The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-04-12
WARM FOB AMERICANS IN HAVANA


Hooted in the Streets by spaniards and
Their Every Move Watched.
New York Sun.
4 New Yorker who recently returned
from Havana told a Sun reporter some OF
his experiences there and what he had
observed of the condition OF the town.
Havana appears very quiet" he said,
except for the marching Of soldiers.
which continues nearly all day, and the
drilling Of the volunteers. Apart from
these features. the life Of the town seems
TO be going on quite as usual, but one
feels all the time that, like a volcano,
the city Is ready to become excited at the
slightest provocation. The authorities
realize this danger and the theaters have
been closed and the bull fights discontin-
ued. Everything Is done to prevents any
meeting which would collect q large num-
Der Of citizens
The feeling OF tho Spaniards against
inc Americans h intensely bitter. One
day when l was driving on the outskirts
OF the city crowd OF twenty or thirty
Spaniards collected on the road and began
to follow our carriage. 1t was only by
turning up a side road that our driver sue
ceeded in getting away from the crowd.
who were running after us at full speed.
cursing America and shaking their fists
at us. 1t was only IN the Cuban restau-
rants that 1t was safe for US to talk with
any freedom at all. and then only when
We had secured private room and were
certain of not being overheard by persons
not connected with the establishment My
companion and I never thought OF talking
with any freedom IN our room at the ho-
tel. We were watched from the day We
reached Havana, and every letter we re-
ceived plainly showed marks OF having
been opened. 1t Is impossible for Ameri-
cans to get any letters out OF Havana. I
brought number myself addressed to peo-
pie here which IL would otherwise have
been impossible to get outside the city.
"One sees and hears very little OF the
Cuban population OF Havana, while the
Spaniards are on every hand. Gen. Wey-
ler's brutality Is very much talked OF. He
has Havana by the throat, and IL takes
just such a man as he TO control II. We
had an instance of his power when the
news reached Havana on the day 1t was
learned that the house had confirmed the
senate action. 1t was rumored that the
Volunteers were to make protest that
night against America, and an American
who had been for some time In Havana
came to the hotel Mt which We were stop
ping TO warn Us that It would be danger
GUS 70 leave the hotel that night. The
Volunteers Is a Spanish troop made up OF
a great many young men OF the town.
Our waiter IN the hotel and the man who
attended our rooms were Volunteers, and
all the clerks and men in similar positions
belonged TO the association.
after We had spent two or three very
uneasy hours In the hotel, word came to
us that Gen. Weyler had checked the pro-
posed demonstration. and had done II in
q very characteristic way. He sent word
TO the Volunteers that II they gathered IN
the square that night TO make any show
against the United States or threaten TO
herri any American IN Havana he would
call ont the regular troops and cut down
the Volunteers until the streets ran with
Spanish blood. He had heard OF the pro-
posed demonstration and kept all the reg
ular Spanish troops that day In the forts
nsa- Havana preparatory TO aueiling
any disturbance that the Volunteers might
create We were net allowed TO get out
side Havana, as no Americans are allow
TO leave and 20 into the Interior"