The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-09-19

come direful tales of distress and peo- pie perishing by the thousand; but it is impossible at present, as she has no means Of transportation. Colonel Hum- phrey has full charge over all Santia- so's shipping, and has seized upon eve- rything that floats for the homeWard transportation of troops. This is well, but hardly warrants him in taking pos session of the "Triton," chartered by | the Red Cross. The wheel within a wheel of many matters inexplicable to
 the casual observer may be traced to the lack of unison between Generals Miles and Shafter. Colonel Humphrey
 IS General Miles man; hence he feels
 that ms boss is the biggest, and he is as
 arbitrary with Generals Shafter and Wood as with anybody else-rather
 more so, in fact, in order to show his little brief authority" One can see
 with half an eye that any larger charge
 than that which this pompous official
 now enjoys would burs. him, like an
 over-inflated balloon. He even re- | fused the Red Cross the use of an old
 leaky lighter, W hich lies day after day NAS1DNsJ ton wanted to borrow it to get a few
 mules ashore. People speak of it un- der their breath and devoutly hope that
 the exodus of the troops will take away
 this mis- manager as we'll As to the four-legged mules above mentioned,
 cargo of splendid fellows, full of life
 and handsome as mules can be, arrived some time ago, consigned to Miss Bar ton. Could she have had them at Si- boney they would almost have saved
 the army. There was never anything
 so dreadfully needed as those mules
 and a few good army wagons in those
 first awful days after the battle. If the
 Red Cross had them just now in Ha-
 vana, with the privilege of little land, 1t could feed the whole country in spite | Of Blanco. Just now the animals are
 not of much use in Santiago but there
 will be no difficulty in selling them at their full value. Four-legged creatures
 of all sorts are extremely scarce in this end of Cuba. When hard times came
 wise owners hid their mules, horses and
 cattle in the hills of the interior, where they mostly fell into the hands of the insurgents. All that remained in Sam tiago were taken by the Spaniards or starved to death. A belated lot of am- | balances came here for the Red Cross | on the Port Victor but they were | packed at the very bottom of the ship load of goods and as the captain was ordered to take his whole cargo back to New York, the ambulances went with | the rest.
 Returning from San Luis in the early evening So ontioon 1onIya1 ,y1co
 ry and hopeless than even in contrast | to the open country.
 One of the worst needs of this dirty old town is water With daily deluge l of rain and the great bay glistening in 1 front, it is often another case of Iva I ter water everywhere and not drop to drink" The city has primitive sort of water-works system and most 1 of the houses are piped to receive it. l but for some unknown reason the SUD- | ply is so scanty that usually after 10 a. my no water runs atall till the next morning. Sometimes 1t remains cut off for rty-eight hours together, and then great Is the suffering, particularly among animals, for which no Cuban cares so long as his horse, OK or mule can be made towork Every house. | holder who is not rich enough to own | fountain in his patio, with reservoir at | tachment, must provide himself with barrels or similar receptacles to hold
 several days supply. The natural con- sequence of stagnant water in every 1 house is pest of mosquitoes, If not an | increase of nalarial poison. Gas is an- l other need of Santiago. The streets are l dinly illuminated-or rather their l darkness is rendered visible-by the pale glimmer of kerosene in lamps at | tached to the fronts of the houses
 which in these hard times are general 1 1y unlighted. The news of the day, as
 related to us over our late dinner in the l Nurses home is not enlivening. They l tell us that only ninety burial permits 1 were issued in the city, between the ris
 ing and setting of the sun; and that the
 one new cemetery lately laid out re-
 ceived to-day it's first tenants-fifteen | American soldiers. Another tid-bit of I information concernes our august
 neighbor, the archbishop of Santiago,
 whose palace adjoins our modest
 sasa He went to-day to the American authorities to inquire about the contin-
 uance of his salary, and incidentally to ! cOllGcL d LEW lHpuSdHuS OI bdCh pay, 1 due long before the surrender. Since
 time out of mind the bishops of Santi-
 ago have kept the wolf at bay on sti-
 pend of $1S,000 per annum It is our private opinion that at least one cipher
 will now be chopped off from the reve-
 rend gentleman's income.
 1 FANNIE BRIGHAM WARD. --------.-------------
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