The interesting tales from the water continue, from the tragic sinking of the Evening Star to Florence Walker's excursion down the eastern coast of the US aboard the Fair Tide. Now we find Arch Walker at age 19 while on a summer adventure being detained in Havana after falling ill while on the steamer Merida. From the Havana Daily Post, Wednesday Morning, August 31, 1910: Archibald Walker, a transient passenger from Mexico to New York, arriving Monday on the Merida, was removed from the steamer yesterday and taken to Las Animas hospital for treatment and observation Sunday. While enroute to Havana he was observed to be quite feverish by the steamer's physician and was confined to his state room. Yesterday his temperature was found to be 103 and it was decided by the public health and United States Marine hospital authorities of this port to remove him to the hospital. Mr. Walker is a student of Trinity College, 19 years of age and residing in Claremont, NH. He has been spending a month of his vacation on the west coast of Mexico and was returning home to re-enter school at the commencement of the Fall term. He is a big husky lad and should he recover to his normal health, he will be allowed to continue his homeward journey, leaving Saturday on the Saratoga.
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