Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1893 — The Queen of the Antilles. [ARTICLE]

The Queen of the Antilles.

Jamaica has perhaps made greater strides in the way of progress than any of England’s smaller colonies during the past twenty-five years, and has some right now to call herself “tbe Queen of the Antilles.” Among the evidences of improvement may be cited the hotels which have sprung up in the island, for the building of one of which £24.000 was ox pended. Then the Americans are laying lines of railway through the best part of- the island, and the fruit cultivation is now ns productive as that of sugar, while the price of land has risen enormously. Carlyle’s shade would be astonished to hear that the oace thriftless blacks have managed to put by nsarly half a million pounds in their savings bamkc-—(London World.