The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-09-17

| there had ever been any other man in
my life but her son.
(Which would you liks to see first, -
asked timidly after a moment, "the
wall tanks with fresh and salt water
fishes or the floor tanks with the seals
| and the sea lions"
Some Happy Memories.
There is no hesitancy about Mrs.
Graham, a trait which I like immense
ly. She never keeps you waiting, but
decided at once what she wishes to do.
THE wall tanks first by all means
she said. 1--WE will circle this room
and then come back to the SEALS
She did not linger over the immense
glass cases which contained the leap
ing fish of every country in the world.
but she stopped several minutes be
fore a tan kholding speclIled mountain
trout. Her face softened as she looked
at them.
when I was a small girl I used to
go with my father to fish for these"
she said. Il would follow down the
bank while he whipped the stream for
them. I have never forgotten the OK
perienCe."
'I think they make the most tooth
some dish in the world" 1 returned,
hoping fervently that the innocent 1t
tie remark would meet with my
mother laws approval.
At least it did not arouse her resent
ment, for she began to talk of the
building. This land was once an
island 200 feet from the Shore she
said, and this circular building was
originally a fort, which was built dur
ing the war of 1912 for the defence Of
the city against the British
She might have been sightseeing
lecturer or a teacher instructing his
tory class. She must have known that
for years had made my living by
teaching history, but there was no evil
dence of it in her manner. l might
have been the most ignorant little
country girl in the world as far as my
nother-in-law was concerned. 1 re-
solved to humor her.
An Unexpected Interruption.
'Tt was named Sastle Clinton before
it was called Castle Garden, was it,
not?" 1 asked deferentially.
Yves. and the fort on the point Of
Governors island opposite, was Castle
Williams, then, as it is today she re-
plied. Congress coded this property to
the city in 1922. It was named Castle
Garden. and saw all the great pubic
gatherings of that time. Lafayette ana
the Prince Of Wales, afterward King
Edward VII, of England, were given
receptions here. Morse. the inventor
of the telegraph, gave a demonstration
here. in 1885. of controlling the electric
current. He did it by coiling wire
about the interior of the garden.
gazed at My mother-in- law posi-
+ivalv fascinated by her flow of words, |
and the list of facts she was giving me /
But she appeared intoxicated with the
sound of her own voice and her kho"I-
edge of the building.
Il remember reading Of Jenny Llnd /
American debut here" she said,
"avav back in 1850. She was unoer
the management of P. T. Barnum' and
her half of the profits Of the first con-
cert was over $4,000, which she gave
RI the charities of New York.
"Tbat was an immense sum- / saId
,rone1l wishing to make some reply TO
nv mother-in-law' lecture.
Fright you are commented voice
behind me, an odious, familiar voice
"Caruso had nothing on the old girl
after all"
gave a little gasp Of terror. IS
turned TO meet the malicious black
ewes Of Harry Underwood. who. with
two other men, stood just behind US.
(ron+inued tomorrow