Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-11-16
MAKING AN
EXTENDED TRIP
Audubon Boy On Steamship On Way
To Manila Where He Is In
Uncle Sans Employ.

Univ Gam . AhuPtOy.
Barcelona, Spain
Oct. 26th, 1911.
Dear Friend, J. w. B. Cole
l arrived here safe on the morning
of Oct. Goth, and found my brother-in-
law waiting for me at the pier He
brought me here to their home and |
have been staying with them. Well /
believe / have told you everything about
my trip up to Cadiz, Spain, so / will
commence again there. We arrived at
Cadiz on the morning of Oct IL, at 300
a. IN. and stopped there one day taking
in the sights of Cadiz the Oldest city in
Spain. 1t was founded several hundred
years before Christ was born. There
still remains some old masonery work
there that was constructed by the
Romans and the Moors of Africa hun
dreds of years ago. The streets of
Cadiz are very narrow and are all paved
with stone. The city lies on a point
which projects out in the Atlantic Ocean
and is a walled city very similar to the
old walled city at Manila, enjoyed
very much the day spent there but l
don't believe would care to stay there
more than one day. We sailed from
CadiZ at 1000 am, Oct. Is, for BARGE
Iona and at 1900 noon we passed point
Trafalgar where one of the greatest of
all Naval Battles was fought. When
Admiral Nelson of the British Navy
destroyed the great Spanish Armada
and taken from Spain the title Mistress
of the Sea. At 2:30 pm we passed
through the Straights of Gibraltar
where the greatest of all forts in the
world is to be found on rock which
commands the entrance to the Medter-
ranian Sea and flies the British flag.
While passing through the Straights we
could see the coast of Africa on our
right, and the coast of Spain on our
left. AT about 800 pm. we passed into
the MEDITERRANEAN sea and we had a
pleasant trip from their to Barcelona,
Spain, where we arrived two days later
Oct. Goth i have found this place to
be very beautiful city of about SOC, 900
people, situated on the northeast coast
of Spain in the MEDITERRANEAN Sea. 1t
has a very nice harbor. This is manu-
factoring city and has a great deal of
shipping. The streets are wide in the
new part of the city and are very
beautiful. The buildings are some of
the incest have ever seen although not
so large as the buildings of our Ameri-
can cities. Nearly all the buildings
in the business part are of six stories
and are nearly all of uniform size, and
are all constructed of stone or brick. /
have not seen wooden house in Spain.
| have been treated very nice every
where l have been. There seems to be
very little hatred toward us Americans
here, on the contrary they admire very
much m trv liI.nrtxr nd he
most of all our machinery. Everywhere
/ go l see American cash registers,
American sewing machines and other
products from home. They don't seem
TO hold any grudge against US for the
terrible whipping we gave them thirteen
years ago and have been told by many
of them that the old world has many
things to learn from the new world.
This city belongs to the province OF
Catalina and the people here speak a
language known as Catalan. There are
many Republicans here and Spain has
had much trouble with this province
several revolutions and Anti Catholic
demonstrations. This is where the
people destroyed most of the Converts
about two years ago and there was 8
regular seige here for a week. The
leaders were shot in old Fort Montjutcl
which is situated ON large hill owe,
looking the harbor and the city. One Of
the leaders was Ferrier, q labor leader
and his execution caused many protest.
from all over Europe. 1t is very likely
you read about it at the time. The
climate here is fine. 1t very seldom
SHOWS. The people are stilling wearing
straw hats and summer clothes.
received couple of postcards from