Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-03-12


ira money does not go far after all. L
was told at the Philadelphia museum
that the expenses OF travelling in South
America would be about SIS day. This
seems to me very high. My trip of
| year in going round the world cost mo
just about $40 n day, and In my other
journeys / have found that SO day
is Just about what 1t costs to travel in
other parts of the world. / will give
from time to time the expenses of vari-
Gus tours down here, and will describe
just how the travelling is done.
FROM NEW YORK TO PANAMA.
The trip from New York to Colon
| takes just seven days. There are three
steamers every month and the fare is
! from SI5 to $50, according to the loca-
ton of your cabin. The Advance on
which came is steady little vessel
! of 200 tons, or about one fifth the size
of the largest Atlantic liners. Its best
| rooms were on the promenade deck and
! In the corner cabin which | had there
were two windows, each about two feet
| square, which gave me n delicious
breeze day and night. The line is now
| operated in connection with and Is
owned by the Panama Railroad com
pany. It was until within short time
! Il part of the Pacific Mail, which ran
| from New York and after crossing the
! Isthmus took its passengers up to San
| Francisco Now the Pacific Mail COM
I
| side and the Panama Railway and
| Steamship company have the only reg
ular line from the United states to the
| isthmus. Their steamers fly the Amer
lean flag and all of the officers and
| sailors are Americans. Our ship was
commanded by a Maine man, Captain
! Sukeworth, who has recently been in
| charge of some of the Red ID" Line
/ steamers from New York to Venezuela,
and our chief mate was also from
4.
| the most of whom We're Americans and
| the remainder mixture of Germans
| bound for their coffee plantations In
Guatemala and some Central and
South Americans who were going home
| in this way from Europe or the United
| States. One of the Germans was II
| lady who had pair of baby twins with
| her. She had gone from her home In
Central America In order that the chill
| dren might be born in the land of the
kaiser and now having accomplished
| her mission was returning home to her
| husband. Among the Americans We're
| a Brooklyn boy. who Is going down to
be a station agent at Matachin on the
Panama railroad; Mr.. w. II. Nash of
Chicago and n Mr.. T. ]. Kennedy of
Florence. New York, who are bound
| for La Paz, Bolivia, where they will
open some big gold mines which Ken
nedy, who is a mining engineer has
discovered. and n large party of both
sexes who are going in this way to
San Francisco. We had an old sea
captain named Humphreys from Hing
ham, where Secretary of the Navy
Long lives, in the Frisco party. and
also an American travelling salesman
or two for South America.
THE BISHOP AND THE CONSUL.
Last, but by no means least were
Bishop Warren OF the Methodist church.
who Is on his way to chile to examine
into the state of the missions there,
and Mr.. Murphy of the state depart-
ment, who is here In Colon to take the
place of the consul who was drowned
within few miles of where | am now
writing, while out on n pleasure sail a
few weeks ago. The bishop had his
family with him and was also accom-
panied by some Chilean lady mission
aries who are returning from their va
cations to their fields or work. The
party altogether. was a pleasant one.
The bishop was mine of story and
information. for he has Travelled all
over the globe. AS we left 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 wonderful river of the
ocean which has volume 5000 times
as great as the Mississippi and which,
flowing across through the North At
lantic 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 de-
nouncing England for its 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 will send the
army south and cut a channel for the
gulf stream through the Isthmus of
nA frpgyp 10
islands into an iceberg"
WHERE COLUMBUS FIRST LAND
ED.
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 dis
covered the eastern coast of Asia and
had no idea that that little island was
the outpost of another hemisphere.
The morning following we saw light
house standing among n grove of palm
trees and We're told that we We're look
Ing at Bird Rock Island, one of the
Bahamas. and then drlfted 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 provided by the
I Spanish regulations of war. We saw
no sign of Notifications or fighting.
our next land was on the east of us.
1t was the mountains of Haiti, which
we kept in sight for hours. and then
lost them to see nothln~ but the blue
waters of the Caribbean until at u.
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 America. At first II was only n
thin. hazy line of blue In the western
horizon. Then the blue deepened. We
saw low hills rising one above another.
and little Islands coming up out of the
water along the shore. A little later
we were In 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 n well
| come to us MS we came to anchor
COLON AND THE CANAL.
Colon is intended to be the eastern
fully of this work in another letter
have seen the work which IL now be-
ing done on the central and western
end of the isthmus. Here at Colon you
see only the extravaganza of the first
board of engineers who almost ruined
H.. Z. No..