Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-01-14

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owned by Sir Francis Cook of Lon
don. It is a wondrous old place full
of collections of art. The gardens
contain about all of the tropical
plants in the world and were collected
from every place in the tropical world
we know of. Huge ferns and palms,
brilliantly colored flowers and flow
ering trees. Many large artificial
lakes are scattered about. Perfectly
huge trees of all kinds. The place
must have been growing and setting
for the last hundred years and more.
We returned to Lisbon on the 7:4O.
From here our real adventure begins.
When we got into the street we no
ticed that the place was unusually
ouiet and that there were not near
the crowds as usual. We didn't let
that bother us at all, and so piled on
street car and started to the hotel.
When we were on one of the narrow
streets, "Boom!'-a bomb had been
thrown at us and burst nearly under
us We jumped, being startled, and
the car leaped forward at great
pace. "Boom!"-another bomb was
aimed at us. We fairly flew along
the street. Some women in the car
we're crying and all talking Portu-
guese and gesticulating. Some SOL
dier who thought himself extraordi-
narily brave dashed from one end Of
the car to the other and tried to quiet
everyone. OF course l had to smile
at the fellow. How he would run if
attacked, Well, the only thing we
could make was that there was a
bread riot going on, as we lave heard
there are often such things of late.
When we got to the arsenal we we're
held up by some soldiers and then
allowed to go on our way again after
the usual jabber and flinging of arms
and eyes. We got to the hotel and
off. No one in the hotel knew much,
and we went to our room thinking
that we had been in real bread riot.
We soon heard cannons roaring in
the bay and came to the conclusion
that they we're to warn the people
from the gunboats. Our wooden shut
ters were closed and we thought that
funny. We went to bed and opened
the shutters and the windows, and
all night long we were hearing shots
from all over town. have to say
that we slept but little that night.
Marie was quite bit upset-such a
sudden change in her mode Of peace
able living. was quite enjoying my
self and would continue to do so il
the danger didn't get nearer home
and | was able to see.
The next morning we awoke dur
ing unusual shelling and looked out
the window to see a couple of gun
boats in the bay splitting fire at each
shot They were shelling the SOL
diers' barracks up on the hill back
of the city. We could see them drop
ping shells around the gunboats from
the artillery on the hill. The gun
boats would move along the while
and continually shoot, then turn and
move in the other direction and shoot
more. 1t seemed poor shooting to me,
because we could see that none of the
shots fired at them hit them. We
soon learned that it was not bread
riot as we had thought, but politi-
cal revolution or civil war One
side was a part of the people and the
army and the other side was the 9TH
er part of the people and the navy,
The army was fighting for a change
of the present government and for
the complete change in political men.
The navy was for the present govern
ment, the republic. OF course you
can see that the army was the revolu-
zionist, or rebel, side. The battle we
had just witnessed was fight be-
tween the navy and the army. I
should say that the barracks and the
gunboats were two miles apart and
the firing was all over our heads-we
were in the hole, so to speak. 1t was
all intensely interesting and very ex-
citing.
l decided that l wanted a look at
the real thing on the streets, so ven-
tured out and down the streets. Was
stopped dozen times by soldiers and
by armed civilians, but ! acted i'm
portant and soon was in The Black
Horse Square. That square is located
on the water front and is the termi-
nus of the downtown barracks and
the Red Cross headquarters as well
as some municipal buildings; that is,
they surround the square, all forming
the end of the barracks. arrived at
the Red Cross as two r. G. ambu-
lances drove up at breakneck speed
and saw them take out three dead
men and several wounded. Another
wagon drove up and unloaded a