The evening times., 1898-11-08
TURNED OUT IN THB COLD
Miseries in America of Prls-
Oners From Ceuta.
NO FRIENDS TO MEET THEN
Failure of the Cuban Junta To Pro-
vide for the Victims of Spanish
Tyranny and 0ppressiOn-fhirte
InfOrtunates shiver i'm the Streets
With No Signs OF a Welcome.

New York. Nov. S-Thirteen Cuban
refugees from Spanish prisons, whom
the United States Government undertook
TO transport from Gibraltar to Cuba
were turned adrift in this city yesterday,
through failure TO provide for them in
the interval between their arrival here
and their departure for Cuba.
All of the men are political prisoners
who were sent to Ceuta, Africa, and have
served from two 10 three years there at
hard labor. They were brought to this
country on the recommendation Of
United States Consul Horatio Sprague,
at Gibraltar
Several months ago 250 Cuban political
prisoners were granted amnesty by Spain
buJ Consul Sprague reported that 2o.OU0
pesetas, appropriated for their transpor-
JatiOn, never got past the ofilcla!s Many
Of the prisoners Were unable TO get away
from Ceuta. but some managed TO cross
TO Algecifss. and sixteen OF tnem reach
cd Gibraltar The state Department au-
thorized Mr.. Sprague TO send these men
10 New York.
They arrived on the Kaiser Wilhelm
missioner OF Immigration rlucnie pend
ing Instructions from Washington. Or
ders soon came for their reIeaSs.
The State Department informed the
Treasury Department lnat the refugees
would be- taken to Cuba on a Govern
menl transport, but nothing was said
about caring Tor them meanwhile.
Three OF the men were taken care Of
by friends. but thirteen were left ON
cluded that he could MOI afford 10 keep
them. and yesterday he turned them out
OF the Barge Office and sent them to the
Cuban Junta. From there they were sent
back 10 the Barge Office.
The men are very lightly clad, and suf-
Tered much from the cod on tleir walk.
Deputy Commissioner McSweeney was
indignant when The Cubans returned.
This il shameful. he said. We have
no right TO keep these men. The barge
office - not a lodging house. l think the
Cubans should care for them until Il
transport sails.
4 newspaper man telephone To stephen
A. Barton, OF the Red Cross and Cuban
Relief Commission. telling him OF the pre-
0icament Jhe refugees were in. The reply
Was thaJ neither had any place 10 lodge
The men. The city charities department
VAS notified. but replied Jhat tie men did
hg done
BY this yimo it was getting dark and
Commissioner Fitohie finally agreed 10
keep the unforiunates over n.ght ANA see
ii something cannot be done for them
today.
With possibly uwo exceptions the refu-
gees belong the middle or better class of
Cubans. Several of them say they. 100.
own property in Cuba. and that money
would be sent TO them if they had time
10 wait for letters
They all agree that Ceuta Is 2 frightful
place. and assert that Spanish keepers
logged and tortured them.
one exhibited sketch showing prison
"rs harneSsed to Il cart hauling a load
Of stone. which. he said. was the kind Of
work he did in Ceuta.
Others said THAI the food was so bad
and the eAposI are 50 great that more than
half the CUbanS sent TO Ceula perished
there. OF The 15a prisoners granted free