The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-01-12
Graphic Description Of Conditions in
Cuba By a Government OfhCial.
lNAEDlATE RELIlR is NECESSARY.
The Recommendation Coopcd Up in Small
Settlements without Food. Medicine,
or Means To Provide for Themselves.
Scenes of Desnlatiou.

Gtions prevailing ON tine island. TO
thc Associated Ircss reporter Mr. Russell
said.
% am very glad 90 be interviewed on
tho subject Of cuba, because / tocl it a
soIcml duty TO humanity 10 ondeavor TO
mako tho American people realize the
terrible distress which exists there Much
las boon written on the subject, but
J.Gelue others by myself / feel quite sure
that because wc do not commit and have
not u our history committed such afro
cities as Spain is committing on that isle
and th. American reading public regards
th. reports as biased by the preconcelF-
cd opinion. OF newspapers or grossly eN-
srecratcl.
BEGGING IN HAVANA
Of su.u. just two weeks iu cuba. visited
Havana. went south to Jaruco. southwest
TO Guut-. northeast Co Matanzas. cart
vard.y about two hundred miles through
tle middle of the country to san DO
mmeu. Santa Clara and la Grante'
visited Maria Nao. 3D. short distance west
of Havana and saw along tine rallrodd7
thirty or forty towns or stations. In
Havana J visited The Fossos. the Hos
uit.l prison Aldoc0a. where talked "iih
tle father of Evansclind Coslo y 'is"e-
lu-. and place called The Jacoba'
found recouccutrudoes 80 all three places
and begging everywhere about the
streets of Havana.
..rbo .ne.tacle 40 the Tossos and
J.,ola houses. OF women and children
ruaciatei to skeletons and suffering
frnro diseases produced hy starNauon'
,,as sickcnnc I'm Sagua I saw some
e.k and cmaclatcd little girls in a chill
drcue' hospital started three days before
by charitabl. Cubaus and saw a crowd
Of miserable looking rcconcentlaooes
with uu buckets and other Iecep'aoi'
getting "a small allowance OF iood ooIeu
ont TO- them in yard. I'D l"e sam
,.tv an Old sugar warehouse J saw ala-
,iorld around the inside walls the Tem-
,srt- of twenty or thirty famiilfs I'D
CON. case the remnant consisted Oh Two
little children of seven or eight
.rn arofhcr case. where / talked 10 the
r,orla iu broken Spanish, there were iour
Individuals. a mother eirl Oh TOUT l'eeH'
and IVY 0quitc small girls. The smaliest Wa
then suffering from malaual te'er' lhV
r,Xt had tine signs ON her hdnu7, VII"
which / had become familiar. OF having
Dad thc bcri-beri These four were an tlaO
the order of concentration had LETT aINe
off eleven. AT San. Domingo, where Two
railroads iolu the depot Was crowded
with women and children one of the
latter. 1858 / remember. being swollen up
with the beri-beri begging I'D me most
earnest way rom llo I." r,'',.,,,,,,.
bEl RIVED oi hN Ii'l ili-'''
san Domingo is little more than a. rah-
road station iu times OF peace, nut al
present 30 has considerable population hN
Ine u cabins matched with the tops oI
the royal palm trees. composed tI the
survivors of the rceOnc nccutrddoca. Ihe
butts afo arranged close together ln "a IT.
t' Diump ana the concehiia'ion ol", ~
p'if,a ana 'l'"i'hllS SUN ,i"' I'm
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tUI. uo seed tY plant. and only'bcgeing to
Nf. ou. d lo poo, know the exact measure
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