Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-19
THEAOTbEDOF REVOLT
People of Camaguey Always
Opposed to Spain.
SCENE OF A MORGAN RAID
Home Of Cisneros, First Citizen of
the Province"
STREETS NARROW AND CROOKED
Affairs Controlled for Three Centuries
by Descendants Of Ten Families
Of Noble Birth.
STREETS NARROW AND CROOKED
BY WILLIAM f. CURTIS.


Special Correspondence Of The Star and the Chicago
Record Herald.
CAMAGUEY, Cuba, April a. 1907
Inc city OF Camaguey, situated very near
| tne center OF the island. 343 miles from
nav ana by railroad, and the capital of the
| province of Puerto Principe is one Of tho
o,ue'' ana qualntest towns in Cuba and has
| always been celebrated for its opposition
| TO Spanish authority. 1t boasts the finest
| climate IN Cuba; some of its proud citizens
| go sui farther and insist that it has the
| hnest climate In the world The tempera-
| ture seldom varies winter and summer more
| than four or five degrees seventy Fahren
| melt at midnight and eighty at MONDAY.
| with cool breeze always blowing in from
| the ocean, which is forty-three miles in one
direction and about the same distance in
| the other. 1t Is an ideal place for lazy
| man TO spend the winter, and, thanks to
| Sir William Van Horne, Camaguey has the
| best hotel in Cuba, and the only one that
! l have found where tired traveller may
lay ms limbs upon hair mattress and his
! nead upon pillow of feathers. At other
| hotels the beds are entirely without mat
tresses. They spread comfortable or a
blanket over woven wire springs and ex-
| pect you to lie upon that. When YOU get
| up in the morning your skin is covered with
| marks showing the meshes of the wire and
your neck aches from long contact with a
| pihoW IidOe OI WOOL Stufred into a large
| sausage skin so hard that you could not
| make dent in it with a sledge hammer.
| AT Camaguey, however, you can get real
comfort. and you will hate to leave the hotel
When 1t is time to 60
1t is monstrous building originally
monastery ana Iater a cavalry barracks,
| q cistarn .hat . a. VI tne couTts ara Is
| Ions of n.atar i,otIs 90 "a. a. hiiiiioI, s',i-
| garrison in case of siege. There is moth
| - s ~ ~ Saiiiiasuey' howeNer, put 10
and hear tho hama , pafaa re- Oh ane soidlers
ronsh for .n s namu p,as' Inc aoaas are 700
| 49,; o a ;as t anu 700 uus'! LOT
! s is -. Iiuhs. OH NnIah hlenL nave
fnr his enasts aud anu pbGviae i eoll INKS
~ IT,. ms , suests, anu propaoiy VIII 90 so IN
tiIhe, When the motel becomes better known
anu tlie patronage increases. At present
most OF 'ne patrons are ofncers OF the 18th
flIs ana tneir Iamllles. Ihere are a
| tsm .aiii oa1 nien Iol Canaguey Is Lhe mead
| aa 80 - t.le Suoa raiiIoa1 Company
| S Gnu a.So VI .nS specuia'oLs IN Guoan lands.
pc fns hnro hseilS us, iio m lineage may
~, ,J tn neis VINO WIZ sen you AWNING
! CT W H Gu ii,iu you any eiiths you want.
~: ~ a.. vi Sue VI ti,e inn InIantry,
,,o oua as aen Us ilooei solaIer, Is IN COM
hn,,n 49, ~ nrosi. ~ LIS oaos anu , men
nave 9oiie creuit 70 their country Ihey
NJ oiiS iiase 'Iio itieiuehiP vi tiie people,
oue az ?, pop . "ons .ieL. ana
snt 49,, WI ausre' " nave 'he l'h III
AMY o'oeieo away
| Raided by Morgan the Freebooter
| c.r,a,a,, ,,s.a ~ ho oouoa p,,o,.o 1,.,
! ues useu W oe ca'ieo Fuefto rim
| cipe. Inc original name was changed De-
| cause 1t no longer applied. Columbus on
his second voyage discovered the bay on
the coast directly north and named II San
| E,n,' >-o,,;.o -, I,o,. - ~. -;
| .N"e' las III 'ioiioi vi tH'hs
| mana. In 1919 town was estapnshed tnere
and called Santa Maria de Puerto Principe.
,;t mono, Gl .,1 nIace h,,t as rsidnd
by the pirates so often that the inhabitants
moved into the interior ana estabi1shed
| Ga,naenav Henry Worgan tho famona
! English nitrate made his last raid down
here. He plundered the town. but had to
| fight his way back to his SHIPS, and lost
siH.y-s as men 1I loco, ,aao,as ,,ah.s cortez
| snest Of the town. ana YOU are shown an
old church where he Is said to have at
| tended mass before starting for the con-
anything in history to confirm it.
Puerto Principe, as province, and the
people of Camaguey in particular, have al
ways been opposed to Spain. This city has
been a hotbed Of revolution, and was dur
ing the recent war, the headquarters of
the revolutionary government of which Sal
vador Cisneros Betancourt Marquis of
Santa Lucia was the president. Mr.. Cisneros
was born here but was educated in the
United States He was appointed president i
years war from 1868 to 1878, and made a
treaty with the Spanish government under
which the revolutionists agreed to lay down
their arms provided Cuba was given au-
tonomy, but the Spanards, as usual, vio-
lated their promise
Mr. (,jsneros went into exila In New
York. became a citizen of the United States. |
and did not return until the next revolution, |
in 1895 when he was again elected presi- |
dent. He is now residing here and repre- !