Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-18
IN THE
NEWS


"A snteroom to hcaven-or II 1t
docs not IL should-is the loveliest
spot we have seen yet.
1t II situated on the Pacific
Ocean moro than half way down
tho west coast Of Mexico.
There Is an inner and outer bay
both supremely beautiful.
Both arc overlooked by high
hills on the top of which--and
along the steep sides of which
villas are perched and hotels ~
well.
There are at least three GOOD
hotels In Acapulco and some 9TH
ers that are not so good.
But three hotels ought to be
enough for even the most fastidi-
Gus traveller.
All the hotels and all the villas
have marvellous outl0oks.
You can look far away over the
broad and blue Paciflc-and could
perhaps see even to China II II
were not for the annoying rotun-
dity of the earth.
In the dim distance may be
viewed the tenuOus smoke OF
passing steamer or the white sails
OF n ship cleaning like n wisp OF
cloud In the bright sunshine.
At night there Is moon.
There Is a moon everywhere,
say you.
Yes, but not such tawHy trop-
ical moon-nOt such a voluptuous
mOon-not such a sensuous moon
rising languidly above the high
hills and gazing at you steadily
and thrillingly like a dark-eyed
Spanish beauty over the top Of
nirtatious fan.
Then to make the illusion per-
feet comes the simmer OF the
moonlight on the surface of the
ripping bay like the lacy folds
Of a white mantiIla.
4 T THE innermost side of the
IA inner bay Is the old, old town
browsing in the cool moonlight
dreaming perhaps-although II Is
more awake at night than II Is by
day-of its youth and its romances
dreaming Of the days when the
heavily laden Spanish galleons
came from the Orient with their
rich cargoes of silks and spices to
this, the chief port of the west
ern Pacific.
Then the goods were here un-
laden from the ships and packed
on long lines Of burros and carried
across the high sierras to Vera
Cruz and there re-shipped TO Eu-
rope.
The Panama Canal was not even
thought OF then nor the Tehuante-
pee railroad--and the trip around
the Horn was too arduous and too
dangerous.
The Portuguese had not per-
fected the route around South
Africa.
And the SueZ Canal, built and
destroyed by the Egyptians. re-
built and re-destroyed by the
Greeks, had not again been re-
built by DE Lesseps and made
practicable short cut between
Europe and the East Indies.
So Acapulco prospered as the
chief western harbor of transport
and transfer for awhile and then
became deserted and sank into
somnoIence and insignificance.
Twice In its halcyon days was
the town captured by the pirates
and for awhile II was the west
coast center of the slave trade.
Many of the Indians in the vi
entity are distinctly negrOid In
character and u is said that some
have a definitely Chinese quality.
In fact n tale il told of a Chi
nese princess and her encourage of
ships and retinue of servitors cap
tured by a daring buccaneer and
held here for ransom.
But when the ransom came the
lady had married the dashing pi-
rate and refused TO go home-but
lived here-(happily every after
wards we must suppose -and died
here and left with her court and
crew an impress on the native
race.
THIS tale may not be true but
the fact IL true that Acapulco
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