Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1913-11-13
FROM BARABOO
TO BUCARAMANGA
Mrs. Maude Newell Will
liams Tells of Trip to
South America.
VISITS THE BIG CANAL
See Waterspouts PlaY--Big
Turtles For New York.
OCher Sights Noted.

I left Baraboo August %, with a
five year old boy, ten months old
infant, eleven chick ems and $40 pounds
of bagg age.
We reached New York safey the
morning Of the 8Oth, and went by
taxicab directly to the steamship
wharf, where, after claiming the bag
gaze we embarked and sailed about
noon.
The second night out we ran into q
fierce storm, for which the sailors
made so much preparation that many
of the passengers were badly frighten-
ed and rushed up and down the decks
talking wildly. The anticipation of
danger is worse than the actual meet
ing it, for il leaves so wide range to
the imagination. After all, the captain,
by change of course, encountered
only the edge of the storm and we
suffered much less tht n the barometer
had led us to expect. Some fierce
rolling, pitching and heavipg, some
hours of inconvenience from closed
port-holes and we were through, none
the worse for the experience. Yet the
boat lost over 100 miles from her usual
schedule for tWenty-fOur hours. For
the next few days we gazed upon
tranquil waters with nothing at all
exciting except the ever present task
of keeping the sixteen children, (all
under seven years of age) from falling
overheard. Acquaintances at sea ripen
rapidly, and know no better chance
or studying human nature than on q
steamer, especially one South Ameri-
can bound. Here the passenger RS
range from wealthy merchants Of
every race under the sun to the
wretched negro o''between-decker;" from
pompous, attention demanding Eu-
ropean priests to insignificant Protest
ant missionaries; from egotit tic sight
seers completing their circuit of the
globe to out-at-elbow adventures
seeking living in a new continent.
Twelve days of constant intercourse
with little at hand of interest aside
from the menu-card and the mus~eal
program of the orchestra. leaves large
opportunity for making the acquain
tance OF many unusual people, none OF
whom prove uninLeresting.
Touch at Cuba.
The fifth day out we touched al
Cuba and viewed with dismay several
mora small children among the on
coming passengers. Thursday founc
us at Kingston, Jamaica. Six years
have passed since first saw Kings
ton, and whas a transformation ha'
taken place. Then, a few months afteI
their terrible earthquake, all lay IL
ruins, the narrow streets piled higl
with debris; no stores, no offices t.
be seen, except a few rough-boarC
buildings, temporary make-shifts
Now there are broad paved streets
imposing government buildings, at
tractive looking banks, snowy shop
and stores. Outside of the govern
ment buildings, Kingston has little G
the English look about 1t Neithe
the architecture of the houses nor th
aspect of the streets, with a few ex
ceptions, is English. This might
due to the seeming possibility of trans
planting British homes to the tropics
Yet surely nothing could be mol
strictly American than America
homes transplsnted to the tropics,
exemplified in Panama. In Jamaic
the English have largely adopte
American architecture and |
have failed to stamp an English loo
upon the landscape. In Panama tt
Americans have built houses aft
their own ideas, like no other hous
under the sun-houses which are,
the same time, the simplest, yet mo
practical looking, the least adorne
yet most respectable in appearance,
be found anywhere in this region. Al
American, is stampedsall over thel
No other nation could or would ha
built such houses in the tTopi,
Iatin-American houses ramble all oN
a half square SO that one walks ma
miles each day to get about
house at all while the food cools bef