The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-04-11
LEE LEAVES HAVANA.
spauiaris Kissed aud Jeered NJ the Fleet
Passed Out.


Key West, April l0-"Tell the Olivette
to get under way at once. Captain
Cowles. signal the Bache that the Unit
ed States fleet is ready to clear out OF
Havana, and please follow the Bache
out"
These were the words of Consul Gen.
eral Lee at 5:15 yesterday afternoon. as
he stood on the poop of the Fern with
a group OF correspondents around him.
1t was evident to all that General Lee
intended to be the last to leave and a
murmur OF applause went around in
support of his intention. The Evelyn
had already passed Moro castle when
the Olivette weighed anchor. The Bache
was close behind and the Fern was the
last of the line. The wharves and boats
on both sides OF the narrow entrance to
the harbor were crowded with Span
iards, who hissed and jeered as each
boat passed out.
AS the Fern rounded to. headed for
the open sea, she passed near the Maine
wreck. The group on deck had been
laughing and talking, expressing their
satisfaction at leaving Havana. With
one accord each man doffed his hat in
salute to the brave dead, while silence
fell on all for the space of several min
utes. General Lee. being on board the
Fern, made that boat a target for re-
doubled Kisses, groans. catcalls and
whistles from the crowds on shore.
Get out, Yankee swine" was the
mildest expression used. This seemed
to strike every one on board as ludi-
crous. Vice Consul Springer, who had
been in the island 80 years, waved his
hat to a particularly abusive group.
saying, in tones loud enough for all to
hear: Wait. my friends, we shall all
be back SOON"
There was one pretty incident. On
ha hn prft icl1 stao ,1ar-
| was unloading at her wharf. AS the
Fern passed the union jack was dipped.
while the English crew gave a hearty
| cheer. 1t is needless to say that the
| compliment was returned with all pos
sibe gusto
| when the people found that General Lee
was really going, and that all the
| Americans were going with him. Not
| to see the United States flag floating
| from the staff at Casa Nuevos struck
| many residents as little less than a
| calamity. The correspondents were be-
sieged with eager questions as to the
intention OF the Americans, and when
the fleet expected a bombardment was
| likely to commence. The government
| officials seemed as much at a loss as all
the rest. A Spanish officer Of high
| rank besought a correspondent to tell
him If he had any news not made pub
| anu ditttln6 tuc lutuIc VI the city
| The fact that Mr. Golan, the British
consul. called with General Lee on
| Captain General Blanco also puzzled
| many, some believing that this meant
that an English alliance had been set
| tied. The truth is, the Havana pa
pers. having been under such close sur
| veillance for months, have been made
to publish SO many untruths and have
| printed so many tales of the United
| States backing down at the demand
| of Germany, Italy, Austria and Russia
that the residents take no stock what
ever in anything published. Conse-
| quently when they saw the Americans
leaving, despite the statements of the
papers that they had no intention of
going. the people believed a crisis at
hand.
Under instructions from General Lee,
who went on board the Fern immedi-
ately after his farewell call on Captain
General Blanco, the consular people
| and the correspondents went quietly on
board i'm twos and threes. No one was
| molested or insulted, but the people
| stared curiously at the newspaper men,
to whose presence all had grown accus-
toned. as they rode down TO the dock
with their grips. canes and other hand
baggage, showing their intention to de-
part. In fact, Havana was kinder than
the ocean outside. All arrived in Key
West to-day in state of wreck
| Everybody was sick, some more so than
others. Even the naval men did not
escape. From the crowded decks OF
the Olivette. hearty cheers went up as
the Fern, with the correspondents and
consular agent on board put ashore
Several hundred persons on the dock
added their shouts to this lusty well
come. and for some hours stayed gazing
at the Fern, on which General Lee
could be seen pacing the deck. Al
about IL o'clock General Lee came
ashore and received an answer from
Washington to his request for orders
sent earlier. After a brief reception
General Lee went on board the Olivette
which had been kept waiting. and
sailed for Tampa at noon. He will &C
direct to Washington. Nineteen refu-
gees were landed from the Bache and
100 from the Evelyn.