The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 18, 1898, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, SENATOR PROCTOR’S STATEMENT He Tells the American People What He Saw in Cuba. With an Utter Absence of Sen- sationalism, He Shows That Conditions Have Become Unbearable. Call Office, Riggs House, ‘Washington, March 17. Senator Proctor of Vermont, who returned last Sunday from an extended trip to and through the island of Cuba, this after- noon made a statement to the Senate of his observations on the island. From many points of view the statement was re- markable. It had evidently been most carefully prepared. Every element of sensationalism had been studiously eliminated from it, and, except so far as the facts recited were sensational, it bore not the slightest evidence of an effort to arouse the public mind, already keenly alive to the con- truth has been stated, just as far as it is possible to ascertain it. And until then surmise and conjecture are idle and unprofitable. Let us calmly wait for the report. “There are six provinces in Cuba, each, with the exception of Matanzas, extending the whole width of the island | and having about an equal sea front o the north and south borders. Matan- | zas touches the Caribbean Sea only at its southwest corner, being separated from it elsewhere by the narrow pe- ninsula of Santa Clara province. My observations were confined to the four western provinces, which constitute about one-half of the island. “Havana, the great city and capital of the island, is, in the eyes of the Spanish and many Cubans, all Cuba as much as Paris is France. But hay ing visited it in more peaceful times and seen its sights,” the tomb of Co- lumbus, the forts Cabanas and Morro | | reached the towns they were allowed to build huts of palm leaves in the suburbs and vacant places within the trochas and left to live if they could. ~Their huts are about ten by fifteen feet in size, and for want of space are usually crowded together very ‘closely. “They have no floor but the ground and no furniture, and after a year's wear but little clothing except such stray substitutes as they can extem- porize. ~ With large families or with more than one in this little place, the commonest sanitary provisions are im- possible. Conditions are unquestion- able in this respect. Torn from their homes, with foul earth, foul air, foul water and foul food, or none, what wonder that one-half have died and that one-quarter of the living are so diseased that they cannot be saved. A form of dropsy is a common form of disease resulting from these conditions. Children are seen walking about with arms and limbs terribly emaciated, eyes swollen and abdomen bloated to three times the natural size. The phy- sicians say these cases are hopeless. “Deaths in the streets have not been uncommon. I was told by one of our Consuls that they have found dead about the markets in the morning, where they had crawled, hoping to get some stray bits of food from the early hucksters, and that there had been cases where they had dropped dead in- side the market, surrounded by food. These people were independent and self-supporting before Weyler's order. They are not beggars even now. There are plenty of professional beggars in every town among the regwar resi- dents, but these reconcentrddos, have not learned the art. Rarely is a hand held out to you for alms when going among their huts, but the sight of them makes an appeal | stronger than words. “The dividing lines between parties are the most straight and clear cut| that have ever come to my knowledge The division in our way was by no means so clearly defined. It is Cuban against Spaniard. It is practically the entire Cuban population on one side and the Spanish army and the Spanish citizens on the other. I do not count the autonomists in this division, as they are so far too inconsiderable in numbers to be worth counting. Gen- eral Blanco filled the civil offices with men who had been autonomists and were stili classed as such. But the march of events has satisfied most of them that the chance for autonemy came too late. It falls as talk of compromise would have fallen the last year or two of our war. If it succeeds it can only be by armed force, by the triumph of the country people, thei A SQUADRON AT HAMPTON ROADS This Looks Much Like a Plan to Defend the Capital. Reasons Given by Officials at Washington for the New Move. There Will Be No Lessening of the Effective Naval Force at Key West. