The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-04-11
CONSUL GEN. LEE ARRIVES
FROM TAMPA HE WILI 60 DrREcr
 TO WASHINGTON.

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 TO WAsHINGToN.
 When the Fern With General Lee and
 Party Sailed From Havana They yvara
 Greeted With Kisses and Told to Get Out
 Lee Replied: "NIy. Friends, We VIII
 be Back Soon."
 Key West, Fla, April 10.-The steam CT Olivette arrived at o'clock this morning with 249 refugees on board. Forty of these landed here and the remainder proceeded for Tampa. Among those on board bound for Tam pa are Miss Clara Barton, Dr. Elwell. pr. Egan and four Red Cross sisters, composing, with others. the regular Red Cross party. Dr. Brunner, United States sanitary inspector at Havana, and Dr. Dudley, his assistant, and Messrs. Lawton and Childs are also among the passengers bound for Tam- pa. Messrs. Lawton and Childs are accompanied by a large staff of clerks lately employed in their banking house.
 United States Consul General Lee and his staff, with Consuls Springer and Barker, arrived here on the light house tender Fern at 7:30 o'clock this morning. General Lee came ashore at Il o'clock and received an answer to a telegram he had sent to Washington. The general sailed for Tampa at noon. From that port he will go direct to Washington.
 board sailed she was greeted with misses, groans and cat-calls, and Get out, you Yankees" came from several threats. General Lee said: My friends, we will all be back soon.'' There was one pretty incident. On the Canabas shore British vessel was unloading at her wharf. As the Fern passed the Union Jack was dipped, while the English crew gave a hearty cheer. It is needless to say that the compliment was returned with all pos- sible gusto.
 Havana seemed dazed yesterday when the people found that General Lee was really going and that all the Americans were going with him. Not to see the United States flag floating from the staff at Casa Nuevo, struck many residents as little less than a calamity. The correspondents were besieged with eager questions as to the intentions of the Americans and when the fleet expected a bombard- ment was likely to commence. The government officials seemed as much at loss as all the rest. A Spanish of- ficer of high rank besought corre- news not made public and affecting the future of, the city.
 The fact that MT. Gol1an, the British consul, called with General Lee on Captain General Blanco also puzzled many, some believing that this meant an English alliance had been settled. The truth is that the Havana news papers have been under such close sur- veillance for months, have been made to publish so many untruths and had printed so many tales of the United States backing down at the demand of Germany, Italy, Austra and Russia, that the residents take no stock what ever in anything published. Conse- quently when they saw the Americans leaving, despite the statements of the papers that they had no intention of going, the people believed a crisis at hand.
 Under instructions from General Lees who went on board the Fern imme- diately after his farewell call on Cap- tain General Blanco the consular peo- pie and the correspondents went quiet ly on board in twos and threes. No one was molested or insulted, but the people stared curiously as the news paper men, to whose presence all had grown accustomed, rode down to the dock with their grips, canes and other hand baggage, showing their intention to depart. In fact Havana was kinder than the ocean outside. All arrived at Key West to-day in a state of wreck. Everybody was sick, some more than others. Even the naval men did not escape.
 There is no fresh news from the Moron Jucaro trocha, though there is little doubt that General Maxine Co., meg and General Calixto Garcia have effected a union of forces. The conn mission sent by General Gomez six weeks ago, prior to the interview be- tween General Pandos' representative and some of the insurgents leaders is now carrying out its work and 1t is be- lieved that between four and five thou sand men in addition to those General Gomez and Garcia would have are available in the provinces of Havana and Matanzas.
 A significant occurrence took place yesterday when the Fern with Consult { General Lee and other Americans was passing Moro Castle. In reply to the Spanish rabble on the war vessel who hooted Death to the Yankee swine,'' the correspondent of the London Times who was on the Fern, responded loudly May every Yankee shell kill fifty of those Spanish dogs"