Speaking of Paris, tell the Kid I expect to go over to him soon after I return to New York.
of love.
DICK.
CARDENAS--North Coast of Cuba.
January 16th, 1897.
DEAR MOTHER: It is very funny not knowing what sort of a place you are to sleep in next and taking things out of a grab bag, as it were-- In Europe you can always guess what the well known towns will give you for you have a guide book, but here it is all luck.

Matanzas was a pretty city but the people were awful, the hotel was Spanish and the proprietor insolent, though I was spending more of Willie Hearst's money than all of the officers spend in a week, the Consul could not talk English or Spanish, he said he hadn't come there "to go to school to no Spaniard" and he gloried in the fact he had been there three years without knowing a word of the language.

His vice-Consul was worse and everything went wrong generally.

Every one I met was an Alarmist and that is polite for liar.

They asked Remington if he was the man who manufactured the rifles and gave us the Iowa Democrat to read.