New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-10-14

IN sECLUsIoN AT THE
WALDORF.
Miss Evangelina Cosso y Cisneros. the young
Cuban woman who escaped from the Recoldas
fail IN Havana. a week ago. aided by representa-
t,vss OF The New-York Journal arrived here
Yesterday on the Ward Line stearrer Seneca from
Havana. che was evidently tired out With the ex-
citing adventures she had passed through not 10
speak Of the seasickncss she had suffered from on
the VOYAGE from Havana. but those who saw her
step ashore say tha, there seemed 70 be no hap
pier woman IN the United States than she. when
she landed from the special tug which the jour
nsI" sent down the Bay 10 meet the Seneca
Miss Cisreros is twenty-eight years old. tau,
slender and dark o. complexion. She has hand
SINE end attractive face. Yesterday she was
dressed IN a womar's ordinary street clothes bu'
Il "a understood that she boarded the Seneca dis
e,,.sed IN ,.ens clothing, and with her !ong hair
= cked under her hat There ere many people VINO
saw that II would have been impossible for her 10
Rave done this without the connivance OF some or
,ba snanish officials IN Havana. Every vessel ar
,,r,,e n Havana Eartor has Spanish guard
placed on her once. and no PERSON IL ailo"eo
% 20 on board without a passport AS a fu''her
precaut!on against any suspected Cuban leaVine
tba island a final search OF the vessel Is mace
hs,ore sailing Yet in the face OF all these meas
u-ss which were fully carried out in the case or
the Seneca Miss Cisneros. under an assumed
mama coouy walked on board the steamer, unoer
the scrutiny OF the Spanish guard ana sane
axav even while everybody was looking TOT her
However this may be. Americans eeeHieu 10 ~
universally pleased yesterday that the young eirl
ha. a, last escaped the fate which has befalIen
20 many Cuban political neutrality-suspicious. -
the Spanish venal colony in Africa.
II was IN the early morning week ago that '"e
news was rapidly circulated about Havana 'h"-
Miss C,sneros held incomunicado In the Reco)ioas
.,n An the charge OF sympathizing with the CUBAN
hov The har OF her fail window was sawed through
and the prisoner assisted along LADDER 10 'he
roof Of neighboring hut--has beer fui'y .olo
Few people believed for a moment, however tIdt
this escape could have been thus easily enectea II
the Spanish guards had exercised their ORDINARY
vigilance Where Miss Cisneros was kept until
the sailing Of the Seneca last saturday afternoois
has not been divuged
Cantain Stevens Of the Seneca speaking OF Miss
C,sneros's presence on his vessel said yesterday:
I'VE did not reacn Havana until o'clock SATURDAY
morning As is customary we were boarded by
two Spanish policemen, who remained on suarn
at the head o. our gangway all day They scru'l-
nized every passenger who came aboard thlhN
there were twelye-and they examined all pass
ports.
Shortly before s o'clock IN the evening, which
was our sailing time the Chief OF Police. deputy
and an English-speaking secretary came out 10 the
ship. This IS also a custom OF the port Ihey
examined the passengers and passports. after which
they left the boat. They said nothing TO me aboIt
looking for an escaped woman prisoner. as they
certainly would have done had they known tina;
Miss Cisneros was In Havana and was trying 70
get away.
Several times our ship has been searched when
the authorities were looking for some one. but In
this instance no search was made.
The woman was dressed in mans clothing. and
her hair suppose tucked under her cap.
She had passport and ticket when she boarded
the Seneca. She must have secured them IN
N,'t knnxI-
have sailed with ME unless she had them. did not
know OF her real identity until reaching Quaran-
tine So far am aware she was unaccompanied
on the voyage"
When the health officials boarded the Seneca at
Quarantine Miss Cisneros admitted her identity 70
them, and said that she had suffered greatly from
sea.!ckness on the voyage Immediately after the
vessel had been passed the tug J. Fred Lehman.
chartered by The Journal for the purpose. came
alongside the Seneca and took Miss Clsne.os aboard
The tug landed ner at pier No 8 North River and
me was driven 10 the Hotei Waldorf.
There was another story as 10 Miss Cisneross es-
found many believers and was backed by statements
ron several responsible officials A man who sag
The details Of the girls escape 10 this country IN
prmed The Tribune reporter that she actually ar
The The young woman who arrived here yesterday. he
J o1 had been brought on from Havana oy Inc
"a method Of Miss Csneros's escape. II once the
Sssssnish officials learned how the girl left Havana
sss away and would speedily have them under lock
~ Key. Many apparently unexplained facts
noaoly the ease With which the young CUBAN
the who arrived on the Seneca YESTERDAY passed
sSs spanish c:icials-support the statement that
nr,son not Miss C.sneros and that TIE escaped
,Sn ass had been In hotel here for several days
ntn ms man insisted prominent supporter OF me
the s ss cause II should be sad made substantially
n Mise Csneros at the Waldorf yesterday and last
%aS h ss,S'na made he
ner escape Admittance TO her presence was even
his o,,v 70 Julio Sanguiy. OF the Cuban Juntp IN
a.o IVY To all inquiries from newspaper report
ana others who sought TO see the escaped prs,
er sne sent down word that she was resting ana
Snaoc 70 zee any one. She stayed In the hote. all
~. ana evening. II announced. however;
sna' later perhaps she might hire Chickcring Han
A',a tcIl 81 her troubles in Cuba. ,
nso ne Cuban Junts last night announced that the
people OF Greater New-York and Its vicinity inter.
ssted In Senorata Cisneros and In the cause OF