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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-24
HAYANA'S FoRTIFICATIoNS.

1t may not be many days before a
movement towards the invasion of
Cuba is begun. When made, the reduc-
ton of Havana will be the first i'm
portant undertaking; it will have to be
invested and bombarded. 1t should be
able to make a very vigorous defense,
one that should be memorable. AT all
events it will be of interest to consider
its possibilities for defense.
The harbor is naturally a very fine
one, though it has been befouled
or three centuries. Inside, about two
miles from the entrance, there is ample
room for any number of ships TO lie at
anchor, safe from all harm, so long as
the forts at the entrance are = ot re-
duced. The entrance to the harbor
says an exchange, is a narrow one, be-
tween high cliffs bristling with guns,
and some of them pretty good guns,
too. Cabanas castle has four 16-inch
guns and a lot of 10 and 126-inch guns
These are Hontorias. The biggest ones
throw projectiles of from 1,5OO to 1880
pounds. NE 12.6-inch guns are the
best in the Spanish service, proportion
ately. Their projectiles weigh 1.O41
pounds, with an energy of 29,S5O foot
tons. There are many of these guns
along the water front, mounted in open
emplacements, while those in MORO
castle are in strong classmates. Alto
gether, il is a pretty well defended
place.
The efficiency of the guns upon the
Notifications will be just what the eff
fciency of the gunners who work them
is. The men who will work them are
no doubt brave. and will sell their lives
dearly, but no one. not even the Span
iards, will pretend that they are any
thing like the equals OF the Americans
in skill as gunners.
The taking of Havana will be no May
day affair, but it will be taken, if it re-
quires months to take it.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-24
A BATTLE EXPECTED.

A Washington dispatch, evidently in
spired, tells about the condition of the
Spanish fleet; how it is short of coal;
how it was not able to get coal here
and there, and says that there must be
a big battle in few days. That IS
what the American people want. no
matter what the Spaniards may desire.
This dispatch says an authority on
such matters declares that the greater
part of naval strategy consists in
knowing the condition of your enemy's
fleet. There is probably much in this,
but is it certain that the naval author
tiles in Washington know the condition
of the Spanish fleet? Not having known
of its whereabouts, it seems strange
that they can know of its condition.
When Admiral Sampson went to San
Juan de Cuba and bombarded it, it was
said there were many thousand tons of
coal there, and it was much regretted
that he did not destroy it. What has
become of that coal? Is it not possible
that the Spanish fleet took some of it
aboard? 1t is to be hoped that the
Spanish fleet is in the dire straits this
dispatch represents it to be, for then it
will not be many days before it will
be located and made to surrender or do
battle.
This dispatch, as we have said, seems
to be inspired. Assuming that it is. it
is a good time to say that while the
people are perfectly willing that the
government shall withhold all informa-
ton il deems it to be unwise to give
out, they want what information is
given out to be a plain. unvarnished
tale of facts. They do not need to be
told any fairy tales TO keep up their
courage; they are things fit for Span
iards, but not for Americans. Facts
and not conjectures are what the peo-
pie ask from the authorities at Wash
ington.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-24
TO RAISE FREIGHT RATES.


1t is said the western railroads have
decided to raise freight rates. and it is
altogether likely that they will. There
is no reason for raising them, but. there
appears to be a very good opportunity,
and an opportunity with the railroads
usually means a chance to squeeze"
the people when there is no possible es-
cape for the people.
The opportunity now is presented
through the virtual closing of the Pa
mama route to commerce, owing to the
existence of a state of war. Selling
such an opportunity is a display of I'M
considerable greed. But il rates are
raised owing TO the closing of the Pa
mama route the people in the inter
mountain region should have a means
of relief in the long and short haul
clause of the Interstate commerce act.
The railroads have been permitted to
charge a higher rate on freight destined
for intermediate points than on that
destined for terminal points, where the
terminal points have been located on
the sea coast. The reason for this has
been that sea coast terminal points had
to compete with water transportation.
Through this intermediate points of
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-24
BON VOYAGE, MONTEREY.

1t viii be not less than three weeks,
more likely four, before the Monterey
joins Rear Admiral Dewey's fleet at
Manila. When she does join him, he
will have a fighting craft the equal of
anything Spain can send against him.
The Monterey was launched in 1891.
She is of the double turreted monitor
type. Her displacement is 4,OS4 tons;
her arnor II inches. She carries two
12-inch guns in her forward turret, and
two 10-inch guns in her rear turret. In
addition to this she carries u quick
firing guns. She sits very low in the
water, her deck being scarcely more
than three feet above it. She was never
intended for long sea voyages and her
voyage to Manila will be almost as
memorable as that of the Oregon from
San Francisco through the straits of
Magellan up to the gulf of Mexico. Not
only America, but the whole world will
watch her voyage with the greatest in
terest. Bon voyage, Monterey.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-24
TALES OF THE DAY.
Chamberlain,s Courtship.

