The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1908-01-01
In Sunny Lands.
Miami. Florida

EullOT l1eIdlQ-Ne arrived at TINS
place Tuesday. nearly seven weeks
since leaving home We spent about
three weeks in St. Paul and Mime
apolis visiting our old friends. We
stayed three days In New Orleans
and found it the most interesting CITY
! that | ever saw. The modern part
of the city has many wide and beauti-
full streets lined with elegant homes
surrounded with palms. live oak, ba-
mana, magnolia and other tropical
trees
The old French and Spanish quar-
tiers, with its n>srow streets. paved
with fiat stones about is inches
square, its open cutters used as sew
ers, was strange looking sight. "
visited the historical Spanish cabil-
do, built in 1893 by the Spanish gov
crnmont and used for the assembling
Of the cabldo or governmental eoun-
Gil In this building in 1903 took
place the formal transfer of the prov
ince 81 Louisiana from Spain to
France and from France to the United
States.
In the center is a court yard about
40x50 feet in area, paved with large
Eat stones. This place for many
years was one of the greatest slave
markets of the south. Surrounding
this court We're several prison cells
and in one we were shown a set OF
Spanish stocks" a cruel installment
OF torture of which l had often read
but had never seen before
The old French market is another
interesting place 10 the stranger.
Vegetables, fruits, oysters, fish, etc.
are sold from booths BY French,
Spanish, Italians, Negroes and Amer
leans. 1t was here l saw apples from
Grand Junction. Colorado, Wenatehee
and Colfax Wash Ben Davis were
selling at $2.G5, Arkansas Black and
Winesap at $3.50 to $S.75, and was
told that choice ones sold as high as
$3.50, but I did not see any. I look
ed in vain to find any from Yakima
Much of the fruit is sold through
the fruit auction market, as in the
Eastern cities. We left New Orleans
over the Louisville & Nashville rail
way to Mobile and Montgomery, stop
ping over night at the latter place,
beautifully located city OF about so <
600 population, about equally diyid-
ed between negroes and whites. This
city was the home of Jefferson Davis
and has been termed the Cradle OF
Confederacy."
From Montgomery to Jacksonville,
Fla, 391 miles, was through the
cotton and cane fields Of Alabama and
southern Georgia. A large portion
of it is covered with pine forest from
which great quantities Of lumber and
turpentins is being made
We reached Jacksonville Saturday
and stayed until Monday visiting the
great ostrich farm where 1876 birds
are now kept One bird was harness
ed TO a four-wheeled buggy and driv-
en- by a man at a lively gait, and am
4 other was ridden by its trainer arounl
the course at a Dan Patch record
Monday We spent at St Augustine
the oldest white settlement in the
United States, visiting the old fort,
the Hugenot cemetery. and old city
gate which guarded the only entrance
to the city for many generations in
the early history OF our country.
Miami, where we are now stopping.
is in the extreme southeast corner
of the state. on the Atlantic coast,
at the mouth Of Miami river Il IS
a pretty little city of about COCO
which is largely increased during the
winter by tourists from the north
can hardly realize it is midwinter
for fruits and flowers. vegetables.
including ripe tomatoes. are brought
in daily from the surrounding farms
4 The streets are lined with tall and
stately cocoanut trees filed with
the nuts. Grape fruit, oranges, paw
paws. ETC., are abundant. Banana
trees are also plentiful. but are not
grown very extensively for their
fruit Weather has been warm and
sunny. temperature from 90 in early
morning 10 So at midday since our
arrival.
We leave at Q. m. tomorrow on
s. s. Miami for Key West and Ha-
vana to be gone week on ten days.
1 The Daily Herald rssches me si1
days after publication.
w. n. IRISH.