Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-03-05
HAD EXP RlENCES

HAD EXPERIENCES
w. F.. cochrane Gives Some Of His
Impressions Of Cuban Garlic From
Which He Can't Get Separated. !.
The following interesting letter,
under date Of Washington, 9th In
stant, has been received from w. F.
iCochrane: NJ @.tt
Here we are back where you can
! get a cool breath. We left here on
short notice at 9:25 in the morning
and arrived at Jacksonville, Fla, the
next day for dinner; stopped at the
hotel Windsor, took drive out to
the ostrich farm and zoo, saw over
100 fine birds--one broken tocharness
and a noted racer, but he would
hardly: have relished carrying me.
Then they had lot of aligators, all
sizes and Shiny, mean looking rep
tiles; then four big lions, and by the
way some fool-hardy couple were
made one-holy wedlock- but not in
what I would call a holy place and
! thought of David Warfield In the
Music Master Eat ,,em alive but
such fools would hardly abe palatable
to even q lion. Then they had boa
constructor snakes, swans, guinea
pigs, monkeys, ETC., and such beauti-
full flowers. We took drive through
Riverside" along the beach and
saw. some beautiful homes great
avenues lined on either side with live
cakes and magnolias, and then there
We're palms, oleanders and a most
beautiful shrub with a Spanish name
big red pink and yellow flowers and
very snowy; then roses in profusion.
We took the train in the evening and
the next morning arrived at Miami,
Fla. 1t rained all highland the
road has its own sleeper and such
little berths and ! never got one good
stretch in the whole journey. We
took the steamer "Shinnecock" at
once for Key West, and it was crowd
ed full to overlooking and you had to
line up for the purser's office-down
in the hold--along side of the boiler
hot and suffocating, some 300 of us,
but a jolly crowd and bound to make
the best of it for some two hours.
Then it was dinner time; boy rang a
bell-just like Les Green used to do
at the old Custer house and you were
ordered to line up, Then they an
nouneed dinner in a half hour; Sc
1t was for each and every meal
About 10 p. m. the same day we ar
rived at Key West. Then we lined
| up and were driven down gang
plank through an old barn Of ware
house and up a gang plank into an
other steamer # alifax''-then tx
bed and the next morning we sighted
Cuba, and about 10 o'clock we were
lin the farbor and lighters came ou
i and took us off and to the wharf. W.
went to an American hotel, got fail
meals and good bed. We dined on
at "a swell Cuban cafe, and really en-
Ijoyed it--until we came to the chops
-smothered with garlic. I ate then
hut Ye Gods! the smell is with MT
still. Everything in Havana is coated
with the stuff and it pals about the
Isecond day. said to Mrs. Cochrane
There is heeraI want it"-got tt
and drowned my chops, but the gar
lick came up smiling-that could moi
be drowned BY that which "made
WilWaukee famous; but is seemed
like meeting an old friend. No one
]could speak English and had a Jolly
time trying to make them under
Istand. Mrs. Cochrane wanted ice
water-"a qua. Senior" then thu
waiter brought ice water for me ant
/ handed It to MRS. c.; how hi
laughed. We did enjoy the meal
had thley only left some Of the gar
lick out. ,s /. ...f. -
i I got S. changed into Spanish
lmoneyg s1.25 Of Spanish for eacl
isl Of United States, and we hired ;
tca!b-by the hour 81 .25, so you see i
Twas q, saving Of 25 cents on the dol
liar: but the hotels You must pay il
American money. We paid s. pei
Iday for our room. We drove abou
1.-THE city to places Of interest and th,
imost interesting was Moro Castle
Lying out In the harbor was th,
| wreck Of the Mainethe upper par
Iof the ship alone showing, The ligh
house. presidents palace, house o
representatives. secretary Of justice
IviFacs(jail), custom house an,
lpostoflce quaint old buildings.
Il Our hotel was on the Prado'' an,
IT Is q swell driving street magnifl
Icently paved and It IS double stree
and through the centre Is parl
80, a ~ .,,,ax