The speech of Joseph Chamberlain, ad-
vocatiug an alliance between Great Brit
ain and the United States, has attracted
SO much attention that many persons in
discussing the subject recall the visit
which MIR Chamberlain made TO Wash
ington in 1887 as chairman of the fish
cries commission. He was the social lion
OF the hour. A Baltimore lady who met
him tells the following story to the Sun:
lie was a big. burly man. caring so
little for his appearance that at one of
the most fashionable dinners of the sea
son his crayat got turned to almost under
his ear and his shirt stud came unfast-
ened, and he sat calmly oblivious to
either accident. His brains and charm in
conversation won him friends wherever
he went.
'One day he called on lady who hap
pened to he giving girls luncheon. She
went out at once to see him. and laugh
ingly said that If he did not mind being
the only man present she would be de-
lighted II he would come in the dining
room and take the vacant place of one
of her young friends who did not come.
He was not afraid to face lot of Amer
lean beauties. so he accepted gaily, and
the vacant place happened 10 be next
that of Miss Endicott daughter of Sec
rotary of War William c. Endicott of
Massachusetts,, a dove-like slender girl.
one of the greatest bellies Of the day.
The outcome of this was the marriage
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-24

the Living Age The. foreign view of
all important questions viii be found
in its pages, While nowhere can better
pure literary matter be found. The
Living Age has just closed series OF
most interesting sketches-by Paul Bour-
get. and now it begins the publication
of a series of sketches by Pierre Lott,
which promise to be fully as interesting
as the series that preceded them Once
one becomes a reader of the Age, and
it becomes Indispensable to him.
The Living Age Co., Boston, Mass.
Price, Is cents.
The Pail Mall Magazine for June is a
splendid number. The frontisDiece is
an original etching by Fred V. Burridge
of "Canaietto, San Trevaso. These
ctchings are d unique feature or the
Pail Mall, and give it an added value
and interest she Danced Before Him.
is a charming story of japanese TO
nance, and pathetic withal. Angus Sin
clair continues his The Evolution OF
Comfort In Railway Travelling, the
present paper dealing with America
The illustrations are as valuable as
quaint, showing some of the first trains
that ever ran in this country. very
interesting article, supsrbly illustrated,
is Capitals of Greater Britain, OF
tawa being the subject. General Sir
Hugh Cough continues his "Oid Mem
cries" telling in the-present number OF
Afghanistan. 1t IS fully Illustrated.
Part third of Prince Rupert, the Buc-
cancer" sustains the interest hereto
fore aroused. Anthony Hopes Rupert
of Hentzau" is continued, with chap
ters XXI-XVIII
The Pail Mail Magazine, Aston Court
Building, New York. Price, 20 cents
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-24
Report of a Foreman.

The war fever has spread to all classes
says the Louisville Times 1t has super
seeded ordinary forms of conversation and
conventional means of performing officia
business. The following account of the
killing of COW was received by Colonel
Ridgely Cayce. assistant 10 the general
manager of.the Louisville, HENDERSON q
St. Louis railroad:
"Cloverport, May lion or about April
Is, 1883, vessel of the Milky line. carry
ing our enemys fiag-a cows tail-was
trying to run the Henderson route block
ade. She was Immediately pursued by
our ram engine II. Commodore Henry
Wright in charge. Engine II sgnalled her
end and broke the Flagstaff. Then heI
flag flew up and she surrendered.
''Owi1g to the cable being cut. / could
not make an official report. Joe Garrett
came into port today and said his father,
John Garrett, was owner. and that he
wanted indemnity or he would call on the
courts to intervene Yours for peace.
WILLIAM PRESTON"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-24

A Cincinnati phrenologist recognized
as one of the leading scientific phrenol-
ogists of the world has written an
analysis of Rear Admiral Dewey's char
acter. Il it he says: But Dewey has
also the fighting faculty. Note the
wide back head, just above the ear; also
the prominent nose. Napoleon always
preferred men with such noses. eau
tiousness and secretiveness are well de-
veloped in Dewey's head, and are re-
vealed also in the broad nostrils and
dropping tip of the nose. He has the
signs of great sagacity, sense of human
nature, warm social feelings, and a de-
gree of modesty that would render him
a great favorite with his men,"
Never was a better or more accurate
analysis made of any mans character
1t proves that phrenology is a great and
exact science-when it deals with estab-
lished facts known to all the world.
This Cincinnati man has made post
prediction of what Dewey had already
proved.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-24