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. Call Office, Riggs House, - ‘Washington, March 17. Orders were issued to-day for the for- mation of a new squadron of naval ves- sels to be stationed at Hampton Roads. The squadron in the beginning will | consist of five -ships, all the best of | their types. Two of them, the battle- | ships Massachusetts and Texas, are withdrawn from the present North At- | lantic fleet at Key West and Tortugas. In ordering this movement the Navy Department is not animated by any purpose of yielding to representations | or intimations that may have come | from the Spanish Minister. On the | contrary, the new squadron was brought about by purely strategic considerations, although it appears from the nature of the force so far under orders to rendezvous at Hamp- | ton Reads that this strategy is of the | defensive nature. The new squadron | cannot be called & “flying squadron” because the association of heavy battle- ships with fleet cruisers like the Brook- lyn, Columbia and Minneapolis reduces the available speed of the whole to the and the MARCH 18, 1898. THETRESSIRES | PLOT TO DESTROY OF THE MAINE Divers Still Find Many. Things in the Wrecked Battle-Ship. Position of the Anchor Con- firms the Theory of Outside Explosion. The Cruiser Montgomery Sails Away, Much to the Regret of Her E Officers. Copyrighted, 1898, by James Gordon Bennett HAVANA, March 17.—The divers did more work on the Maine to-day than on any three days heretofore. The naval divers, under Morgan, who went below with them, cleared away the debris from some six-inch rifles which will now be raised by the powerful ap- paratus on board the Chief. The Maine’s port and starboard an- chors were raised, and their position, divers say, shows how the bow was swung to port by the force exerted amidships and in a direction from port to starboard. Lieutenant-Commander Wainwright's watch was found en the table stopped at 9:36, the time of the explosion. Chaplain Chadwick’s watch was also found. It indicated 10:30, and it is believed the shock moved the hour hand. The candelabra given to the chaplain and his Bible and other things, which he deemed invaluable, were re- covered, together with Wainwright's jewelry and the sword of Lieutenant Catlin of the marines. Lieutenant Jen- kins' sword will be sent north on the next steamer. A large number of big shells were taken up and unloaded. The work done by the navy divers to-day required great courage, as Morgan led his men THE MAINE Aimost Conclusive Evi= dence Is Furnished by a Yankee Skipper. Tells a Correspondent of 'l'he‘ Call What He Told the Court of Inquiry at Ha- va ©00000000000000008 SOBRAL PROMOTED. MADRID, March 17.—In the presence of the Queen Regent, Senor Sagasta this afternoon gave a full recitation of the sit- uation between Spain and the United States. It was a plain, unvarnished statement, not con- cealing the worst. It was on the occasion of the weekly council of Ministers at the palace. General Blanco telegraphs a highly optimistic view of af- fairs in Cuba. It is significant that Senor So- bral,-late naval attache at Wash- 0000000000000V O00 na. | from the bottom, and that is now in | the possession of the Court of Inquiry. “It is your firm conviction, then, thay the Maine was blown up by a min"e'l exploded by electricity from the shore? was asked. “Yes, sir,” was the reply, “and I alsa | think that it was a case of wheels within wheels, as they say, that thera was a plot to do the trick, and that some one person got ahead of the plot and did the deed on his own respons sibility.” — ‘CAPTAIN BRUNTON WILL NOW RETURN 1 + + + - + + + 5 + + + + + + + + + + + + + 44444444t 44t 444444 | speed of the slowest vessel, of affairs on the island. Castle, etc., I did not care to repeat | &, 2 1 = 5 S “h “Aving” through the hatchways and crooked | So There Will Be a Boom dition Spanish army, and the success of Span | squadron could not do much “flying” in passages in the debris where their posi- | [} ington, who has the full plans of had this, preferring trips in the country. |; 'ms W e easi Weyler's | e V. 2 i Calm and dispassionate to a notable | Everything seems to go on much as | S, ars WVOud be €39l T hae hg | the naval sense. The Mdications rather | tion made it impossible for them to|O all the United States coast de- Among the Athletes at desree, the utterances of the Senator | usual in Havana. Quiet prevails, and | gpanish army and people believe. There | smaller cruisers the squadron will con- signal the men tending the air tubes O fenses, has been appointed on the Stanford. Every cept for the frequent squads of sol- 1‘ is no doubt that General Blanco is act- | gtitute an ideal naval defense. above. | © staff of the admiralty, and had aroused a breathless Interest. person within the sound of his volce was convinced that he was putting his observations into careful