The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-08-12
4 Good UpnqM Piano.
 Upright Piano, Stool and Scarf, Upnght Piano, fine repair, Square Piano, in good order,

ton from his kind. There are several mesones and third class inns, but you are not obliged to stay in them long, es- pecially if you have letters of introduce tion. The citizens are proverbially hos pitable, and to them the visit of for eigner bringing a fresh breath from the far-away world is a godsend.
 The streets of Trinidad are narrow as the narroWest in Spanish America and mostly unpaved, but extremely pictur- esque, with their low-walled, rough tiled houses and high-sounding names over the doors As in Havana, the business streets are a realization of Bellamy's dream of universal um- brellca, because of an uninterrupted se- rias of awnings stretched across, af- fording complete shelter from the sun and rain. In the aristocratic quarter the houses are mostly built of stone, and some of them are imposing, with
 arched entrances and much -bestuccoed facades resembling carved marble. They differ from those in Havana in not having any divided walls between l the rooms, only the kitchen and sleep ing apartments being partitioned to the | ceiling. The rest are a series of open | arches--vast, high ceilings, expenses affording free circulation of air and | magnificent perspectives of marble | floors, rich frescoes, mirrored panels and tasteful furnishings. One of the l finest houses in the town, if not in the whole island, is owned by an American l oitizen-Mr Baker by name, but here | rendered Senor Bahuare. Perhaps the | handsomest country home in the valley l is owned by MT. Stillwell, New Eng | lander, who has a large plantation and | lives like prince. The war has not af- fected this part of Cuba to any appreci- l able extent, and when I visited the | place a few weeks ago things were go- l ing on just as usual. Nothing short of i Shafter's and Sampson's guns can wake the Trinidadians up to realizing | sense of the true situation. They talk 1 in a sleepy way of political troubles in | the island" but as of something which l does no concern hem in heir Arcadian
 rereat. The nearest approach to life | and gayety in Trinidad is seen on Sun | day and Thursday evenings, when the
 "retreta" takes place in the Plaza Ca- rillo. The big square in the center of l the town, opposite the governors resi- 1 Gence, is a beautiful place and differs | in some respects from any others I | have seen. In the middle is a large, | domelike arbor, from which stone | walks radiate, bordered by flower beds | and shaded by ornamental shrubbery. | Around the outskirts of the park eX- | tends broad stone 'paseo," or prone
 nade separated from the main garden
 by low stone coping. A profusion of
 gas lamps afford brilliant illumination,
 and has beautiful effect at night amid
 the dense green foliage.
 The Campo del Matre is another fine lacge plaza at the southeast end of the
 town, with barracks and drill grounds | for the garrison.
 But the most attractive resort of the | place is what is known as the Vijia | CWatch Tower), a point on the adjacent l mountain which may be easily reached i on horseback, or even in a volante | For those who are good climbers it is
 the fashionable thing to go up before | breakfast. There is a rustic road
 winding under pines and palms, past
 straw matched huts, the military hos | pital and the Ermita de Ia Pota, and he who has not seen the sun rise above the l ircomparable vale of Trinidad and H. lunine the heights around it or sink
 among the green cays of the western
 ocean has lived almost in vain. Speak,