Book/Printed Material Six months in Port au Prince (Haïti) and my experience,
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- Contributor: Simpson, J. Montague
- Date: 1905-01-01
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- Contributor: Simpson, J. Montague
- Date: 1905-01-01
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Image 3 of Six months in Port au Prince (Haïti) and my experience, SIX MONTHS IN PORT AU PR I CE akiTI AND 17f EXPERIENCE By J 1131711TE S ON 04 PH I LADEL PH IA G S FERGUSON 001 PANY 1905
- Contributor: Simpson, J. Montague
- Date: 1905-01-01
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- Contributor: Simpson, J. Montague
- Date: 1905-01-01
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Image 5 of Six months in Port au Prince (Haïti) and my experience, IIIS EXCELLENCY NORD ALEXIS President of the Republic of Haiti By Pei mission
- Contributor: Simpson, J. Montague
- Date: 1905-01-01
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- Contributor: Simpson, J. Montague
- Date: 1905-01-01
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Image 7 of Six months in Port au Prince (Haïti) and my experience, 5 0 PREFACE IN presenting this work to the public I must explain the circumstances under which I do so as I had no intention when I forwarded my contribution to the…
- Contributor: Simpson, J. Montague
- Date: 1905-01-01
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Image 8 of Six months in Port au Prince (Haïti) and my experience, 4 PREFACE mensonges en gross which are so repeatedly said and written of them and their country Therefore when one from his personal knowledge is in a position to say a good…
- Contributor: Simpson, J. Montague
- Date: 1905-01-01
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Image 9 of Six months in Port au Prince (Haïti) and my experience, INTRODUCTION ABOUT eighteen months ago when there were fears that the election of a new President in Haiti would occasion a recurrence of those lamentable scenes which have stained the pages of…
- Contributor: Simpson, J. Montague
- Date: 1905-01-01
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Image 10 of Six months in Port au Prince (Haïti) and my experience, 6 INTRODUCTION Haiti cannot claim to have reached a high altitude of civilization Nor would any priest in Haiti be found to bless the murderers after the fashion of the Arch bishop…
- Contributor: Simpson, J. Montague
- Date: 1905-01-01
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Image 11 of Six months in Port au Prince (Haïti) and my experience, INTRODUCTION 7 ferred to an article on Haiti which appeared in the North American Review That article was written by M Leger the Haitian Minister to the United States and in it…
- Contributor: Simpson, J. Montague
- Date: 1905-01-01
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Image 12 of Six months in Port au Prince (Haïti) and my experience,
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Image 13 of Six months in Port au Prince (Haïti) and my experience, CONTENTS PAGE Preface 3 Introduction 5 CHAPTER I Authors Letter on Haitis Position 13 CHAPTER IL Affairs of HaltiEducation 18 CHAPTER III Railroads Tramcars 27 CHAPTER IV Roads and Transportation Streets 34…
- Contributor: Simpson, J. Montague
- Date: 1905-01-01
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Image 14 of Six months in Port au Prince (Haïti) and my experience, 10 CONTENTS CHAPTER IX PAGB Haiti Its Religion Morality Social and Intel lectual Conditions Religious Denominations Consecration of Bishop Holly in U S A 69 CHAPTER X Morality CHAPTER XI Intellectuality 83…
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- Date: 1905-01-01
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Image 15 of Six months in Port au Prince (Haïti) and my experience, APPENDIX PAGE Later Events and Improvements under President Nord Alexis Bank Fraud and Consequences 138 Reports Letters in Gleaner newspaper from Hon W E Powell Minister of U S A to Haiti…
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- Date: 1905-01-01
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Image 17 of Six months in Port au Prince (Haïti) and my experience, CHAPTER I HAITIS POSITION Refuting the Charges of Barbarism HISTORY OF REPUBLIC One Who Knows the Country and the People THE EDITOR Sir In you issue under date 8th October last there…
- Contributor: Simpson, J. Montague
- Date: 1905-01-01
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Image 18 of Six months in Port au Prince (Haïti) and my experience, 14 SIX MONTHS IN PORT AU PRINCE the result cannot be other than unfavorable to the republic I am pleased to find that you recognize the fact that Haiti if barbarous is…
- Contributor: Simpson, J. Montague
- Date: 1905-01-01
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Image 19 of Six months in Port au Prince (Haïti) and my experience, SIX MONTHS IN PORT AU PRINCE 15 of Wallace and Bruce and their followers History is fertile with its records of such barbarism if struggle for liberty be so named and the…
- Contributor: Simpson, J. Montague
- Date: 1905-01-01
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Image 20 of Six months in Port au Prince (Haïti) and my experience, 16 SIX MONTHS IN PORT AU PRINCE ment of public offices and conscientious control progress may take place prosperity in all respects characterize the entire place and the various means pursued to…
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- Date: 1905-01-01
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Image 21 of Six months in Port au Prince (Haïti) and my experience, SIX MONTHS IN PORT AU PRINCE 17 strongest menace as frensee or childs play at bubbles It is because Haiti cannot defend herself against a foreign power with advantage that so much…
- Contributor: Simpson, J. Montague
- Date: 1905-01-01
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Image 22 of Six months in Port au Prince (Haïti) and my experience, CHAPTER II ON THE AFFAIRS OF HAITI EDUCATION IN continuation of this subject and my promise to take up and deal with the statements of Mr Nash I have to observe that…
- Contributor: Simpson, J. Montague
- Date: 1905-01-01
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Image 23 of Six months in Port au Prince (Haïti) and my experience, SIX MONTHS IN PORT AU PRINCE 19 and as a knowledge of the English language is an im portant factor in the curriculum about six professors of English attend daily to instruct…
