The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-05-04
A Letter from Honduras.

] PUERTO CoRTEs, HONDURAS, April q, 1907.
DEAR CHIEF:
I beg to acknowledge receipt of the
marked copy of your issue of the 9th
and wish to express my thanks for the
kind mention given me. I assure you
4 it was with much pleasure that I read
every line of it, for as yet / had not
received any news from home and you
can imagine how WELCOMED the Chief.
I was indeed sorry to read in your
good paper an account of the death of
Mrs. Mayor Triche, and also of Mr..
Felix Leblanc.
I did not like this place very much
when I first landed, but am growing
accustomed to it and like it a little
better now. [ enclose postal show
| ing a view of the port from the har-
Dor, and also one showing the Office
of the United Fruit Company. Both
are very good.
Saturday morning at 9:4o O'Clock
two earthquake shocks were distinctly
felt here. They were in close success
sion and together lasted for about a
minute and half. Our Office shook
very much and it seemed as though
everything would tumble down. Many
people in the smaller and older build
ings scurried out of them, fearing
another shock, but no other was felt.
Last Saturday afternoon DR.. r. p.
Ames of the Marine Hospital Service
and went on a hunting trip in the
mountains, and that night we camped
with friends who have contract to
lay pipe line into Puerto Cortes to
supply the town with fresh water. The
next morning, with native for guide,
we hit the trail, and I promise you he
walked US SOME up and down those
mountains, and we were dead tired
when we returned to camp. Wild tur-
keys are plentiful, but very wild, and
we were unable to get a shot at them.
The game We brought back consisted
of an amadilla, two wood ducks and
two snipe. We had the cook at the
hotel prepare them for US and Sunday
night we sat down to feast. We en-
ioyed our outing very much and ex-
pect to repeat it soon.
The sanitary condition of this port
seems to be very good just now. No
one is sick, with the exception of
few who have colds. About eight hum
dred Nicaraguans under General Es-
trada have been here for over twenty
days and up to this time there has not
been single case of sickness among
them with the exception of few colds,
as mentioned above, caused from sleep
ing in the open air. They are GER
tainly Well-behaved lot, and since
their arrival here none of them has
ever been caught drunk or disturbing
the peace in any way.
The United States gunboat Marietta
is still here and her sailors are patrol
ling the street say street advisedIy,
because there is only one) night and |
day to keep order and protect Ameri- |
can interests. All saloons have been |
closed for the past six or seven days |
and guard placed before each one to |
see that it is kept that way, so there is
no such thing here as rushing the
can for the time being, at any rate. |
All we can drink at present is cocoa
nut milk.
I am glad to learn through the col
umns of the Chief that Joe Variant is
rapidly recovering from his accident,
and that his case is not as serious as
was at first supposed.
With best wishes and regards to the
entire Office force, not forgetting Mac,
beg to remain, Yours truly,
BERTRAND P. BRAUD.
P. s.-When it comes to heat, this
place has h beat mile. Chickens
would lay hard boiled eggs
lere were it not for the fact that all
'ueh fowls are kept in refrigerators,
IS some of the people like their eggs
scrambled or fried.