Smithville (Monroe County, Indiana) News, April 16, 1909, p. 1. Capt. N. E. Mathers tells some interesting things about his trip to the south and Cuba. He says the water is pretty rough from Florida to Cuba and at times the ship will rise several hundred feet on a large wave then dart endwise downward submerging under the water several minutes. When asked if he wasn't afraid the boat would sink, he said for a while he was greatly alarmed, but when he began to get sick he wished very much that it would sink.