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Title: Trinidad: then and now. Being a series of sketches in connection with the progress and prosperity of Trinidad, and personal reminiscences of life in that island 1874-1912
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Brierley, J. N
Subjects: Captain Baker, inspector general (commander of the police force) in Trinidad 1877 - ?
Publisher: Trinidad: Franklin's electric printery
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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against him, his efforts in thesame direction met with organised opposition andsubsequent abuse from those who previously praisedhim. Year by year just before the Carnival—particu-larly the Carnival of 1881—broken stones werespread out on what were, and I believe still are,called the French Streets, that is, all the streetslying east of Henry Street. The police of thosedays were wicked enough to say this was donefor the purpose of affording the various bands whomade these streets their happy hunting ground 99ready material for assaulting them when they, as aBorough Councillor put it to an over credulous gover-nor the day after the 4 Cannes Brulee9 riot * brutallyinterfered with the peoples innocent amusements.7Such incidents in the history of Trinidad have hap-pily passed away—never to occur again. The influ-ential and educated people who were at the back ofthe ignorant demagogues who were responsible for it,have also passed away—let us be charitable and hopeto a better place.
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BRAVE BAKER, OF THE BOBBIES. TRINIDAD: THEN AND NOW- 323 I may be here permitted to give at full length aparody written at the time of this emeute, and pub-lished in the Trinidad Chronicle. It gives an amus-ing, but at the same time truthful, description ofwhat occurred :— A LAY OF CANBOULAY. * Brave Baker of the t6 bobbies By the tarnal gods he sworeThat the people of old Port-of-Spain Should masquerade no more.By the <f tarnal gods he swore it Then thought of Canboulay ;And bade his trusty followers Be ready, * come what may.? East and west and north and south His messengers ride fastTo summon all the (i bobbies forth At the sound of trumpet blast.Shame on the false policeman Who lingers at the call,Since their brave leader thus hath sworn To make the flambeaux fall. Forth from the hills of Belmont Where scowls the far-famed holdOf ancient masqueraders And band of rioters bold,Where sweet Dry Eiver wanders Through slums and dunes of sandCame forth the dusky warriors— An armed

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