words, lest he might subject himself to the criticism of being emotional. One of the best characterizations of the statement was made by Senator Frye of Maine a few minutes after its delivery. “It is,” said he, “just as if Proctor had held up his right hand and sworn to it.” That was the impression the state- ment made upon the Senate. The scene just preceding and during the delivery of the speech of Senator Proctor was almost dramatic in the intensity of its interest. The occasion of the address arose very unexpectedly. The nation- al quarantine bill was under discussion, and Senator Mallory of Florida had been recognized for a speech in opposi- tion to the pending measure. Mr. Frye entered the chamber, and, interrupting Mr. Mallory, requested him to yieid to Mr. Proctor, who desired to make a statement concerning his observations in Cuba, of interest to the Senate and to the country. 5 Instantly there was a commotion on diers marching to guard and police duty and thelr astounding presence in all public places, one saw little signs of war. “Outside of Havana all is changed. It is not peace, nor is it war. It is lation and distress, misery and starvation. Every town and village is surrounded by the trocha (trench), a sort of rifle-pit, but constructed on a plan new to me, dirt being thrown up on the outside and the fence on the other side of the trench. These trochas have at every corner sides what are called forts, but they barbed wire | | ing in entire good faith; that he de- sires to give the Cubans a fair measure of autonomy, as Campos did at the close of the ten years’ war. He has, of course, a few personal followers, but the army and Spanish citizens do not want genuine autonomy, for that means government by the Cuban peo- ple. And it is not strange that the Cu- bans say it comes too late. I have néver had any communication, direct or indirect, with the Cuban junta in this country, or any of its members, | nor did I have with any of the junta and at frequent intervals along the | which exists in every city and large town of Cuba. Nune of the calls I are really small block houses, many of | made were upon parties of whose sym- them more like a large sentry-box, and | pathies I had the least knowledge, ex- with a guard of from two to ten sol- diers in each. ““The purpose of these trochas is to | keep the reconcentrados in as well as to keep the insurgents out. In all the surrounding country the people have been driven into these fortified towns and held there to subsist as they can. They are virtually prison yards and not unlike one in general appearance except the walls are not so high and strong, but they suffice, where every | point is in range of a soldier’s rifle, to keep in the poor reconcentrados, wo- men and children. Every railroad sta- some of them were classed as autonomists. Most of my in- formants were business men who had no sides and rarely expressed them- selves. I had no means of guessing in advance what their answers would be and was in most cases greatly surp- rised at their frankness. “I inquired in regard to autonomy of men of weath, and men promi- nent in the cities of Havana, cept that 1 knew Matanzas and Sagua, and bankers, | merchants, lawyers and autonomist officials, some of them Spanish born, but Cuban bred, one prominent Eng- lishman, several of them known as For the past two months influences | have been at work in the Navy De- partment about this change, and as a | policy board, headed by CaptainCrown- | inshield, has been in frequent session of late at the department, it is believed that it has indorsed the plan at last. Although the other ships to be added to the squadron have not yet been de- finitely selected, it is surmised that they will include some of the other battle-ships at Key West and the ar- mored cruiser New York, in which case Admiral Sicard, it is believed, will com- mand the new force. In place of the cruiser New York the people of Key ‘West will look upon the grim outlines of the big monitor Puritan, supposed- ly the most powerful ship in smooth water in the world. She will have to assist her on guard the double-turreted monitor Miantonomoh and the moni- tor Amphitrite. The Puritan is now at Norfolk, almost ready for sea; the Miantonomoh is at League Island, quite ready, and is the Amphitrits at Port Royal, S0 the order ix the end will result in the gathering of the pick of the North Atlantic squad- ron at Hampton loads. The place is | said to be the best strategic point on the Atlantic coast. It is almost cen- trally located and the ships from w One of the divers front of his helmet the glass broken just as he was descending, by the foot of an-|© Had the | © the g