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At Rowley Man in the West, Indiea. From the Minneapolis Journal of a recent date live clip the following, which will, be of Interest, to the relatives and, friends of John S. Bradstreet, a native and Former resident of Rowley. John S. Bradstreet finds a sharp con trast between the ‘West Indies and Minneapolis paints an attractive ‘pic ture of his trip through, Cuba and Jq mag¢la. etc . —— Mr. Bradstreet would;araphrase the old missionary hynpyr and make,» prepositional change’, enabling him to sing in shivering tremolo, , “Td Greenland bty Mountains From Nassau’s Coral Strard.” =. From sea bafiing in the Hmpid wa tera of Jamaica, tinder soft ‘blue ski to a trefugidoup,’ fall on the icy old walks ‘of Minneapolis in a far cry. At thekghtn se atinaary committee bf he' New 'Century Lecture dburse, Mr. Bradstreet ‘is not content with listening to the tales of travelers on the platform for Plymouth church but must needs go himself and see. So a month ago he boarded the Moltke at New York and sailed for the West Indies. While Minneapolis experienced a be low zero temperature Mr.Bradstreet was dwelling at St. Thomas, St. Vin cent, Grenada, Martiniqua, Jamaica, Havana and Nassau. Last evening Mr. Bradstreet told Captain Richmond P. Hobson that he had just visited his famous swimming pool at Santiago de Cuba and the dun geon where he had been confined. Mr Bradstreet saw also San Juan hill and after a drive over the west road he ever saw reached the battlefield of El Caney Leaving Santiago,the captain steamed east fifteen miles to where lay Cevern’s beached and blackened bat tleships. . The bright spot in the ship was the drive across Jamaica between volcanic mountains covered with wonderful ver dure, through valleys grown with ban ana orchards and cocoa groves, under the shade of cilba, bread fruit, papaw and sappadilla trees. The character of the natives of Is lands dominated by the British and by the French and Spanish, Mr Brad street noticed with Intereré the na tives of the French and Spanish colo nies being of a mixed rage, while in the British Isles they remain a Nubian bhink. At Nassau the spoken English of the negroes is pure and the schools have furnished a fine education. i
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Newburyport Daily News
Newburyport, Massachusetts, US
Fri, Mar 06, 1903
Page 2
Full Page
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