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REPORTED DESTRUCTION OF JAMAICA'S CAPITAL
Leading Buildings De
stroyed, 100 Killed
The most Important party in the city
consisted of several , English statesmen
and others who, under the leadership
\u25a0 of Sir Alfred Jones, had arrived in
Kingston within tho last few days to
attend nn agricultural conference
there. Among the company were llal\
Calne. the novelist; Viscount Montmor
res, H. O. Arnold-Forster. M. P.; Sir
Thomas Hughes, Sir Thomas Shann and
others of equal prominence.
The first great shock was felt about
2:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon and
flames sprang immediately from the
wreckage to carry on the work of de
struction. Today the fire was still
burning, although it was believed to be
under control. *'
The Myrtle Bank Hotel, the principal
one ln Kingston, which probably shel
tered the great bulk of visitors on the
inland, is reported destroyed. The great
military hospital was burned and forty
soldiers are reported dead.
Sir James Ferguson is said to have
been' Instantly killed, but according to
I^ondon reports no' otftwr Englishman.
C&nadian or American is believed to be
missing.
The extreme of the destruction which
has been wrought in Kingston, a rity
which already bears the scars of a
number of disastrous visitations of fire,
earthquake and cyclone in years gone
by. is still left largely to the Imagi
nation.
AMERICA* SHirs ESC.VPE
The city was one of lowlying bulld
i ings clustered along the shores of one
i of the finest and most securely land-,
locked harbors ln the West Indies. The
1 population, which numbers f.0.000, was
largely made up of native blacks.
Many steamers carrying tourists to
Jamaica, were en route to the island
when the earthquake occurred, but it
ko happened that, according to sched
ules, none of the ships from New York
or Boston was in Kingston harbor yes
terday afternoon.
Right Hon. Sir James Ferguson,
mprxioned in the foregoing dispatch.
vas a man of much prominence. He
\u25a0 served in the Crimean campaign with
the Grenadier Guards and was present
at the battles of Alma and Inkerman,
where he was wounded, and the siege
of Seb&ptopol. He was several times
a member of the House of Commons.
He was Under Secretary of State and
the Home Department ln Lord Derby's
third and Disraeli's first administra
tion. He was made Governor of South j
Majority of Committee Will
Support Primary Amendment
* 1 Jl . ; . , v
i Continued From Vatsv J, Column l"
wants to serurc Immediate amendment
of the present primary law, which he
believes will serve to ameliorate some
of the State's political ills, pending the
enactment of a direct primary law.
Wyatt is frankly not in favor of a
direct primary ciw-doii law on prin
ciple, and he cays that no such law
can be passed without a constitutional
amendment, and since his party is
pledged to the enactment of such a
law he favors the submission of an
amendment, and unless 'he can find that
the pledge is not ironclad he will
support the amendment.
i>iii.i-:.ma\ wvons law
Eshleman has no strings on his sup
port of a constitutional amendment.
In fact, Eshleman is in favor of sub
mitting as many questions as may he
so submitted to the people. He not
only believes ln the submission of the
amendment, but he believes in direct
primary reform and is pledg-ed to sup
port such legislation, should he be a
, member of the Legislature in which it
is introduced.
Cutten is another member of the
committee who hangs no reservations
on his promise to work and vote for
direct primary reform. He is for the
submission of the Constitutional
amendment, and pending its adoption
and the enactment of a comprehensive
direct primary law he wants Hhe pres
ent primary law made compulsory in
his county.
Forbes, the Democratic member of
&ie committee, has pledged himself to
support direct primary legislation. His
only reservation lies in his unwilling
ness to support anything that will
have a tendency to prevent the birth
nnd development of parties. Forbes
believes In parties generally — some
times in his own.
In short, since the introduction of
t*ie Held amendment six s>t the seven
members of the - committee to which
it was referred have announced them
selves as favoring it. If not specifically
as drawn, without substantial change.
One of them will vote for the submis
sion of an amendment not because he
believes in the principle underlying it,
but because his partj' has pledged him
to it. All of them are on record.
With the majority of that committee
lies the power to put the membership
at the Assembly on: record.
