The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-06-04

Of that number. the rest having dleu OF
hunger: and of the pitifui remnant. 700 are
said 10 be actually starving. There Is
hospital civil-entirely without funds or sup
plies. Five thousand rations are needed at
once together with quantity Of such SIM
pie medicines as quinine. pills Of opium AND
camphor and compound iron. Should these
arrive and be distributed tomorrow, next
week the town will be no better or than
to-day. To help the San Antonians little
will only prolong their misery. unless we
keep Il up for months TO come and mean
while supply the men with work. so that In
time they may become self-supporting- AT
present there IS 10 work. and the munich
paIity can do absolutely nothing for Its
poor. Inquire about the revenues OF hum
dreds of these villages, and the invariahle
answer is: I'VE have no revenues Taxes
have always been collected by the Banco
EspanoI. and we have never had any hand
or voice in the matter. except to pay the
taxes or lose our all" The Spanish Bank
had agents who religiously collected the
taxes whatever the necessities OF the peo-
pIe; but 1t put no money into circulation
The Spanish bodegeros. or storekeepers-
like master like man-loaned money at is to
. per cent: and some Of them are now
in possession Of many cabalIerias of land "a
cabaIIeria is thirty-three and third acres),
on which they never advanced dollar.
They supplied families with tasajo-
1erked beef-and other necessaries, through
the dark days of OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
10 keep the souls and bodies of their vic
tins together, at enormous prices. The re-
suit is that the families mostly survived by
the skin of the teeth so to say. but are
left homeless and without resource. Could
a former land owner rent the farm that
was once his, he would need yoke of oxen
and implements with which to till it-not to
mention seeds, a COW. some poultry. etc,
and a little money with which 10 build
shack for his family in place of the house
which the Spaniards burned. Even now,
pad as the situation is, If each municipality
were granted its right to local revenues
and such revenues applied to the necessities
OF the people. there might be a CLEAN of
light ahead.
FORMIDABLE GREETING
At the edge of San Antonio we boarded
queer little square box of car and were
drawn by three mules tandem over an ex-
ceedingly narrow-gauge track TO the near
est railway station. The route lay over a
wild, rough country of straw-thatched huts
and stately palms. but few signs OF cultiva-
tion. Here and there little tobacco is
growing and an occasional patch of bonia-
tar, but for the most part the sweet, warm
breeze stirs only coarse grass growing in
punches. and tomiguinas and meadow larks
pipe in the sunshine above land of desc
lation. One stirring event befeIl us. Gen.
era1 Celestino Hernandez, alcalde of the
adjacent village of San Jose. and the great
man Of the vicinage. had been waiting two
days with his troop of cavalry to give Miss
Barton what is known as 1.-The Cuban well
come" AS our little bumped along the
open country suddenly thousand mounted
soldiers appeared. charging down upon
with wild shouts and waving machetes For
instant 1t recalled the days of war and
thrilled the stoutest heart with terror. COM
ing nearer. the cavalry separated into two
long lines, surrounding our car, and with
dotted hats and presented arms stood like
statues while General Hernandez and Miss
Barton exchanged the usual courtesies.
Then the welkin rang with the Cuban
''Hymno Nacional." sung by thousand
men. followed by THE Star-spangled Ban
ner" from our little band, as. escorted by
the regiment, we proceeded TO the station
AS before mentioned, DR.. HubbelI COM
pleted his work in Guines fortnight ago
therefore our later visit was merely of in
spection- As everywhere. the town turned
Barton to her temporary abode with all the
honors accorded to Gomez or any other con-
quering hero Before the war Guines had
population of 10000. now less than half that
number. The most interesting orphanage 1
have seen is here. founded by DR.. Jaime
Gorriga. bachelor of means whose father
and grandfather were also physicians in the
place. Having been too prominently ideu-
titled with the cause of Cuba libre DR.
Jaime Gorriga retired to the United States
shortly before the blockade TO escape i'm
prisonment. Returning TO his native city
a few months ago, he found a great many
destitute children in the streets and among
the wretched reconcentrados were some of
the sons and daughters of his former we'll
TODD neighbors. So troubled was his gem
erous heart at the sight that sleep deserted
his pillow. and. having no family of his
own, he determined to adopt them all.
BACHELORS CHARITY.
Securing house. he gathered into IL a
hundred homeless waits and devoted the
remnant Of his fortune to sustaining them.
Some were too reduced by starvation to be
recuperated. and soon the number was re-
duced TO seventy odd He also established a.
hospital for sick women and started 1t
with eighty patients. In the last-named in
government in the way Of rations, but not
nearly enough to feed them all. So the good
man struggled on alone as best he could.
but very much IN need Of women's care,
especially for the children. The ancient
buildings he had taken remained uncleaned.
the children unwashed and unclothed, with
out the energetic treatment their itch, lice
and sores demanded and eating from tin
dishes with their fingers, having neither
knives. forks nor spoons. But they were
infinitely better off than before having at
least food, shelter and protection At this
1uncture DR.. HubbeI arrived with his IA
vorite assistants-Misses Trotzig, Adams and
Belts First the sick were taken in hand
The civil hospital founded seventy years
ago, and during the war used by the Span
ash army, was In such a dreadful state that
the old pesthouse was preferred for tenn
porary refuge while the commodious civil
hospital was being overhauled General
Brooke was appealed TO and responded lib
orally with spray pumps for disinfecting ard
TWO hundred army cots left by mustered-out
soldiers-enough for both hospital and or
ph2nage. When the sick were finally n,oxsad