Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 18, Decatur, Adams County, 30 April 1908 — Page 7

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ARE LIKE MEXICO I Buildings Much the Same— The Carnival is a Great Sight Daytona, Fla., Mar. 30, 1908. j Dear Hattie:—A little more about Havana. I do not thiuk I told you ‘ aobut the money. Two kinds are ; used, American money and Spanish : silver. Railroad, steamer and hotel bills are paid in American money. At the stores both kinds of money is taken, but American is preferred. If ycu buy anything both kinds of money is quoted often, such as 33.00 Amer- I ican, $3.50 Spanish money. The cur- I rent rate ot exchange changes and is • quoted every day in the papers. There ; are different excursions advertised to ■ different parts of the island-Man- i tanza, Pinar del Rio, etc etc., but we have seen so much we did not care for it. We have seen so much tropical vegetation and life, life by sea and land, mountain and valley, that we did not want to make the effort to go out of the city. We have seen sugar cane, pineapples, oocoanuts, bananas. etc., by the hundred acres. Did I tell you we have seen a number of times, and half a dozen times passed close to the wreck of the Maine? Some of the iron frame stands out of the water. The last time we passed it there was a fresh large wreath of green and white flowers hanging from one of the bent iron rods. There are a number of faded wreaths hanging there too. We saw the plot of ground in Colon cemetery where they were buried, before their removal to the United Stages. The houses of Cuba are like Mexico, built in the Spanish style, and tinted pink, yellow, blue, etc., with the dark red tiled roofs. The houses are usually one and two stories, but very high, the ceilings being from 18 t-0>25 feet high. The doors are wide and high and have ponderous locks and bolts and knockers, and the windows guarded by the most beautiful art grille work in iron. Like Mexico most of the houses are

[built flush with the street, the yard being in the patio in the center, the house being built around it. Some of these patios are very beautiful. But I must not take more time to tell about the Cuban houses. One day on the street we saw the preparation for the funeral of a Cuban general. In front of the palace was a hearse. It was large and blaqk, profusely decorated with gold, great flowers and leaves and scrolls of gold. Eight horses with cover'ngs of red velvet, crimson velvet, embroidered in gold, with gold fringe. Each had a man beside it dressed in velvet of the same .color, embroidered in gold. A three cornered hat with white astrich feather, cutaway coat, knee breeches, white stockings and low shoes. The men on the drivers seat dressed the same. Back of the hearse was a smaller one, the gold decoration not so elaborate, with two horses, for the flowers. We were on our way to some place else. In the evening several companies of soldiers passed our hotel on their way to their barracks, returning from this funeral. I wish we might have seen it all. Another day we had a different show. A body of cavalry drew up in front of our hotel, and sat erect and silent on their horses for about an hour. We wondered what it meant. Just as we were reapy to leave the hotel to go down in the city there was a little stir about the door and the Italian minister appeared in court costume, with his aid-de-camp, or secretary of legation in white broadcloth and gold. They entered the carriage in waiting, the soldiers fell in line and all moved rapidly down the street. The event was the presentation of the Italian minister to General Magoon at the palace that morning and the soldiers were sent as an escort. We were giad to have seen it. The horses in Havana are beautiful, even the work horses are in good condition. Instead of wearing a bit on the work horses, as in Mexico they loop a rope around the mouth which answers the same purpose and is entirely harm- ' less. The Cuban of the laboring class seems very fond of decorating his horse with ribbon, roses and streamers and even of colored paper. The favorite shopping district of Havana are Obispo and O Reilly streets, two old and very narrow streets. When the shop keepers let down their awnings, they meet in the center of the street, and you walk in a street covered by awnings. It looks very odd. Os course there is a great deal I would like to tell, but cannot take time. Oh yes, the carnival. They are having gala times now, especially Sundays. The last Sunday we were in Havana we went down to Central Park and the Malecon to see the sight. It was the battle of tine flowers. There were floats and streams of carriages gorgeously decorated with flowers, confetti and payer serpentine were

