The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-04-13

and taken to what IS known as the bone
yard. The well-to-dos are taken to and
inferred in granite tombs and are put;
as the poor are-one above the other, SIN:
deep. a yearly tax Is cxacted from these
and in default Of payment for certain
time these bones are taken from such
tornbs and likewise carried to the bones
yard.
The most attractive feature Of the Colon
Cemetery is magnificent monument OF
exquisite design and faultless execution,
erected to the memory OF some firemen II
Havana. It seems that many years ago
there were two competing fire companies
that there was great rivalry DetWeeA
them and that it was SO arranged that
should a fire occur at q given time IN a
place, which was said to have onil so much
powder in it, q small quantity: but there
was also dynamite stored there, and that
by some means some fremen unWitttngly
got too near this building and were killed.
The monument to them is sur1nounted by
an angel, with outstretched wings, LOOKING
upward. with fremen in its arms g ana
ready TO bear its burden a1oft to the skies,
1t is, Of courst. the feature Of the Gene
.e,y and the admiration Of all who wit
ness it, IT Is OF Partisan art and cost
so75, 600 in its making. Besides this, how
eyer there are many costly shafts.
Havana has two very attractive resi-
Dental parasitic Cerro, which IS me
portion occupied by the aristocra tic Span
iards and Cubans Of the olden Ga y ana
their descendants, with masnlf1cents cas-
tle-like homes, beautiful flower gardens.
interspersed with the palm and the pine.
ample. Ell Vedado is the new section .o1
Habana and represents the new wealth.
and tho people who have made money
in recent years AS Ccrro means hill,
f.i yedadu, which occupies a lower plail1,
means n park. The houses in Vedado:
really form a kind of continuous park
and I'll Cristobal Colon Cemetery IS on
the line OF cars passing through ~ g
tlado / could spend much time telilrs
about what / saw in Havana visited
its courts, saw its goWnedf JuoSes-a,iu
they arc of a very high class and gentle
manly-lookins men. I was introduced to
Them. attended TIE trial of Nicely, Reeves
and Rathbonc, who sat together just 70
the left and inside the bar. ne CUBAN
LAWYERS address the court. sitting 70 4tne
sides Of the judges OH their right ana ielt
and not in front, as in America. and they
address them from a sitting posture hey
rise and bow at the beginning OF thelr
speeches and rise and DOW ~ Coui Wy
ia sh;on at the close. ] saw no INTERRUPT
tiona from the bench to ask auestlens,
which is so much in vogue in our Amer
ican courts. The judges who tried NeelS
and TO whom I was personally presenteo
TOOL, great pleasure in taking me ihto slteil
inner cousultation-room and pointing Out
he portraits of our United States supreme
Court Judges and it gave me .cqual pleas.
ire TO show them that ] could point oul
the name of each, beginning VIII lnS
chief Justice, tell them what States they
r,arfipS thew belonged
INDEPENDENCE DAY.
was in Havana on the gath OF feo-
,,,ry the tenth anniversary OF the oc-
ginning of the struggle for Cuban mae
pendence, attending at the palace III 1he
room Of the Alcaldc, to witness the
choosing by the electors Of the Presl1ent
and Vice-Prcsident Of Cuba. was
treated with marked courtesy, preseh'e ~
to the Alcald, by Dr. Fcgares, one o,
Tho electors to choose the President ana
l.1Ce-President, there being tweaty-one
in all. witnessed the election OF t.ie
President and Eice-President by the
electors Estrada Palma was choseil
president by these electors, WHO had ossn
chosen heretofore by the people to Go
this work Strangely enough. Estrada
Palma had not lived III Cuba or touched Its
soil for more than a quarter of a century,
being a resident Of Central Valley in the
State of New York, where he has eeen
conducting a school. He was the mead
II the Cuban La Junta in this country
during the war, is said to be man OF
unusual force Of character and OF mental
and physical vigor. though seventS-1our
years OF age. Tho vice-president Is Z.
j5o,lis Estcyaz. He is q rich Havana
merchant, who gave out of his own prls
vate fortune s3c0,0lO TO assist in the
Cuban wax, a man said to DE OF such
molesty and retiring disposition that ne
went to his plantation the day he was
chosen by the electors, TO be out OF the
way of congratulations.
En- PEASANT, 1t may be observed that
yerv little interest seemed to be taken
i'm the meeting of the Electoral College,
and not over thirty outsiders were pres
ent 10 witness its meeting; one other
person and myself being the only Ameri-
cans present.
THE CUBAN REPUBLIC.
After tho meeting was over. badges OF
the President and Vice-President elect
were distributed among the electors and
by them-were pinned to the lapels Of
their coats, the officer serving tina e;ec-
tors, I'M this way, ornamented the lapel
Of my coat, so l brought away SOU
venlr of the election.
President and Vice-oresi1eat, With a
Senate Of twenty-four members aid a
House Of sixty-threo delegates comprise
the executive anu SiSpe1~ AAA1SAANS
Of the Cuban government. The new
President of the Cuban Republic has
powers. He appoints every officer in the
Island. The only officers requiring con-
tirnation at the hands o. the Senate ara
the Judges of the Supreme Court. the
Governors Of the several provinces being
elected by people of each province Ane
members OF the House Of Delegates of the
Island were chosen by the people, Whist
the electors Of the several provinces. 1
was told, chose the Senators. This is the
govcrnmentit to which i'll the very near
future is to be committed the care and
government of the Gem OF the Greater An
TILES. This government will have but a
small Cuban soldiery TO support it, prob
ably not two thousand, and their rurales
or country police. I have great doubts Of
the problem of Independence. as 20 how
il will be wrought out. believe that
God and Nature meant that that fair
island. the Very daughter Of the Sun, ly-
ing but a nights journey across the
Straights Of Florida. should be part of
this. our great Republic. and 1 believe
such it will be as surely as the day sue
ceeds the night. I also had the privilege
of being. for awhile at least, in the Cuban
penitentiary, escorted, however, as Il