The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-19
Ed HOWE'S NOTES.
Another Belated Letter From
Island of Jamaica.
He Finds a Kansas Man at
Vaudeville.
A PERFECT HUSBAND.
One Is Noticed ON Board Who
Fills the Bill.
Less Poverty in West Indies
Than i'm New York.

Monday, January 81.
The Atchison people who went to
the mountain yesterday spent the
night at a summer resort known as
Vaudeville, at hotel called the King
| Edward. The proprietor of the hotel
is A. E. Dick. who formerly lived at
Hiawatha. He saw that Judge Walker
and Mattel registered from Atchison,
and looked them up. Which reminds
me that the father of the exchange
editor of the New York Tribune. the
Rev. Philip Nelson Meade. was pas
tor of Trinity church in Atcnison a
good many years ago.
Mr. Dick owns twenty-five acres of
oranges near Vaudeville. and is the
man who says that the United Fruit
Co., in certain parts of the island, pays
but six cents a box for oranges, a
statement I have elsewhere taken the
liberty of doubling. Mr.. Dick was very
attentive and agreeable to the Atchi-
son people. The oranges grown in
this section are wild: cultivation OF
the trees ruins the flavor of the fruit;
The oranges are small but are said
to be particularly fine favored. l am
always glad to hear of anything wild
that is as good as cultivated article.
. Vaudeville is seventy miles
from Kingston, and there is much wild
land in its vicinity. Large banana and
sugar plantations are seen during the
first half of the journey, in the low
lands. In the foothills. seven-tenths
of the land seems to be vacant In
the country, the negroes seem to be
pure blood; mulatto is verv rare.
Those who went on the mountain ex-
cursion were delighted with it. al
though it lasted from 1890 a. m. of
one day until noon of the next. .
The negroes vote here. but there is a
property and educational requirement
which applies to whites and blacks
alike. This property and educational
requirement is almost identical with
that so generally adopted IN our
southern states. In summer, cltlzens
of Kingston patronize the Mandeville
hotels; in winter, they are patronized
by tourists.
We are spending this day at sea: we
are due at Colon early tomorrow
morning, when practically all the pas
sengers will go to Panama by rail.
This dav has been bright and very
warm. but the Moltke is pitching and
rolling a good deal. owing to storm
which seems to have passed this way
a few days ago. Both the Atchison
girls are grumbling about thelr
@luck." While Mattel was lying down
in nv room this afternoon. I gave
pineapple party. The way to eat
pineapple is to dig out the eyes with
a table knife. ]. S. Barton and WIFE,
and their daughter. Katherine; Elmer
Williams and wife of Kansas City,
Miss Eleanor Ravens of Leavenworth,
and the Walkers of Atchison were in
yited 1 had plenty of pineapples left
from the late meeting of the Porto
Rico horticultural society on the deck
of the Moltke at San Juan. I in
tended inviting a Miss Jones # Mans
field. Ohio, but on deck today I was
explaining some of my well known
and charitable ideas about women,
and her reply was: How about the
men?" I never did like that express
sion. so did not invite her. By the
way, in spite of the well known Jones
Joke Miss Jones is the only passenger