thrown until the street was a foot deep with the debris. In the evening too. there were thousands walking and throwing confetti. The parks and 1 Prado and Malecon a sea of people 1 bands playing, carriages in line, men 1 jand boys dressed like a hallow’een 1 | party, a city gone crazy. We left on , Monday afternoon and Wednesday the i floats from the carnival at New Orleans were to be in Havana, but we Lave seen so much w e did not care jto stay for it. We come by steamer across the Gulf of Mexico to Knights Key. We have been fearful we might be on the gulf during the equinoctial, hut in our two weeks travel on it, i it has been as quiet as a mill pond, i There has been no equinoctial storm, iWe left Havana four p. m. Monday I and steamed slowly and reached Knights Key about six the next morn- ! Ing. where is the present terminus ot | the Key West Extension of the Florida East Coast railway. There is a description of this wonderful railroad in the January’ number of Everybodys Magazine. Knights Key is 112 miles south of Miami, Florida. It is really going to by train and Knights Key is a railroad station in the ocean. There remains forty-two miles yet to be built to reach Key West. The road runs from key to key (ot island) and is a wonderful road, as I have said. There are four long concrete viaducts altogether nearly 6 miles long, built 31 feet, above the 1 ocean. The one from Long Key to Couch Key. 10,500 feet long; across i Knights Key channel 7,300 feet; . across Moser Key channel 7,800 feet, > and across Bahia Honda crannel 4,950 • feet. The spans are each 50 feet, i resting on piers driven in the solid ’ rock, and strengthened with piles. . Then there are 60 miles of rock etn- . bankment through the waters besides [ these handsome concrete viaducts- and » he railroad across the keys. There > are a lot of other keys in plain sight all with trees and shrubs and grass 3 set in these southern Seas, whose . waters carry every shade of the opal. 3 turquoisq and aquamarine. The islands are bordered with the tall, grace--3 fu! palm of the cocoanut tree. In

building this road through the ocean from island to island, tides, currents, winds and all sorts of things had to be reckoned with. It had to be built to withstand the fury of the storms, and an enormous amount of dredging had to be done to remove the apparently bottomless amount of sea mud to get to the solid coral rock replacing it with crushed rock, sand and cement. It is a very beautiful trip over this road and I am very glad we have been over it. The first train ran over this road February 5, 1908. At Knights Key, after leaving the steamer and boarding the train, we had to go through the customs, a very unpleasant duty. After some hours’ delay here we were once more moving and reached Miami, Fla., about three p. m. We stopped a few days at Miami, on Biseayne Bay, and went on to Palm Beach, which I greatly prefer to Miami: Both places are resort towns, but to me Palm Beach is the more interesting. The hotel. The Royal Ponciana, is the largest hotel in the world. The dining room covers two-thirds of an acre, and seats over 1.600. If the wings it is said were stretched out, they would cover seven New York City blocks. There are nearly 1,100 guest rooms and 450 private baths. It is furnished throughout in ivory and green, and is very beautiful, spacious and luxurious. The

grounds are very beautiful a great park. From there we came to Daytona, where we have been a week. It is connected with Seabreeze by three bridges a half mile long over the ocean, and we cross over there for the ocean bathing. Daytona is inland about a mile and is warmer in the winter ,‘han Seabreeze. The surf bathing over Seabreeze. The surf beach is about 400 feet wide and thirty miles long, and as hard and smooth as a floor, of hard white sand. This is where the great auto races are held in the winter on the Ormond-Daytona beach. We drove up to Ormond the other day along the beach road, and returned fi.rough the woods along the Halifax river. One day we expect to drive to New Smyrna, if we do not leave tomorrow. We will leave here the 6th at latest for St. Augustine. There is much I might hell about these Florida resort towns, but I think you know about them. Elizabeth Studabaker Morrison. o— — Rev. Jasper H. Winans, pastor of the First Baptist church of Bellefontaine, Ohio, had the pleasure of eating his Easter dinner with Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Fristoe. Rev. Winans Is just recovering from a severe spell of illness and is visiting his daughters, the two Mrs. Haughton and Mrs. Kizer of this vicinity. Rev. Winans is an old schoolmate of Mr. Fristoe and the meeting of the two was a very enjoyable affair in talking and taking a retrospective view of their boyhood days when “Down in the Farm.”— Geneva Herald.

TRANSFERS OF REAL ESTATE I Reported by the Decatur Abstract ‘ and Loan Company. Money to loan ! at lowest rates of interest with par- ! tial payments on city and farm property. First mortgage investments made. Mortgages bought and sold. Rooms 3-4 Traction building, Decatur, Indiana. Charles A. Krigh to Geo. C. McAllaney, Sec. 17. Blue Creek, SIOO. W. D. Rinehart to Henry Lankenau, lot 290, Decatur. Carline Scheuman et al to Herman Conrad, Sec. 11, Preble. $5,000. Fred Buuck to Susannah Buuck, inlot S, Preble. $1,150. Susannah Buuck to Albert Huser, inlot 1, Preble, $916. Susannah Buuck to Fred E. Huser, Inlots 3 and 4, Preble. $383. William M. Meyer to Albert Huser, outlot 1 Preble. $2,750. William M. Meyer to Fred E. Buuck, inlots 3 and 4 Preble, $1,150. Daniel P. Overhulser to Fred Scheiman, inlot 18, Decatur, $2,000. Luella Allman to Sophia Soldner, inlot 236, Berne, S4OO. Charlotte C. Schoch to S. K. Christy Sec. 34 St Marys, $2,000. Fred Scheiman to Daniel P. Overhulser, Sec. 2, Washington. SI,OOO. Clara B. Thomas to Ray R. Sturgis, Sec. 34, Washington, sl. Ray R. Sturgis to Lemuel A. Thomas. Sec. 34, Washington, sl. Isaac Teeple to Byron F. Ault, Sec. 27, Wabash, $2,000. S. C. Mills to Jonas Liby, Sec. 35. Kirkland, SSOO. Manin Haugk to Minnie Haugk, inlot 661, Decatur, $1,50(1. i Lillie G. Railing to Andrew F. Weifley, Sec. 2, Washington, S9OO. [ Ellen Adlesberger to James P. Haefling, inlot 139, Decatur, $2,800. Frederick Bauman to Christian i n, Sec. 7, Monroe, S6OO. [ Emma L. Skillman to Christian F. > Bucher, inlot 803, Decatur, S4OO, t Rachel Baker to John F. Spuller, 5 inlot 364, Decatur, S4OO. > Francis M .Buchey to Mary A. Linton, Sec. 23, Wabash, SSOO. . CONGRESSMAN J. A. M, ADAIR 1