With the exercise of reasonable dili
gence it should be .the matter of but
ten days before the people "of the State
may know in what degree the Asscxn*
bJy intends to keep faith:
Beckett Is The Sworn
Puppet of Boss Ruef
By the grace of the State Legislature
"tlie morals of California have been en
trusted to the tender care of Abraham
Ruef., Why it was that out of the
2,000,000 personß in California Ruef
was chosen to administer to the moral
wants of the populace only the Legis
lature can explain. Samuel H. Beckett,
Assemblyman from the Thirty-eighth
District . in San Francisco, was made
chairman of the Assembly committee on
public morals by Speaker Beardslce-
Beckett, under oath .In Judge Dunne'*
court, has sworn eternal fealty to Ruef.
- Beckett's devotion to Ruef would
awaken the envy of Romeo. Beckett
himself is authority for the statement
that before consenting to run for office
he asked Ruef if he had any objections.
"I didn't want to do anything Co dis
please Mr. Ruef," said Beckett. As
guardian of the public morals he will,
therefore, act only with the consent of
liin master.
Ruefs desire to control tlie committee
on public morals was occasioned by the
report that the Legislature would take
cognizance of the existence in San
Francisco of dnns of - vice which paid
tribute to the boss. Naturally Beckett
would pass a matter of such Import
up to Ruef.
There is, however, another interest-
Australia ln 186S, Governor of Now
Zealand in 1573, and Governor of Bom
bay in ISBS.
Distinguished Englishmen
in the Destroyed City
IXSNDON, Jan. 15. — The only news of
the «arthquako at Kingston, Jamaica,
thus far received in London is con
tained in brief dispatches from New
York.
In addition to a great number of
Englishmen in business at Kingston
there is et present a party of distin
guished persons, headed by Sir Alfred
Jones, on a visit there to attend an
agricultural conference. This party
left Bristol, England, on December 30
on board the steamer Port Kingston
for Kingston. It was composed of
about fixty prominent British states
men and agricultural experts. -It
formed an expedition to the West In
dies in the interest of cotton growing
in British colonies, on the invitation, of
Sir Alfred Jones, president of , the
British Cotton Growing Association.
A conference of spinners and planters
had bpon planned to be held in King
ston. On this voyage the Port King
ston went first to Barbadoes, where
she embarked some thirty delegates
from that colony to attend the con
ference.
, The party on board the Port King
ston arrived at Kingston on Friday
last. The Port Kingston. In addition
to the members of Kir Alfred Jones'
party, had other guests and passengers
"on board which gay« her a total pas
senger list of more than 100 persons.
The news of the disaster reached
lxm<Jon too late tonight to become
generally known to the public, but it
is certain to cause widespread conster
nation and anxiety and it will bring
home to the imagination of the British
people the terror of an earthquake as
rvfn the Ran Francisco catastrophe
failed to do.
Owing to the activity in recent years
of Joseph Chamberlain and Sir Alfred
Jones the commercial development of
Jamaica has made the island much
better known and It has been greatly
in favor as a winter resort.
EVAXS ORDERED TO KINGSTON
WASHINGTON. Jan. 15. — Secretary of
the Navy Mctcalf tonight Bent a cable
dispatch to Admiral Evans,' in com
mand of the United States fleet off
Ing Bide to .the matter. Eshleman's
anti-ra<-ing "bill was* referred to the
committee on' public morals. It ts un
derstood that anti-prise fight bills will
go to the same committee. Ruef has
had dealings with the prize fight pro
moters. It is not recorded that he has
come In contact with the managers of
the racing game. Hpwever the men in
terested are aware that the chairman
of the committee on public moraJs
will transact bus isetohsnruG -).'•€•
will transact business through the Bush
street office.
Hints at Collusion in
Grain Bag Industry
CALL HEADQUARTERS,
1007 ISIGHTH STREET.
SACRAMENTO. Jan. 15.— The Assem
bly adopted a' resolution today calling
on the committee on State prisons and
reformatories to Investigate the Jute
bag industry, "to the end that the peo
ple of the State may underetand why
there has be'on an unequal distribution
of grain bags to the farmers; qnd, fur
ther, that the charges of mismanage
ment and collusion on the part of the
officials and bag speculators may be
fully explained or the charges proven."
