The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1899-05-11
uopO AND CABANAS.

..,.a. correspondence of The Journal
.,1 HABANA, April %, 1899.
lew weeks ago one might as
.b, have aspired 10 make walk
,t gle moon as visit with note
o- camera to the interior of Moro
.sra,. Even under the new Ameri-
strle If was equally impossible in
and now nobody is admitted
,.- special pass, countersigned by
commanding officer.
sunday it was my good fortune to
....5 party which spent the day ex-
-asse two oldest of Spain's fortiti
Ia aba. First came the long
ta.ty minutes from our subur-
aae to the other side of the
.- neral Ludlow head quar-
Eauoos late "Palacio," and
american post office swarmed
54er c0Untrymen Past the
nd. olthedral," where the great
Juger sleeps, from which
fe 1dy were rolling like pillows
>..e Past thousands of good
. .. m0>tly women, strolling leis-
4s, mendicants making stock
their sores and infirmities
ankee sentinels patrolling
...- lOarS where Spain's lifted boy
..= 4uly marched to and fro.
ues of gaily caparisoned dom
al 10 tail, with red, blue and
.,. .-s. Mt their ears, and harness
- atu brass; trains of heavily
..a carts, each poor patient
... chain passed through his
head bowed to the dust by a
8,od upon his horns. Past
men stunning upon guitars
comes, or sitting idly in open
vueatly without a care in the
q e. dirty children played around
.l.-.i IS the minute they We're born :;
... lie quaint and varied street life
4 Town, which to American eyes
Oddly foreign as the remotest
E-rope.
# unclothed children reminds
-- gier promulgated not long ago
L.,
..uI 5 horse cars and omnlbusses.
... Ii vehicles charge the same
are, the buginfested busses
TO be considered "second-
lse most generally patronized
Ht rest who can afford to ride;
IL >e somewhat higher in the social
.4s Tne themselves to the cars. The
r..r So mentioned drew the lines of
g.. more closely by forbidding
s ten and men without shirts to
-, r-- rS, but not declaring them
4sses. Therefore it is a com
lob see a man, clad only in cot
-, hat and shoes. or a child
-- rei ia Il necklace, perched aloft
.1ug coach, which holds twelve
Wiling. Everywhere in Cuba
dren up to five OF SIX years
t-. sars naked in the streets, often
PARENTS for promenade; and
districts they perambulate in
HtlaTe to a considerably later
lotieeable that the children of
@- Jmilies sometimes wear socks
but nothing else. American
ller the new school system find
trouble with this question of
Ming home all whose "human
.r IS not at least partially GOV
.e surprise and Indignation of
eats. Remembering how poor
0 the North 90 bare footed in
4#i-time, even to school, the
@.'- HaVe gently suggested to the
trer be put into shirts and trous-
far without avail, the shoes
dered necessary, the shirts
of the water edge quarter of
III the cathedral door and with
loss of the new post office
t one of chicken coop boats
-atly ply the bay. They are all
'r antique pattern, brought from
spain in some previous century
los Teales cade uno-tWenty
raD1 person) the scarlet capped
latman agreed TO row lis across
ening stretch of water to the
atarest the city. Moro castl e,
artner point, was intended only
" sislst, while the larger and nearer
''-FIA- eryed also as a prison for politi-
LENDERS. The former antidates the
more than half a century, but
tA newer, because its walls of
+5 .oquina-the coral rock that I'M
''TN -e Stands to-day as fresh
and the American authorities
't sompleted its renovation, out
' and n with lavish use of lime and
'"Asa- Cabanas-its painted walls
Nr-tked and notified with mold and
'.-sttns-is yet comparatively I'M
and happily for curiosity hunt
.a'Jlpr health, all its older horrors
'a '5'ut as the Spaniards left them.
A'st5e oattlements, with their faded
l' fellow, tower straight up from a