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Ferry. Spick and span in steel gray, bright brass and Sunday "whites," the Texas, her captain & crew, will be waiting for the President at Key West to ferry him in six hours to Havana. A squadron of six destroyers led by the cruiser Memphis constitute the guard of honor. Captain Joseph R. Defrees is new aboard the Texas but his crew are well used to having glorified passengers aboard. The Texas is U. S. flagship and on her lives Admiral Henry Ariosto Wiley, commander of all the fleet.* When newsgatherers last week saw bigger & better portholes being built into...
...Latin-America, the latter to rest from an arduous life, to bolster Navy morale and perhaps to see his brother, Delegate Ray Lyman Wilbur. There would not be room for the President and his two Secretaries on the Texas should they elect to sleep there instead of ashore in Havana. Commanding Admiral null was having to move out for his Commander-in-Chief as it was. Besides, the party was to include Mrs. Coolidge, Mrs. Kellogg, Mrs. Wilbur. It seemed likely that President & Mrs. Coolidge would maintain only a statutory residence on the Texas in Havana; that they would spend...
...Havana. Heralds of President Coolidge's visit appeared in Havana's sky last fortnight?Delegate Oscar W. Underwood and Cuba's Minister to the U. S., Orestes Ferrara, who flew over together from Key West...
...Malecon, a seawall boulevard, the Army Staff Band plays for the public; in Central Park, the Havana Municipal Band. In the Tropical Gardens, free beer is served...
Yachting, swimming, golf, tennis, dancing, horse-racing, roulette are sports familiar to the U. S. Unfamiliar is Havana's jai-alai (pronounced "high-a-ligh"), or Spanish handball, played in huge public frontones (courts) by native and imported professionals...