The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1926-02-11
u TOURISTS
REACH EUROPE
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Life On Ship Board

Life On Ship Board
: The Adriatic is of about rs,
: 900 tonnage; it is 726 feet il
S length, and rs feet wide. 1t car
: ries a crew Of about 500 men ant
has sailed the seas for nineteen
years. While not the largest We
it is considered one of the stead
lest ships in service and is wei
managed in every respect. 1t.
cuisine is splendid. 1t carries {
list Of 43O passengers, all frs.
, class and nearly all American
tourists. We travel about 40(
miles a day and from now on il
is planned that the interesting
cities and shore lines will appear
during the day. We are all get
ting acquainted and by another
week we will really be n big
family; a fine orchestra plays dur
ing meals and afternoons, dances
ara held every night and bridge
and Switchboard tournaments and
other deck games keep the pas
sengers in trim. The other night
a "s~hip-talent" comedy was pre-
scented. 1t might be well to state
that Senator Schnitzler was chos-
en- as one of the "bathing beauty
parade" Mr.. Huxsol was exam
ined but could not pass muster
for several reasons, but Schnitzler
came through with flying colors
and much favorable comment. A
masquerade ball will be given in
the near future. While there IS
much democracy yet the evening
meal is partaken in formal dress.
Rough Weather
The first two or three days the
sea was comparatively we'll be-
haved, but on Monday following
our departure we ran into a heavy
sea and it took the legs of a reg
ular "salt" to navigate the deck.
The big ship bobbed about like
a cork and at times listed as much
as % degrees. One of the Off
GERS said that it was the worst
rolling for a period Of four years.
Mr.. Huxsol proved a regular sail
or but one of us was glad when
the mountainous waves subsidized
and the old ship again hit an even
keel.
Isle of Madeira
Our command of English is not
adequately to describe
our real feelings when on the
morning of the seventh day of
sky and water the wonderful is
and of Madeira came to view. We
saw it first from the port hole of
our little cabin and from that
moment until we again boarded
Jhe Adriatic in the evening it was
/ thrill. We were in a differen
world and space and time will
permit us only to dwell on it
lightly.
The main island is 80 miles long
nd II miles wide, it has a popu-
alton of about 100000; it is said
hat there is no other spot on the
lobe which so astonishes and de-
ights on first arrival, as this IS
and. Funchal is a charming city
18th about 10000 people. The
own is set in an amphitheatre of
owering hills which are ~tecraced +
nd thickly settled and Intensely !
cultivated for grapes, vegetables ,
nd some grains. 1t is tropical in 3
very respect and has been noted |
or its fine wines and dainty a
eedlework. The streets Of tie +
Itv are narrow and winding and a
re peculiarly paved with smooth, +
lack basaltic stones set edgewlse. n
transportation t
The chief mode of transporta- Is
on is a sledge, or CAIRO, drawn "
' a team of oxen or bullocks, as a
.ey are called here. The sledges
runners which slip easily ov-
the stones when fabricated with G,
oily rag. The driver is kept d
lsy with a whip in n hand II
.ging along the oxen and with W
oil soaked rag in the other, CO
it first under one run Il,
r and then under the other. The DE-
and is a part of Portugal and m
overpopulated. Much poverty de-
evident. Beggars are on ev- tn
Y hand and 70 per cent Of the Is
pulation is i~lliterate.
Columbus came to the island
out 20 years before his discov- i,
2 of America. Here he mar
d Menina Perestrello, daughter SUI
mariner, and it was from his Wis
her-in-law that he got MS first me
owledge of a sailors life Co
mo never thinks Of MadeiraIab.