The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-07-22
Little Old New York as Seen by Col. A. P. Jordan

, known to readers of the Herald, and
will be read with enjoyment by them
The letter follows:
New York, July 18th, 1920,
When man has reached the age
of sixty years and has acquired lot
of fixed habits and peculiarities and
has become welded, so to speak, to
the ,nany comforts and little conven-
fences of his own home, he should
limit his travels to one or two days
visit to some nearby picnic grounds.
! Nowhere hut at his own home will he
! find the comforts and conventenCes
which appeal to him. A young man
can and will readily adapt himself to
any aud all conditions and reap
pleasure out of them; with most old
rlen this is impossible. This will eX-
plain why I have enjoyed my travels
only in spots, such as the San Carlos
hotel and the press meeting in Pen
Sacola. VIrIt 20 my boyhood home
in Eufaula, Ala, and Hazelhurst Ga.
did not at all enjoy railway travel,
for the dusty, limited space in the
ears is too restricted. | like plenty
of room; consequently, | don't like
New York city, of which more's to be
said.
Parenthetically, will state that
some of my boyhood friends in Eu
faula, less than a dozen of whom are
living, and the rich owner of the ho-
tel at which l stopped, surprised me
by urging me to come to Eufaula ana |
buy out and run the city's only da ~ |
paper. They assured me of all ned
ed Hnarcial support. This was high
~ catering to me. OF course l could
not comply with their wishes
Wife and l sailed from Jackson |
Vile at 6 pm, July 9Th inst. We
embarked on the 'Lenape" the !
largest, finest and fastest steamer of
the Clyde Line. There were aboard |
274 passengers and a crew of 11S
men and niggers. The niggers are
the dining room walters, many of |
whom are devoid of courtesy and at
tention, and the one who waited on |
our table was always in i'll humor
and seemed to try to make it I'M
pleasant for all eight of the victims
who suffered at tie tacle. He is a New |
York niger, whose name l think Is |
Joe, and his table is in the corner
nearest to the kitchen. l am thus
explicit, in the hope that some Off
cial of the line may see this and
throw that niger overheard
Two more criticisms: First, the
designer of the "Lenape" placed the
toilets in the corner of the ship,
where they are without ventilation;
drinking water, we had to
walk 500 feet to the dining room to
get it, or ring for a boy to bring it !,
up to our rooms and tip him loo for
the service. Barring these things,
other ships of the line, and l do not
hesitate to recommend that people
trips to any Of the
states on the Atlantic Seaboard,
avail themselves of the comfortable
and exceedingly pleasant trips offer
ed by the Clyd Line. On our trip,
we had fine weather, very pleasant
clean and exhilarating at
plenty Of room for walk
ng and loungiHg around, and that
glorious sense of liberty, of person
II freedom from the restrictions of
own or city life, which is given by
laily contemplation of the splendid,
ocean.
We arrived in the great city Fri
lay morning; had no trouble finding
'ur way by street car to our hotel, in
which we were given a large, COM
ortable room fronting on Union
square in the heart of the city.
from here, surface cars and subway
rains run to all points. Two blocks
istant is Fifth Avenue, on which
auto-buses, crowded with
assengers, are passing every few