| Show rotarian joe gives his impression of life history of christopher columbus for the purpose of having the mem one cries of fellow rotarians Ro tariana alais refreshed cour concerning ermin a few fat incidents identa in the life of ot 14 bliz that mighty explorer the below article was pre pro pared and read by J 1 p Il at tho the annual meeting of the jub 16 it is here reproduced for tie benefit of those who knowing columbus Colum bun day to be fit at hand bandi october 1 12 may brush their history lii etory without the incon verl ence of golc goir to the family att oo 00 tea j V I 1 ha fa 14 1 p 4 0 aji 1 10 al r I 1 oa on 1 in MI oi 01 no a jan non 62 t ills hi fah fath aas a wool ini 0 vrho who ie to familiar TI v t ef of pilai I 1 giata wll will rca rea andere rider tand stand why columbus early taa took to the sea iu in 1740 1140 he married the daughter ct of a in tha th navy aul a dowry wa was presented with a bunth bunch of worn out in iiii he ile opened up a see ec ond hand map etore store and worked up a flourishing trade it 1 1 wa was ni in hi his work of making maps that he bo rec received elved the den idea of the first round the world flight lie ile offered to take john D III 11 king xing of portugal in on the scheme but john dc double ivle crossd him and sent out a se cret expedit expedition iono which lost courage when out of tight eight of land and returned to Aill cule the idea of a short cut to I 1 dia columbus Culum hue was firmly con vinced of the healing properties proper tit of ja maicia ringer ginger and the glory of the gay night life of havana and on being ie a liay informed that the original home f the mermaids was the florida coast he boldly approached king ferdinand of spain with a proposition to go fifty fifty on all town lot lots discovered tho king being an extremely sensible man told columbus that mrs ferdinand whose first name was wa isabelle held held the puree purse airings rings is an ant anything he could get from her was his colum bus being a married man himself knew how to bl blamey blimey irney and wa was rewarded with the supply of three ships and aren with which to start on auguet august 31 he be left spain and on 0 tober 12 1492 sighted the conet coast of one of the bahama islands larule le on which he landed and de blared to the natives and to the aa its mumbled sailors that famous expression 1 I told you eo am for a few months he cruised around the west indie naming the islands at after jer old told sweethearts hearte as 01 fut fast a be dis covered them and return returns td to spain where he wae was recel received veit with a great ovation lie ile made two other trip trips to the new world but dur ing hie big third trip politic politics had gained the upper hand and the a administration Phan hanged ged 0 so o on his bin return he was die dis charged as a official discoverer for the government ald ld a had to open up hi his own private business ue get set out on a fourth trip but on landing on tl ti coat coast wae was arrested for tamn i ad t back to spain ai as a io r ile w ij d charged for la Is ev T nef lt ut A attempts th a t p b wa wm firce baral aa clio u if vis tj ad a t J d so t a al I 1 ts tz giva n adf m a h spat is wa ta ny y i I 1 ther they jtb tb a ing mm him r pension sion h 1 I 1 to ute in poverty 1 1 j ao attan ot tan are indebted to colum I 1 vo are greatly indebted to him lu iu the first place it if he die tits covered amenta america it Is pretty certain that somebody else would bae hate done so 0 o and just think of the incon inconvenience it I 1 ftp C ia 1211 k w weiran we vc I iran ans I 1 the discoverer had bad been an named m ad zen of wee luns L barn sam yung or even een smith or jones columbus is euch such a harmonic har morde sound again if columbu columbus discover disco roA amelca we mould have had bad no ex cuse for holling the worlds colum bian blan export tion and since chi chicago cag cant lead the league in basab ill it is likely hat that chicago 0 would o 14 not have anve been known outside of illinois u if i it been for the exposition and it it been for columbua columbus we would pIt hae liae had that great or the knights of columbus they would have been ailed aled the knights of smith or the knights of jonea jones or what not which would have been a greit gre it loss to burn arity and finally it if america been all of us here in lit price would liue hae been aling in some little euro town own where there are no uch such luxuries as bootleg whisky libl tion laws I 1 swimming pools and athletic fields columbus should have great respect froni from the people of utah for he is re for the naming of many of the towns an 1 I cities of our state when the spanish queen wanted to put one over on the duke of welling Wel lingi A n and st george she dag dug down in the he silver city storrs and raised the price so that columbus could helper co lumbus wendover Wen lover the virgin west water amid the and sevier hurricane and kalns rattle until he reached the sunnyside Bunny Sunny side where he found a pleas ant grove beside a green river co lumbus shouted I 1 knew know I 1 could salem 11 so he told the tive M what a bountiful oasis hi had fouad but nut the king called it a bluff because wanted mohrland for his sugarhouse Sugar honse housep so he told columbus Cat imbus this is myton you can go to your mountain home of columbus put a an the natch hatch and when the cing king I sat down iowa he made a bevills slick but columbus nas as too spry and seeing a clearfield he ran for the summit end and there lie wa was burled buried under the the summary of 0 iny my tory story Is it amer lea wae was discovered dia covered by the italians Ital hn nettled settled by the dutch populated by the greeke greeks owne onnel I 1 bv the jew jews ind run by the irish and we ve americans can atay stay here in long aa as we behave out oni alves |