other man in heavy harness. accident happened a minute later, divers say, the man would have been dead before the linemen answered his signal to be pulled out. In reference to the position of the an- chors, it will be recalled, as the Heraid told, that the ship’s back was broken. The line of force from nort to star- board, and exerted amidships, would throw the bow somewhat to port, as the anchors indicate it did. directed the wreckers forward to-day and Wainwright those aft. It is reported here to-night from Washington that the decision of the | | | | | Powelson | Court of Inquiry will be in McKinley’s | hands by Saturday. The cruiser Montgomery sailed at 5:30 this afternoon for Key West. Cap- tain Converse and his officers seemed to be sorry to leave Havana, and so ex- pressed themselves to the American | correspondents. INTERESTS THE PEOPLE OF THE PACIFIC COAST Senator Perkins Having Some Im- a long conference to-day with the Minister of State. The Stock Exchange takes a bull view of the situation, and added another solid-rise yester- day. 00000000000 00000 BOSTON, March 17.—Captain Frank Canavan, thewell-known vacht skipper, who arrived in Portiand, Me., to-day, from Washington, having gone there direct from Havana, where he has been staying ever since last November, told The Call man to-day the damning evi- dence he gave the court of in- quiry. Captain Canavan was an eye-wit- ness of the explosion that destroyed ++4444++4+++4 0000000000000 OCOO0O0CO0OOO00000 4444444444+ 000 the Maine, as well as a constant visit- | or of the various resorts around the shore of Havana where the Spanish soldiers and sailors congregate. Captain Canavan is well known all along the Atlantic Coast as & man of the highest integrity. He is as fa- Timely Arrival of the Track Leadef Means Much to the Boys Who ‘W ear Cardinal. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. PALO ALTO, March 17.—Unless some- thing unexpected intervenes Jack Brun- ton, the sprinter and track captain whom Stanford has been mourning as lost to her since his departure several weeks ago, will return to college in time to get into condition for the field day. A letter re- ceived to-day at the Sigma Rho frater- nity, of which he is a member, announced that he would probably arrive in P: Alto on April 5 The favorable tur which things have taken on account the improvement in the health of Brun- ton’s father means a great deal to Stanford’s making a good showing in ti track events. Without Brunton the c dinal would have no chance of winning first places in the three sprints, and sec- ond place in_ these same events would not be bevond the Berkeley sprinters. Since. Brunton's departure the tempo- rary captain, Paul alker, has been de- | voting much’ time to the track men, an very efficient work has been dome. On his arrival CaptfljnfBruntmldwfll figd hlls athletes in proper form and can devote fiis Girne almost entirely - towasd —eends tioning himself. ) tion is within one of these trochas and i there ca h v ti f th IS OF TH the floor and in the galleries. It had | pag 5 b - autonomists and several of them tell- | ther n reach any portion of the portant Amendments Made to Srlme 5 been anticipated ' that Mr. Proctor [ an® o 2Tmeq gnard Every train bas| ing me they were still bellevers in | coast in short order. Besides, the sec. the Sundry Civil Bill. e MOVEMENTS OF THE o e g ok v i vit Avy-yart n e countr; S € average merican 1is V' e would soon make a statement, but it | musketry and filled with soldiers, and | 20tonomy If practicable, but without i 4 WASHINGTON, March 17.—Senator Per- <t REVENUE CUTTERS. was not supposed he would make it on the floor of the Senate. A call of the Senate was demanded by Mr. Chandler W irm, as I observed, usually, and was infc rmed was always the case, a pilot exception they replied that it was ‘too late' for that. Some favored a United States protectorate, some annexation, there to fall back upon for repairs to the ships. There is plenty of the best coal at Newport News, there 1s easy kins went before the Senate Committee on Appropriations to-day and advocated an amendment to the sundry civil appro- English, and as he is short and slender and very dark he would pass without suspieion in a crowd of Spaniards. He Chief Schoemaker Says the Corwin ate 3 A in. | engine a mile or so in advance. There | gome free Cuba, not one had been | Water to navigate, and finally the forts < = ill Not Be Sent to Follow vl ee‘;e*ri’flfgf"jgégi i‘:‘“‘t’h‘e“ga;‘ft‘)fl"““!:s frequent block houses inclosed by | sounted s favoring the insurrection at | at Hampton Roads may serve as a base | priation bill providing for a revenue cut- | overheard something in his travels in w Rl e Ty e ars hoine heen | the trocha and with a guard along the | firat. They were business men and | of operations in case of need for pro- | ter for the Pacific Coast at a cost of $230.