The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-23

The life of the city is always out of
doors. Everybody is in the streets
there. In the morning when the mer-
chants begin business they practically
throw open the whole front of their
stores. Then there are cafes every
where, which are at all times much
patronized. While before the revolu-
tion the people were in the streets and
back yards to do business, now they
gather there to talk war Little groups
are to be seen everywhere excitedly
discussing the latest news; hundreds of
soldiers stroll about in small parties
smoking cigarettes and talking fight;
the merchants gather in their offices
and cautiously exchange views, and
sometimes shake their heads ominously
over the outlook.
The merchant class of the city are
for the most part, pure Spanish, while
the lower stratum are generally Gu
ban or negro in blood and sympathy.
However, those who side with the in
surGents are most cautious about
what they say. so that one would be
led TO think that everyone is for Spain,
first and last
SOUGHT SAFETY AT THE CAPT.
TAI.
The war in the province has driven
thousands of persons to Havana for
refuge. These are generally the fam
lilies of the planters whose lands have
been devastated. The planters have
been sending their wives and children
TO the city TO live until the trouble is
over. while they stay in the neig'hbor-
hood of their wasted farms TO try TO
protect what the insurgents have left
them. Strange to say, the hotels are
deserted The country people are too
poor to pay high rates for board. and
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city relatives. l should imagine that
Havana homes have been converted
into boarding houses and asylums for
frightened and impoverished country
cousins. A planter came to the Pas
sage hotel with his f-year-old son
while | was living there. He was a
widower. and the boy was his only
child. His plantation had been burned
over, and he came to Havana to put
ms lad in a safe place. He left him in
charge of the hotel people. and then
went back TO his farm
The low theaters are open, but are
little patronized except on SATURDAYS.
The soldiery, OF course, make life live
ly In the low concert halls. but the
better classes are not frequenting the
opera and the respectable houses az
present. As TO social life, l suppose
that has been changed but little by the
Ntit ho state functions
while 1 was there, because CANAAN
General Campos was busy with the
army. Indeed, he has hardly been in
Havana at all until two weeks ago
after the skirmish at Matanzas. When
he returned to Havana the citizens had
a big meeting and passed a resoIution
expressing confidence In his ability n
cope with the difficulties. Then thev
had big torchlight parade in his hon.
or. The volunteer fremen are mostIy,
Cubans. but of course they turned ON,
In Campos honor. Havana is Span-
ish. Then, too. the audonomists ana
political party who want Cuba TO have
ITS own government, paraded in hon,,y
OF Campos. The conservatives. who are
all Tor Spanish rule. were in line. Ha-
vana sentiment was very Spanish on
that occasion.
MOTLEY ARMY.
The Spanish soldiers are an inter
esting lot. They are to be seen in the
streets at all times. but YOU would moi
know them for soldiers by their uni
forms. were II not for the fact Of tba