The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-07-05
SPANISH COLD IN KINGSTON.
IL Causes n Revision of Feeling and Span
inrds Are Popular There Now.

" OhuhSh y bevuIBlOn OF EecuuB anu bpuu~
inrds Arc Popular There Now.
KINGSTON. Jamaica, June pa change has
come over Che appearance OF affairs in this
British city within a short time. Only a few
days ago most OF tho strangers about the hotels
and stores were Cubans. At least. such OF
them as were not New York. Chicago, and Lon
don newspaper correspondents were Cubans.
The correspondents located here during the
continuance Of tho war and those putting In fol-
q few hours or a couple OF days ut a time TO file
dispatches and get coal and supplies for their
boats. made up q considerable element In the
life Of the place. and still do. They are an
avodably conspicuous because habit and me-
ccssity compel them TO move rapidly. Theyare
the only things animate that do move with any
thing that could by the greatest stretch OF i'm
agination be called rapidly. Only money
moves faster than they do.
II an unprcjudiced British writer would pass
n little time hore and view the daily CONNER
cial transactions dispnssionately no would
never again permit himself to speak OF the
Yankees as types of the sharp or grasping indl-
yidual. Yesterday an innocent stranger asked
q hotel porter whom he had just tipped liber-
ally to get him SOM newspapers. Before he
had inns to speak tho word after got" tho
porter had his hand out. palm upward. And
the porter is no exception to the approved type
VI bulilbiNtAiit ~ ulg lbNO - -
any one doubts. let him ask the first friend he
meets who has visited Kingston this year. or
any OF the many Cubans who have fed from
their island to tho United States through
Kingston.
The swarm OF Cubans who traIled along the
shopping streets and made the hotels resound
with the insurgents national air. merry dance
music and lively sonRs-for the Cubans seemed
to be always daPcing and s~inging-have given
place within a short time to q goodly number OF
Spaniards. The Cubans have gone. many Of
them. to the United States; some have found
cottages in tho country and set up housekeep-
ing. The spaniards seem to have had
enough OF conditions such as subsist in
Havana, and to be glad to get over to
Jamaica. They look relieved, If tired; but
they appear Enthusiastically depressed. They
arc not merry as were the Cubans. The
Cubans seemed to think only Of something to
tighten and e~nliven, but they scanned eagerly
the brief news bulletins with which the sub
sidized cable companies strive to keep Jamaica
in touch with the outside world. There was
one ever-presont reminder that made their eff
forts at diversion easily understood. 1t was
the black dresses of the women. A glance at a
group also disclosed black bands about the
hats OF the men. Fresh arrivals came with
each boat from Cuba Always a preponderance
of black dresses told a story that was felt
rather than heard. Tho Cubans rarely spoke
of the relatives who were not with them.
It's almost a pity the black dresses are not
here now for the Spanish to look at. though it's
doubtful IL they would disturb the placidity
that settles down over the heavy women who
smoke cigars after breakfast. Our priests
came with tho last contingent from Havana.
They have Invested themselves of their rriestly
robes and stroll about byways and highways.
NO doubt 6pipn pnOl mr. aynry turn pa much
as though in Havana, and without expressing
| the religious predictions OF those In the estab-
lishment.
Coincident with the arrival Of the Spaniards
has been the loading and departure OF Spanish
ships with provisions for western Cuba. For
merry, although the neutrality laws were care
fully observed. there was an undorcurrent in
Kingston and the island generally setting
strongly toward the American side. With the
jingle of Spanish gold. which began to be heard
after the first few days Of mysterious silence
following the arrival OF tho Purisima Concep-
cion. there began a gradual. ut first a hardly
perccptible change. Merchants began to ask
why they shouldn't sell tttir wares to the
needy Spaniards. and they asked the OFF,
cials why it should DO made difficult for
Spanish vessels TO take cargoes for ports
still under the Spanish flag. The upshot was
that the purisima Conception was enabled or
permitted to load up with all the provisions she
wanted. and she sailed from here about two
hours before the Yosemite. which had been
looking out for her along the Cuban coast, but
had grown tired of the job and put over here to
make inquiries. arrived in the harbor. Com
mander Emory and his Michigan reserves
missed a rich prize when the Conception es-
capped them. The steamer Is worth 100000
and she had nearly $50. 900 worth OF provisions
aboard. According to present advices here she
has reached Trinidad. Cuba. safely. 1t IL Just
possible, however. that she may have been cap
tured between Trinidad and Clenfuegos.
whittier sho was bound.
Had she been captured soon after leaving
Kingston there would have been. in all likeli-
hood. a marked falling of in the business OF
provisioning Spanish ships bound for western
Cuba. As 1t Is. the business is booming. not
withstanding that the Conceptions cargo is
destined for the Spanish troops and was SO un-
derstood to be. An under secretary Of Blanco's
is among the Spaniards ut present here and he
is prepared to spend $500. 900 if he can buy and
ship the stores he wants for the Spanish forces
Under the circumstances 1t isn't surprising that
Kingston wears II more Spanish air than it did
q few weeks ago when Cubans constituted the
majority Of the strangers In the own and were
spending the most money.
III THENTY-FIRST'S COLORS.
They We're Presented by Mrs. Mckinley