The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-05-24
Special Summer Prices
10 and 20 Cents.
HAVING GOOD TIME
IN VERA CRUZ
How the Natives Enjoy Themselves
with Theatre Going and
Band Concerts.

by Bernard Rucker, United Press
Staff Correspondent
VERA CRUZ, May 23.-(By NALL
The native impresarios already
have begun to cater to the Amerd-
cans. Several nights ago the Salon
OLYMPIA Olympia theatre-gaye an
entertainms nt to which all Americans
were hidden. Handbills printed in
both Spanish and English were scat
tered throughout the city, announcing
there would be "At p. M and II p.
M, magnificent exhibition of most
sensational films, exceptional vaude-
Vile Los Porleymes, greatest Euro
pean acrobatic dancers they will pre-
sent their hilarious bull fight In which
their famous dog Neron plays most
important thought prices lip, 20 & 40
mex
The Olympia was only the pioneer
Of the amusement resorts. AS soon
as the other impresarios saw the vel
low handbills Of the enterprising
Olympia manager, they turned gresn
with envy and soon the streets of
Vera Cruz were fairly avalanched
with dodgers On paper OF every pos
sible color and most famboyant type,
adv artising in the most amazing Eng
lish, entertainments of every descrip-
ton from moving pictures Of the TAX
ing of Vera Cruz to fancy dancing
and bull fights.
Vera Cruz is good show town. IN
the parlance OF Longacre square.
There are half dozen tn aatres and
innumerable moving picture shows.
The Vera Cruzans like to be amused.
They like everything except work.
TIL ere is not an hour in the day-ex-
cept the inviolate "siesta" when there
| is not band concert Of some kind
going on somewhere.
The other day the U. S. S. Arkan-
sas, flagship of Rear Admiral Badger,
commander-in-c chief of the Atlantic
fleet was flying a red flag. Observers
who saw the CORY emblem did not
know if the crew had mutinied or
whether Emma Goldman was visitor
aboard. A flag officer finally set
| anxiety at rest by explaining that
| warship flies the red flag when she
is taking on oil and gasoline. The
| flag means there must be no smoking
aboard during the process. The or
! der is one of the strictest in the navy
and applies to bridge, wardroom and
/ galley.
| The Standard Oil tank Winifred
strayed into the harbor and the flag
ship Immediately ordered her along
side to supply gasoline for the num-
arous small boats constantly plying
between the flagship and the shore.
The vast array of ships in the har'
Dor have been busy every moment
since they dropped anchor. First they
coal I'd and then took on provisions
from the Celtic and now they are tax
ing on oil and miscellaneous supplies.
A dreadnought of the type Of the Ar
kansas burns UP % tons of coal day
| while at anchor This is necessary to
operate the water service, lights, ma
chinery for hosting. ETC. Since the
curfew was lifted there has been
fleet of small boats going ashore at
six O'Clock each morning from the
warships, carrying the stewards. They
go to the Mexican markets and buy
fresh fruits and vegetables for tn
ships messes.
"I wish we would get to go home
before the new wears off this war.
We'd be heroes then and get some re-
canton >, a hlna iackaf from the Flor