Assemblyman J. I. McConnell, a Dem
ocrat from Woodland, introduced the
resolution, which, after reciting that
the intention of the lawmakers in hav
ing the State manufacture jute bags in
its prisons was not only to provide em
ployment for prisoners, but to assist
agricultural interests by furnishing
grain bags at cost to grain growers,
went on to say:
"There is a common belief extant
among the taxpayers of all class&s that
the Btate bag industry has been 5 con
ducted, either Intentionally or indifFer
ently, in. the interests of middlemen
and bag speculators."
Limits Time to Comply
With Demand for Cars
CALL, HEADQUARTERS.
1007 EIGHTH STREET.
SACRAMENTO, Jan. 15.—Assembly
man "A. M. Drew of Fresno, who is
called an antiorgranlzation Republican,
hurled a spear at William F. Herrin
and the Southern Pacific Company to
day when he introduced a bill to com
pel railway companies to furnish cars
within a reasonable time after appli
cation or forfeit $25 a day for each
absent car.
Drew figures that three days is suffi
cient time for a railroad to comply with
a demand for ten cars, but would al
low such a corporation ten days to*
bring around fifty cars. In order to
be fair he stipulates that the shipper
must load the cars. within forty-eight
hours after he has received notice of
their arrival or pay $25 a day for each
car not used. The bill also provides a
similar penalty for failure to unload
cars. . *"- : .. .
Repeal of Anti=Cartoon
Law Is Urged by Jury
CALL HEADQUARTERS,
1007 KIGHTII STREET.
SACRAMENTO. Jan. 15. — Bills' to re
peal the .-intlcartoon law and the law
commanding that all newspaper articles
be'slgned are now being; prepared by
Assemblyman R. H. Jury of San'Mateo:
Th«*tse laws were paused in 1899 at. the
insistence of drove L. Johnson. Both
have since lain dead on the statute
books. Several years ago- Judge Sea
well of San 'Francisco rendered a de
cision declaring the anticartoon law
unconstitutional.
Assemblyman Jury has another* Im
portant bill whicb he is* to submit to
THE 'SAN FRANCISCO "CALi;; 7 WEDNESDAY; JANUARY ,16, 1907.
Guantanamo, Cuba, requesting 1 him to
Investigate the extent of the earth
quake disaster in Jamaica and report
to the department. Admiral Evans is
authorized to proceed if necessary to
Kingston, 'which is about a twelve
hour trip from Guantanamo.
Cable Dispatches Tell of
Temblor and Flames
BOSTON. Jan. 15. — Allen A. Ainslic
of the firm of Alnslin & Grabow, pro
prietors of tho Titehfield Hotel at Port
Antonio, received a cable dispatch to
night from his partner, Edward Gra
bow, at Port Antonio, stating that
Kingston was shaken' by an earth
quakes yesterday afternoon and that a
fire was raging there. The dispatch
added that the earthquake did no dam
age on the north side of the island,
where the Titehfield Hotel 13 situated.
Tho officials of the United Fruit
Company received a cable dispatch
from the company's representative at
Port Antonio tonight stating that an
earthquake occurred "at Kingston on
Monday and that part of the city was
on fire. No mention was made of any
loss of life. The cable was sent from
the cable station at Holland Bay, which
Is located in the swampy section of the
inland, some miles from Port Antonio.
From the tone of the cablegram it Is
thought the fire would be under control
tonight. The statement Is made that
the total loss of life ha 3 not yet been
ascertained. ,
The first count gives the number of
dead at less than 100' and the number
of injured at several hundred. The
hospitals are filled with injured per
sons and everything possible is being
don« for their comfort.
The principal hotel of Kingston (the
Myrtle Bank Hotel) and other Impor
tant buildings have been destroyed and
other houses in Kingston - sustained
considerable damage.
The fiames apparently were confined
to the docks and the warehouse dis
trict If this was so only a small por
tion of the city has been burned over.
Xo mention Is made of a continuance
of the earth shocks.
Slight Shock Is Felt in
Holland Bay District
NEW YORK, Jan. 15. — The, following
cablegram was received tonight at the
office of the Hamburg-American Line:
"HOLLAND BAY, Jamaica, Jan. 15,
5:30 p. m.— Slight earthquake here yes
terday. No damage. No damage at
Port Antonio or to the Titchfleld Hotel.
Advise yenar papers."
