The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-07-04
LATEST FAIR HAVEN NEWS
ENTERTAINING LETTER FROM HAIR

American Sailors Enjoy Smelling n City
 to See the spaniards Run Cuban Cry
 Is "Cuba LsDre, Viva Amerteanos"-
 Young Rose Was on Board When the
 Cienfuegos Cable Was out-Other
 News.
 Harvey Rose, son of MT. and Mrs. William H. Rose, has forwarded cou- pie of letters giving some account of his experiences on the Cuban blocNad- ing squadron. Young Rose Is a sea- man on board the United States cruiser Marblehead. In his letter, he says:
 Letters sent from the United States to us, go to Key West and remain un- til a ship is coming out to us and the same with our mails-we must wait until a ship is going to the United States. We are now off Guantanamo, Cuba. Probably you have read about | the fight we have had. I have seen some fighting. I was in the fight at Cienfuegos and in the bombardment of | Santiago de Cuba and only yesterday | our ship and the Texas went up the | river at Guantanamo and shelled the fort and city. Last week we landed | 600 American soldiers who were joined | by 200 Cubans. They had a hot time | on shore, Last Saturday and Sunday | night the Dagoes tried to drive them away, but found they were fighting | Americans. We are expecting 2,S00 more soldiers to-day, and when they | come we will take the town. These | soldiers will get in the rear of the city ] to cut off the retreat while we chase | them out with our five-inch guns. We mean to make this a coaling station. | We are now anchored in tbe harbor. Oh, it is fun to sail along the shores of Cuba and see Spanish soldiers and to | throw shell in their locality and see | them run. The Cuban cry Is Cuba l fibre; viva Americanos.' I cannot tell \ when I shall be home. It may be four or five months, but not until after the war"
 | In later letter he says: NO, thank | God I am not victim of that dread disease, the yellow fever, which the l Jackies call Yellow Jack. After arriv- ing at Key West went on board the | gallant ship Marblehead and sailed the same day for Cuba. We had a very hot time at Cienfuegos cutting the cable amid hot fire from the Spanish btu we are Americans; we cut the cable and drove the Spanish back. | Their loss was very heavy. Our loss l was two killed and seven wounded I of Cienfuegos and landed lot of ann intuition for the Cubans. Later we joined the fleet and ran afoul of the | Spanish gunboat Madeira, which we | sank in about five minutes. We met Schley's fleet the next morning and that night our ship spied the Spanish fleet in Santiago harbor and we report ed to the flagship. The fleet then lay here and blockaded the harbor until Admiral Sampson came and then our ship, the Iowa, Texas, New Orleans and Vixen bombarded the place. A | couple of days later our entire fleet | bombarded the place and made flour of it. A party of 800 was landed and the Stars and Stripes were hoisted, but we cannot take this or any other town | without soldiers to get behind the place to cut off their retreat while we bonn bard from the front. But there will be lot of soldiers to land at Santiago and | then we will take the place and you may hear about 1t before you receive this letter. Yesterday we picked up seven mines in the harbor and two the other day when we bombarded the beautiful city of Guantanamo. Span ish soldiers are deserting and giving themselves up one by one all the time. They came out under flag of truce and wanted to surrender, but they
 wanted to blow up the gunboat and burn the town, but Captain Bowman
 H. McCalla of the Marblehead would
 not accept such surrender. This is a
 very important place for a coaling station (Guantanamo) and headquar- ters of a cable to Washington"
 The great heat of yesterday had it's effect upon church attendance and the worshippers were in fewer numbers than usually Patriotic services were held in three churches Rev. Dr.. Mitchell at the Grand avenue Congre- gational church spoke in the morning on the subject Progress, Through
 Friendship and War" In the evening at 6o'clock the first in the series of ves-
 per services was held. The service was chosen with reference to Inde- pendence day and entitled God in the Nation."
 A patriotic praise service was held
 in the Grand avenue Baptist church
 last evening. The musical selections
 were mostly patriotic and well adapt
 ed for the approach of Independence
 day. A short address was given by
 Dr. Sage.
 Rev. R. F. McNicholl at the East
 Peaerl street M. E. church preached a | patriotic sermon in the evening.
 The regular business meeting of the
 Woman's Christian Temperance union
 will be held at Mrs. George Steven
 sons, No 20 Poplar street, tomorrow
 at 3 D. m.