The Naval Annual, of which Lord
Brassey is the editor, has just appeared
In London and gives some very inter
esting figures concerning various Eu-
ropean navies. Thus Great Britain has
90 battleships built or building as
against Sc to the credit of France and
y to the credit of Russia In the matter
OF cruisers Great Britains preponder-
ance is still greater, the figures being:
Great Britain. 1876; France, 40; Russia,
II. What immense power and how
many millions these figures represent.
Speaking of the idea of a union of
English-speaking peoples, Lord Brassey
says:
If in the process of time we can bring
about a closer union between ourselves
and the United States; if we can estab-
liSh perpetual league of all English
speaking peoples for settling differences
by arbltration--nay, more, for mutual
defense if threatened by external foes
our latent resources will be too over
whelming to be challenged or contested.
Such a union could defy the power of
all the rest of the world combined
against 1t. 1t is hardly probable that
it will be effected, but every one recog-
nizes it as possibility, more particu-
larly since the war with Spain began.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-24

competing lines have been made to
bear the heaviest burdens possible, the
burden being just inside the dead line.
Now. if freight rates are raised, why
cause the Panama route is closed, why
should not all this inter-mountain re-
gion, that has been made to suffer so
much, get the benefit of the long and
short haul clause? There can be no
valid excuse now Of there ever was one)
why intermediate points should not be
given as good or better rates than ter
minal points. It is to be hoped the
merchants and others will insist on
their rights in this matter.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-24
cERvERA's swIFrER VESSELS.

Admiral Cervera's fleet is known to
be composed of swifter ships than those
composing the squadron of Admiral
Sampson. and this fact is assigned as
the chief reason why the Spanish fleet
has eluded pursuit. 1t does not en-
tirely explain the fact that Cervera' S
fleet has never once been sighted by
any OF Admiral SIMPSONS scouts or
other vessels. Had it ever been sight
ed, its greater speed would explain its
escape. The chances for a rather slow
cruiser to sight fleet are nearly if not
quite as good, when it is cruising
around in a certain zone, as those of a
swifter cruiser. Why the Spanish fleet
has never been seen by any of the YES
sells belonging to SIMPSONS or Schley's
fleets remains a mystery, all explana-
ton of it being but conjecture.
The swifter fleet has many advan-
tages over the slower one. This is so
in maneuvering as we'll as in going
from one country or one port to an
other, 1t is altogether probable that
when Uncle Sans new navy, for it is
now certain that he will have a new
and powerful navy, is built, much
greater speed will be required than
there has been in the past, in battle
ships as well as in cruisers. The ten
dency is as strong towards building
faster warships as it is towards making
them more powerful in guns and ar
NOR. Most likely it will not be but
few years before a 20-knot cruiser will
be deemed O. slow craft. Before the
present war is over Git can scarcely
be said to have begun YETI many new
ideas concerning navies and naval war
fare will have been suggested; its close
will, in all probability. mark the begin
ming of another epoch in naval mat
fare
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-24
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COMMENTS BY THE PRESS.

Pittsburg Disatch: If the war is soon
over-everybody hopes and many believe
il will bottle work viii rot be wasted;
II II should happen to be long continued
there will be plenty for all these asso-
Citations TO do. our boys in blue are
going to strange chimes in the far-oft
Eass Indies and fever-breeding west
Indies. Their wants will be many and
whatever they are they should not go
unsatisfed. There is patriotic duty TO
be performed at home as well as in the
held.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-24

The San Francisco Examiner, insists
that .Evangelina Cossio Cisneros will
marry Lieutenant Carlos CarboneI,
while. the Chronicle insists she will
marry a son of General Fitzhugh Lee.
The Examiner, having assisted in her
rescue. should be the better authority
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-24

Globe: An Atchlson woman recently
fell short when given the opportunity OF
lifetime. She was told of the death
of dear relative, and didn't even faint
or turn pale. On the contrary, all she
said was, We'll. you don't say SOL The
person deputized TO break the news to
her is immensely disguised.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-24

AS Anglo-American marriages have
been more successful than those be-
tween Americans and other foreigners,
so an Anglo-American alliance would
:n all probability be more successful
than one with any other country.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-24

