Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-27
SHOWING UP DE SOTO.
Declared to BE an Old Robber and
Murderer.

Murderer.
At Tampa is the old fort at the head of
the bay-that bay where both NavaIaz
and De Soto landed their expeditions. 1t
seems that four OF Navar9z's men es-
capped, and after seven years wander
ings, got to Mexico in 1886, and SO pre-
ceded De Sotoin discovering the Missis-
sippi river and left chronicle of it by
Cabeca de Vaca. So De Vaca takes the
starch out of De Soto.
DeSoto had been with Pizarro murder
ing and robbing in Peru, and concluded
to find new Ineas for VICTIMS in North
America. With 1000 Spanish soldiers
and $50 horses, it is tradition that he
landed by the new Plant Hotel and prob
ably campsd there.
But the name of De Soto is to be con-
ferred on the new hotel at Savannah, and
Judge Chisholm says that is mistake |;
for Oglethorpe and his successors were
continually fighting the Spaniards of
Florida; but they have appropriate
ed Oglethorpe's name for the
new hotel at Brunswick, instead
OF calling it the General Greene,
after Nathaniel Greene, who was buried
near by. The great Plant hotel was to
have been called, some said, the Pico
house. for the initial letters of (P)lsnt
Improvement Company. utthere is
large hotel at Los Angeles, CAL, built by
old Governor Pho Pico, and called the
Pico house. The Tampa house might be
automatically named the Northmen
house. after its Northern author and Eric
the Northman, who preceded DeSoto and
Columbus. Or, it might be called the
San Salvador, after the first land Colum-
bus saw and named, and surely the
saviors of the Florida peninsula have
been these strangers at the end of the
nineteenth century. 1t might be called +,
too, the Christopher Columbus house,
or the Hotel Gabelle, or the Abdelreh-
man, for the Moorish Sultans of Spain,
the architecture being Moorish, or the
Hotel Gulf Stream, or the Stakeholder,
because it is to be the prince OF orange
and oranges, or the Hotel Abraham LIN
coin, who saved Florida from herself.
There exists great Seminole" hotel at
Winter park, also Osceola would deserve
some such monument. There being
crescents on the ten towers of the Tampa
| palace, it could be named "Hotel OF tine
Crescent" or Haroun al Raschid, be
cause he was the most luxurious sultan
anu tn6 SOOQ COUSIN VI Oudilcnueho'
What is the objection to Alhambra, OF
Zoreide, or Ottoman, or Hotel OF the
Goths and Yankees?
| De Soto did not burn his vessels like
Cortez; he sent them back 1t was a
sad day for him. In three years he cut
figure on the Mississippi river similar
to that described by that unfortunate
man. Jubal Early, 1923 years afterward in
| in "Phil Sheridan's Memoirs" Sher;-
tdan, on his way to Texas, saw Early
padding across the Mississippi at 8
lonely place, on his flight to Mexico
De Soto was sunk in the Mississippi,
and less than one third of his mer
reached Mexico. He had not even the
providence to seek the Florida county J
with wild horses, nor to provide quinine
for his ague. And now there is Yankee
blood in the Duke OF Sotomayo's family
in Old Spain-the posterity of Peachy
| Sally Mexican, of Philadelphia, who may
lbaye given the name of the bay of Cam
lpeachy. 1 throw this out for the benef
lof Mr.. Bayard, of Delaware, not one o
1.-THE cling.stone family at present. MOI
dwelling in free-st halls at Washing
ton.-IGath's Florida letter in the En-
quirer.