Saturday, the 4th of May 1878.
In a small island like ours to miss even one among the old familiar faces is so eventful thing and brings with it some sadness But when we have to chronicle many changes, permanent and temporary, we cannot help realizing vividly what a shifting scene this world of ours is after all.
The first of these changes that we notice is the departure from the island of Captain Raupach, K. D. the commander of the forces here for many years. His term of service having expired, he is now leaving to spend the remainder of his life in that rest which anyone may well feel himself entitled to after having served his country as a military man for 46 years, 43 of which have been spent in the West Indies, and having during all that time been a most efficient officer. He also acted for a short time as Royal Treasurer, and Churchwarden of the Lutheran Church. We wish him, new that active service is over, many years of life and health.
With the departure of Captain Raupach the Fort ceases to be a fort any longer. As our readers are aware, It is to be used in future as a Police Office &c. How ever much this measure may be demanded by the pecuniary circumstances of the colony, we cannot help deploring it from what we may call an aesthetic point of view. And even on higher grounds than a mere matter of taste, we do earnestly wish the Fort could have been kept us a fort. Anyhow we are glad that its present Captain has not seen it changed in his day. His successor, who is Baron Rosencrantz from St. Thomas, will live in what is now the telegraph office. But this move, and others consequent on it, we shall allude to when they occur.
Judge Jürs is leaving us for a year, and we know that we only express the universal feeling of this community when we say that his loss will he deeply felt even for a year. His duties are to be discharged during his absent by Mr Nyssum from St. Thomas. That they will be efficiently discharged we have no doubt, but we arc sure Mr. Nyssum will permit us to say that, if he is only another Judge Jürs, we wish for nothing better. To be Police Master is not a pleasant office, we should think. To be the Dealing Master of late years in St. Croix has been a very difficult thing indeed, involving problems almost as hard to solve as any we met with in our mathematical days. But the urbanity and equity of the Judge's career is known to us all. We trust to see him return after his weil-earned year's holiday in perfect health.
The Rev. T. Engholm has come into residence in his new parish of Christiansted during the last few days. We wish for him much happiness and usefulness in his new sphere, one in which his predecessor earned, as we noticed in these columns when he was leaving us, much esteem and love. We believe Mr. Engholm's successor in West End is appointed, but we have not heard his name.
But our changes run through all the professions - not clerical and legal only, but medical also. Dr. Knudsen, who has been faithfully acting as King's Physician since Dr Aagaard's death, now retires from that office, as Dr. Kalmer is gazetted to it. We rejoice in the assurance that the permanent stay among us of a man of Dr. Kalmer's proved ability is thus secured to the community and his many patients. Dr. Neumann will now be physician to the poor, and in him we believe the poor will always find a sympathising friend.
(St. Croix Avis 4. maj 1878).
Kaptajn Heinrich Andreas Raupach (1813-1882) var tjenstgørende 1835-1878 i Dansk Vestindien. Han var født på St. Thomas og blev som 8-årig sendt til sin onkel og tante i København, senere Herlufsholm og genså aldrig sine forældre der døde. Han uddannede sig som officer og kom januar 1835 til St. Croix. Han blev her chef for artilleriet i Frederikssted og Christianssted. Han avancerede til fort- og kompagnichef ved Christiansværns Fort. Han tegnede en del portrættegninger af samtidige dansk-vestindere. Efter hjemkomsten levede han et roligt liv og blev begravet på Solbjerg Kirkegård (Frederiksberg).
H. A. Jürs var foruden at være auditør og underdommer også medlem af kolonialrådet.
Som nævnt blev fortet i Christiansted omdannet til politistation, hvilket blev uddybet den 19. juni 1878:
Wednesday,19th of June 1879.
The conversion of the Fort at Christiansted into a Police Office involves several smaller changes which our readers will no doubt expect us to notice as items of local news. All those who happen to live in Christiansted or within a couple of miles of the town will have noticed that the morning and evening gun is no longer fired. Some will perhaps feel like missing an old friend, but they will no doubt soon get used to his absence. For our own part we must say that there was something pleasant in the sound of the morning gun calling the town to renewed lite and activity; but we could never see any poetry in the evening gun. Both however have now disappeared before the spirit of reform which is remoulding Santa Cruz into a new, and let us hope a better shape.
We have been informed that the military band which hitherto performed at the Fort on Sunday afternoons will play from 5 to 6 o'clock in the Barrack Garden where chairs and benches will be provided for visitors.
The officers of the Telegraph Company are busy in removing to their new room in the Depot, where they will have cooler quarters than before and be closer to the business part of the town, an improvement which will be appreciated by those who have business transactions with St. Thomas.
(St. Croix Avis 19. juni 1878).
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