The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-10-28
PHILADELPHIA OF CUBA.
The Strange Adventures of Nnreiso
Lopez-A BLOODY Tale of Base Ingrat-
itude and Retributton.
Especial Correspondence of the Journal
and Courier

Especial Correspondence of the Journa
and Courier,l
Cardenas, Cuba Sept. 20.-At first
sight this newest Cuban city impresses
you as extremely understanding of its
exceptional attractions to Americans
who have dubbed it 1.-The Philadelphia
OF the island. Lying due south from
the ports of southern Florida, at the
head OF safe and spacious bay, it pos
sesses certain commercial advantages
far beyond those of Matanzas, fifty
miles to the westward, or even of Ha-
vana, one hundred and thirty miles
nearer sunset. Besides being more cas-
lily accessible to ships from the north,
1t is less unsalubrious than it's older,
dirtier and fever-haunted neighbors,
and its harbor is deep enough for yes
sells to come up to the Wharves without
the delay and expense of lighterage-a
very rare advantage indeed in Cuba.
Cardenas was founded as late as 1880;
ana beyond it, going eastward, nearly
all the Industries of the island are sud
denly shifted to the south coast-to
that Otehr new port, Cienfuegos, which
Americans are now calling the Chicago
of Cuba. There is no doubt that Carde-
mas is bound to become one of the
largest and most important cities of
the Antilles, though it's present popua-
ton is trtifle less than thirty thou
sand 1t is already thhe great railway
center of Cuba-or more correctly
speaking, it ougt to be- as all the prin
cipal railways of the island form
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station without a village ten miles in
land. Before the war Cardenas ex-
ported sugar and molasses to the
amount of one hundred thousand tons
a year, when trade touched high-water
mark 1t is the outlet of the most fer
tile section of this most fertile island of
the world. To thte west and south
stretch the great sugar mills and re-
fineries, the building and equipping of
which cost many millions of dollars.
Nearly every one of thtem was burned
to the groundby the rag-tag negro
patriots" but the melancholy ruins
are now rapidly disappearing and new
structures are taking their places. The
whole water front of Cardenas is faced
with long wharves and lined with
warehouses, and it's handsome railway
depot would do Credit to it's American
namesake. There are a number of pre-
tentious public buildings, such as the
custom house and city hall, the great
hospital and two colleges. The cobe
paved streets are considerably wider
than rhose of Havana, and have two
lines of horse cars. There is botht gas
and electric lighting, and more two
stored casas than older Spanish Amer
lean cities can boast Among the citi-
zens are few wealthy families, most
ly of the old Spanish regime, who, af-
ter the manner of their kind, form a So
cial clique of proud exclusiveness into
whose charmed circle no foreigner can
ever hope to come. No doubt some of
these broken-down grandees actually
know the pangs of hunger, but wild
horses could not draw the admission
from them, nor slow death by starva-
ton induce them to accept the rations
distributed by American charity. The
wonder is that the United States did
not take Cuba through Cardenas, in
stead of remote, well garrisoned San
tiago. No Notifications of any sort
have ever been erected to protect this
city from invasion by the sea. There
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