The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-04-20

every month in the year. The picture is somewhat dispelled when you discov- CT there is nothing between you and a
 very flexible wire mattress except one
 thin quilt and a sheet. The effect is something like getting into hammock.
 Another peculiarity of the room Is that the partition which separates you from
 the adjoining room reaches only eight
 or nine feet from the floor, and by
 standing on chair, if inclined, you
 can look in on your rieighbors We
 distinctly heard the voices of two fem
 mines in liquid Spanish from the other
 side of the partition, but, having an
 insurance policy, insuring against all
 accidents, we went soundly to sleep
 without fear. It seems to stranger
 in Havana that one-half of the popula-
 tion are engaged in selling lottery
 tickets. They are offered you by all
 classes ages, and sexes. They are
 hung on hooks in elevators, and the
 boy or man in charge of the lift sug-
 gests that you invest. Almost every
 store can supply you If you want them.
 Halfclad men, women and children inn
 perfume you in Spanish to help them
 out The wonder is where all these
 wretched people get the money to start
 in business. Probably they sell on commission, but it must take a great
 deal of confidence to trust them on the streets with so much valuable CD prop erty. There is considerable absence of drunkenness in Havana. l saw but
 one person intoxicated and he was hanging around the American consul ate asking assistance. He was an American, am ashamed to say. His story was that he had been stranded here, and, being an American sailor, had been abused by the Spanish, to prove which he showedsme the cuts on
 his head. He apparently deserved all he got. The cemetery is an interesting place to visit and one is repaid for the trouble of @ two or three mile drive to see some of the fine monuments there, especially one erected by the city to the
 memory of thirty-six firemen who per ished in @ confiagration several years ] ago. It is of Italian marble, grand in proportions and elaborate in workman ship. Medallions in life size of the dead firemen are cut in relief on one of | the supporting blocks of marble, nine on each side. The main shaft is sur | mounted with figure of an angel | holding the dead body of fireman in l it's arms, and on each side and angle is some beautifully worked design com | memorating the occasion. The whole | structure must be about seventy-fiye 1 feet high and possibly thirty feet l square at the base. It was made ir
 Italy and must have cost several hun dred thousands of dollars. The Havana funerals all occur at o'clock in the af- ternoon, and soon after that time you
 see processions coming into the ceme- l tery from all directions. The carriages remain at the entrance while the bear | CTS carry the casket to the grave, fol 1 lowed by the mourners. I saw several
 funeral processions vending their way
 slowly up the hill without hearse ol l carriages. These were of families toe l poor to have anything but plain cof- | fin. This was being carried on the
 shoulders of men, and as the distance is sometimes several miles, it requires
 quite a number of able-bodied men | who relieve one another frequently l Nearly all the lots in the cemetery arc l inclosed with iron fences, and almost
 every grave mark has wreath of me. tallic flowers attached to it. There is | an appearance of neglect noticeable
 throughout the cemetery, but that
 seems to be characteristic of the peo. l p1e