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- Date: 1905-01-01
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Image 24 of Six months in Port au Prince (Haïti) and my experience, 20 SIX MONTHS IN PORT AU PRINCE the Rev J A Holly B A of Durham supervised by His Lordship the Bishop Divinity College where candidates for the ministry of the Episcopal…
- Contributor: Simpson, J. Montague
- Date: 1905-01-01
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Image 25 of Six months in Port au Prince (Haïti) and my experience, SIX MONTHS IN PORT AU PRINCE 21 convent schools in Kingston Jamaica are carried on by Sisters and the attention paid to the improvement of the scholars is a characteristic feature Indeed…
- Contributor: Simpson, J. Montague
- Date: 1905-01-01
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Image 26 of Six months in Port au Prince (Haïti) and my experience, 22 SIX MONTHS IN PORT AU PRINCE Article 30 Lenseignement est libre Instruction is free Linstruction primaire est obligatoire et gratuite Primary instruction is compulsory and gratuitous Linstruction publique est gratuite a…
- Contributor: Simpson, J. Montague
- Date: 1905-01-01
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Image 27 of Six months in Port au Prince (Haïti) and my experience, SIX MONTHS IN PORT AU PRINCE 23 veillance de lEtat cette surveillance setend sur tons les etablissements deducation et denseignement sans acune distinction The liberty of education is exer cised under the…
- Contributor: Simpson, J. Montague
- Date: 1905-01-01
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Image 28 of Six months in Port au Prince (Haïti) and my experience, 24 SIX MONTHS IN PORT AU PRINCE There are many objections which can be advanced against a stringent application of such a law among a people who support themselves by agriculture hence…
- Contributor: Simpson, J. Montague
- Date: 1905-01-01
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Image 29 of Six months in Port au Prince (Haïti) and my experience, SIX MONTHS IN PORT AU PRINCE 25 It is known as a fact that very many of the young ladies of Haiti have been educated at the Convent School in Jamaica and…
- Contributor: Simpson, J. Montague
- Date: 1905-01-01
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Image 30 of Six months in Port au Prince (Haïti) and my experience, 26 SIX MONTHS IN PORT AU PRINCE This reminds me that I must be careful to state there vi are times and places where nothing but the best French would be accepted…
- Contributor: Simpson, J. Montague
- Date: 1905-01-01
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Image 31 of Six months in Port au Prince (Haïti) and my experience, CHAPTER III RAILROADS MR NASH states there are only two railroads Up to March 1902 when I left Port au Prince there was no railway in operation It was the Christmas afternoon…
- Contributor: Simpson, J. Montague
- Date: 1905-01-01
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Image 32 of Six months in Port au Prince (Haïti) and my experience, 28 SIX MONTHS IN PORT AU PRINCE we had gone for on returning we saw a large truck come along on which were conveyed several men who had been engaged on the…
- Contributor: Simpson, J. Montague
- Date: 1905-01-01
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Image 33 of Six months in Port au Prince (Haïti) and my experience, 31X MONTHS IN PORT AU PRINCE 29 But what are such to the many selfish and aggrandiz ing who seldom do a days honest work and draw their support from some government…
- Contributor: Simpson, J. Montague
- Date: 1905-01-01
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Image 34 of Six months in Port au Prince (Haïti) and my experience, 30 SIX MONTHS IN PORT AU PRINCE cars proceed from this station One takes a northeast ern route skirting the Champ Mars passing the Belvue Hotel then running along Rue des Casernes…
- Contributor: Simpson, J. Montague
- Date: 1905-01-01
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Image 35 of Six months in Port au Prince (Haïti) and my experience, SIX MONTHS IN PORT AU PRINCE 31 regarded and adopted as a safe means of locomotion on account of their peculiar construction but so they are and I have often seen them…
- Contributor: Simpson, J. Montague
- Date: 1905-01-01
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Image 36 of Six months in Port au Prince (Haïti) and my experience, 32 SIX MONTHS IN PORT Au PRINCE when one happens to get a little ihaking up or slight bruise in the cars of Jamaica The donkey added to the number of dead…
- Contributor: Simpson, J. Montague
- Date: 1905-01-01
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Image 37 of Six months in Port au Prince (Haïti) and my experience, SIX MONTHS IN PORT AU PRINCE 33 establish small shops or tramp about as peddlers selling their wares of varied kinds and always at high rates Indeed these venders are so numerous…
- Contributor: Simpson, J. Montague
- Date: 1905-01-01
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Image 38 of Six months in Port au Prince (Haïti) and my experience, CHAPTER IV ROADS AND TRANSPORTATION THE foregoing chapter deals with railroads and tram cars I now take up roads in general and transpor tation Mr Nash states The interior is passable only…
- Contributor: Simpson, J. Montague
- Date: 1905-01-01
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Image 39 of Six months in Port au Prince (Haïti) and my experience, SIX MONTIIS IN PORT AU PRINCE 35 road and it has regretfully to be stated that there was neglect observed in connection with this useful service for in the centre of the…
- Contributor: Simpson, J. Montague
- Date: 1905-01-01
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Image 40 of Six months in Port au Prince (Haïti) and my experience, 36 SIX MONTHS IN PORT AU PRINCE provided with a slot into which the coin is placed The Saturday night St Pierre suffered severely at the hands of some sacrilegious person or…
- Contributor: Simpson, J. Montague
- Date: 1905-01-01
About this Item
Title
- Six months in Port au Prince (Haïti) and my experience,
Names
- Simpson, J. Montague.
Created / Published
- Philadephia, G.S. Ferguson company, 1905.
Headings
- - Haiti
- - Port-au-Prince (Haiti)
Medium
- 153 p. ports. 21 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- F1901 .S61
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 06000017
OCLC Number
- 5860374
Online Format
- image
- online text