The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-02-21
The Ex-Mayor Writes the Stand
ard From Gibraltar.
HE Is ENJOYING HIMSELF
Had Stormy Experience on the Ocean
in a Blizzard-He Tried to Conquer
Seasickness by Drinking Sea
Water-At the Azores.

tNiiuSu tour VI IoTelSn landS, has beer
heard from, and is evidently in good
health ana spirits and enjoying himself
way up to the handle. Before leaving
Mr.. Thompson kindly consented to write
an occasional letter to the Standard 70
let his old friends know how he is get
ting on and to give his impressions of
foreign lands. The first letter from the
eX-mayor came in yesterdays mail and
is as follows, and IL IS dated Gibraltar.
England, Feb. .:
Nv ell. here l am under the flag of
Britain and feeling younger and better
than l have for 20 years. We are stop
ping here for a few hours and / take my
| pen in hand with haste to let you know
that am all right up to the present
+ time, enjoying myself immensely, and /
| intend to enjoy myself more. / have
had good health so far with the excep-
! ton OF few unpleasant moments tna
day after we left New York
You see, we started from New York
Just after that big blizzard. the worst
New York has had in years. We left at
noon and greatly enjoyed the u miles,
liue down the bay past Sandy HOOK
but when we got out in the ocean we
caught the refrain from that blizzard
ana never experienced such a "a hours
before IN my life. For the first hour |
and for the next % hours ! was afraid
Il wasn't. Really, if the order had been
given to man the boats, that the shin
was sinking, l would have stayed in my
berth and gone down with the shin
Talk about your Butte municipal elec-
TONS, L would rather go through two
more OF them than experience another
day of such sickness.
was told of five ways in which TO
AVOID sea sickness. First. | was told to
Keep pacing the deck and walk II Off
out | would like to see the man who
could walk deck in such a storm even
Tor minute. In the second place | WAS
told not to look at the deck. but keep
my eyes on the horizon far away. but
now can you keep your eyes on the
horizon when the ship is one minute
down to the bottom of the ocean and
me next moment Is up on top of a noun
famous wave? Third. ! was told to
drink plenty of sea water and nothing
else ana tried that, but | am con-
Nlnced that that remedy is a failure
Inc Fourth remedy is to get drunk, tut
Wouldn't try that, and the fifth N-ay
70 avoid sea sickness is to jump into
the ocean and get drowned. which I
was sorely tempted to do I never had
sucn cleaning out in all my life. |
gave TO the fishes of the Atlantic some |
Things which | remember to have eaten |
IN the early days when l first went TO
Montana H.E
But 1 was better the next dav and
soon was enjoying the ocean voyage i'm !
mensely. Some of the passengers didn't /
get 10 feeling right until we were nearly +
across the Atlantic but every day there [
were more of them on deck and we had
great sport at playing horse billiards on
the deck. / am an expert at horse hill
Iards and shall introduce the game in
Suite. 1t Is like polltics-so mighty
uncertain. You never can tell where
shot is going to land when the boat is
leaving SO.
our gallant ship is not exactly a
peauty, but 1t is staunch little vessel.
II is the North German Lloyd express
steamer Aller. which is specially char
ered Tor this cruise. We have 339 pas
'engers on board, of whom more than
'ne-third are women, and 80 are clergy
men. There are tourists from New
hampshire, Vermont. Massachusetts.
connecticut, New York. New Jersey
'ennsylvania, District of Columbia
ieorgia, Kentucky. Arkansas, West Vir-
.lnla' Iowa. Illinois, Indiana. Michigan
KANSAS, Missouri Minnesota, Texas
Iontana. Washington. California, Nova
scotia, Ontario and Canada. l am the
My one from Montana.
ON the fourth day out we passed a
tremendous iceberg. We didn't go any |
loser to 1t than necessary but il mt
he atmosphere down 10 to II degrees
II mat day. / believe l could make a
1g fortune If | could tow that iceberg
mo New York harbor and peddle ice
rom IL all summer. / would establish
n iceberg garden on top of it which ,
'ould be sure to be more popular than .
ne roof gardens. The few DAYS | spent
New York before sailing convinces
ne that it is hot town and there are
n ice. f .
We didn't see a whale all the way
cross. Some of the passengers wrote
ack about having seen whales. but I
on believe in misrepresenting things.
We did see a dolphin playing in the {
aler ana never saw anything so I
raceful. 1t beats the seals al The Cliff
ouse in San Francisco
we reached the Azores on Feb and
opped for couple of hours to permit
lie passengers to go ashore / never {
as so shocked in my life ] don't see Z
ow people can go about with so few :
othes on. | wish you would have an
'dinance introduced in the Butte CITY
'uncll compelling the inhabitants of
le Azores islands to wear more G
othes. There are nine of these islands 4
ld we stopped at Fayal island. which
as the best harbor and Is right on our
ith. The principal town is villa a. '
orta, which has about 5000 inhabi-
nts. There are two castles and a wall
ound the town. but they are very df- 4
pidated. There are eight churches and =
Veral converts
we reached Gibraltar al s o'clock
is morning. which was 50 early that q
missed the much-anricipated ride in q
tween the pillars ~ Hercules. This il D
marvellous fort built on a rock. II Il !
out two and one-half miles IN Length y
ID from quarter TO half mile in + =
eadth. The British officers have in q
ted us TO visit the fort this afterpoor q
I'd as II Is now nearly noon and I have q
me other letters 70 write. / must c!cse =
would give $40 for late COPY IL the
andard 10 read now. Tonight We IN v
Malaga and tomorrow make TIP y
I'M Malaga u Granada and The Al q
mbria by railroad. The next day we =
over To Algiers
! shall be in Rome in a few laws and 2
pc l. obtain an Interview ". n 10 e
pc. u | dn l Will write gu nv inn Q
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