The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-12-26
osEPH BucKLlN BISHOP

WITH masses OF little white flowers
which at night time smell deliciously.
There We're trees studded all over
with huge white flowers and others,
the flamboyants sucl, as I saw in the
campaign at Santiago, are a mass of
large scarlet blossoms in June, blu.
which now had shed them. / thought
the tree-ferns especially beautiful
The towns were just such as you saw
IN Cuba, quaint. brilliantly colored
with the old church or cathedral
fronting the plaza, and the plaza al
ways full of flowers OF course tho
towns are dirty, but they are not
nearly as dirty and offensive as those
of Italy; and there is something
pathetic and childlike about the peo-
pie. We are giving them a good gov
eminent and the island is prospecting
] never saw a finer set of young fell
lows than those engaged in the ad
| ninistration- Mr. Grahame, whom OF
course you remember, is the intimate
friend and ally of the leaders of the
| administration. that is of Governor
Beekman Winthrop and of the Secre-
| tary of State, Mr.. Regis Post. Ora
hanle is a perfect trump and such
! handsome. athletic fellow. and a great
Sir Galahad. Any wrongd doing. and
J especially any cruelty makes him.
flame with fearless Indignation. He
perfectly delighted the Porto Ricans
and also immensely puzzled them by
| coming in his Scotch kilt to a govern
i ment ball Accordingly, at my special
| request. j had him wear his kilt at
1 the state dinner and reception the
| night we We're at the palace. You
/ l,o Sc n do MT of
and although born in Canada. his
parents We're Scotch and he was edu-
Gated in Scotland. Do tell Mr.. Bob
/ Fergie about him and his kits when
you next write him.
We spent the night at the palace,
i which is half palace and half castle,
| and was the residence of the old
Spanish governors. II is nearly 400
! years old, and is a delightful build
ing. with quaint gardens and a quaint
Sea-Wau looking over the bay. There
were colored lanterns lighting up the
gardens for the. reception, and the
view across the bay in the moonlight
was lovely. Our rooms We're attrac-
tive as possible, too, except that they
We're so very airy and open that we
found it difficult to sleep-not that
that much mattered, as. thanks 10
the earliness of our start and the
lateness of our reception, we had
| barely four hours in which we even
tried to sleep.
The next morning we came back
in automobiles over different and
even more beautiful roads. The noun
tain passes through and over which,
we went made us feel as if we were
| in a tropic Switzerland We had to
i cross two or three rivers where big
cream colored oxen with Jokes tied
to their horns pulled the automobiles
tie village we had an open air lunch
| very good. of chicken and eggs, and
| bread, and some wine contributed by
a wealthy Spaniard who rode ur
from neighboring coffee ranch
Yesterday afternoon we embarked
again, and that evening the crew
gave a theatrical entertainment or
the afterdeck, closing with three box
ing bouts. 1 send you the program
1t was great fun, the audience being
equally enraptured with the senti-
| mental songs about the flag, and the
sailors true love and his mother. and
with the jokes (the most relished o.
| which related to the fact that bed
! | bugs were supposed to be so larg.
that they had to be shotD and tn,