The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-15

Then vi divided by two and the result
a nine miles. It showed our mathe-
matics admirably exact.
The rest of us went to AlguizaT. or part
OF b way, in a ~vOlante. This ancient
contrivance was a two wheeled gig dra wn
by two horses, one in the shafts INC one
outside. the driver riding the outside horse
like a position. A mile from San Antonio
we got stuck in the mud. which came to the
hubs. We got cut and boosted. RepeStin.
this manBuvre twenty times, We got to
within two miles of our destination when
we hit a bog that simply made faces at us.
The rest Of the distance we trudged in the
full glare Of the midday sun.
Every few steps our interpreter would
halt and demand anxiously:
Does the se1or hear the heavy firing?"
The senior did not. and said So.
A dozen times at least in those two miles
we were invited to listen to tie distant
reports of bloody battle. But they were
too distant to he audible to our Anglo
Saxon ears. 1t was a great disappoint-
ment to the interpreter, but it couldn't
be helped.
We found Major Ladd sitting his horse
in the middle OF the main street of Alguizar.
ITO III WuS AhA VI AhNAN hoNHt iAoSANNNN'i
Spanish Oaths, im%precations. everything
that a Cuban can agitate. The din was
unima ginable. In the United States it
would have meant that a bloody riot was
in deadly progress.
Yet the Ma ior was quite calm. He looked
like the superintendent of an insane asylum
making his daily round. AND this simile
IL not by any means inaccurate. The
| NJ. - ,or,r ,,a Cor. the T,,ha ~
il sensitive. Yet we foreigners detected a
twinkle at the back of his keen, gray eye
From a few words that sifted through
the riot we gathered that the insurgents
would lay down their arms-but only on
one condition. They would first parade
through the ~town-they would, they would
and that was all there was to it.
At last the Major told them to roll theil
hoops, but only once and only through
the main street. That was as far as he
would go. The insurgent Colonies, Com'
mandantes, Generals and Field Marshal,
pleaded in vain for greater latitude, but the
Major only sat on his horse quietly and
shook his head.
Then there was sulking. Cubans sulk
at the top of their voices, with cycloniC
gestures. They wouldn't lay down theii
arms, t~hen-they wouldn't; they wouldn't
they wouldn't Z!
Carampal
Also MaGIe de Dios,
Albright said the Major, Marines.
The effect was magical. In one minute
all ths' Iorty general officers present wer
lining up.their. $50 mel to parade the towr
exactly as tine Major had ordered. They die
it, too, amid roars of enthusiasm, whil'
somebody set of many punches of fire
crackers in a side street. AfteR that al
hands turned in their guns. With ever
last detail OF pomp and ceremony tina
tropical imagination could invent, including
countless speeches in which the phrases
glorious Victories" noble liberators'
and -saviours Of their country" were EN-
ployed to the point Of prostration.
This ended at last, the street at onc'
became 40 jammed with former bitter enc
mics embracing and kissing each other tina
we could scarcely get out Of town. 1t wa
all most affecting. We wouldn't have missed
it for three vivas.