The Coconino sun., 1925-01-02

energy to play the game and it didn't
take long before a player was soppin'
! wet from his own pores. They played
/ about 25 points.
There was gang of red cap bet
/ ters down below who kept up regu-
! lar bedlam throughout the game.
4 They were bound to bet with someone.
1 I didn't root or bet much, just sat
around and criticised, not knowing the
game much.
AS we have mentioned previous, the
Havana folks are great on making
wagers on most any old thing, from
which ones fleas can bite the hardest
! to which feller's mother-in-law can
| live longest without eating.
! No. we didn't see a bull fight nor a
rooster scrap, though they have very
splend;!. bull ring in which to annoy
bulls when the fit strikes them. A
bull usually has about as much chance
! in one of these fights as he would
have. going up chute into one of Mr..
Armour's famous packing houses.
OF course | know you all would be
tickled to death if | went into details
and mentioned lot of facts, figgers
and statistics about Cuba, but this is
a personally conducted tour for our
own lhel3>fit only and any one who
wants to analyze this place in more
detail, can get an agricultural report
from the government and go to it, or
possibly the local chamber de COM
merce de la Bull would send it to you,
showing how real estate has gone up
in the last ten years, though some OF
their information may be decayed IN
spots.
But we must pass on and see other
things through our purple goggles.
We wear purple goggles to strain the
sights instead of our eyes, also not to
see too awful much.
We might add that the cruise gang
managing this vast "tower" calls a
mass meeting the day before enter
ing a port and gives all details of the
program for the day. You are allow
ed to ask all the fool questions de-
sired and they are answered-if pos
sible.
eyes, we are in the Carrabean sea-,
even if the water as marked on the
map don't match the color of the
water we were using as highway"
"No, they amt no guide signs on an
ocean highway and the sea is not
largely populated on top. Marcel
waves are not used"
Some tourists put the accent on the
forward syllable of the Caribbean and
others explode the aft syllable, but
the sea looks just the same as that
used about Baltimore and New York.
These questions make it awfully dis
couraging to a feller who is trying to
make deep study Of the seas. 1t is
hard to distinguish 'em by taste,
smell or color, because one. seems to
empty into the other-we mean the
oceans, not the passenger. Though
we have heard of passengers ike the
Frenchman riding on a rough sea,
who was asked if he had dined. He
answered with wide-open, anguished
face, very languidly; "On the con-
trary"
Well, this is small world. We
never met any one in Havana we had
known before.
We slipped our anchor early the
next morning with the engineer step
ping on tie gas, and headed for the
Panama nat country, which is four
days away.
Just to show you what kind of
ship and folks we are travelling with,
we append herewith, with a pin, an
article from the Havana Telegram,
which claims the largest circulation
of any paper in Cuba, consequently
we accept the statement with the ex-
ception we are sore because our name
wasn't mentioned as of worth along
with the Woolworth's, coming from
sheep country as we do:
"One Of the largest vessels which
ever entered Havana harbor gave ear
ly risers in this city thrill early this
morning when she cautiously poked
her way through the channel and an
chored off this port.
""The vessel was the 27,200-ton Bel
genIand, of the Red Star line, pro-
ceeding around the world and making
Havana her first stop after the de-
parture from New York last week.
The liner was of such gigantic pro-
portions that it seemed to occupy the
better part of the harbor.
''Three hundred and seventy-four
passengers were on board for the 133-
day circumnavigation of the globe.
An additional passenger list OF 10
will be picked up at San Francisco,
bringing the passenger list up to its
capacity for around the world travel
of 450. The liner is under command
of Captain Bradshaw and has crew
of 600
The rates for the voyage range
from minimum of $4,000 to the ex-
treme of $4,000 for suite. The
S23, 900 suite is occupied by F. M. Kir-
bv, one of the founders of the F, w.
Woolworth company. A large num-
Der of distinguished passengers were
included in the party which arrived
today-bankers newspaper men, army
and navy officers and diplomats.
among those on board is Col. w.
| Wright, who during the war was on
General Pershing's staff, and who was
the man WHO was to have bombed
Berlin had not the armistice inter-
vened. He has received the D. S. O.
Henry Stoddard, one of the best
known republicans in New York state,
and former publisher of the New
York Evening Mail, is also of the
round -the-world party.
"This morning the passengers were
taken on a SIGHT seeing trip, visiting