The daily telegram

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Dessallnes ordered' a wholesale mas-

acre of the whites, which wia'carrfed jl

out with' shbcUlng' brutality. The

"white people1 with their'.wealth, were I

driven, from the land. In lies th? I,

Island-was divided as. the people cair- >1

Ins themselves Dominicans revolted

and obtained their freedom from-the n

negro rule of -the Haitian side of the I

Island. The day, February 37th. 18*4. 1

has ever since'been kept sacred as: the ti

blrpiday of the Dcfcnlnlcan Republic.

Rut this'did not stop revolutions, for i

there were not enough officers to go i

around, and from, time .to time there 'i

have been uprisings. 1

Santo -Domingo fairly teems with 1

ruins Whose historic associations.can- i

not fail to Interest Americans.. His-, i

tory tells us tbat'Columbus landed on

the spot now known as Santo. Domingo

City and nanfed the' city for the saint

of.that, day, Tradition -has- It- that he

tied his" boat to: a tree on the edge of

Uie Ozataa Rlverr and, tljls' old) tree,

gnarled And-,beiit,-Is-looked upon with

almost superstitious veneration-, by- the

natives.- The ruins of an-old. building

on the .opposite side- of the river are

pointed .out as;the place of the. humlll?

atlon of the discoverer. A splendid

-monument has bijen ."set up in; the

cathedral to his memory, and .some

historians declares that the'monument

contains his bones.

Bad Roads.

To; b? sure, tha itPMts At I/.

are; not weU;kept- and. many of, them j

are full, of gulllea, yet an American- l

made automobile; 1b, used is* -a'sort, of t

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

The daily telegram. (1914). Clarksburg, W. Va., 1914-08-15. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn85059715/1914-08-15/ed-1/?sp=12

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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: The daily telegram, 1914-08-15.