href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@33617@[email protected]#CHAPTER_V" class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">CHAPTER V

The Character of the Contracts—The Question of Subdivision—Some of the Difficulties—Matter Placed in the Hands of a Committee of the Colonists—Fair and Feasible Plan Adopted—Gen. Van der Voort's Arrival in La Gloria—His Boat Nearly Wrecked—Delay in Getting Baggage—Colonists Get Their Land Promptly—The Town as Laid Out—Site Well Chosen—Woods Full of Colonists Hunting for Their Plantations—Different Kinds of Soil

Population of Colony Slowly Increases—Arrival of Second Yarmouth—Sensational and Ridiculous Reports—Consternation in Asbury Park—Laughing Over Newspaper Stories—Excitement Over Sugar—Mass Meeting to Air the Grievance—An Unexpected Turn of Affairs—Cable From New York Brings Good News—Van der Voort Elected President of the Company—Sugar Orators Remain Silent—A Noisy Celebration

The Women in the Camp—Mrs. Moller—Her Costume and Extraordinary Adventures—How She Entered La Gloria—Roosts in a Tree all Night—Builds the First House in La Gloria—Her Famous Cow and Calf—Wonderful Bloomers—Ubiquitous Mrs. Horn—Weighed 250, but Waded Into La Gloria—Not "Rattled" by a Brook Running Through Her Tent—A Pig Hunt and Its Results—Surveyors Lost in the Woods

Good People to "Get Along With"—Their Kindness and Courtesy—Harmony and Good Feeling Between the Colonists and Cubans—Their Primitive Style of Living—The Red Soil and Its Stains—Rural Homes—Prevalence of Children, Chickens, and Dogs—Little Girl Dresses for Company With Only a Slipper—Food and Drink of the Cubans—Few Amusements—An Indifferent People—The Country Districts of the Province of Puerto Principe

Clearing and Planting—The Post-office—Col. John F. Early—The "Old Señor"—La Gloria Police Force—Chief Matthews' Nightly Trip "Down the Line"—No Liquor Sold, and Practically no Crime Committed—Watchman Eugene Kezar—Religious Services and Ministers—La Gloria Pioneer Association—Dr. W. P. Peirce—Mr. D. E. Lowell—Mr. R. G. Barner—Important Work of the Association

Worth of the Colonists—Gen. Van der Voort's New Cuban House—The "Lookout Tree"—Its Part in the Cuban Wars—The General's Garden—Marvelously Rapid Growth of Plants—First Birth in La Gloria—Olaf El Gloria Olson—Given a Town Lot—Temperature Figures—Perfection of Climate—The Maginniss Corduroy Road—First Well Dug—Architect M. A. C. Neff

The Man With the Hoe—"Grandpa" Withee Able to Take Care of Himself—Not Dead, but Very Much Alive—A Pugnacious Old Man—Mr. Withee Shoots Chickens and Defies the Authorities—Big Jack McCauley and His "Influence"—"Albany" and the Mosquitoes—Arrival of Third Yarmouth—Arnold Mollenhauer—John A. Connell—S. W. Storm—The First School and Its Teacher

Craving for Athletic Sports—Half Holiday Formally Proclaimed—A Beautiful Day—The Colonists Photographed—Lieut. Evans and His Soldiers of the Eighth U. S. Cavalry—Successful