The record-union., 1898-04-12

mother has any rights. while the COM
mercial mother cannot shake off her
responsibility. for God has made them
next neighbors."
| Mr. Hyatt closes this letter as fol-
| lows: Il do not believe that the West
ern Hemisphere has ever witnessed
starvation equal to that which now
exists in Eastern Cuba
| QUININE AS ACCEPTABLE AS
| GOLD.
| On the Sth of February Mr.. Hyatt re-
ports the first arrival of relief from the
! United States, which came in the shape
| of medicines. The people seemed very
pleased to receive quinine, and he says
that to nearly every family this medi-
cine was as acceptable as gold. All
| classes, including the physicians, the
church dignitaries and the ladies of the
| city, joined in the distribution among
the INDECENT sick. He says that with
the free use of quinine the death rate
of the city fell twenty the first week,
and he adds that much of the good eff
fects of this medicine is that the Ameri-
can medicine has received a decided
boom, and by all parties it's action has
l.
tors found after very little experience
that it only required about one-fifth of
the amount of the American medicine
to break a fever which had been re-
quired of quinine used before it had been
received.
STREET BLOCKED BY A HUNGRY
THRONG
| On the Goth of February Mr. Hyatt
reported the particulars of the first dis
tribution of food supplies received from
the United States. The rations were
issued in the court attached to the Con-
ulate, the people being admitted by the
police through a carriage driveway.
LAS l write" he says, the street Is
blocked by the hungry throng for nearly
a square above and below the entrance.
have requested the police to admit
the most delicate and feeble subjects
first, as many of them are unable to
stand very long in such a crowd"
He estimated that at the time there
were $4,000 people in that city needing
relief. He says that thirty of the best
ladies of the city divided the city into
fourteen districts, issuing ration tick
cts according to the number of needy
persons in each house, a weeks rations
being issued to each persons holding a
ticket. The first days rations were is
sued to 3S9 persons, and for the entire
four days under consideration to 3,06S.
He also gave moderate quantities of the
supplies to the charitable institutions of
the city and of the towns near by. Six
or eight policemen were required to
keep the crowds in order.
TALK OF ANNEX ALTON
In the last communication of the
series from Mr.. Hyatt, dated March
24th last, he says: Property holders,
without distinction Of nationality, with
few exceptions, strongly desire annex
alton, having but little hope of a stable
government under either contendng
parties, and they view with regret au
tonomy, nay repugnance of the Amer
lean people to such union, and still hope
that change of circumstances will
yet bring it about, but such condition
would not be popular among the
masses"
Referring to the primary election held
on the previous Sunday to elect officers
to hold an election on the 9th of the
same month, Mr.. Hyatt says that no
one seemed to know anything about it
until it was over, and the Autonomists
won the elections. "A member of that
party he says, told me that they
met quietly and did the voting. There
is no evidence that the people in gen.
eral intend to take any part in the
coming election"
Mr.. Hyatt makes reference to the
military operations in Eastern Cuba in
many places, but does not attempt to
go into the detail. In one portion of
his correspondence he refers to the eff
fort of Mr.. Rigney, an American plant
er in Manzanillo, to prepare grinding
during the coming season.
"A few nights since" he says, 1.-The
| insurgents fired seven cannon shots
among his buildings One ball passed
through the roof of his house. Amer
cans were hopeful that they would be
allowed to make their crop but
the action of the insurgents toward
Mr. Rigney changed matters. 1t may
have been personal matter against
Mr.. Rigney.