The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-07-13
GARCIA 5 HEADQUARTERS.
AN HISTORIC SCENE on CUBA'S
SHORES.
Visit of Shafter and Sampson to Meet
Garcia-Ric Harding Davis De-
scribes the Meeting.

Richard Harding Davis in the New
York Herald gives graphic descrip-
ton of the visit of General Shafter
and Admiral Sampson to General Car
cia's headquarters.
The first landing of the regular ar
my has just taken place at this little
point of land, twelve miles west of
Santiago.
1t was landing for conference on
" and the most interesting feature
of it is that, without military escort
of any sort, General Shafter, the COM
mander of the army of invasion, and
his staff Admiral Sampson and Lieu
tenant Stanton, his chief of staff, have
landed in a small boat on the shore of
the enemys country within twelve
miles of 10000 Spanish soldiers and
the castle of Moro, without a musl<et
or revolver to protect them. The
Marblehead lay off shore.
A ragged escort of Cuban soldiers
men them on landing, but of United
States soldiers, except in the sense
that the officers of highest rank in the
army are soldiers. there was not one.
1t is a historical moment in the
history of Cuba, if not of America,
for General Garcia, General Shafter
and Admiral Sampson have met for
the first time. They are grouped to-
gether under sun so hot that it
burns the eyes, on high cliff over
looking a magnificent valley of royal
palms, which meets motionless blue
sea broken only by lines of white
breakers on the shore. and which fur
;s. IrD1-,,, h,-t h.D 81 -lN-
moving hulls of thirty transports and
thirty ships of war.
The three commanders are seated
on boxes under the palm leaf roof of
an open hut. One of them has blue
print map on his knees, and before
they roll it up again the attack on
Santiago will be decided upon and
her fate sealed.
The palm leaf hut where the con-
ference is taking place is open to the
hot air at both ends, and on each side
and standing about it or kneeliug on
the ground in order to obtain bet
ter view is the strangest gathering
of persons that this war has thrown
| together.
! Colonel Goetzen, the German at
tache, i'm spotless white, and CUBAN
officer, in a linen blouse and with
bare feet, are talking in signs, and
with them is Captain Lee, the British
attache, booted and spurred, with field
| glasses, helmet and immaculate
! khaki.
Captain Stewart Brice in the ami.
form of the volunteer army-a blue
jacket with breaches rolled above The
knee-and a group of ensigns from
the warship act as background tC
the principal actors, and still further
back of them are the Cuban soldiers
squatting on the ground, curious ant
interested and showing their teeth If
broad smiles of welcome and touching
their straw hats when any one of tie
American officers looks their way.
Any land would seem fair after {
week on the troop ships, but there ~,
few lands more fair than this one. 6nt
few places on it more beautiful thar
this camp of Garcia's, lying between
great mountains and the great sea
shaded by royal palms and colored 10y
the brilliant and scarlet flowers.
The conference is ended, and ION
eral Shafter and the Admiral are
bidding goodbye to General Garcia
who looks, with his beard and mus
tache of the third empire, like &
| marshal of France