The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-11-25
CELEBRATION
AT SANTIAGO.
Thanksgiving Observed in the
Cuban City Yesterday.
SHIPS DISPLAYED BUNTING.
Officers Of the Army and Navy Entertained
Their Friends at Dinner.
ONLY A FEW TURKEYS FOR FEASTS.
Soldiers Hope They VIII Have Enough For Christ
mas---Cuban Papers Make Practically No
Reference 10 observance Of The HOLIDAY.

| since the American occupation. All the
ships in the harbor were decorated with
! bunting and the officers entertained
| their friends at dinner. The day was
practically yunobseryedb by the Cubans. ex-
| ccpt those employed in the government
Offices. A football game, which had
| been arranged between teams from the
! Fifth regulars and Fifth volunteers was
| postponed until Christmas day, the
! weather being too warm for such sport.
| Several officers stationed at Guantana-
| mo and Manzanillo, who had secured
leaves OF absence. spent the day with
| frienGs here. All the regiments ceie-
| brated as we'll as possible under the cir
cumstances. Turkeys were few. but
hopes are entertained by the Americans
| that their fiieLds IN the north will ship
turkeys ~ them in time for their Christ
| mas dinner.
The Cuban papers make practically
no allusion To the day. apparently con-
siderinC that they have not much TO be
| thankful for.
FL Porvenir prints 2-column article
| with reference to the intention of
colored preacher Of Topeka to bring 30
| families OF negroes and establish town
| in the highlands above Santiago. which
shall be known as Topeka. FL Porvenir
! demands that the people boycott the
Yankee negroes. asserting that they are
frequently guilty II horrible crimes. and
| that the southern states, anxious to be
| rid of their colored population. will en-
deavor 10 send them 10 Cuba. 1t al
| ludes TO the San Luis episode. claiming
oil
aud that they will ruin the country. as
| they are ahle 10 live or practically moth
ing. The paper maintains that the Gu
| bans have n right TO regulate immigra
| tion into the island that they object to
the negroes and they will not have them.
The entire details of the evacuation
| OF the province of Pinar del Rio have
| been arranged.
The transport Montevideo sails on
| Noy. %, with 2245 troops; the Covadonge
| on Nov 2s. with 2370; the Gran Antilla
on Nov. 30. with 1854; and the Maria
|. Cristina on Nov. 30. with 1903; Juan For
| gas on Dec. 8. with 1850; San Ignacio on
| Dec 8, with 204O, making total Of TO-
| 677 troops leaving Pinar del Rio by way
! OF Havana by Dec g.
| The remains of Columbus will prob
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| sci on which Admiral Monterola, the
| Spanish naval commander here, returns
! to Spain
The United States transport Florida
| is expected here at daybreak tomorrow.
! She will come close 10 MORO castle, will
] he slgnalled and Will then proceed TO
! Marianao, without entering Havana
| harbor.
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Mariana and land her men and stores OH
lighters. which will take them ashore
| over the new wharf. General Greene's
| staff will ride out from the Inglaterra
| hotel. where they are stopping, at
o'clock in the morning, on horseback, tc
receive the party and superintend the
! landing.
The Herrera line OF steamers. running
| between ports on the north coast OF
| Cuba, will chErge from Spanish to Brit
| ish register
| Today's issues Of the Havana news
! papers announce the resignation Of Cap
tain General Blanco as published IN
| the Madrid Gazette. and insist upon the
| truth OF the reports In circulation that
| General Blanco will leave Havana i'm a
| few q ys probably sailing on the steam
| er Villaverdc.
The members OF the colonial cabinet
yesterday rendered their designations TO
| General Blanco. who accepted them, but
requested the secretaries to continue
the exercise OF their functions until his
successor shall have taken possession.
| General Blanco has announced his in
| tention OF leaving on Saturday or Mon
| day next by the steamer Villaverde.
Colonel Hecker and Captain Crawford
have returned from a trip through
| Guines. Cienfuegos. Caibarlen, Sagua.
| Cardenas and Matanzas. undertaken
with a view to making arrangements for
the transportation Of men. supplies and
| government stores. Colonel Hecker APP
| pears to be much pleased with the sue
cess Of the trip. Captain Crawford says
| the squalor of the villages or the interior
| is inconcelvable. and that with the ex-
ception OF the principal seaport towns.
| the entire island Is in a state OF collapse.
! He Gays there are apparent no evidences
OF resumption Of work I'm the fields, which
seem to be utterly abandoned.
ON Monday next bids will be opened
for the construction Of a railroad from
Casa Blanca 90 the junction or the
unked railroads at Cambuto.
Majors Amy and Butler and Captain
| Hart returned from the Isle OF Pines yes
terday. They are enchanted with the
location and conditions OF the island as
| camp and ssnitarium for the American
troops The commissioners were Pc
ceived AT Nueva Corona with extreme
courtesy by the Spanish officials there.
The members OF the commission recon-
mended Nueva Corona as the ideal site
OF the Isle of Pines.
Aiessrs. Gould Garrison and Consnt
the legal advisers 20 the American COM
mission. will probably return north
about tho first of December. their COM