The age-herald., 1898-07-30
NUT WITH F|RE
 AND SWORD Did Our Victorious Soldiers En-
 ter the City. : ntiag0' BEARING M,$ q AND BREAD For the St cs~ inhabitants and Dis
 armed $ ,.ers of the Capital. EVERYWHERE WAS REJOICING. Our Troops Were Received, Not As Conquerors, But As Defenders. THE CIVILIAN GAVE THANKS That No More Bombs Would Be Thrown
Our Troops Were Received, Not As
 Conquerors, But As Defenders.
That No More Bombs Would Be Thrown Into the City and the Soldier Was Grateful Because He Would Be
 Returned to Spain.
Correspondence fo the Associated Press

Santiago de Cuba, July .9.-Not with fire and sword did the victorious soldiers of the United States enter the entrenched capital of eastern Cuba, but bearing mat and bread for her starving inhabitants and tts-e armed defenders and they were received, not in fear and trembling as conquerors are by a fallen city, but with outstretched hands as deliverers from famine. For the people of Santiago were starving, rich and poor, merchant. soldier and vagabond. The soldier whose heart had never been in this war rejoiced openly ,-Iat he would soon be returned to Spain.
 The civilian gave thanks that no more bombs would come screaming over the hill no more dead and wounded men be brought in from the forts and trenches outside the city. Everywhere was seen re- joicing, rather than mourning sullen hostility; not a woman wore the red and yellow colors of Spain, or refused to an- swer the courteous salutation of the American newspaper correspondents. zz
 The merchants were affability itself, shaking hands cordially with every de- parting patron and responding to Viva America" with hearty viva" and a wave of the hand. It mattered not to the people of Santiago that Spains honor had been tarnished, that the old Cortez, who sailed from Santiago four centuries ago to rav- age Mexico would have died with his last man rather than surrender. Santiago had been saved from starvation and further . bloodshed
 The curious people who went down to the wharves after the surrender had been contemplating seeing the terrible Ameri- can warships sail up to the city beheld instead the approach of a black merchant ship with a Red Cross painted on each side, a Red Cross at her peak a kindly faced woman directing the movements of the vessel and other women the decks. It was the relief ship, State of Texas. load ed with food enough to give every one in Santiago something to eat.
 Began Issuing Food
 The relief ship moored at the principal wharf, opened her matches and began to issEe food to the crazed people who throc2ed to her side. Questions to the ap- piicants were unnecessary; their emaciated faces and eager eyes told that they were desperately hungry The children were pitiful to look at They were not naked as in newspaper pictures, but their arms and hands seemed heshless, the skin was drawn tight over their pnched faces and their eyes had an unnatural lustre. In asking aims they stretched forth their skinny hands timidly and the beseechng, frightened look in their eyes went to the heart of every American. The Spanish sol- diers did not openly beg for food, but when questioned they said earnestly that they were very hungry and food given-to thenf devoured ravenously.
 The first American to enter Santiago af- ter the surrender was a correspondent of the Associated Press, who had gone among the refugees at Fl Caney. For the time he spoke only Spanish. He was one of the first fugtives to enter the city and he did not resume the use of the English lan- guage until the cable office had been re- opened when his account of the surrender was filed, long before any other
 There are thirty vessels in the harbor today, most of them troopships, waiting to unload their supplies: Some of them had been waiting off Siboney nearly a month for opportunity to discharge cargo.
 Before the war broke out, United States Consul Hyatt at Santiago was feeding 5000 persons in and near the city Relief work ended when MT. Hyatt was ordered to leave the island In the latter part of May. the United States began to blockade Santiago. The city has always imported the greater part of it's food supply, the surrounding country being undeveloped and the block ade had immedite eqect It is reasonable to suppose that nearly all of Consul Fly att's people are dead, for when Santiago surrendered last Sunday the rich were starving.
 No Stock in the Stores
 correspondent of the Associated Press who went through the business section yesterday found stores closed. having no stock. The tobacco merchants have not much stock left In the market place few of the stalls are occupied. A little rice was being sold at an exorbitant price. In
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