The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-30
HOW HAVANA LOOKS AND ACTS
NUMEROUS VESSELS RIDE AT
ANCHOR IN THE BAY.
Work of the Red Cross Appreciated
Attitude of the People Toward
Americans Polite and Courteous.

Copyright, 1898, by the Associated Press.)
Havana, Aug. 20, 8 p. m.-The bay OF
Havana again presents an unusually
active assect. Numerous vessels with
cargoes and rations from the United
States are riding at anchor. Close to
what remains of the wrecked Maine is
moored the Spanish cruiser Alfonso
XII. She is at the same buoy as 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 governor of Havana,
accompanied by the chief inspector of
the harbor police, visited he Red Cross
steamer Clinton, to return Miss Cara
Barton'S visit, remaining nearly an
hour. The meeting took place in the
saloon ce the steamer. Senior de Cas-
tro, who is young and handsome man,
sat beside Miss Barton, tanning her.
Around them were grouped the Red
Cross nurses. the whole presenting a
picturesque scene. Miss Barton says
the governor is a most charming man..
She thinks him endowed with splendid
qualities. and she acknowledges the
excellence of the measures he has
adopted to relieve want in the city, by
over 5000 rations daily. With such
a man. says Miss Barton, almost
anything is possible"
Nothing definite has been decided
upon. but a part of the Red Cross re-
lief will be landed here, and a part at
Matanzas. After his visit to Miss Bar
ton. Governor de Castro paid visit
to the Comal. where he was entertain
ed by Captain Niles and Major Nisker.
LOT inf
to Senior Montoro. secretary of finance
in the Spanish colonial cabinet, recon-
mending that permission be granted
them to distribute a million rationS free
of duty.
The plan is for the Comal to remain
at Havana as a central floating ware
house. and to forward relief to the in
terror by rail, pack mules and other
means of transportation.
Yesterday morning the first of the
American soldiers landed from the Co
NAL and took breakfast ashore. Their
appearance excited universal curiosity
large crowds following from the wharf
and commencing their quiet and gen
tlemanly conduct. The attitude of the
people here Of all classes towards the
American soldiers and correspondents
and toward Americans generally is one
of courtesy and politeness.
Inc snip anu an assignment OF 10
men from Comal visited the graves of
the victims of the Maine. Captain
Stewart Brice, son of the former Sena-
tor Brice. and aid-de-camp to General
Shafter, also visited the cemetery, and
several soldiers placed flowers upon
the tomb. Americans are anxious to
see a monument erected as soon as pos
sible to commemorate the resting place
of the heroes.
La Lucha, in an editorial today on the
future of Cuba, says:
There are four solutions of the prob
lem: Independence, annexation, a
Spanish protectorate or an American
prOtectorate.
LAS for an American protectorate it
would be the most servile and humil-
iaIing form of government that could
be possibly offered to an enlightened
race. Hitherto protectorates have been
only imposed upon barbarous or semi
savage people who have been declared
Incapable of governing themselves. A
protectorate for Cuba, which for the
last 80 years has reached a standard Of