The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-03-05
Sugar Crop Exceeds 5000. 900 Tons.
Thrice the Greatest Under Spanish
Rule. and Worth $500. 600 600
., JOSEPH I. e. CLARKE.

y SOS6S ~ u - S6ANA6s
~" y the golden year Of Cuba.
Tho golden shower falls on her
from every quarter Of the hori.
lion. and all she Is asked for in return
IL the fruit Of her fertile fields-sugar
mosiy. And for this she gets higher
-prcss than In many years, and she
mas moeU than ever to sell.
Before her 100 estates cease grinding
tbs ysaf her centrifueals will have
sent racing down into the gaping
sco cver 100000 tons Of sugar.
worth over $4,000 900. Before the
Instruction Of 1886 the most she had
ever made under Spanish rule was a
i,.i. over a million tons. Better ma
'ehlnery. wider fields. higher extraction.
,Sc,eascd demand and growing enter
Prise have brought about one side of
IN. change, the European war-,he
world wsr--the other.
80 the cane carts crack. the OK
,.ana pull. the railroad cane cars roll
along. the caue conductors rustic. the
crushers tear the cane. the huge mills
ore after the other squash II. the rivers
lof juice pour out In milky cascades.
"a, with q heavy basso profundo rumble
,;ha, throbs and pulsates and meets the
terror ehrick Of steam by. morn and
room and night. Out in the fields an
army Of 10000 men ere cutting cane;
mil owners happy. cam farmers de.
rshted-sood cane and plenty and
higher prices. Every che profits.
Verify the Cuban goose hangs high.
BIZ, that is not all, far from II, for
r. this year Of grace. from another, an
unexpected. source another great
howe OF god is pouring over Cuba.
An American company. the Cuban
Cane Sugar Company. lie paying $780,
6oe, 900 in cash for less than a score
o. sugar plantations: already hall a
sore have been paid for. and IL is only
. question Of the days which the
rnr.icIlous Cuban lawyers require To
g.; the papers In order That delays
settlement with the rest OF the Cuban
owners. This money, coming in mug
gets ~ 81 .o0o, 900. $4,000. 900. So. 0oO. 900.
tnt Y q ENut " " iNt w 4
Handed over to individuals. part
rerships or small and close corpora
tons. the business word of Cuba has
s,od amazed. What will they do with
&? asks ne. What can they do with
&" asks another. Most OF them make
!n'anti.e cuesses and give i; ~. For
Gre financial and business interests of
tuna are mostly OF the old Spanish
cement. set and narrow in their ways
seeing az with piercing. diamond eyes
IL a twelve foot circle and refusing
O. solutely To ace an inch beyond
Patient. persistent. shrewd traders
they he. hut IL IN hard to interest them
IL anything they have not done before,
aud whoever heard of buying seven
teen hncas IN . bunch and paying cash
Ter them.
The cause o: /, al. IL o far To seek
j.ke all great ideas it was very sim
pc. II mean a group 81 American
> ne Of the a 3 hoard Of mi lions p!l-
i-: up in the bank vaults OF New
York. Boston and Philadelphia. The
marvel in it was how they found the
only man who could swing the great
sided net for them over the Caribbean
end land the desired fishes.
The man is Manuel Rlonda, a ma.
tive of northern Spain. now in liz
ff:ies. who came TO the United States
.n his sixteenth year. following the
footsteps Of two elder brothers
Joaquin and Francisco. They sent
him to n boarding school in Maine Il
learn English. which he readily nc.
CURED. and then he joined them in
BUSINESS in New York. This lay mostly
IN the import and export OF things