All this took from 8 to 12 p.m., followed by a ride around the
old French section, listening to the music of jazz bands as we
passed the dance halls, winding up the evening's entertainment
about 1 a.m. at the Morning Call--another New Orleans institution
in a class of its own. Here rich and poor, young and old, meet on
a common level and eat delicious doughnuts and drink cups of
combined hot milk and hot coffee poured together simultaneously.
Nov. 24th, we sailed on the Del Mar. The ship's management
distributed brightly assorted paper tape to the passengers
gathered at the rails of the different decks and the farewells
and bon voyages began. A Negro jazz band assembled on the wharf.
One dancer was as nimble at catching coins tossed from the decks
in an old plug hat as he was on his feet. The ship sailed at 4:20
p.m.
SHIPBOARD AND ST. THOMAS
To The Graphic,
Greencastle, Indiana
So we approached Charlotte Amalie, the only sizable town in the
Virgin Islands, all white and gleaming in the sun and closely
following the narrow shore lines. The high hills start almost
abruptly from the shore. St. Thomas Island has a population of
perhaps 12,000. Of these, Charlotte Amalie has well over half.
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