Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-05-22
A UTAH ARMY
CHAPLAIN HOME.
Elias S. KlmbaIl Of the Second VOL
unteer Engineers Returns.
TALKS TO NEWS" OF CUBA.
4 wonderful island with soil Tbss
Produces reav crops . Year
Bis, ans . ss~suufsi usy.

Chaplain Elias p. I<imb,li 81 the
Second United ststss volunteer cnsi.
neer--colonei willard youns's reEi-
fncnt-arfivsi home this rnornins over
the lilo urnndc w.stcri. amer an alb
sence ~ something over ten months.
Mr. Klmbaii. when seen by a ''News''
man. was bubhllng over with patriotlc
feeling and talked Interestingly OF his
experience IN the army and the bcncht
he has derived therefrom.
u AN almost. but not quite. direct
from cuba" said he. Il have been via
lting among friends In the South for a
few weeks. Colonel Young. who In now
In New York. and myself left Havana
on the 18Th day of April and arrived at
Savannah on the 10Th. We got on there
and. like everyone else. were compelled
10 Eo through the process OF fumlHa-
tlon In accordance with the nirict rov-
eminent rules. which arr vigorously en-.
forced without respect 10 person. We
went 10 Datuskie Island, where we rc.
mhincd for i've days and then repaired
10 Augusta. where We were mustered
AZ SPANISH AZ CAN DE,
Havana IL a wonderful city In some
respects" continued Mr. kimbali. "and
from a distance the most beautiful city
! ever boheld. aud IL aH spanish ~
spanish can be. n has n population
Of something over 200 90 persons. and
~ soon az proper sewerage ana SAINT
tary measures are established WI BE-
ono ~ the very hcaithioHt cities ~ All
the world. II IL wrong idea 10 enter
tain that Il Il naturally unhonlthful
The very rovefrc IL true. II u not -
hot az the Southern States. The death
rate. since American occupation. has
been cut down from 900 10 ten per day.
OF course this decrease was largely
ton methods OF the spanish. liut q
Euodly portion must also b. attributed
% the Improved cleanliness.
a PRODUCTIVE SOIL
cuba has marvelouniy productive
soil. Come Of the ground We saw has
been titled continuously for four humid
rod years, and Yet with luiRation
produces four splendid crops per year.
Ia on November Is. They were then
putting In their tobacco. on Aprii 4;
when we left they were harvesting
their second crop from this same
planting. one sowing ~ sugar rane
II ample for fftecn To- twenty-five years
AL kinds ~ grain thriyes IN abundance.
except the smallest. oranges grown
IN cuba are among tho best nayorrd In
the world. The cultivation 81 the roil
u carried on by means N tho crlir-t
impleinenis-nH crude m thos. 81 EEypt
a thousand years ago.
" have nothing Ia say NJ % the mos
rnlity OF tho peopl,s-the les thai u
said the better. Their Il nothing 90
fear over the reports " cuban dissails.
faction. Uncle Fam h playing nrm
but generous part with the people, aud
sooner or later they viii see H. FER.
haps only twenty per cent % them
can rcad and write.
SPANS CRUELTY.
As TO tho report of spanish cruelty.
they have not been exaggerated 90 Tar
a. I am able 10 judge. Not lees than
eOoep men. women and children diei
IN thrce years ~ n fr~ilt ~ spanish
warfare. the worst In the world. II
was simply a war Of determination On
tho part Of the spaniard. and n war -
deynrtntion on the part ~ the euhans.
The latter arr nn ungratrfui lot They
do not seem 90 realize that had nnt
the United States stepped IN when thny
ala, most OF them would have been
dead now. They have bosn hunted
and bounded - long they appear ~
be suspicious Of everything and every.
body. We must educate them out ~
that way ~ thinking. The white Gu.
hans are slckly and puny n. cnmp,rsd
with those 81 darker skin. and Inc
latter viii predominaie and Dominate
~ tho Islands hereafter. Tho color
line, however. II not drawn and there
them"