The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-02
Daily Adventures of the Scribes On
the DauntleSS.
REFLECTIONS ON HAVANA
THOUGHTS PASSING THROUGH
ITS PEOPLES MINDS.
Famine Not Confined to Reconcentra-
dos, But Embraces the Lady of
Quality and Her. Liege Lord
Large Majority Would Welcome
Bombardment-How They Act.

ciated Press. Copyright, 1898 by the As
ISOLATED Press On board the Dauntless
dispatch boat of the Associated Press, mid
vav between Havana and Key West, Fla,
April 2S-News gathering at sea has its
attractions. but it also has its drawbacks
Incident after incident could be written
describing how, out OF Sem-derhneSs,
rushed a long black torpedo boat ana the
hoarSe order to heave TO was followed
on the instant by the threat of Shot
Then there have been times when all
steam was called for because we were IN
grave doubt whether an approaching
stranger was American or Spanish, and in
no doubt at all as to- what our fate would
be should the unknown vessel prove 10 De
Spanish gunboat 1Gp the fne H HaInfiess
than almost any other craft that sails the
SOME REFLECTIONS.
Sitting near the Dauntless pilot house
recently. off Ell MORO, with pair OF
marine glasses that brought the saffron
bastions within a half mile, 1t was I'M
possible to keep from speculation on the
condition of things within that city where.
for two months, many OF US llVed on
patience and the hope of bombardment,
which it now seems is not TO occur.
. We know as well as If we We're eye wit
nesses that famine IS %lt9ln, not conn comm ea
dead by this time, but embraces the lady
of quality and her liege lord, the profeS,,
sional American and his family. the small
.store-keeper and his brood, the artlSan
and his helpmate
AS yet the Spanish officer and the
wealthy contractor have food enough or
the wherewithal to buy 1t.
WOULD WELCOME IT.
Beyond question a large majority of the
Havanese would welcome the lombard
ment they daily expect, If assured that
when it was over and the city in the
hands of the United States forces, food
conditions would change and the awful
uncertainty as to what the next hour
might bring forth be resolved into GER
tainty in the crucible of action.
When night came we could see the re-
Central and Parade. We knew as well
as if we were at the Inglatierra hotel that
along the broader streets the voluntarios
We're marching and COMMUNICATING,
their officers swishing the 1.-THE canes they
are so fond of and their buglers in vain
trying to keep time to their own music.
We hoped some of the volunteers were
hungry, since they certainly should be.
They are so blood thirsty with the help
less and so cowardly when met by an
armed force.
HOW THEY ACT.
Was the band playing on the stand
around the statue of the great Isabella
Probably not. Even these mercurial peo-
pie would scarcely be in musical mood
when a short walk TO the shore would
show them the Pillars of fire by night
made by the searchlights of the block
, aders. OF course. the principal cafes
We're crowded. officers and the better
class of civilians were surely congregated
there in great numbers, drinking their
| light wines or small glass of absinthe-
they are not given to drunkenneSsS-and
/ talking Is to the dozen while hands and
arms waved wildly and shoulders were
perDetually in action.
A recent letter to the writer smuggled
out by friend in Havana, said:
THE big hotel Inglauerra has two
guests. Mr.. Gollan, British consul, and
Madrid gambler, but the patronage of
people are gregarious and must talk or
explode
CHARITABLE PROMPTINGS.
It is astonishing with what equanimity
we bore the thought that some of the
people spoken of above were likely to
be hungry before long. But when we
thought OF delicately nurtured gentlemen,
orphaned widowed or deserted, whose
incomes were zero and whose hopes of
help were vanished, we could not feel so
Indifferent, any more than we could when
remembering the poor little inmates of
Lee orphanage. rescued from death, 1t is
feared, only to die at last from starva-
ton, as in the first instance. Fervent
that our naval and military forces would
take and hold Havana before death came
to all who were dependent upon charity
from the United States.
LIFE ON THE FLEET.
The band of the New York is playing
the march from Ell Captain, the big
cruiser slowly FORCES along through a sea
blue as heaven, save where it is dotted
with the blood red of a small jelly fish
peculiar to these waters; the sun CLEANS
on the rifles and accoutrements of the
marines on guard, and its rays make the
bis eight-inch guns, poked clear of the
turret. ,oOk as if swathed in wet hippo
potamus hide. Now and again long
strings of parti-colored bunting float
from the signal halyards. to be answered
far away to the westward by a similar
display from the Iowa. The man in the
foretop waves in frantic fashion his flag
of red with white center, and presently
with a snort the long black Porter comes
/ alongside, with a swift motion, composed
of roofs and darts, there to receive orders
that send her scurrying off to some other
ship or maybe. to Key West with dis
patches. An attractive picture but we
would like it better were the guns less
bright, but buster, and were the signal
calls to general quarters.