Holland Bay. wh<ye is situated a ca
ble hut, from which the above cable
gram was sent, is about forty miles
the Assembly.- tomorrow. He will ask
the adoption of an amendment require
ing persons, firms, associations or cor
porations engaged In the business of
lending money, receiving deposits,
banking or insurance in any form, shall
publish reports at .least once a year in
some, newspaper printed in the county
or counties in which they do business.
The penalty prescribed for failure to
publish is revocation of license. The
hill has been indorsed by the. California
Press Association." ," .V" \.
Additional Xewn of <lir' ri.eslftlature on
ELECTION OF\* DIRECTOR^
OAKLAND, Jar* 15.— The Chamber of
Commerce tonight" elected the follow^*
ing directors: John Charles Adams,
Charles D. Bates, Frank W.
Arthur H. Breed, H. C. Capwell.'l. H.-
Clay, D. Edward : Collins, H. D. Cush
ing, J. C. Downey, W. E. Gibson, Theo
dore Gler, C. J. Heeseman, E. A. Heron,
E. H. Horton. F. A. Leach' Jr., Walter S.
Mackay. Edwin 'Meese, B. P.* Miller."
John Mitchell. Frank K. Mott, J. W.
Phillips. The board will- organize on
Thursday. - /.-
t; We beg to apologize. to our hundreds of patrons that vre w;ere not able Jj§s
to waitmpon last Monday and Tuesday. On account of the threatening and fl^
bad Viyeather, we did not expect to have the great rush that came. AYe wish
to state that we have engaged TEN extra! salesmen, and we are now in a \ss
position to wait upon you and fill your | "'.'' \u0084;' 'V' : " / ' ZHX
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Colonial Office Receives
Confirmation Report
LONDON. Jan. 15. — Tlie Colonial
Office ' received confirmation tonights of
the 'terrible disaster which has-over
taken': Kingston, Jamaica, in a dispatch
from Sir Haniar ' • Greenwood, M. P.,
sent from Holland Bay, at the east end
of tho. island. - ' . ..
The telegram liays that Kingston has
been ruined by an .earthquake; which
occurred '.without warning. Monday af
ternoon at 3:30 ".o'clock. A great num
ber^jof; bulldin"gs ; and dwellings were
destroyed either by tho earthquake or
by the fire that followed. \u25a0
,The,miltary. hospital was burned and
forty soldiers' .were reported to have
been killed: ' }\ '"" v v -
Reports Nearly Whole
of City Destroyed ;
j HALIFAX, .N. J3.. Jan. 15,-^The.minu
ter, of the. Halifax and Bermuda Cable
Company has .received \u0084.a. cable ,. from
William Sullivan, ..manager.. of the Ber
muda Cable Company at, Kingston. The
dispatch is dated Holland Bay" and
reads:.. . . " ' , ..:
"Nearly; whole of city destroyed by
earthquake ahd.flrc Staff all safe with
tho exception of one member, who -is
seriously Injured." ,
ADVICES .ARE MEAGER
Hamburg-American Steamship j Com
pany. Receives* Unconfirmed JVcwh
The local agency of the Hamburg-
American Steamship Company re-<
ceived the following .dispatqh yester
day from its New York office:
"Western Union Telegraph Com
pany has advised us that communica
tion with Kingston. Jamaica, also with
the isthmus, -via Jamaica, is ..inter
rupted,: apparently by earthquake.
Later advices 'say that land line com
munication has been restored within
five miles of Kingston. -Reported
that. Kingston .destroyed by earth
quake," with much. loss, of life. / No
authentic j confirmation obtainable so
far. . Wo have no steamer at King
ston. We have cabled to St. Thomas.
Port Antonio; ' Colon, and Cuba for all
possible Information., We shall, keep
you advised.".-.; \u25a0'•: . . - ;
RECORDED AT WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON. Jan. 15.^-Tho wea
ther bureau officials stated .that tho
seismograph reported a- slight earth
quake yesterday. Tlie motion. It was
ACCUSED WHALER
PLEADS GUILTY
-: SEATTLE, Jan.' 15.-fCaptain E. W.
Newtb, the .whaling .master:^ who has
been held .hero for '. the. - ; past -three
month 3 awaltirfgrti-ial""on a. s statutory
charge,^pleaded: guilty, thlsjafternoon
in ; the: United States District Court" to
an 1 attempt' tc» commit; a felony on the
hlgh' : ' sfatt. 'The' pleading; was' on a
lesser degrre of the crime of kwhich Itte
was accused. Judge 'Hanford sentenced
him to ono'day's": imprisonment "and
pay/a ; fine of ?2,500 and-the costs of
prosecution. Captalnn Newth will pay
the fine and costs in order" to save fur
ther imprisonment.
