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proceed with their round-tour trip ship to Panama Canal etc. Dining room crowded, then few [[strikethrough]] left [[/strikethrough]] afterwards
Feb 21. Buggy drive to ruins of [[red underline]] Old Constant Spring Hotel which lately [[/red underline]] was destroyed by fire and where I lived in 1901
Relief from dirty squalid Kingston and ditto suburbs. To day for first time there was a shower. Drought since January.
Country very pretty as soon as one is away from town. Palm covered huts of negroes [[strikethrough]] People [[/strikethrough]] Colored people generally quiet, well behaved and polite.
Feb 22. Celebration of Washington Birthday by
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a great ball at Hotel. All important people there, officials and important Islanders.
Many pretty dresses - everything high class and [[red underline]] much decorum as well as the very best in the U.S or anywhere. No signs of drunkenness altho' drinks are obtainable everywhere at any time 
[[strikethrough]] Sunday morning went to Royal Jamaica Yacht Club where from 9 A.M members gather to get a rhum punch. [[/strikethrough]] 
At the [[red underline]] Royal Jamaican Yacht Club Mr. Blarney O'Toole [[/red underline]] a thin tall blue eyed Irishman with dark hair is one of the lively members there. He is [[red underline]] Governor of the Penitentiary near by. [[/red underline]] "O'Toole's Hotel as it is called. He is full of wit and stories which he tells in a rich Irish brogue