The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-03-02
BRIDCEPORTER
FUGITIVE FROM
CUBA REVOLT
Joseph Bahr, Of 1913 Dewey
Street, Was In Town As
sailed By Insurgents
WENT TO ISLAND TO
RUN SUGAR BUSINESS
Got AS Far AS Antilla and
Rebels Guns Made Him
Reconsider Plans

Joseph Bahr, son of Mrs. christina
Bahr of 1913 Dewey street, this city is
safely back in the United States af-
ter very exciting. experience in the
midst of the Cuban revolution. Mr.!
Bahr is an expert stenographer and
was formerly employed in the office
of the Acme Shear Co. in this city. He
is, widely known here.
Mr.. Bahr arrived in New York,
Wednesday on hoard the steamer
Munamar of the Munson line. He was
glad to get out of the war zone in
the Island Republic and back to the
United States>again he said. He left
New York a week ago Sunday to go
to Holguin, Cuba, where he was to
| take charge of large plant for the
American Sugar Refineries Co. This
town is about As miles west of Antilla,
one of the principal seaports in, cas-
tern Cuba. Mr.. Bahr got no farther
than Antilla however.
When he went ashore at Antilla he
found the, insurgent troops we're in
possession of a part 4of tie town and
the railroad leading to Holguin as
well. The day before they had made
determined attack on Antilla and
there had been continuous exchange
of rifle vol1eys between the rebels and
the National troops who were still
endeavoring to hold part of the city.
Mr.. Bahr started he heard that H. A
Bayliss, the American consul at An
tilla, was thrust into Jail and kept
there for two hours for criticising "A
| government order which forbade more
than two persons to walk together or
talk together in the streets.
| Finding the sugar-laden steamship
Munamar was leaving almost immedi-
ately for New York, Mr.. Bahr with a
number lof other Americans quickly
| arranged for passage and came home.
The steamer was commanded by
Capt. w. II. Macdonald, carried 80
passengers, the majority Of whom were
| American citizens. She also carried
| a cargo of $4,000 bags Of sugar.
Mr.. Bahr's mother and his broth
ers and sisters who live at the family
| home in Dewey street have been very
much worried since they learned of
his trip to the revolutionary zone in
Cuba. They expect that he will come
| home for a short time soon.
MIR. Bahr has been in New York
city for the last two years. his last
place of employment being in the
offices of the United Fruit Co. It is
| said that he had several fattering
offers of employment in Cuba before
he decided to accept the post which
| he was on his way to fill when the war
| broke out.
Although the revolutionary soldiers
| in Cuba are cutting railroads and de-
| stroying bridges and roads, they are
making no attacks on AmericaAs in
| Cuba or attempting to- harass Them,
according to a report brought to New
York by Nemesio Alverez Valdez, ed1-
| tor of a newspaper in Mayari, Cuba,
who arrived Wednesday on board the
Munamar.
| Mr.. Valdez said he was in An.illa,
Cuba, on last Saturday when the lib
erals, or revolutionaries attacked the
| government troops near there. He
| got out of he back window Of the
house where he was stopping and rode
on horseback Is miles to Preston, on
Nipe bay and then crossed the bay by
boat in time to catch the steamship
Munsmar just as she was pulling out.
There is no railroad traffic around
Anti1la or in eastern Cuba, he sta. led,
because the liberal soldiers have de-
stroyed the tracks and burned up the
| bridges.
| George W. Scott, owner Of the yacht
| Miladi, was another passenger He
said The liberal soldiers are reported
to be burning plantations at Santa
Lucia: roads have been destroyed and
railway traffic stopped. He hoped to
get to Havana from Anti1la by train en-
route to Nassau, but could not do So