The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-27
TO VISIT VESUVIUS
Charles H. Loomis, Well Known New Haven Business
 Man, Sails.
FINE TRIP IS PLANNED
Month and Half to be Spent Crlis- ing in Mediterranean
 Waters.

Charles H. Loomis left on the Fred eric der Crosse Saturday for a Med-
 terranean trip and tour of Italy, and will return about the middle of March. When at home MT. Loomis confines himself closely to business, but finds opportunity lo travel much for pleas ure and has visited large part of the United States from as far north as Chicoutimi, near the headwaters of the Saguenay river, in northern Can ada, and south to Palm Beach, Fla.
 In 1864, during the War of the Re bellion, while quite a young man, he visited Washington, D. C., and spent some time with the Army of the Po- tomac, and was at Georgetown, near was at Georgetown inspecting the United States military outposts at the time of great anxiety in Washington, when the Confederate troops came within short distance of the national capital. In going to Washington he went on the first train that went through from New York after the Confederate general, Early, in his raid through Maryland, had torn up the tracks and burned the bridge at Havre de Grace, and wrecked engines and burned passenger cars strewed the track Mir. Loomis and the other passengers crossed the Susquehanna river at Havre de Grace on temporary pontoon bridges.
 Mir. Loomis has also travelled con siderably among the West Indian is- lands, having three times visited the island of Trinidad off the northeast coast of South America, where the Trinidad asphalt comes from, from which the asphalt pavements are made; and has spent much time in
 Port of spain on this beautiful is- land, where the fleet of the United States spent Christmas day on their way around South America
 MT. Loomis has visited three times the Island of Barbadoes, the most east ern of the Caribbean Islands. said to contain more people to the square mile | than any other place in the world, ex- cepting China. He has also visited the
 Island of St Tn mas, and immediately | following the Spanish war he made a | trip to Havana, and visited General | Fitzhugh Lee, commander of the Unit cd States troops, at his headquarters at Marianao, some miles outside of
 Havana.
 Al this time he visited the wreck of l the Maine, and the famous Cabanas. and Morro castle. Tn the year 1897 1e
 spent some time in the Bermuda is lands, and in January and February of l 19l3 he made his fourth trip to the 1 Island of Porto Rico; and again in 1905 | he visited Porto Rico and the islands of | Bermuda, St CroiX. St. Lucia Domin- | ica. Saint Ktts. Martinique, and the | volcano of Mt. Pelee and St. Pierre, and | the city of Demerara in British Guiana l in South America near the equator and l on this tour he called at Santiago in l Cuba, and the battlefield on San Juan l hill. made famous by Roosevelt: and
 again visited Havana
 l In 1908 MT. Loomis took a tour which l included Jamaica, the cities of Colon and Panama on the Isthtmus of Pana-
 ma; Colombo Savinilla Barranouilla
 and La Guayra in South America, and
 the Island of Granada.
 During the next few weeks he will l visit Gibraltar, Naples, Rome, Florence | Venice, Milan and Genoa, returning or
 the "Konigin Luise" of the North Ger. | man Lloyd.