The Republican journal., 1899-08-17


Write to the doctor. That's the next thing
/ The wonan's doctor, is Or. R V. Pierce
of the Invalids' Hotel Buffalo n Y.
almost land locked, but so shallow that
vessels drawing only ten feet of water are
liable to run aground with the least devi-
alton from the tortuous channel. All
vessels must be loaded by means of light
ers and put to sea as quickly as possible,
to avoid sticking fast on the sandy bottom.
The landing place at Casilda is lined with
wharves and warehouses, for in prosper
Gus days great deal of sugar and honey
was exported from the place. There is
also handsome depot for the railway
which runs north % miles or so, connect
ing several villages and bringing the prod
ucts of neighborng plantations down
for shipment Less than mile to the
westward Guarabo river empties into the
sea, navigable for small boats consider
able distance inland. Masio Bay, fouT
miles east of Casilda, really ought to be
the port of Trinidad, being deep enough
to accommodate vessels of largest ton
mage.
As the cars do not run regularly on the
little narrow gauge road, but only when
there are full loads of freight to be car
red, you will do we'll to avoid a tedious
time OF waiting in the tiea-infested port
by taking a volante to Trinidad-though
| tho ch.lrUa for f1,a latra,, * ~ IN and tho
cars will take you for twenty cents. Trim
idad is only three miles inland, -or rather
upland, and the drive thereto, along the
green slopes of Lookout Mountain, is de-
lishtful The city OF the Holy Trinity is
one of the oldest in Cuba, founded less
| than a year after Santiago, and within
/ twenty years of Santo Domingo, the first
on the Western Hemisphere. Centuries
i ago the now almost forgotten place had
its stirring and romantic history. Column
/ bus sailed into its bay and named the
three peaks Of the overshadowing noun
tain ''El Trinidad" Diego de Velazquez
founded the town, I'm 1515); Don Louis
| Bassecourt achieved here his famous vic
| tory over three British men of war, after
three days of hard lighting; and the
| English corsair, Grant, drove out all
other pirates, in the year 1902. For two
hundred years the locality suffered con-
! tinually from piratical attacks, and count
less bloody traditions are connected with
the Vale of the Holy Trinity. Indeed, it
| is said that the richest citizens of the
place are descendants of the old sea
robbers and cut-throats, who turned re-
spectacle when piracy went out of fashion.
With their ill-gotton gains they bought
lands and built manor houses, gave large
sums to the Priests for dissolution, and
became pillars of Church and State.
One who does not mind hard climbing
finds Trinidad the most charming of cities,
with its antique casas and pal -shad
ed gardens, its rambling, uphill streets
and the glorious views over the valley of
golden cane on one hand, and the Carib-
bean, dotted with palm fringed islands, on
the other. The population is now about
Is, 600, though time was when it counted
twice that number. Swept by both noun
tain and ocean breezes, with neither ex-
cessive heat nor cold from year to year,
the climate is as near perfection as one
can hope to find on this mundane sphere.
Though sanitary measures of any kind
are unknown in Trinidad, it is by all odds
the healthiest town in Cuba, being so stu
ated that the harder the rains, the cleaner
it becomes. Yellow Jack has never vet
climbed La Villa, and the highest death
rate is officially stated at II in 1000. The
streets of Trinidad are as narrow as the
narrowest in Spanish America, but ex-
tremely picturesq lie, with their low wall
ed, rough tiled houses, AMI high-s sound
ing titles over the doors. Like those of
| Habana, some of them have awnings
stretched across from side to side, afford
ing complete protection from sun and rain.
In the aristocractic quarter the casas are
mostly of stone, and some of them are
very imposing, with arched entrances and
much bestuccoed facades. INTENTIONALLY,
they differ from those of Habana by hav-
ing no dividing walls between the room S
only the kitchen and sleeping apart
ments being partially patitioned. The
rest are a series of open arches, vast,
high ceilinged expenses, affording free
circulation of air and magnificent pros
pective of marble floors. rich frescoes,
mirrored panels and tasteful furnishings.
There are two or three third class hotels
in the town and more than bakers doz-
en- mesones. 1t is to be hoped that you
will not be left to the tender mercies of
any of them, having brought letters of in
PRODUCTION. The citizens are proverbially
hospitable, and to them the visit of for
eigner, fresh from the other world, is a