Cargo books, lumber tally books, en
gineers' log books, cargo
vessel pay- roll?, masters'- and engi
neers' reports. Le Count, Clarke & Or
mond; 220 Market street. .- . . •
said, was but one-flftiotTi of an inch.
Tho disturbance besan, at 3:38.23 p..m.
Tho stronger ; motion was from "east
to west and : lasted from 3:45 to 3:52.
SAXTIAOO lIEARSJOP iiISASTER
SANTIAGO. "Cuba.V Jan. 15.— Reports
have been ,rGO<>ivoililfGre that Klngstdni
Jamaica; was visited' bS' a terrible
oarthquake\. yesterday afternoon.at 4
o'clock. There was ' > great destruction
of property" and loss '•' of life and'-King
ston is now on -fire. r - .
Series^bf Devastations
.Kingston is the capital" of the islaml
of Jamaica and the; principal seaport
and commercial city. It \is situated
upon" the south coast and on the north
side of a fine harbor. The latter Is a
land-locked basin, available 'for "'the
largest ships, 'arid Is inclosed' on the
south f by' a Jong tongue of land, at tho
extremity; of. which is Port Royal. 'The
population of .Kingston . was about
50,000. . • ; ; "•-
The only volcanic formation in the
island. is. that at ' the Lowloyton and
Retreat estates in the parish of Pert
land, ,41 -rnllo^ .from : the "sea, in.jthe
county' of .'!Suf fey, "in which Kingston
is situated. 'There is, however, no de
fined .crater. Tho coast formation of
Surrey., is" of : white; and -yMlow lime
stone. , The greater part of the country
is^moiintainous. , . - . \u25a0; ;
I In August, 1903. Jamaica was swept
by/ahurricanV which almost destroyed
Port Antonio and caused damage in the.
island amounting 'to $1,000,000. Thou
sands of houses in Kingston were dam
aged and several coasting vessels were
sunk. \u0084 . . .
On November 13 last a sharp earth-,
quake was felt in the southland in. the
north of the^. Island. It was followed
immediately, by a second shock. .
In 1692 a great earthquake destroyed
Port Royal, of whose 2000 houses only
100 were, left standing. It was. thl3
catastrophe which led to the founding
of Kingston, many .of , the "survivors
removing - to where • "Kingston now
stands. ... : >»i - . * .
\u25a0;rln-1752; r In - 17S2 a severe 'conflagration visited
Kingston, destroying property to the
value of $2,500,000, and in 1843 another
fire caused damage of. $15,000,000. _;
In August, 1880, aj cyclone' passed
over t}ie eastern part of Jamaica,, de
stroyiil? nearly all the" wharves in the
harbor of Kingston, and caused much
damage to the shipping in the harbor.
There was a double shock of earth
quake at Kingston^in ,18S0. i \u25a0
A tremendous hurricane- visited Ja
maica in 1815. The whole island was
deluged, hundreds .of houses were
washed away," vessels .were wrecked
and 1000- persons were drowned. . . \u25a0
.Kingston 'is .'Maid' out With regular
and wide streets. The better class of
KILLS HIMSELF IN
SON'S PRESENCE
-BUTTE, Mont., Jan.; 15— A Miner spe
cial from Plains* Mont., says . L.. -c,D.
Thomas,, a prominent, farmer, .blew his
brains put last. night in the presence. of
'his" l4-ykar-old;son: '. \u25a0'._' , : ;.. . . \u25a0.:;.. -
v'; The^ Vboy claims his father was re
moving cartridges / "fr'tfm ,'; a" revolver
when one exploded, the ball going
through the ceiling. Then Thomas
dropped the gun, but picked It up again.
The boy heard a second report arid saw
his father, fall back, the blood oozing
from his head. .
