The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-08-06
Miss Clara Colburne Writes Inter
esting Letter to Tribune
From Nice.
PASSENGERS DODGE PLAGUE
After Many Alarms They Are
Landed far From Peril by
Captain.

Miss Clara ]. Colburne, who is summer
ng in Italy. sends the following interest
ng account OF her trip TO The Tribune
Miss Davenport one OF the teachers a
the Hall, is accompanying Miss Col
ourne
Terminus Hotel. Nice, July 90. 1911;
To The Salt Lake Tribune, Salt Lake
City. Utah.
II you want TO go to Italy in sum
pect to get there, will be my advice
from this time on to the American
traveller.
we started on q Cunard steamer on
the Bird day of July: with an Itaman
phrase book In our valise and enough
of the Italian language in our brains,
as we hoped. to keep US aao1, from sna sIare r.
vation, We improved .Hd every i've fns spare pare
we reached the island OF MADEIRA
our first stopping place-we knew the
guide book by heart, rolled our RS
and doubled our ,consonants IN true
Italian fashion and almost Hoped that
we might pass as natives wnen we
landed on Italian SOIL We had
plan which filled every hour OF every
day until We again set san i2r . Athsrij era
plans OF mice and men," this plan did
gang aglee."
Find Cholera Raging.
On the island OF Madeira wire
less message brought us the news
that cholera was raging in Naples
there, or II we were allowed. II would
be unsafe. and, by the time we
reached the Strait OF Gibraltar, where
we stopped q few hours. excltement
on board had grown so intense that
several Of the passeneTs Ned TO eE-
change Spain and her bull lights for
a moonlight ride with tuneful gon-
dolier and thrill at Rome's departed
glories. Among these deserters was
a Baltimore Clergyman. who, In his
zeal to learn the italian language,
had kept his back bent over an ltai-
Ian grammar from the hrst day 9ut;
missed many of the delights Of a
voyage at sea and the acquaintance
of his fellow passengers His deser-
tion-and I knew IT had 1, followed no ana a
tain-made me begin to feel weak IN
the knees. but I had started for Italy
and wasn't going to be turned back
BY any uncertain rumor. so re-
turned TO the boat and found there
reports Of new wireless messages and
renewed excitement which increased
hour by hour As we sk!rted the span
ish coast and neared Italian shores'
Scoff at Deserter.
Some scoffed at the deserting cler-
gyman and his followers. but more
wished they had done the same
thing; and by the time we sighted the
coast OF France, large majority Oh
the passengers who we're bound Tor
Naples had decided to leave the boat
at Genoa. the next stopping place, and
go directly north 10 Switzerland.
But Genoa is in Italy and there
were rumors of nve days enforced
delay on the border in a laZaretto-
sort Of detention hospital-or.
worse still. Ave days In an italian
sleeping car.
One enterprIsinR traveller sent a
wireless to- the American consul In
Rome and received an answer yerl-
fying the detention rrlmor. and then
excitement ran high. The passengers
blamed everybody. from the captain,
who hadn't put them of at Gibraltar,
TO the seif-sacrifcinG relatives at
home. who had advised them to make
the journey,
Cholera Club Formed.
A cholera club was formed on
board and with threatening aspect
its officers paced the deck and hint
ed al demands that were going to
| be made Of tho captain and at the
future auffeI1nss OF that Cunard
company II they allowed such a band
OF distinguished travellers to be land
| ed In an infected country and I'M
prisoned In n lazaretto. which they
| were sure. was an italian name for
| Desthouse, 49,
| At last. as we saw this gray clins.
vine e-coversd Villas and shining SANDS
| Of the Riviera approaching. and knew
from this that the Italian shore was
near at hand. and excitement was