker kaiser!"
There is hardly a day in history
when the island lias not been the
prison of some enemy of Britain.
The prosent captives are participants
in the pro-Oerman revolt of a Boer
faction In South Africa In 191*.
Hohenzoliern's chance of escaping,
if he Is brought to 8t. Helena, Is very
| slight. The nearest land is the British
island of Ascension. 700 miles. Africa
la 1,200 miles, South America 1,800
| miles away.
St. Helena, discovered by the Port
uguese in 1002, was settled by the
| Dutch in 1*+S, and taken by the Bri
tish In 1*57. The Dutch have cap
tured it several times. The natives
have much Dutch blood. There are
also many negroes, descendants of
' slaves.
The first of the three pictures |
above shows prisoners being landed
| at 81. Helena. Tlic lower left hand
i picture Is the tomb of Napoleon and
the one on the right is a view of
Jamestown.
UNKNOWN HEROISM
) uitkm'M Mn’rnfl Dofonv do IVrl!
rtt* Work I'nhi'whltHl
(J '■ •"<*•*«(/ Pres? Cnrr*»fp**'fennc.»
I.OX DON*. Nov. 18. Of the many
iilqritn o£ lieroUm during tho war on
vi l< of'* ial records are silent but
vhieh are being brought forth with
IV 11 "■ '■■■■ 1 ■ ■ ..
| relaxation of the censorship, is that
; of Captain Latvombe of the anti-air
craft defenses of the London District.
His job for four years has been to
; find and dispose of German aerial
, bomba tbul failed to explode when
dropped on London.
After each air-raid, and in the
early part of the war there were
many, Larcombe and hi* men would
:o about the city seeking the "duds."
it was dungorous work extricating
hem from wherever they happened
lo drop, transporting them out of the
•ity and exploding or otherwise de
stroying them. Uuriug the excite
ment after a raid few people thought
of the bombs that failed to “go oft"
but all of them have ceased to be a
menace to the city.
‘RARITAN' CANAL
N. Y.-N. J. Port and Harbor De
velopment Commission Will
Report on Feasibility
The enormous possibilities of Indus
trial development and transference of
freight routing dependent upon the
construction of the New Jersey link
of the lntercoagtal canal which la
planned to cross the state diagonally
from Bari tan bay Just south of Perth
Amhoy to the Delaware river south
of Trenton, have been tabulated by In
vestigators of the N. T.-N. J. Port
and Harbor Development Commission
and will form an Important Item In
the official report which the commis
sion Is to make to ths legislatures of
the two states.
The Delaware and Raritan canal
has been carrying an average of
400.000 tons of freight each year for
the ten-year period ending Just after
the United Htales entered the war.
During the past year this tonnage
has been largely Increased and would
very likely have been more than
doubled If Its capacity for big carriers
were greater.
The Inadequacy of the "Raritan”
canal Is due to Its shallowness. An
estimated volume of 10.000,000 tons
now carried by railroads and 10,000.
000 tons carried by coastwise carriers
over the outside route can be eonfl
denly looked for when the "Raritan"
cana I Is deepened and widened and
made a part of the Intercoastal canal
system.
The economic Importance repre
sented by the transfer of this large
freight tonnage from rail to water Is
due to the fact that water transpor
tation costs lese than ona-half the
amount by rail baaing the difference
upon freight charges under pre-war
ratings.
Under the plana completed and now
awaiting federal action. It Is provided
that the canal shall have a uniform
<w Ural draft of twenty-tve feet and ]
ba widened euffldentty to permit largo
coastwise carriers pass without dan -1
**Aslde from ths Industrial and com;!
merclal advantages of the "Raritsn I
intercoastal canel the report of the In-1
\ estimators shows by official records
the great value It will have from «
purely military or naval standpoint.
With the "Raritan" link In commis
sion, warships of all but the largest
battleship type could travel from Bos
ton to Delaware bay without going
outside Wbst this would mean In the
cast of a war brought to our own
coast 11ns can only be estimated In
billions
Dlamsnd Not Most Valuable.
It Is a popular error to suppose that
the diamond Is the moat valuable of
the precious atones. The relative valua
of the finer gems places the ruby at
the head of the list; the diamond sec
ond, and. following tbta. the sapphire.
It Is a vary common occurrence to find
a perfect diamond, bnt a perfect ruby
Is rare.
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