- | Havana during the interval between : e - 3 railroad track. With this tection. These are the considerations | 00. ‘The Treasury Department has rec- | tne reception of the news of the dis- | WASHINGTON, March 17 — Chie! people passed through the corridors, they flocked into the galleries until were packed. Senator Proctor was accorded closest attention throughout his speech. He confined himself to his manuscript and at the conclusion, while there was the | exception there is no human life or habitation between the fortified towns and vil- lages, and throughout the whole of the four Wwestern provinces, except to a very limited extent among the hil where the Span ds have not been wanted peace, but said it was too late | for peace under Spanish sovereignty. They characterized Weyler's order in far stronger terms than I can. I could not but conclude that you do not have to seratch an autonomist very deep to find a Cuban. There is soon to be an which animated the Navy Department | in making this new order. It is announced that the commander of the new squadron has not yet been selected, and pending that selection or the arrival in port of Admiral Sicard it ommended this amount, and a separate bill has already passed the Senate, but is shelved in the House Committee on In- terstate Commerce. So it will probably be tacked on to the sundry civil bill Senator Perkins will also endeavor to patch of the Maine and her arrival there which led him to call on and consult General Lee and warn him that there was trouble in store for the ship. He says General Lee promised to no- SchoemaRer, of the revenue cutter ser- vice, said to-night that it had been de- cided not to send the cutter Corwin to follow the Bear, but the Corwin would spend the summer at St. Michael. The McCullough, the new cutter built by the Cramps, and now en route to the coast Roate TE s | able to go and drive the people to the | election, but every poliing place must [ 1S expected that Captain Higginson, the | have an appropriation of $12,500 to stock | st e C ke e taarts reach o ny ot Tio'abi | towns and burn their dwellings, I saw | be inside a fortified town. Such elec- | commander of the battle-ship Massa- | the Government fish hatcheries in Call-| o o e e tian. Mol akter the. Corwin leagues. no house or hut in the 400 miles of | tions ought to be safe for the ‘ins.” I|chusetts and the senior officer, will | fornia inserted as an amendment in the | ),okout both day and night for trouble. | leaves. The Corwin will safl about the Mr. Proctor read his speech from | F2ilroad rides from Pinar del Rio | have endeavored to state'in not intem- | hold the command of the squadron. sundry civil bill, This amount has been | Captain Canavan says he heard a man | middle of April manuseript, speaking rapldly, ~but | Province, in the west, across the full | perate mood what I saw and heard, to| Remaining at Key West after the de- | ;0cr" nd Dr. Ravenel of the commis- | Who is in an official position somewhat clearly. He said: ‘“More importance | Width of Havana and Matanzas prov- | make 'no argument thereon, but leave | parture of the Massachusetts and the | gion both of whom appeared before the | similar to our inspector of buildings Yes, who is there that has inces, and to every one to draw his own conclusions. | Texas, Admiral Sicard will still have a | Fisheries Committee of the Senate to- Wno > seems to be attached by others to my recent visit to Cuba than I have given it. It has been suggested that I make & public statement of what I saw and how the situation impressed me. This I do on account of public interest in all that concerns Cuba and to correct any inaccuracies that have not unnaturally appeared in some of the reported in- terviews with me. “My trip was entirely unofficial and of my own notion; not suggested by any one. The only mention I made of it to the President was to say to him that I contemplated such a trip and to ask him if there was any ob- Jection to it, to which he replied that he could see none. No one but my. self, therefore, is responsible for any- thing in this statement. Judge Day gave me a brief note of introduction to General Lee and I had lefters of in- troduction from business friends from the north to bankers and other busi- ness men at Havana, and they in turn gave me letters to their correspondents in other cities. These letters to busi- ness men were usually useful, as the principal purpose of my visit was to ascertain the views of practical men