Much is said about the number of
Spanish soldiers in Cuba and their
great lighting qualities, but how many
there are and what their fighting quail
tiles viii never be known until an
American army invades Cuba.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-24
Superb Photographs of I'M s.a a'..,o,
IEINNl r NaaasN UAiU The Officers
lIIMI | MINI WMWV / The Crew
tONOGE SiiiHa - WI u General Lee
Most Magnificent Collection Of Photographs Of
This Character Ever Offered to the Country

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Especially batthp gallant
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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-24

Heavy cannonading hasn't been heard
off the New England coast for several
days What is the matter with the
New Englanders?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-24

An exchange says that the tax of 4
cents on each dollar-bottle of patent
medicine is unjust. Bah! Taxing pat
ent medicine is the very best use to
which it can be put.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-24

It is said that Governor Black may
suspend Mayor Van Wyck. Van Wyck
be hanged" has been the sentiment of
the Republicans ever since Van Wyck
was indicted into Office.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-24

1t is believed that the A. P. would
dispose of its copyright account of the
battle of Mole st. Nicholas for a rea-
sonable figure.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-24

The Chicago Times Herald published
a panoramic view of the Nicaragua ca
nal This is the first information the
public has had that the canal is COM
pleted
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-24

This continual marching of the vol
unteers around camp instead of into
the enemy's country doesn't make any
footprints on the sands OF time.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-24

For ways that are dark and tricks
that are vain, All Sin isn't in it with
Senior Don.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-24

If the strategy board wants to ascer-
tain the Whereabouts OF the Spanish
fleet it should insert an ad. in the want
column.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-24

The Spanish fleet harbors a great
deal of resentment towards the United
States. What Sampson wants is open
resentment.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-24

Cincinnati Enquirer: Here we have, "
said the museum manager, "a man who
survived a five days ride in an open boat
in the midst of winter"
The only auditor in the place yawned.
Hub" he said. In me you behold the
survivor of a five-mile ride in an open
car in the early spring
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-24

Edward Benamy is dead. There will
be no more looking backward or for
ward for him.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-24

We don't know what the flower of
the Webfoot state is, but her unpar-
alleled voyage proves that the Oregon
is a daisy.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-24

of the English statesman and the .Puri-
tan maid. as she was often called. his
neighbor at an entertainment 10 which
he had only been hidden by that fate
which shapes our ends, rough hew them
as we will %
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-24
WIT AND HUMOR.

Cincinnati Enquirer: You, sir" said
the poet. are a bad judge or Doetry.'
Il. SIR retorted the editor. am a
judge OF bad poetry.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-24

Detroit Free Press: I'VE ought to worry
more over other peoples troubles than
our own"
4 do. 1 worry over my creditors trou-
bles."
What are they?"
NV debts"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-24

What food for reflection have the
prophets who said the war would be
over in thirty days.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-24

Paymaster General Stanton wants
more assistance. Too many paymasters
do not spoil the broth.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-24

1t is Spain that is now anxious to
know where rolls the Oregon"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-24

The phrase: Seeking glory at the
cannon's mouth" has lost much force
since the introduction of breech-load-
ing artillery.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-24

The S3aniards may not have much
push, but there is an immense amount
Of go to Cervera's fleet
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-24

bread should remember that man lives
not by bread alone.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-24

Why cannot a strategy board have
barnacles attached to il, as well as a
ships bottom?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-24

1t seems to be easier for camel TO
pass through the eye of a needle than
to find the Spanish fleet.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-24

Spain threatens to resort to priva-
teering It is her right, and would be
in keeping with all her methods of war;
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-24

son, before he is through with it, it
will be locoed.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-24

Sampson certainly has Cervera on th'
run.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-24

"a well-founded rumor' is one that
usually turns out to be absolutely
false.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-24

Coughs, colds, pneumonia and fevers
may be prevented by keeping the blood
pure and the system toned up with
Hoods Sarsaparilla.'
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-24

Interest in the search for Andree
has given place to interest in the search
for Cervera.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-24

Cleveland Plain-Dealer: They have
named a shirt waist after Dewey"
We'll. it's evident that when II comes
20 honoring the gallant George the girls
are strictly in it."
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-24

If President Mckinley would ask
Secretary Alger for his resignation the
country would approve of the request.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-24

Buying binoculars does not remedy
the defects of a short-sighted policy.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-24

Baltimore lavish Comment: Turnkey
A reporter wishes to interview you VIII
you see him?
Prisoner-No, indeed; tell him 1 am not
at home.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-24

Globe: An Atchison man claims that
mis- wife belongs to the Red Cross society,
because she often gets red with anger
and is then cross for weeks.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-24

The government censorship should be
applied to the Congressional Record.