The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-30
HAVANA AGAIN FULL OF LIFE.
NUMEROUS VESSELS WITH CAR
GOES AND RATIONs IN HARBOR.


Red Cross Relief Ship Clinton VIII
Probably Land Supplies There.
The Comsl to Send Relief Into the
Interior by RAN and Pack Mules.
American Soldiers Treated with
the Utmost ReSpect-Gravcs OF the
Names Victims Decorated by La
dies From the ComaI-Natives and
spaniards Glad the War is over.
Copyright, 1898, by the Associated Press.
Havana, Aug. %, s p. m.--The bay of
Havana again presents an unusually ac-
tive aspect. 1t is fun of life and hustle.
on its ripping waters ride at anchor nu-
merous vessels with cargoes and rations
from the United States
The harbor is heightened by the trim
aspect of the Spanish warships anchored
near the blackened ruins of the Maine.
Close to what remains of that splendid
battleship is moored the Spanish cruiser
Alfonso XII. She is at the same buoy
IS she was on the night of the explosion.
The wreck itself has settled two feet or
more in the muddy bottom.
Early this morning Senior Fernandez de
Castro, civil engineer of Havana, accom-
panied by the chief inspector of the har-
Dor police visited the Red Cross steamer
Clinton to return Miss Bartons visit, re-
naming nearly an hour
Nothing definite has been decided upon,
but probably a part of the Red Cross re.
lief win be landed here and a part at
Matanzas. After his visit to Miss Barton,
Gov de Castro paid "A visit to the Comal.
where he was entertained by Capt Niles.
Maj. Nasken, to whom he gave letters
of introduction to Senior Montero score
tary of the finance in the Spanish colon
ial cabinet, recommending that permission
be given them to distribute a million ra-
tions, free of duty.
The plan is for the Comal TO remain at
Havana as a central floating warehouse
and to forward relief to the interior by
rail, pack mules and other means of
transportation.
Yesterday morning the first of the
American soldiers landed from the Comal
and took breakfast ashore. Their an
pearance excited universal Curiosity, large
crowds following them from the wharf
and commencing upon their quiet and
gentlemanly conduct. The attitude of the
people here Of all classes toward the
American soldiers and correspondents to-
ward Americans generally is one of court
esy and politeneses.
Ihis afternoon a detachment of fifteen
men from the Comal visited the graves of
the victims of the Maine. Several ladies
placed flowers upon the tombs.
Havana to-day is without meat, owing
to wrangie over the free entry of cat
tie.
Advices from the province Of Pinar del
Rlo says that the insurgents forces there
are quite destitute. Insurgent bands In the
neighborhood are respecting property
rights.
The steamer Wanderer with relief, food
ana clothing is reported at Cayo Frances
Lieut.. johnson of the Tenth Cavalry, and
a party have started from Sancu Spiritus
for Punta Allegro there to meet the Wan
derer and Gater to go North by her.
A correspondent of El Pals, who left
Havana the day the protocol was signed,
on tour including Caibarien Santa
Clara, Sagua Remedies and Placetas. re-
ports everything quiet and orderly in that
district wherever he went. He says that
all the natives and the Spaniards, too,
are overJoyed at the termination of the
war.
According to this correspondent lieut.
Johnson is returning North, being reliev-
ed Of has command by Gen. Maxine Go
mez. 1t appears that after the capture of
Gibara the insurgent flag was hoisted over
the fort. Lieut.. Johnson promptly pulled
1t down, and not having an American flag
to hoist in its place, he holsted his coat,
from which fluttered a ribbon of the
American national colors. The incident
gave rise to considerable feeling, which
eliminated in a falling out, and Lieut..
Johnson being relieved Of his command