The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1898-08-29
SANTIAGO LOOKS AS
IF ALWAYS AMERICAN
Residents Are Astonished Because They Are Treated
Well and Their Rights Respected-A Look at
the Wrecks of the Spanish Fleet

, growl and show their teeth at the men
| who are fighting their battles for them;
| to fall back into the ways of barbarisIn.
| and to insist upon waglng a of their
| own, such America. even though con-
gress has called them patriots. cannot for
| a moment tolerate Had not our troops
| forced Garcas army to keep out OF san
| tiago the city would be q blot on the
! map today Garcia has shown his ideas
| Of those things In his treatment of the
| captured and surrendered Spaniards, about
! which | have already written you In some
! detail. and if the United states is to con-
| tnue to make the Insurgents cause their
| cause then some means will have to be
found to make the insurgents keep quiet.
| 1t is not necessary that they should fight.
A Glimpse of the Harbor.
We were talking of these things on
the Wanda's deck as the brave little
yacht pulled out, and 1t was Il relief TO
find Immediately something else to occu-
by our winds. Before us lay the blue ana
peaceful harbor toward which the eyes
CT the world had been directed for so
rpauv weeks and we were ploughinG
through the waters on which the Nizcaya
and The Aimirante OqucndO and the Maria
Teresa and the CristobaI Coon had
swung at anchor during that time suilenly
awaiting their certain fate. 1t was
much smaller narbor than we had eN-
pected to see, and the transports were
compelled to huddle closely together at
~ 70, ,,,,,l onl ca nc NOT Tn block the
=, = -, ,,,oa,,ir, orl ou+roiny ves-
w. ~ ~,,,lo.,to ;,1, ,,oro . counIo of
,9t,,o.,.a fou. ester,ran,s hnts and
acre after acre of mud and marsh. Be
hind ns lay the city. hot and yellow ana
humrnng with trade. At the waters edge
is one long row of wharvcs, back of which
,h,,s o,,1 wsrebouses ana ferry houses
a1o,,,,,-tIo sorna doc,, scene that one can
Co., w. oi,noet any citv in the world A
hor+ ,,,,. r,,hor etean hin runs uD into
~, CIV and this permits an even better
view of It from the harbor than we had
obtained from our elevated 1hlrehchihehlS
st San Juan.
The streets. narrow ana not parli'H-
larry clean were +ui OF people
lean soldiers stood IN the shd"o" VI w.
ways here and there win hUShetS III ,"''i
hands, doing police duty. oceaSI"lahy Il
mounted trooper dashed by, MS morse
hoofs Gathering Mostly on lhe '""'l9
pavement. Above the square, dull mohol-
onous rows of houses there appeared h;lF7
of different nationaEieS in places, ho'Hted
to mark the location Of the foreign resi-
dents High above all, on the stan OIL lIle
palace, the red. white and blue fluttered
fun and free, and IN front OF II rose inc
brown and faded towers or th9 oalncuIal
ii'11 'i' 49, ,,,,+ a., g,t,. l,ol,
ana {" lew o'''N''1, ,,.,,,1, r,bo
ed r'-"'F to"''''o''P'"oe 90 - 4,,o,...,
entire poP"1t0e NVei''eH ~ ra+af,a,1
"IoIIS me ""'' w. -. .,., -,
lhe "llo""ins u 'i'e - ,'''' w., Ca,
tsL y soI6inrs were IN sicht nearly the entire
garrison having been moved by this time
into the carnn ir side the American lines
MT T. ie eaid that the officers are per-
n,lt+oa to naee In and ont under parole
Io,,lri,,,~ ofta, thar affairs in preparation
for an,ar+rra az any, moment
nv, e,, 11,ri,
1n0 @u1iAA
As we swung into the channel the CITY
and the harbor alike disappeared behlho
Intervening hills and there stretched out
before us a crooked stream that twisted
and turned narrowed and widened, until
It seemed next to Impossible that even
Yacht could get through But the chan
mel is deep and the shore marks are pam
and the transports actually came In with
out the services of a local pilot, 50 sure
we're they of their course The country
hnra &c level ana narshy along the shore
rt4 rises into = range of small mountains
that terminate at the coast IN the two
fortified elevations, MORO and Estrela
As we noared the narrow harbOr mouth We
STONED TO take a look at the two sunken
,-,seale there the NarrimaC and the Rcina