The Virgin islands of the United States of America; historical and descriptive, commercial and industrial facts, figures, and resources . red byMinistry of Finance and local government—Five post-offices—Subsidies—Money-order business during 1915—No wirelessstations—Two daily newspapers in St. Thomas and three in The only means of transportation on the island ofSt. John is by horseback. Narrow and uneven roadsover steep and irregular hills are far from suitable forcarriages or vehicles of any kind, but horses may behired at most of the settlements for two dollars perday and the servic
The Virgin islands of the United States of America; historical and descriptive, commercial and industrial facts, figures, and resources . red byMinistry of Finance and local government—Five post-offices—Subsidies—Money-order business during 1915—No wirelessstations—Two daily newspapers in St. Thomas and three in The only means of transportation on the island ofSt. John is by horseback. Narrow and uneven roadsover steep and irregular hills are far from suitable forcarriages or vehicles of any kind, but horses may behired at most of the settlements for two dollars perday and the services of a good guide may be procuredat a nominal figure. Carriages are more in favour in St. Thomas wherethere are about fifteen miles of fairly good roads, andare available for driving about the city, and over thecountry districts, at rates prescribed by law. Carts ofvarying descriptions are in vogue among the countryfolk; the small, two-wheeled affair, painted blue, diawnby a horse or donkey, appearing to be most the early part of 1916 two automobiles wereimported into St. Thomas, and they were the first 148. B o w 5 S O m Transportation 149 except for exhibition purposes that were ever seen onthe island. These were rented by the hour to individ-uals about town and to tourists, and were very popularfor a time. It was generally expected that a specialinterest on the part of the local government and thepeople in the betterment of the roads over the islandwould result from the introduction of these two ma-chines, and a movement was begun with this end inview. Then the hurricane came, with all of its de-vastations of roads as well as of buildings, before anydefinite action was taken in the matter, and feelingthat the time was not yet ripe for the luxury of auto-mobiles in St. Thomas, the owners disposed of theirmachines very soon afterwards. Therefore if onedesires to climb the mountains surrounding the cityone must do it on horseback or on foot. In the harb
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