NOT A WHITE MAN'S COUNTRY. ~ But Hayti Has Timber Wealth, Says Citizen of Port au Prince.

May 21, 1909
NOT A WHITE MAN'S COUNTRY.

But Hayti Has Timber Wealth, Says
Citizen of Port au Prince.

William Hepple, a resident of Port au Prince, Hayti, who is a guest at the Blossom house, yesterday declared that there was in the islands of Hayti miles of high forests of white and yellow pine and mahogany. Mr. Hepple is in Kansas City to secure aid in cutting these forests and milling the lumber.

Mr. Hepple said that the country had recuperated from the effects of the recent revolution and that the people were well satisffied with the present administration of President Simon. He declared that Hayti was not a white man's country and that no white man could prosper there unless he had plenty of money, or was commissioned to represent foreign interests.