of affairs upon the situation. ““Of General Lee I need say little. His valuable services to his country in his trying position are too well known to all of his countrymen to require men- agua la Grande, on the north shore, and to Cienfuegos, on the | south shore of Santa Clara, except within the Spanish trochas. “There are no domestic animals or crops on the rich fields and pastures except such as are under guard in the immediate vicinity of the towns. In other words, the Spaniards hold in these four western provinces just what their army sits on. Every man, woman and child and every domestic animal, wherever the columns have ma is under guard, and within th called fortifications. To describe one place is to describe all. To repeat, it is neither peace nor war. It is eoncen- tration and desolation. This is the ‘pacified’ condition of the four western provinces. “West of Havana is generally the rich tobacco country, and east, so far as I went, it is a sugar region. Nearly all the sugar mills are destroyed be- tween Havana and Sagua. Two or three were standing in the vicinity of Sagua and part running, surrounded as they are the villages, by trochas and ‘forts’ of palisades of the royal palm and fully guarded. Toward and near Cienfuegos there were more mills run- ning, but ail with the same protection. It is said that the own of these mills near Cienfuegos have beenabletoobtain special favors of the Spanish Govern- | | To me the strongest appeal is not the barbarity practiced by Weyler, nor the loss of the Maine, if our worst fears should prove true, terribie as both of these incidents are, but the spectacle of | a million and a half of people, the en- tire native population of Cuba, strug- gling for freedom and deliverance from the worst misgovernment of which I ever had knowledge. Whether our ac- tion ought not to be influenced by any one or all these things, and if so, how far, is another question. “I am not in favor of annexation, not because I would apprehend any particular trouble from it, but because it is not a wise policy to take in any people of foreign. tongue and training and without any strong guiding Amer- ican element. The fear that if free, the people of Cuba would be revolutionary is not so well founded as has been sup- posed, and the conditions for good self- government are far more favorable. The large number educated and patriotic men, the great sacrifices they have endured, the peaceable tempera- ment of the people, white or black, the wonderful prosperity that would come surely with peace and good home rule, the large influx of Americans and Eng- lish immigration and money, would all be strong factors for stable institutions. But it is not my purpose at this time, | fleet of his own, when the spectacle will be presented of a fleet and a squadron on one station, something not seen | since the Civil War. | The monitors which it is designed to send to Key West are said to be well fitted for the service. Owing to their light draft of from fifteen to sixteen feet, they will be able to navigate safe- ly the shallow waters of the Florida coast and will not be obliged, like the Iowa, to lie six miles out at sea from Key West to secure enough water un- der the keel. The gunboat Helena reported to the department that she had sailed to-day from Funchal, Madeira, for Key West, to join the squadron. It is now said that it has been definitely determined to bring the battle-ship Oregon around South America to Key West. The Navy Department has issued or- ders that such trial as may be made of the new torpedo-boat Rodgers shall take place while the boat is under way Saturday next from Baltimore to Nor- folk. She will also go_southward to join the flotilla at Key West. The Co- lumbia and Minneapolis are still each 260 men short of their full quota, but it is expected that enough men will be secured in the course of a few days to enable the ships to be sent to Hampton Roads to execute the orders issued to- day. Senator Perkins will also ask for an appropriation in the general appropriation bill for the purchase by the Government of the old hatcheri in Cal- ifornia. This was passed by the Senate in the last Congress, but was knocked out in the House. Perkins to-day presented a proposed amendment to the naval ap- propriation bill, directing the Secretary of the Navy to prepare and insert in the regular estimates of appropriations an estimate of the cost of constructing a wharf, coal bunkers, derricks and tram- way on one of the Government reserva- tions bordering on San Francisco Bay, suitable for the location of a naval coal- lng station. i epresentative Barham to-day intro- duced a bill granting a ension of 330 er month