Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1922-06-08

/ ndQ D6on SGdS1Ck WHICH Ildut tHio
proceeding very unpopular Final
| ly this was over and I will say |
never did see the doctor. He may
have seen me, / do not know. Next
we took our luggage off the boat in
/ to the inspection room OF the GUS
toms officers where we had to open
them up and let an officer go
| through them. While this was go
ing on a small army of hotel run
ners were exploiting the various no.
! tells in broken English and mixed
| Spanish. They did not hesitate to
| tell you the other fellows hotel was
no good, and some personal scraps
amongst the fraternity seemed to be
narrowly averted. The same scram-
BILE took place as soon as we got out
of the customs house among the
taxi drivers. At last about 10 D. m.
we got to our hotel. We had not
felt like eating when supper was
served on the boat as we were hav
ing very heavy sea and about so
per cent of the passenger list were
sick. We thought it advisable to
take a little nourishment before re
firing, so we went to the cafe of
our hotel We examined the bill of
| fare. and after due deliberation or.
dered chicken broth as a proper
balm for our seatossed anatomy.
After two or three interpreters had
| listened to our order it was accept
ed and in due time we were sup
piled with three large soup plates
and soon very dignified Spaniard
appeared with a huge two horned
dish shaped like our ancient tureens,
and a ladle, with which he filled
our three dishes with all the dig
nifty of judge. 1t was dishearten-
ing to see Mrs. F.'s expression when
she surveyed the broth. 1t was a
brothy concoction in which he had
fioated all the bread he could make
float. We decided chicken broth a
failure and went to bed.
Havana is wonderful piece of !
construction-bui almost entirely |
of masonry, right out to the street
line. / did not see a front yard in
the city, but many lovely back yards
could be seen The business houses
nearly all ;. have pillars out at the |
curb and the sidewalk covered over. |
In place of plate glass fronts they |
have metal rolls like window
blinds, which they push up during |
business hours, thus exposing the
stocks Of goods. At night nothing |
can be seen. How they keep |
their stocks clean, opena to the |
street, I do not know. We travelled |
many miles in the city and found |
it all of very similar construction. |
The streets are very narrow-in |
many cases there is barely room for
two automobiles to pass, yet there |
is a constant stream of machines |
and the rule is "get there" right or |
left just as you please. Yet strange t
to say l did not see half or quarter
as many collisions as | saw in Mi |
ami with her fine streets and rules |
We visited many points of inter
est including some wonderful cathe- |
drals. One was almost four hun
dred years old and is one in which |
the bones of Christopher Columbus I
are supposed to have reposed. They I
were removed several years ago
We saw where they had been re-
moved. This cathedral is very
grand. but another one 167 years |!
old is one of the handsomest inter |
| iors | have ever seen. The paint /
ings were fine--seyeral figures high |
up stood out in bold relief. I was
absolutely sure tnev We're carved. !
One guide assured us they were
paintings on the walls. 7 am en-
tirely unable to describe the beauty
of this cathedral 1t is called
Lady of Mercy" 1t required seven
years to paint the interior Go and !
see it. We saw the governors pal
ace the university, the old fort |
$50 years old called La Force. The
orphanage which has a large re- |
volving metal basket. Any one who
has a child which she can not sup
port can go to this window, place
/ the child in the basket, turn the
basket around and ring the bell. !
An attendant will come from the in
side of the wall take the baby
from the basket and care for it un-
til it is grown up. The attendant
does not see the mother at ALL
We visited their wonderful Gem
etery and I will not try to describe
it. We saw the "boneyard" and
climbed up and looked over the
wall and saw the skulls and bones
which had been thrown in. The
facts are that when poor person
dies the family has to pay $1,000
| for grave for three years; when the
three years are UP they must again
pay rent. If the rent is not paid the
bones are taken up and formerly
, thrown in the boneyard-now they
are burned in their new incinerating
plant. | see this letter is running
wild and | have not got started. We
! took one forenoon to visit Moro
Castle which stands at the entrance
| to Havana Harbor and in it's day
must have made a perfect protec-
ton. 1t is a wonderful mass of
stone, with subterranean passages,
moats, courts, prisons, stairways,
| slopes, towers, lookouts and every
/ thing usual to the old fortresses.
| The guns on it now are entirely OBJ
solete, but the soldiers occupy it
and look after it. There is light
house built up on the castle which is
! fully equipped and operated. We
climbed to the very top, even up in
| to the glass encased revolving light.
1t shows "A miles out to sea. On
the same hill there is another old
fort of large dimensions which the
Cuban soldiers occupy and keep up.
From it there is a chute to the bay
| in which the bodies of the executed
were slid into the bay to feed the