Writes Favortng Project of Extending St. Marys River A letter was received this morning from Congressman J. A. M. Adair wherein he states that the proposition of utilizing the St. Marys river as a feeder to the proposed ship canal from Toledo to Chicago, appears to him as a feasible proposition and that he will do all in his power to cause the materialization of the plans. In fact many people favor the project, and it will be no surprise if the proposition will go through as it would be a great system by which to furnish water to operate the locks. 0 A CONCRETE FENCE POST. George W. Pyle, of Geneva, Has a World Beater. Geo. W. Pyle, of Geneva, was in the Witness office Wednesday afternoon and exhibited drawings and specifications for moulds for the purpose of manufacturing a reinforced concrete fence post. He has a patent on same which was dated the 7th of this month. He claims to have a post superior to any on the market. He has ordered some cuts made and will soon be ready to place the invention on the market. The inventor is well known to many in this vicinity and he claims his posts have been tested in many ways and have proven themselves to be all right in every respect. —Berne Witness. For the last dozen years J. H. Banta has been a fixture in the busiIS NOW IN THE WOMAN’S PRISON Mrs. Ella LaPointe Taken to That Institution Yesterday. Sheriff and Mrs. W. A. Lipkey left on the 6 o’clock car this morning for Indianapolis, taking Mrs. Ella LaPointe, the self confessed slayer of Mrs. Florence Besanacon, to the Indiana prison for women,, where she will serve a sentence of from two to twenty-cne years for her awful crime. There was but one expression of regreat made by the half breed woman as she left this morning, when her eyes filled with tears, she gave goodbye to the best home she had ever known during the hard struggle for existence of her career.—Bluffton Banner. — o REAL ESTATE FIRM DISSOLVE The Firm of Babcock & Ward is Now Owned by the Former. The real estate firm of Babcock & Ward has been dissolved, the latter retiring from the firm. The business will be carried on by Mr. Babcock, who has several interesting deals pending. The firm has done considerable business in their line, and bid fair to continue at the same gait. We have not learned the future inten. tions of Mr. Ward.

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884 14th St., Washington, D. C. Branch Chicago, Cleveland. Detroit. Est. 1864. FROM THE OSSIAN NEWS. Some Items of Interest to the Readers of the Democrat. One morning this week a basket of eggs was brought to one of our stores which when tested proved to be past use. It is supposed that all persons who sell eggs know that they are violating the pure food law by selling any article of food that is unclean or decayed, and our merchants are beginning to test out all eggs that do not look fresh and clean. Elton Rupright, son of G. W. Rupright and wife of Adams county, and Miss Myron Snider, daughter of J. M. Snider and wife, of Lancaster township, were married at the home of the bride’s parents Wednesday at noon, Rev. Duryee, of Emmaus, officiating. The young couple will reside with his parents for the present. - o NORTHERN INDIANA TO MEET. Editorial Association to Meet at Logansport this Year. A't a meeting of the officers of the Northern Indiana Editorial association with the executive committee at the Logansport Journal office Thursday the date when the association will meet in Logansport was fixed for June 4 and 5. The address of welcome will be delivered by B. F. Louthan of the Logansport Pharos. The response will be by Del Crampton, Delphi. These exchanges of courtesies will take place the evening of the 4th. The Murdock Hotel company has tendered several rooms as headquarters for the visiting editors, and it is probable headquarters will be made there. o — THAT NEW PENSION LAW. Only Those Not on the Rolls Need Fill Out Blanks. Widows should understand that no application and no services of attorney are necessary to secure them the increase under the Widows’ Pension Bill, which is now a law. Those who are on the roll will have their pensions increased at the next payment by the pension bureau without the need of any action on their part. The only' applications necessary will be from those who ifave heretofore been denied pensions on account of having an income in excess of $250. This qualification having been abolished, those who have heretofore been rejected for that reason can now apply and receive their pensions.