The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-03-13

penses of travelling in South America
would be about SIS day. This seems
to me very high. My trip of a wear
IN going around the world cost me
just about $40 day. and in my other
long journeys / have found that $40
day is just about what 1t costs to
travel In other parts of the world. 7
VIII give from time to time the ex-
penses of various tours down here, and
VIII describe just how the travelling is
done. 40
From New York to Panama.
The trip from New York to Colon
taxes just seven days. There are three
steamers every month and the fare Is
from $40 to $50, according to the loca-
tlon of your cabin. The Advance on
winch L came is a steady little vessel
OF 2,foo tons, or about one-fifth the size
Oh the largest Atlantic liners. It's best
rooms were on the promenade deck, and
IN the corner cabin which 1 had there
were TWO windows, each about two feet
square, which gave me a delicious
breeze day and night. The line is now
operated in connection with and is
owned by the Panama Railroad com
pany. 1t was until within a short time
a part of the Pacific Mail, which ran
from New York, and after crossing the
1Sthmus took its passengers up to San
Francisco. Now the Pacific Mail COM
pany has only the ships on the Pacific
size and the Panama Railway G.
steamship company has the only regu-
lar line from the United States to the
Isthmus. Their steamers fly the Amer
lean flag and all of the officers and sail
orS are Americans. Our ship was COM
manded by Maine man, Capt Suke-
worth, who has recently been in charge
of some of the Red 3D. Line steamers
from New York to Venezuela, and our
chief mate was also from Maine. We
had forty cabin passengers, the most
or whom were Americans, and the re-
mainder mixture Of Germans bound
Tor their coffee plantations in Guate-
mala and some Central and South
Americans who were going home in this
way from Europe or the United States.
One of the Germans was a lady who
had pair of baby twins with her
She had gone from her home in Cen
trail America in order that the children
might be born in the land of the kaiser,
and now having accomplished her mis-
sion, was returning home to her hus-
band. Among the Americans were a
Brooklyn boy, who is going down to be
a station agent at Matachin on the
Panama railroad; Mr.. w. H. Nash. of
chicago, and a Mr.. T. J. Kennedy, of
Florence, New York, who are bound
for La PaZ, Bolivia, where they will
open up some big gold mines which
Kennedy. who is mining engineer, has
discovered, and large party of both
sexes who are going in this way to San
francisco We had an old sea captain
named Humphreys from bingham,
where Secretary of the Navy Long
lives, in the Frisco party, and also an
American travelling salesman or two
for South America.
Bishop and Consul.
Last, but by no means least, were
Eishop Warren. Of the Methodist
church. who Is on his way to Chile
to examine into the state of the mis-
sions there, and Mr.. Murphy, of the
state department, who is here in Colon
to take the place of the consul who
was drowned within a few miles of
where l am now writing, while out on
a pleasure sail few weeks ago. The
bishop had his family with him and
was also accompanied by some Chilean
lady missionaries who are returning
from their vacations to their fields of
work. The party, altogether, was a
pleasant one. The bishop was a mine
of story and information. for he has
II "A
New York and sailed southwark and
passed Cape Hatteras, he pointed out
the fact that we were in the warm
waters of the gulf stream that won
derful river Of the ocean which has a
volume 5000 times as great as the Mis-
sissippi, and which, flowing across
through the North Atlantic to the
North sea, is the hot-water pipe which
carries the heat from the tropics which
keeps warm Great Britain and Ireland.
AS we crossed this, the bishop recalled
the story of the angry Yankee captain
who, when denouncing England for it's
sympathy and aid to the South during
our civil war. said You English had
better look out, for after President
Lincoln has settled this trouble We w II
send the army South and cut channel
for the gulf stream through the
lsthmus of Panama and thus freeze
your two little islands into an iceberg"
Where Columbus First Landed.
AS we crossed the gulf stream the
air grew perceptibly warmer, and as
we sailed on its outer edge down
toward the Caribbean sea we soon
came into summer heat. The first land
we saw was the Island Of San Salvador.
where Columbus landed after his
thirty-five days voyage from Spain in
his little vessel which was just one
thirtieth as large as ours. He thought
he had discovered the eastern coast of
Asia, and had no idea that that little
island was the outpost of another
hemisphere. The morning following
we saw a lighthouse standing among
a grove of palm trees and were told
that We were looking at Bird Rock
island, one of the Bahamas. and then
drifted on south until the bleak and
rocky coast of Western Cuba came into
view. We skirted this, keeping about
four miles away from the shore, so as
to be out of the danger limits, as pro-
vided by the Spanish regulations Of
war. We saw no sign of fertilization
or fighting. Our next land was on the
east of US. 1t was the mountains Of
Hayti, which we kept in sight for
hours, and then lost them to see moth
ing but the blue waters of the Carib-
bean until, at p. M, seven days out
from New York, we got our first
glimpse of the Isthmus of Panama.
that wonderful little strip of earth and
rocks which ties together the two great
continents of North and South Amer
lea. AT first it was only thin, hazy
line of blue in the Western horizon.
Then the blue deepened. We saw low
nils rising one above another. and lit
tie islands coming up out of the water
along the shore. A little later we were
liz sight of the low houses and the
great wharves Of Colon, with great
palm trees which line the beach at the
right shaking their giant fan-like
leaves and apparently waving a well
come to US as we came to anchor
Colon and the Canal.
Colon is intended to be the eastern
end Of the Panama canal. 1 will treat
fully of this work in another letter