Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1909 — KING OF SWAN ISLAND. [ARTICLE]

KING OF SWAN ISLAND.

He’s a Philanthropist and Well Liked. Especially by Beamen. Among the saloon passengers arriving in Boston recently on the steamer San Jose, from Port Limon, Costa Rica, was Alonzo Adams, owner of Swan Island, and who is known throughout Central America ah the king of Swan Island. His domain is a fertile island situated in tue Caribbean Sea, upon which he has a beautiful residence and numerous houses for his laborers. He raises fruit and cocoanuts and employs several hundred men. Mr. Adams is a philanthropist, and has assisted not only the inhabitants of several of the friends of the Caribbean, but is of especial help to mariners. Knowing the value of a light to guide the vesrsels running through the Caribbean on their way from New York and Boston to Port Limon and other points, he built and maintains a light on the island, which can be seen for many miles, and rays of which warn the captains of steamers not to approach too close to the shallow waters In the vicinity. Mr. Adams is sixty-five years old and is a native of Eastport. He keeps informed of what Is transpiring in the world by the papers brought to him by passing steamers. —Philadelphia Press.