Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-04-17
Phelan's Interesting Travel ak
MEETS FORMER NORTH DAKoTANS

| What do you think of that? Must be
alive? Sure he's alive and keeps ev-
erybody around him wide awake.
President of the San Juan CONNER
citl club, d1rector Of two banks, agent
| for American products, including the
studebaker vehicles and Pillsbury
! flour. ....-
We discovered him the following
morning under the same illuminating
| sign. White duck, immaculte linen
iron gray hair and mustache, where
blacy formerly prevailed, with the
same mellow black intelligent eye.
Within an hour I'VE were out four
miles at his home with him and his
wife and daughter-the son being in
Seattle. Modern house, built last
year, living room in center, wide
porch on each end, sleeping rooms
on each side with Venetian blinds
The ocean in the back yard, two hun
dred yards to rear with the surf in
viting one to come in, while the. CO.
coa-nut grove INTERVIEWED. Here we
had our first drink of water from the
green cocoa-nut. This water reaches
the maturing nut thirty feet from the
ground SO it becomes perfectly dis
titled. Pleasant flavor, refreshing and
good for the kidneys and rheumatism.
Here was another of those joys of
travelling where old friends meet. My,
how, those women talked Then they
knew we couldn't stay very long SO
didn't feel apprehensive. But they
kept busy and Mrs. Turner produced
the carriage and showed us the town
and the old fort built BY Prince De-
Leon or somebody in those old hilar-
ious days when to go to bed without
killing somebody or being killed was
a sin. 49,. r.y,~',. IT = A~ss 's*.t. =.
We parted regretfully from our
friends for the boat just before noon,
fully convinced and intending that
some time we should come again
and stay longer. ~s,r~ ~,y@@gagS4$s 1850
There is a lot to learn about Porto
Rica, one, hundred miles, long and
thirty-six miles wide, square as a
brick. Monthly mean temperature
seventy nine degrees. One million
people, 100000 white or making pre-
tensions in that direction, 1000 me-
groes, and the remainden mixed. The
guide book tells you that long ago
the Indians disappeared. but don't you
believe it. They are to 81 great ex-
tent there yet. Take look at them
and be convinced.
In those southern islands the old
pioneers and mariners must have
chased the sQuaws and caught lot
of them. E& |
The West Indies. appear like SUBJ
merged mountains with only the peaks
visible and that is about what they
are. II y j. I@s
If you have not studied the map
of the West Indies lately,you can't
fully realize where we are going. Our |
German captain was anxious to make
up the twenty hours lost In the fog
at New York, SO our stay Sat San |
Juan was cut short accordingly, and
about noon we sailed away. IN think
it was January 29..5sIt was dimcult to
keep track OF. dates for about that
time I asked my. wife, rs to morrow
Sunday?'' and she looked at me
blandly and inquired us today Sat
urday?" - x@*, G>
From. Porto RIGA we sailed almost
due west, six hundred miles, to King
ston, Jamaica, where we arrived Sun
day morning, January 81. Here was
activity again and pleasing scenery.
An English colony, where the gdarkies
talk with an English accent.
The pilot was taken on early out
side; the harbor, then later the doc
tors and quarantine officers, every
thing was deliberately done as we
"moseyed" into the arbor and fin
ally anchored at the dock. s.s
Your patience and interest mot be-
ing exhausted, next time Tllsdo ia
maica and Panama.
! --:,. j. p. PHELAN.