The Republican journal., 1899-07-13
CIENFUEGOS.


asst cuba. founded during the pres
,..rl is much more Americanlzed
Y .r ether on the island 1t was
h, The sugar trade and includes
uluber of American and English
,.. merchants and shippers. | think
70, -bs wear 1878 that its name was
..4- not. as is generally stated, be-
columbus remark when he sailed
..t snd saw many Indian fires along
MIRA Cienfuegos' (Look! hun
--s,, but in honor of Senior Don
i4a,uegos, Spanish hidalgo who
o he Governor General of Cuba.
.H the narrow, crooked, i'll paved
Lat distinguish its three cen
.-.0d old neighbors, : Habana,
d.. ~lutiago and Trinidad, Glen
. -...cts are broad, level and well
ont at right angles with the
If. Jf 4 checker board and illumi-
-as and electricity. To tell
The very newness of the town,
painted, two story houses and
ate modern improvements, "
.N.U disappointing to the travel
Y.> that he did not come SO far
.ola he has everywhere at home,
lls himself defrauded of the
..... ..lesQueness. of Nueva Espana,
...e tj right to expect. Bright,
aggressive, with its population
utd ut IL, 900, the seward out
.. .4e Guest sugar producing province
md the terminus Of the most i'm
-4 way line-it is by all odds the
,.a..>s town in southern Cuba, and
.u bound to attract the greatest
Americans. Its harbor-a
-t nsl behind the sheltering cay of
e-ras, Gnnumerable wooded islets,
r- 3long the south coast, which
bus named 1.-The Queen Gar
he safest, deepest and clean
.u.+t Ae largest that indents Cuba. 1t
Tie lew ports in Spanish
NIT vessels of largest tonnage to
vi. All. -0 a wharf and land passengers
ul- plank as in New York, with
M II the troublesome but omni-
s. small boats. All the steamship
M ply the Caribbean Sea and Span
N lake this a frequent port of call,
wonder is why Spain left it SO
ely undefended, while ports Of
sequence and more difficult of
., Lave their Moros and long lines of
-r 1reGs. | suppose the reason was
ush days were oveTin the mother
vtoIe CieDfuegos was born, and
.-.. Of cash, she adopted her usual
l0-u ~ of thinking about securing
.. door after the steed had been
aa the leading local newspa-
~9 that before the war the annual
lgaI from Cienfuegos was 60O,-
leads, and that of tobacco was
md Some Of the richest plan
The islands lie a little way back
and connected with it by rail
ui what it will become in the
lre, under American fostering
Judant capital to develop the
able resources of the surround
-N, ii requires neither prophet
-e- -7f prophet to foretell. The
cradle rivers that empty into
iay-the Cauudo, Saludo and
Hach navigable some distance in
ni great consequence in d land
tc If good roads. Bride paths
To-. directions, toward Santiago
ast, Trinidad on the west and
al on the north, connecting with
fei-iufested trails of the central
a>. 1t is a matter of history, too
lated to need repetition here,
time out of mind banditti have
SO rails useless for any business
bat their own. Even since the
American occupation, travellers
eaptured by Knights of the Road
rol ransom, and a few years ago
Common an occurrence as hardly
omment. Terrible tales are told
-to inflicted by the robbers upon
N4 friends failed to pay promptly
demanded. Perhaps a finger,
9l an ear of the captive would ar
" ,peeial post, as gentle hint to his
''> Of what might be expected to
tNt4 next unless the money was quick
looming; followed by other por-
VIZ The victim, until it was known
l5 donbt that there was not enough
i lin to be worth paying for. The
athentcated case OF this sort was
'' Yi senior Manuel de Alvarez, mer-
aa # Villa Clara who started for Glen
s-s With a small escort, presumably to
474ds. Not one of the party lived to
'' lIs destination. Most of the escort
allied in the first brush with the rob-
'' 'ha the others deliberately murder
'eag poor men, from whose relatives
.H1som could be obtained, as even
''' gentry recognize the truth of the
saying that blood cannot be squeezed
.N tufnip. After few days Senior AL
family received a written demand
'enty thousand pesas, embellished