The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-04-26
SCENES IN HAVANA.
WEEKDAY WAR MADNESS AND sum
DAY PLEASURE MADNESS.

noy and Drive Them Away-Wnss Of
Women spies-Islisf- Gives Little Help
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With the Montgomery In the harbor the
handful Of Americans In Havana feel more
confidence in their safety. Surrounded by
Spanish soldiers who make no attempt to
disguise their hatred for the Yankees, it is
nonsense to say that there 10 no fear In the
American colony.
The volsnta used by ex-President Cleve-
land while here some years ago has re-
Gently been destroyed by q company of
volunteers. They broke into the stable in
which the enterprising owner of the vo-
lanta was exhibiting 1t and with rocks
and clubs smashed the carriage to smith
Greens because, they said, the passenger
who made 1t famous was "pig." "Pigh
Is now the designation of l'Americano
friendly Spaniard thus expressed the
present current of thought In the Spanish
mind:
"We are here IN our own island mind
Ing our own business. What right have
the Americans to come here spyingP Let's
kick 'em OUT
Unable to kick the Americans out in q
body, the palace officials decided to admin
lister the kicks individually. One corre-
spondent after another has been ordered
out; charge, general conspiracy against
the government. As 1t Is impossible to
trump up many charges of this sort the
bpaniard has hit upon plan of SO annoy
ing harmless Americans that the Yankee
Is only too glad to leave of his own accord.
The plan Is the old one of employing SPIES
The spies are all sorts and conditions of
men and women, and the chief are the
women.
Woe to the American who succumbs to
the wiles Of the woman spy. Better to fee
at once than to fall into the snares laid by
the sonora. She gives her services free of
charge. She spies for love, not of Spain,
but of spying. Having contrived to make
the American s acquaintance, she straight
way begins operations. She wears black
mantilla. She Is usually beautiful. Her
glance, voluptuous, seems full Of love.
Beware of that glance-it is full of hatred.
Her smile seems all sympathy. 1t Is really
the smile of q woman who hates--a smile
all cruelty. One of Nhese bewitching
senoras recently induced an American, a
tourist, to take her to the ALEXANDRIA the
alter. In the middle Of an act she asked
him to go out and get her fan. The
American started down the aisle Kisses
| greeted him. est downW the rabble
| shouted. Not understanding a word Of
| Spanish, he continued toward the door.
| The entire audience arose. The American
was interrupted and roughly handled. Re-
! senting the insult, he delivered right
handed blow on the nearest Spanish jaw.
| A fight followed. The police entered and
carried the indignant American to the city
prison, where he was locked up overnight
| charged with being an enemy of public
order.
I The most annoying spy Is the one whose
ostensible employment is that of hotel
Mailman or waiter. He copies the Russian.
| Entering and sneaking about your room
every time you leave it, he breaks open
( your trunks, searches the pockets of your
| clothing and reads any scrap of writing
you were careless enough to leave exposed.
| II he finds revolver he conflscates it. IL
| no comes across q suspicious looking docu-
ment he carries 1t to headquarters, where
| it is read and copied. You find the origi-
| nal in your room next day. But mean
| while you have been informed by the hotel
clerk that the authorities regret that cir
| cumstances make your absence desirable.
"What If refuse to go?" you say.
"Tbe authorities say that II you do not
leave by the next steamer you will have to
I suffer the consequences
TIL spies all speak English, though they
pretend not to know word of our Ian
guage. Thus they gather information and
| pick up tidbits here and there which they
| translate to their superiors in a way that
| gives the words a significance not calcu-
| lated to make the Spanish love the Ameri-
| cans. Tho hotel spy Is simply a sneaking,
lying rascal. The spy of the worst type Is
] the Cuban-the Cuban who sells himself
| to the enemy of his island and his indie
pendence.
Notwithstanding the efforts of Clara
Barton and the supplies distributed by the
American relief party, the condition OF the
| reconcentrados In Havana Is apparently
not the least improved. Until recently
they were allowed to stroll about Havana'f
streets, begging by day and sleeping In
the doorways at night. Now, however, an
order has been issued to the effect that
they are to keep within the confines OF the
quarters where relief is given. In Other
words, they are not now permitted to sleeI
In the streets. Occasionally they curl uI
In the cutters as formerly, but q police
man az once orders them to move on.
Never In all her history has Havana had
quartered within the city limits as many
soldiers as now. Never hos she been *
war mad on weekdays and so pleasure
mad on Sundays. 1t seems az II the com
mandment here reads, "Six days shall
thou talk of war and fight and kill. but
the seventh day is day of mad pleasure
In 1t thou shalt have no thought OF war.
The bullfights have never been SO largel.
attended a. during the last few weeks
The Sunday evening crowds at the theater
the opera and the masquerade balls art
unprecedented. Last Sunday evening I
senorita appeared ut . ball masked ant
disguised as Columbia. The gown wa
torn from her back and the stars ant
stripes ripped into shreds.
The yellow fever has begun. Six cases
day are reported. After 1853 years OF yel
low fever the people have ceased to u.s.
even ordinary care. A yellow fever pa
tient, even In q hospital, Is not quaran
tined, but lies In tho general dormitory
exposing all In the room to the dead!
disease. The Spanish never have and new
or will take any measures toward tn
quarantine or isolation of yellow fever pa
| tiapta There ia method In their madness