The evening times., 1898-09-03
FEW FUNDS LEFT IN CUBA
PandO Carries a Fortune With
Him to Spain.
CIVIL EMPLOYEES ANGRY
Even the Autoncmic Cabinet Minis
trrs Ihrenten 10 Strike Unless Sal
aries Are Forthcoming - Blanc0
Says It's Very Sad, But He Had
to- Pay the Army.

| patch, dated Havana, September /, VIA
/ Key West, says:
| Having successfully done everything in
! his power TO convey the impression that
he was sailing to Spain via New York on
the steamship Philadelphia yester-
day morning, Gen. Pando instead
! secretly started direct for his native land
about ten hours later on the French
steamer Notre Dame du Salut, it is said,
! with Il, 100000 francs.
The secret was so effectively kept that
very few persons here have any knowi-
edge of il. and all the Havana newspapers
announced Pando's departure on the Phil
adelphia.
| Before o'clock yesterday morning,
| when few persons We're about, Gen. Pam
do and the treasure were put aboard the
. Notre Dame du Salut, every effort being
made to avoid notice.
Pando was no sooner aboard the ship
than he sent for Capt Pillard and in
| trusted T. 600 600 frances to his safekeep-
ing. obtaining a receipt for II. Pando
/ then locked himself in his stateroom
and remained concealed until the ship
left the harbor, about . O'Clock IN the
! evening.
There are many plausible reasons for
| Gen Pandos conduct though exactly
| which one moved him it is impossible to
| ascertain. Much depends on where the
! treasure he carried away came from, but
! whatever its source. when the army Is
! seven months in arrears and the civil
list four months and while both cry
( for pay. it is obvious that a dangerous
amount OF discomfort will be stirred up
II the knowledge of the transportation Of
l any such amount becomes public.
! Although PandO had the reputation OF
! having considerable private wealth, Il Is
preposterous to suppose any such sum
could be realized on his property here un-
der existing circumstances. II the amount
taken WAS paid by BlancO at Madrid or
der army and civil list conditions would
make secrecy absolutely essential
Kept His Affairs secret.
II it was taken without BIanco's knowl-
edge. no matter from what source, secre-
cy would b. no less necessary for Pando
because of the treasury straits here.
The funds may have been the combined
resources euphemistically called the saw
ings OF Paudo and friendly officers. The
sum may have been, and most probably
was, largely made up OF subscriptions
from Spaniards in South America Cen
/ tral America and Mexico, which reached
Pando in large amounts during his visit
to Mexico
Gen. Blanco having ignored Pando's
| plan for the defense Of Santiago, Pando
probably insisted on delivering the funds
direct in Madrid rather than through
Blanco. Here, again, secrecy would be
essential.
II is worthy of note that on the Notre
Dame du Salut, besides Pando, were Gen
erals Figuereoa and Saicedo, sent home
in disgrace by Blanco. Other passengers
included many cadets from Spanish mill
tary schools and wounded or i'll soldiers
provided with blankets and other COM
forts by the Spanish Red Cross. .@-
Apropos of Pando's departure, persons
here have long been asking what has be
come of three other high officers VINO left
I to run the blockade, each of these other
three having carried away for that pur-
pose 50,0I9 pesos. Of which reports say,
nothing has been heard since.
, Within the last few days the authori-
: ties here have reinstttuted the system
: of patrol boa;s about the Maine wreck
as maintained before the war intending
to show the commission their deternl ma
tion that American property shall be
fully protected. and. incidentally, that
that they do not regard the cause of the
disaster as determined and intend 10
give no opportunity fer the manufacture
Of evidence such as would be natural
from their point OF view.
: Civilians Thr Revolt.
Havana advices also show that there
are signs of 4 formidable revolt among
! the laboring classes and civilian en-
ployes of the autOnomic government in
the province, for the simple reason that
2 while there seems to have been millions
r of money in the Golfers of officials tho
people who have been diligently at work
for the government are starving because
| they could not get wages due them.
Even the cabinet ministers are about to
strike unless some of the pay for the
civil list is forthcoming. They COM
| plain for themselves and their subordin-
d ates that the government paymasters
n have been and still distributing all
Y the customs revenues to the army and
they are left to get along as best they
: can.
e BIancO Says It's Very Sad.
: Since the beginning of the war no one
n holding government position in Havana
has received pese.a of pay. The officia
a excuse at the palace was that the ''baG
e Americans were to blame. Their block
ade prevented the arrival of specie lader
ships from Spain, and at the same tins
cut off the revenue by allowing no vessel.
20 enter the harbor and pay Spanish du
ties.
1t was a sad. unfortunat te war condi
- ton, the captain general said. but cir
cumstances over which he had no contro
. had caused il. So he told all Spanish
: employees who loved their Queen to %,
s patriots and wait for their pay So fo
=, the last four months every who ha
. depended upon the government for hi
{ living has waited.
Soldiers are used to waiting for pay
The wages of most of them are so far /,
arrears that they have become hopeless
~ los. If some one will pay their pas
sage back to Spain they will only be to-
- | glad to consider their account settled
Then, too, the government feeds the sol
diers twice a day. The soldiers do no
have families in Cuba to support-fam
lilies who were always hungry whel
bread was a dollar a loaf
n With the men in the lista civil 1t wa.
II different. The government gave them NJ
= rations, and they had families who in.
sisted on needing food in spite of the fac
, that Havana was In a state of blockade
,, Waiting for pay meant for them fou
, months of positive self-sacrifice an(
self-denial. Yet they have borne it al
without murmuring, because as one O
n them says, il was for SPAIN
= Since the signing of the peace protoco
an enormous amount of customs duties
lit has been collected by the government
Sc | Twenty and 10 per cent heaped on tn
We high tariff schedule, as explained In i,l,
previous dispatches, have poured man,
thousand pesos into the treasury Mel
ir on the lista civil began to breathe easie
% as the duties came in.