WANT CASES TRIED HERE
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.—Represent
atives Hayes and Kahn spoke today be
fore the House judiciary committee in
opposition to the Humphreys bill, ' pro
viding-vthat litigants in Alaskan cases
shall take their business to Seattle In
stead of San Francisco. .*.,<-
Ppsftibed and Endcttsed
b^ a Temperance Doctor
\ '\u25a0]:: /'•-.:'.-- '-"'-,..''.;'./;; -. ;.| Dr. T. P. Palmer, Rives,
Term., heartily endorses
" smw^MMmk Duffy's. Pure Malt Whis-
i^^^^^ffi ke >'' the §reat renevver ot
SlSl^ Dr. Palmer, who is a
strong temperance man,
; i»i^»^«. praises Duffy's Pure Malt
' Whiskey as a
: ' and for medical use only."
\^^^^^^^W^s, "I endorse Duffy's Pure Malt
Ik Whiskey as a medicine and for medi-
/^||^^^^^P^j|p^^^^ ca^ use an<^ or notn i n § e^ se - oppose
\u25a0''\u25a0\u25a0/^fe.''^" J; ""^^SBB intemperance and favor all laws that
'^%^^^'^f^^^^^^^^o ten<^ towarc^ l^ e suppression of drunk-
. " .'.' * -~ : - > -- \u25a0*'•', „_"""•". " i\ives, 1 enn., Aug. a IVUO.
• - DR. T. P. TALMER. °-
Dr. Palmer is one of many thousands of doctors throughout the United States wfcd
prescribe Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey whenever a tonic stimulant is needed.
Dtif^s Pure Malt Whiskey
The leading hospitals throughout the world use Duffy'* Pure Malt Whiskey as the
only alcoholic medicine for convalescents. '
If you wish to keep strong and vigorous and have on your cheeks the glow or perfect
health, take Duffy's Pure Malt . Whiskey regularly, according to directions, and take no
other medicine. It is dangerous to ,£ll your
system with drugs.. Thiy poison the body >^o'p'<'^ t .
and depress the heart, While Duffy's Pujc >^yflß*' Ck /]^v
Malt Whiskey tones and strengthens the i^fSx^^^N^WK^
heart action and purifies the entire system. /^cVyffiCcj
111 1 is recognized as a medicine everywhere. flr^f 3\
Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey has bean ar.- //&?/ ' c/^Saß^. \S*U
alyzed and tested by chemists for the past Ij^if V^tk /M<3&¥ Vf^U
fifty years, and has always been found abso- /|Q/ I^ll
lutely pure and to contain great medicinal li^l =^^^k^^^^^fei. fSif
CAUTION— When you ask your dru?Rist, jro- \\ V/^^llj^f^t^^St^^/ /
cer or dealer for Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey b* \. jSij^^tJjjSSfi^^^& Ml
sure you get the genuine. It's the ore abso- W> N^OiflFS^tt&SrS^y //
lutely pure medicinal whiskey and is sold only in r^<p JJ
sealed Dottles — never in bulk. Look for tha trade- V%?*jfr>».J *J*K3UCKJ!SS^«5r JV
mark, the "Old Chemist," on the label, and J&N£>»i?{ro2s!?fc^O Jf
make sure the seal over the ccrk is unbrokin. >Sl?^?^J^i£^ il> * o^V» >^'^
Price, $1.00. Illustrated medical bookie* kt& fJlt+TliSr
doctor's advice free. Duify Malt Whiskey Co.,
Rochester, -N. Y. :> r ; ; " I1 ««B***^ ,;
houses were neatly' built, with wide
verandas and surrounded by handsome
gardens. Street cars ran to the suburbs
and. two lines of railway connected the
city with the northern and eastern
parts of the island.
Kingston had a' botanical garden,
library, museum, hospital and various
other public buildings, and is the seat
of "an Anglican bishopric. \u25a0
NUI oU MUtn HOW
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When new, but how it sounds when it has had lonsr.
v> hard :sery ice, >that shows its real excellence.
THE LUDWBG PIANO
Js magnificent when new, and Aik beauty does not
:"fade. Its finish is of permanent elegance, just as its
inner workings are of lastingiperfection.
The p*rice % of the. Ludwig i^ based on the rock- I
foundation of fairness.
Small monthly payments if you like.
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The harbor of Kingston is considered
to be one of the finest in the worM
and is protected by forts." The com
mercial houses of the city have exten
sive relations with Central Cuba and
Central America, as well as with the
United States and Europe.
New York city spends $21, 520,000 an^
nually on education. '