Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-01-03

passos through some beautiful auhurbs
and skria the famous Fnledo Huer
plantation whose oid-tme spanish pro.
prictnr owned cnuntlcas SLAVES ANA
died tragic death alone amid INC
wealth Dr. had created. NarlHnna li't
On the hills and ia low stone villas give
the stranger correct idcH nf the bcft
country hnncs IN the trupica. Het"r"
the war families lived here whose
wealth might be- counted hy millions.
but most ~ them were Cuhnns, ana
by Wcylor's order their traidcnrta
were destroyed. Though s6'clOHc to the
capital Marianoa has had ~ long
chapter ~ brlgnndagc. 4 mnr 81 ged-
ticmanly frecbopotcrs resided hcrc--
who were wont to disappear from time
t. time and then buhbtd up rctcncly
and lived in luNurluuH idlcness. Now
IL IA said that the town ~ about 20 nave
a big American hotel 20 BE- built some
where IN the hills that overlook the
aea The New York capitalists VINO
wish 10 invest q milton and half In "a
cuban hotel sent their agent 70
aricct the site IN Havana AMI
he. after looking the rrpunh
over. decided that II was best TO locate
the hotel In Mnfinnoa. The snine Amer.
lean capitalists nre COINS O. construct
Inc electric railway from Havana to
the Ncdado. II w. three miles from the
village ~ Mnrinnon 90 the Playa, Or
beach. and u n hardly worth going out
az there ia little to see but fWniupa hnl
marrhcs The pier which the United
States has recently built NJ this point
in not an extensive piece of military on.
Einoefing u runs Few hundred feet
out into the bay. 10 within q stones
throw Of the old Confederate blockade
thinner whose bulk has lain here inirty-
four years Whom the Spanish troors
evacuated tho Playa. q few days ago.
they were Kind enough 20 send Norl
to tho Insurgents; and the latter took
procession Immediately Afterwards,
though their camp remained back IN
tho interior. Cen MonDtni. who come
mnnds the corps IN the provinces of
Iinbnna. Mnntnnzna. has taken the
yacht club Tor hln houduunrteri A big
mr. Ing. bearing tho lone star n cuba
iihrc. floats above the club. huuHs--i
change indeed from u Few months ago,
when to have been suspected of having
q cuban iihE. even locked away In ones
trunk would have been t. invite imprlH-
onmont or death. den. MrnnCal la for
~ years ~ ngc. u civil engineer By pro-
fefsiOn. who was educated IN the
United States and graduated from Corr
nell The American soldiers are chmpcd
NJ Ncnto. several milcs across the hills
and very glad 10 see thcm were the
people ~ Mariana, Some ~ the refu.
zoe citizens who had villas along tho
beach. ar" going 10 occupy them again
but until the swampr ARE drained. there
II too much malaria hcrcnboutH to
make II "a safe abiding place for North
crit people. Fort Mntabele which was
not quite finished when the war began.
and was afterwards occupied nH "a
Spanish garrison. has lately been burn
ed 10 the ground. FOR fear n It. yellow
fever germs. n commanded the en-
trnncc 10 the fiahlrF Village ~ l.HflayH,
but though uncomplctcd, had become
q topping ruin " rottinE wood and
crumhiinE stones, The old round tower
~ coral rock. from which Tor two hun
drcd years a sharp lockout was kept
for pirates and buccaneers, Htill ~
main. lonely relic NJ days that thank
/ Hcaycn'-wiil never return.
FANNIE BRIGHAM WARD.