to Patrick H. Hurley of Cali- ornia. The Secretary of the Navy to-day rec- ommended to Congress an appropriation of $168 to compensate the Vallejo Land and Improvement Company for damage done their wharf at South Vallejo by the United States tug Unadilla. The report of the captain of the Navy Yard at Val- lejo says that the damage done by the tug was while lowing a lighter contain- ing ammunition for shipment East. he Senate Committee on Commerce to-day gave a hearing on Senator White's seamen’s bill. Andrew Furuseth of San Francisco appeared before the commit- tee in favor of its passage. Army orders: By direction of the As- sistant Secretary of War, Charles Breuchle, Battery C, Third’ Artillery, now at the Presidio of San Francisco, i3 deficiency tell another man who keeps a hardware store that he had heard form a rela- tive who was in the Government's service that a terrible accident was likely to happen to the Maine. He got into conversation with the captain of one of the harbor launches the day the Maine arrived and asked him if he thought it was safe to have her anchored as near the shore as she was. The Spaniard replied that they would look out for that all right at the proper time and would see that no harm came to any innocent persons. Captain Canavan further states that it was common talk among men who hang around the wharves all the time that the harbor was full of mines and torpedoes. He says the Maine was moved from her first anchorage to the fatal buoy, at which no vessel had been known to have tied for the last two years. A German bark was moored there late one afternoon, but she was immediately towed away by a Govern- ment tug. The reason given at the time was there was a converging pipe for the mine system near the buoy and it was feared that some accident might happen. Captain Canavan was on the water front in company with a junior officer of one of the Spanish regiments at the time of the explosion. He described it not as a sharp explosion, such as one respect for you as @ man? Is it true that you have no re- spect for your own manliness? It is true that no one else who knows you intimately has. Those shaking limbs; the weary and weak “all- gone” feeling; the sleeplessness; the worried look. What does it all mean? You know as well as any one. SAID a half man? rains have been taxing your system In a way that you don’t know, and most likely cannot appreciate. Are you going to allow them to continue? You will be nothing of a man at all if you do. That is the truth. It is not pleasant for you to hear or see. But it is truth. YOU Yes, you. This talk is good for YOU to read. How many times in the last year have you promised yourself that you would do something to help yourself? And you have done just nothing! This is abusing your system in a way that it will not stand. If you have erred ‘before, why not behave now? TUse your common sense. Yes, who said 1aat you were even tion. Besides his abllity, high charac- | ment in the way of a large force of | 7,40 I censider it my province to sug- | day. [xgusferred to the Mosnlfal com 85, & Fwoulll: expect £ 1 Lo Sk G e s 2 3 g rivate. 0 pect from an explosion on a about r dition? If not ter and courage, he possesses the im- | Ssoldiers, but they also, as well as all gest any plan. I merely speak of the pPPnBIons have been granted as_follows: | Ship. it is sg(?:t J&'L (h(;n ou gave portant requisites of unfailing tact and the railroads, pay taxes to the Cubans for immunity. symptoms as 1 saw_them, but do not undertake to prescribe. Such remedial THAT SAN PEDRO California — Original, Willlam Feldman, Petaluma, $8; increase, Henry Schwaben- He said.slowly and impressively: heed to the infallible signs that your friends see—even if you are still ..nd to courtesy, and withal his militars 1 have no means “You can say that I give it as cation and training and his soldierly | verifying this. It i3 the comman tays | StePs as may be required, may safely HARBOR CONTEST. | land, Stociton, 5 Lo $; Leroy C. Tippy, | inatvidual opinion e vhe exploston | them. = There 18 still hope for you-you qualities are invaluable adjuncts in the | among those who have better means I’;; l;n m‘ an Aer:e‘r:_:::\n Fminent and — fi‘;‘;flt}gc‘g‘hg? ng‘}‘% Anguat ‘Ie‘i}e‘leha*:" was below the surface of the water, | heed not bother avout that, but in ‘the Saulpmentises S prsentariiedo B oTaTOpl Qe hronehout the delivery of the ad-|Again There Is a Delay in Making | Tngiisn, San' Francisco, $; Hentletts | and not in the hold of the ship on the | RAUNE off of, trogtment you risk your country so completely under military rule as is Cuba. General Lee kindly invited us to sit at his table at the hotel during