New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-06-26
THE PASSING THRONG.

| After having served five months IN CUBA, curing
which time he took occasion to investigate the con-
dltion OF the rural districts OF the island, General
]. Warren Keller IS convinced OF
| HORRORS OF the truth OF the statement that six
WEYLER's hundred thousand Cubans were
RULE starved 10 death by General Wey-
ler's recommendation plan. General
Keller Is here from his home in Springfield Ohio
on legal business. At the Fifth Avenue Hotel yes
erday he told Tribune reporter about some OF the
things he saw In Cuba which bear out the horrible
stories OF Spanish cruelty that have appeared In the
newspapers from time to time.
Among other things" said the General 81 saw
a rough coffin. attached TO an ordinary push cart
which. informed. had been used to haul 10
the dumping grounds the bodies OF five thousand
recOncentrados. At Gulnes, q small town south
east OF Havana, a cemetery was shown to me
where 1850 bodies are buried. Within an hours
journey OF the city OF Havana have travelled for
ten miles without seeing a living soul, and this in
a section that well populated. Three
miles from the town of Guines are the Providencia
sugar mills. a large concern owned by two broth
ers-Spaniards.
one day last February rode out to the mills
The proprletors and a small force OF workmen were
up Operators after the long season OF idieness
veritabe village Of crude little huts surrounds The
a view to finding out what had become Of their
occupants, entered into conversation with one OF
81 suppose you have no trouble In getting work
men on yes said al ,an a. saf bs the greatest DIFF
nculty we have to contend with
" But what has become of the occupants of all
He looked a me SHARPLY for moment S and then
on another occasion IN COMPANY with my chief adff
a visit TO reconcentrado hospital In Guines We
weeks S%H mostly mostly women and children who had sur
vlved their barbarous treatment
been far r be here for nf them Il they had died did
not know before that starvation was capable Of dis
we're ' children with one leg swollen to twice its
M tural size and the other shrunken to skin and
that it seemed impossible that life could ind
footh9ld IN them lay about the hoor we we, n ,hd
eagerness with which they devoured II was ptiful
many dreadful sights. but never anything ihqi
moved me as did that reconcentrado hospital IL Is
awake m night aSt tag OF the
who died were rural people and as consequence
the great fertile valleys OF Cuba have been almost
depopuated"
Colonel William II. Stevenson. OF Bridgeport.
Conn. the well-known railroad man. is staying at
the Holland House. Colonel Stevenson said yester-
day that the three-rall electric
STEVENSON trains now being on the New
BELIEVES Canaan branch OF the New-York.
IN STEAM New Haven and Hartford Rail-
road and also from Berlin to New
Britain had proved to his mind that electricity
is capable of doing the work OF steam.
a
use through the tunnel from the Grand Central
Station TO Harlem" said the colonel They would
do away with the smoke problem, but con-
WINGED that for general railroad work they Will
never pull a train OF ten cars over the mountains
OF Pennsylvania Compressed air won't do 1t. II
takes steam engine with man 10 feed II on
coal and water. Steam Will never be supplsnted
by electricity a motive power"
Colonel Stevenson announces that he Is already
In the field for the Republican nomination for Gov
ernor in his State. III live until year from next
I Governor Connecticut.
Bicycles are only In their infancy. according 10
II. A. Lozier the weknown bicycle manufacturer
Mr. Lozier Is in the city TO attend conference
OF bicycle manufacturers. looking
BICYCLES toward the formation OF a bicycle
POPULARITY trust or. Mr. Lozer prefers to
GROWING call &C. combination Of bicycle
interests" lie said last night at
the Waldorf Astoria that all the leading manu-
facturers in the country-about forty In number
were included in the combination He thinks that
the deal will be consummated in the early part OF
this week. and says that \. @; Spaiding. OF mi
cage. will be elected president OF the new company
he we will double our capacity tn three years,
the world For several years the export of bicycles
has been greater than that or all KINDS OF agr-
ginning As proof that the popularity OF the
bicycle on the decline, last year my business
waT args r f fS9 This year have sold 5000
wheels more than did last year. That does not
IS
bicycle. does IT,
MIR i.ozier declared that instead OF cutting down
his force OF workmen as a result OF the conDlna-
tion no will increase IL. He said that the streetcar
riots in Cleveland had doomed" the bicycle bust
ness wonderfully Even when the cars ran" he
said people Gfraid 70 ride IN them. and every
one that could bought bicycle
Willard A. Cobb. OF Lockport. president OF the
State Civil Service Commission. Is In the city TO at
tend a meeting OF the Commission
HOOLEY'S this morning. When seen last even
WELCOME ing at the Hotel Manhattan. Mr.
TO CHURCH Cobb said that he was thoroughly
in accord with the new Civil Service
law He pronounced It "the best law OF the kind
that has ever been made" Mr. Cobb is responsible
FOR the following story about Earnest Terah
Uooley the notorious English promoter:
Mr. Hooley had Just returned from INDIA SAID
{ Mr. Cobb land was the lion OF the hour in London
I In the flush Of his exuberance he presented a
I golden communion set 10 ST. Pauls Cathedral. The
next Sunday morning he attended the services az
The cathedral II happened that at the time OF
Mr. Hooev's entrance d certain part OF the service
had been reached whore the congregation, ar0sr
Mr. Hooley marched up 70 the front seat LOOKING
well pleased with himself and the world In general
A. the close OF the service one OF Hooeys frlends
STAMPED him on the back and said
"'Wen Hooley. old man. you're Dig gun IN
Yon bet yer lie Oi am said Hooley. Did yez
see the people all git up whn OF came IN ana dld
veg hear the choir sing "Hooley, Hooiey' hOoeE'
Lord God Almighty
ORTTT-ARY.