Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1913-01-29
CLAIRE TOTMAN TELLS
OF HIS SEA VOYAGE
Brought Up Vivid RecoIIections
and Other Things.
Letter Was Written Just Before Reach
ing Barbados, West Indies-Is
Now in South America.
On Board. S. s. ''vestris. =
Jan. end, 1913.


Jan. End, 1918
Dear People :-Of the west Indian
coast, soon to be in Martinique. We
will be In Bar BADGES tomorrow early,
our first stop. We will be there a
day I believe, and we need the change,
at least some of Us. l stayed in the
cabin from 5 o'clock Saturday p. m.
until Wednesday 10 O'Clock a. M.
New Years day. Sat on deck until
after supper, then laid in tie music
room on settee until 1 O'Clock this a.
m. (Thuisd J.
It is warm and breezy on deck.
temperature 20 and 80 degrees. We
first saw land at isle Dominica this q.
m. It looked mighty good to ne.
We were near enough to see the cane
fields, factories and houses; all was
green and nice. We have been travel
ing along from isle to isle all day.
The islands are young mountains.
Just imagin few peaks of tn
Rockies picked up and set in Lax
Michigan. with cane fields all green
on the foot hills, the peaks covered
with evergreen trees, the flats with
scattered cocoanut trees and you see
these isles.
A young man on board from Ba-ba
does tells of the fruit we will see
there tomorrow. Oranges, bananas,
grapefruit etc. Barbados is a sugar
isle also Molgaard has not been sick
be seems to enjoy it. We are sitting
out in our rel lining chairs for which
we pay 81 90 have, string orchestra
of pieces and piano. Breakfast at
s. dinner at ~ 80 and supper at 6.
with tea at p. m. and supper again
at 8 to 10 p m. they served ice cream
this a. m at 10 80 while the orchestra
was playing, Speaking Of all the eats
1 will say, the first ] have eaten to
maintain it" is this noon. having
missed fourteen meals straight; that
is not so bad Ell? But I'll have some
coming when hit land Going with
out eating so long is not SO bad but
to be sick to ones stomach so long ia
not conducive Ito a sweet disposition
to say the least A young man from
Paraguay on board has been TO Eng
land. France and the United States
studying the systems of education
with reference to agriculture and
domestic sciences, says be will en-
deavor to arouse his countrymen to
greater efforts to adopt better methods,
ETC. Just noticed bulletin board) that
we are 10 degrees north. Barbados is
ID degrees north. Had dinner with
the Consul in New York, went over
to Wall Street and saw some of our
friends. paced up and down Broad
way" Exchange place has them beat
for narrowness the buildings seem to
meet at the top. Crossed the bridge
stayed in Brooklyn all night and left
pier in lyn at / O'Clock SatuF-
day, dec. Goth. My constant wish is
that father could be along, for his
sake-not mine. 1t was worth S1U0
to me this a. m. to look out upon that
island-green and grass reminding me
of the beautiful Wisconsin spring
time. and taking me back to Montana
and Washington. They are playing
deck games over on the port side.
something not INDUCED in much by
me- I must close for cow, and will
say that am feeling pretty we'll.
will begin eating now. They tell
me l will stay in South America; no
doubt its nice. but you see that I've
preferred Wisconsin to heaven thus
far.
Our salaries begin when we report
to minister of Industries at Monte.
So we are sailing along, expecting to
reach our destination about Jan. goth.
A fine boat; fine trip in spite of
bit of stomach trouble;" was sick
when only three hours from New
York. Your loving son and brother.
CLAIRE.
A card from Barbados Jan. 3, 1913.
says: Good morning p. o. in
About 50 degrees here
makes us swelter (guess that's the
world leave here at p. m, have
been on shore six or seven hours
Claire. =