The times., 1898-06-20
The Cuban DeIegufi,.n.

THOMAS Estrada Palma, head of the
Cuban delegation to this country, was
born in 1886 in Bayamo. in the eastern
part of Cuba. and is the owner OF ex-
tensive estates in that part of the
island. He was educated in Havana. and
became a lawyer. Taking part in the
conspiracy of 1863 he was chosen a
member of the congress of the revolution
airy government, and in IS10 was elected
president. He was kept in detention in a
castle in Spain until 1879. He then came
to the United States and later emigrated
to Honduras. where he was postmaster
general of the republic. He returned to
this country and established an institute
for Cuban and Spanish-American boys
at Central Valley. n. Y. The Spaniards
exacted from him an oath of allegiance
as a condition of receiving back his prop
erty, but he refused to swear loyalty
and has lived since by his own labor.
Called afser the death Of Marti to be the
representative of the Cubans abroad, he
has for three years held that position
officially in the United States.
Senior Gonzalo de Quesada was born in
Cuba. December Is, 1868. having come into
this world amid the booming of the first
guns fired for Cuba's freedom at the out
break of the first insurrection. His pa
rents were wealthy at the time. but, re-
ing suspected of disloyalty, were exiIed
from the island, when they sought refuge
in this country. Young Quesada attended
the New York City public schools, re-
ceived the degree of p. S. ten years ago
from the College of the City of New York,
studied engineering at Columbia, and
finally was graduated with honor from
the law department of the New York uni
yersity He became connected with the
Pan-American Congress and later was
employed by the foreign office of the Ar
gentine Republic as consul of the republic
in Philadelphia.
Jose Marti, the Cuban hero was at the
same time consul general of Argentina
in New York. Both resigned their con-
nections with Argentina in order to set
on foot the present Cuban revolution.
They worked diligently until they or
ganized the Cuban revolutionary party.
and made compact with the leaders of
the ten years war The eventful 9th
of February, 1895. the day arranged for
the general Cuban uprising, found Marti
with Gomez at Santo Domingo, and
young Quesada-whose training had fit
ted him for craftsmanship and diplo-
macy rather than military life-in charge
of the patriots interests in the United
States For his work during that critical
SldSe ne ftCeiNtu d vote Oh from
the Cuban constituent assembly. He was
later, when Senor Palma was made dele
gate, appointed secretary of the delega-
ton in this country, and a year ago
charge d'affaires of the legation in this
city Senor Quesada has written three
books in Spanish and a history in English
of the revolution.
Ricardo Diaz Albertini, secretary of
the legation, was born in Havana, and
went to Europe TO be educated when he
was ten years old. He studied at St
Mary's College, Ascot, and then went to
Stonyhurst for higher preparation to en-
ter the medical profession. He studied
in Dresden, Germany, until the ravages
of the war of 1S6S-'7S forced him to re-
turn to Cuba. He came to the United
States in 1879, married an American
lived in Europe until the breaking ont of
this revolution, and hurried here to place
| himself at the service of his country. He
was appointed second secretary of the
Cuban legation at Washington He is
well known in social circles and as an
athlete, and speaks English, French Ger
man, Spanish, and italian fiuently.