The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-08-17

| afar off down the street; she was talking
earnestly to her little girl; she was coach
ing" the little girl. as I afterward learned
who was now approaching her with his
gawky. swinging gait. The mother had
coached" the child We'll.
Good morning, Admiral Cervera" ex-
claimed the little tot, sweetly. The big
Spaniard bent down deliberately and swung
the child clean from the ground and
pressed his lips to her forehead-the Span
with grim smile to pay the visit at the
hotel.
Eulate too was there that morning. Ger
vera dearly loves to be with Eulate. The
two are opposite temperamentS-"Sam
tastes and different dispositions'-Which
Walter Scott says is binding tie between
people. Cervera loves Eulate as much as Mr..
Cleveland used to love Mr.. Carlisle, only
on war footing. Eulate? He is a man who
is desperate and melancholy and tender and
steady ali at once. He IS mixture which
Cervera delights in. He is the only officer be-
sides Cervera who was not required to sign
his parole. He rebelled and won over Au
miral McNair. He looks Like man of 40,
with Burnside whskers, which smart
and black. His eye is brown and passionate
and his lips abnormally proud.
Il have lost all but my commission" he
said 1T Is true we have some property
| in Porto Rico, but 1t will all be swept away
| with the occupation Of Miles,"
Eulates family are still iE Porto Rico
and this more than anything else weighs
upon his mind He is a fascinating mixture
the most inexplcable and wiilful and pic
turesque Spaniard among them, Cervera not
excepted. An affectionate and kindly fellow
this Eulate; he never meets child in the
| academy but he takes it UP and kisses it
upon the forehead. The other day he took
a baby from its carriage in the most care
full manner and thus kissed it. while the
nurse was panic stricken. Eulate was think
ing OF his babies in Porto Rico. His war
bump and his wife and baby bumps are
about the same size, and 1t Is the clash
Of the two that makes him such study
Nobody knows what to make Of Eulate.
He came to Annapolis twisted with a wound
| in the spine and unsettled with bad scalp
wound in the back Of the head. He walks
straight now and the back of his head has
a small round white spot on it, that is all.
When Cervera and Eulate got through
with this visit, with the priest and Lieut.
Cervera, a jolly fellow, they started back
| to the academy. Everybody along the streets
looked at them, but not inquisitively. The
curiosity in Annapolis Is we'll bred Curl
osity.
When Cervera returns from his morning
| outing in town, he rarely, if ever. leaves the
academy any more during the day. He
rests now until lunch, which he takes at 1.
After dinner he smokes under the awning
reads, takes short nap, walks again (but
| in the grounds) and dimes about Z. He and
all the Spaniards must be in their quarters
| by $3.50; but Cervera spends his nights writ
i ing. He writes with his own hand, and
writes until late. He writes a great amount
| he writes goes to the office Of Admiral Nc
Nair who has every line censored, with
Lieut. Commander Moore assisting.
| Admiral McNair and ieut.-Commander
Moore coddle the most distinguished of
| these prisoners with great carefulness. Mr..
1 Moore Cnon6c hOur each niQht after din
| ner talking with Admiral Cervera, and
knows lots Of things which he cOyly with
| holds. as is befitting. But Mr.. Moore, being
! officer in charge of buildings and grounds
| knows how to keep a secret or two-the
| man for the place.
Admiral Cervera is happily less secretive
| than Mr.. Moore, and talks courteously with
| newspaper men when they come to him
| He speaks English comparatively well, only
| leaving out the verb, as Spaniards will do
His hand grasp is tight, and his fingers arr
! short and thick-executive fingers. as the
| phrenologists call them What surprise:
one most about Cervera Is his fOrehead-ar
| expansive forehead. with little mathematics
which Hobson has swelling out over hi:
| eyebrows, and with large, ample identity
none of which Hobson has over his eye
| brows. Cervera Is practical dreamer
just as Disraeli was.
There are 70 Spanish prisoners all told a
| Annapolis Forty-four of them arrived Sat
!
Cervera. and "a arrived last Saturday nigh
| week. These "a were Immediately Quaran
tined and put In cadet quarters. l mentor
this to show the punctiliousness Of thes
Spaniards. When these "a men were quar-
antined the other Spanish officers, II the.
would buy trihes down the street for thei
suspect comrades, would go only hal
way across the great entrance walk that di
vided them from the first comers. Thes
young officers play football between the ad
1 BOD
would not do so without asking permission
Then, too, they know nothing about Ameri
can football, but play kicking the old in
fated ball in the old-fashioned way.
These young officers have their quarter
in the Stribling building, which calle
| No. T. and one of the officers occupies
room just across the hall from the on
formerly occupied by Hobson. They are joll
and parade the streets in rambling squads
| dipping into this store and that to buy an
! going back to the academy queer mixtur
of white trousers, white caps and white ten
| mis- shoes and bundles under their arms. Blu
| they were almost naked when the came
Admiral Cervera did not have a complet
suit of underwear. The young officers ,wer
', worse off. One of them told me that all III
trunks that followed them came from tn
| Cristobal Colon and one of these young off
| GERS. Lieut. Mario de la Vega, of the Viz
caya, pulled out his inside pocket an
showed me the name written there of "V.
| Houston" Houston Is midshipman on tn
Iowa and gave Lieut.. de Ia Vega the clOthe
! he Is wearing now.
Since Spain sent 5000 pounds and Blanc
> S15O.O00 to Cervera the officers have bee
busy buying. Cervera's new suit was jus
finished Monday in time for him to take
dress suit dinner with Admiral McNal
Wednesday evening. Clothes, clothes, clOthe
| the young officers buy from morning ID
! night and seem delighted
About the battle at Santiago. that wa
what interested me, and asked some 9
the officers frankly about it and they spok
frankly,
Second Lieutenant Felix Gonzalez saAd
TO me that 1t MOULD have been sheer In