The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-04-20

cestfal casa some what down at the neei
 Tn these nefasti diar of Cuban fortunes
 is willing to lavish paint and gliding ga-
 lore for liberal monthly consideration,
 but cannot be made to comprehend the
 necessity of improved plumbing, He
 merely shrugs his aristocratic shoulders
 and gibbers in mingled French
 and Spanish concerning the unrea-
 condolences of the Americans i'll
 demanding changes which his pro
 genitors never thought of. Finally,
 when the government inspector con-
 demned the beautiful place as unfit Tor human abode, my lord gave in un- gracefully and hired some native work
 men to temporarily remedy the evil,
 according to their lights, by the aid of bricks and plaster-paris. The inspec-
 tor says it will remain in tolerable con-
 dition for about year, and then the
 plaster-paris will give way and the poisonous gases again invade the casa.
 You say, why not give up this house al
 together and seek another? For the
 simple reason, dear sir, or madame
 that none better and few so good, can
 be had for love or money in Cuba,
 Speaking of Red Cross work now go-
 
 not yet arrived, being occupied at the
 Washington end of the line, but her
 clear brain and unerring wisdom di-
 rects all movements, through her staff
 in the field, aided by the cable and pos
 tai facilities which President McKin-
 ley has placed at her disposal. pr. Ju-
 Han Hubbel, general field agent is
 here with the Rev. Alexander Kent, pastor of the Peoples church in Wash
 ington, as general director; his son,
 MT. William Kent, as clerk and steno-
 grapher MT. Cottrell who has been Miss Barton's financial secretary for many years. Mrs. Allen K. Capron, widow of the gallant young Rough Rid CT captain who was killed, with Hamil- | ton Fish, in the first skirmish before Santiago; Miss Elsa Trotzig, of Swe- den; Miss Adams of Boston and Miss Betts of Albany, professional nurses; and your correspondent, whose unde- fined duties are wha tever her hands find to do. With the above-named par ty from the American National Red Cross came two representatives of the Associate Society of the Pennsylvania Red Cross-Mr. Joseph Steinmetz, late lieutenant U. $, V. Engineers, and MT Guy King, architect, both of the Quaker City. They were sent by the Associate Society No. 1. of Philadel- phia, for the express purpose of estab- fishing Home for Children" in Cuba, to be controlled and sustained entirely by Pennsylvania. They are delegated with power to rent, purchase or build a suitable house, with hospital and dis pensary attachments, to be named and known as a charitable enterprise of the Key Stone State, in full accord with, but distinctly separate from the Ma
 tional Red Cross society. It is believ ed that liberal response will be made by Pennsylvanians in all parts of the state, and that the philadelphia home' will be well endowed and sustained. The need of many such institutions in Cuba is very great indeed. With some other members of the Red Cross, ac- companied Messrs. King and Stein- metz to Mariana, Matanzas and other points, on their tour of investigation; and everywhere we found hundreds of homeless children whose natural protectors had been sacrificed to the cruel war. At present the United States army is distributing ratiGns to large numbers ot people-for the cost of which Uncle Sam is to reimburse him. self from the Cuban custom house re- ceipts. But the greater need Is for homes for the poor little waifs, wherein the girls especially may have care and protection, moral and physical and be- come fitted for respectable lives. Such home has lately been established by the National Red Cross in Guines some thirty miles from Havana. in the finest agricultural district of Cuba, which is now exporting large quantities of new potatoes tomatoes and other vegetables to the United States, as Florida did in her golden day before the frosts, Under the personal supervision of Dr. Hub bell, assisted by Miss Trotzig, Miss 1 Adams and Miss Betts, this Guines or phanage is doing finely.
 We have also a large and beautiful | hospital, for Americans and Cubans, | in the Palatino suburb, reached from ! Havana by horse car. It has a hundred | beds, cool marble-floored rooms, and | extensive grounds, and is fully equip | ped for business when the s,clly sea | son begins with the annual rains. This | hospital is sustained by the American | National Red Cross, with nurses from | the United States and the medical | force is controlled by the Cuban physi clan, Dr. Juan Solloso, who rendered | such excellent service in Santiago. In Cardenas are two or three hundred or phan children, entirely destitute, whom | the good ladies from the city have col lected in an abandoned hospital and are feeding from their own limited stores- for everybody in Cardenas is poor since the war; and tomorrow I am going there---a long days journey by railway to learn how we may best assist them. Sad reports of sickness and star vation come also from Sagua la Grande Puerto Principe, Esperitu Santo, and many other places, showing that all we have so far accomplished is but as a drop in an ocean of WretchednesS. Truly, in this sorrowful land the har- vest is ripe but the laborers are few.
 Another conspicuous evidence of Americanization--if one may coin a worlds found in the fact that all in- telligent Cubans, young and old, male and female, are busily studying the English language. Everywhere you go--in the houses, offices, shops, mark cts street cars--all with whom you have occasion to converse or do business and essay to address in your choicest Orlendorf Castilian, reply