our stay in Havana, and this | opportunity for frequent informal taiks with him was of great help to me. In addition to the information he volun- tarily gave me, it furnished a conven- ient opportunity to ask him the many questions that suggested themse(ves in explanation of things seen and heard on our trips through the country. also met and spent considerable time with Consul Brice at Matanzas and with Captain Barker, a stanch ex-Con- federate soldler, at Sagua la Grande, a friend of the Senator from Mississippi | working on estates I “All the country people in the four ‘western provinces, about 400,000 in num- ber, remaining outside the fortified towns when Weyler’s order was made, were driven into these towns, and these are the reconcentrados. They were the peasantry, many of them farmers, some land owners, others renting lands and owning more or less stock, cthers and cultivating small patches; and even a small patch in that fruitful clime will support a family. It is but fair to say that the normal condition of these people was very different from that which prevails in this country. Their standard of dress there was not an interruption. At the conclusion there was no demon- stration either on the floor, or in the galleries, although Senators here and there about the chamber turned one to another with such unusual remarks on the Senate floor as ‘“A remarkable statement,” “A simple; straightforward statement of a horrible condition of af- fairs,” and similar comments. Proctor left the Senate chamber soon after he had finished his address, but not before he had been heartily con- gratulated by many of his colleagues. MEMORIAL OF SAN the Award and Commencing the Work. WASHINGTON, March 17.—The award of the contract for San Pedro harbor is for some reason being delayed, although it was announced at the engineer office of the War Department several days ago that the contract would be let to the lowest bidders, Heldemier & New of Chi- cago, as soon as Chief of Engineers Wil- son returned from the Tortugas, but he has been back several days.and nothing has vet been done, Secretary Alger gave orders that.all of the papers be sent to him, so the whole matter is now in the hands of the Secretary. ptand ey DROWNED IN BEAR CREEK. Uschott, Garvanza, ‘Washington—Increase, Noah I. Edgill, Port Townsend, $5 to $10. Oregon—Original, George Carlon, Rose- burg, $12. LEGISLATORS AT NAPA. Members of a Committee to Visit the Hospital for the Insane. NAPA, March 17.—A party of prominent men connected with the State Legislative Committee on Public Institutions arrived in Napa this evening. Among the party were Dr. Hatch of the State Lunacy Commission, General Barrett of the Napa State Insane Hospital directors, General surface of the water.” He says there were two explosions precisely the same in force and volume, with an interval from four to six sec- onds between them. His companion be- came greatly excited and made some admissions which _Captain Canavan said he felt it his duty to repeat to Gen- eral Lee, and later to the Court of In- quiry. He refuses to tell what the offi- cer said, but got around it by saying: “I gathered from what I heard that the exvolosion occurred before it was expected.” Captain Canavan says he thinks there was a well arranged plot to do the trick on a certain night or day, Yes, a MAN. Each man in this wide world has to see to it that his powers are protected. If he has hollow cheeks and sunken eyes, un- strung nerves and unnatural long- ings, he may make up his mind that the sooner he writes to the famous Hudson Medical Institute the sooner will he get relief. He will be & manly man! Yes, a manly man. Not one of MAN B the days of your lfe need spent in the way that you are ac- (Walthall). None of our representatives | comfort and prosperity was not high, John H. Dickinson, J. J. Boyce of Santa | and that some one who was in the se- | customed to spend them— 4 whom T met in Cuba is 0of my politl. | measured by our own. But, according FRANCISCO MERCHANTS. Az Barbara, C. M. Sifipson of Pasadena, T. | cret inspired, either by aguadiente or | your ditiin. - Got 1he Tty ovor cal faith, but there is a broader faith | to their standards and requirements, That Suppli Little Edwin Acres Falls Into the| . J. Brandon of San Jose, B J. Mott of | pagriotic zeal or by accident, touched | Some ten thousand others have got. It ot bounded by party lines. They are | their conditions of life were satistac. | They Ask That Supplies for Indians ‘Water and Perishes. Bap Fradon sk of Ne-| 1o mine off prematurely. Captain Can- | has cured that number on this _Siope. all three true Americans and have done excellent service. “It has been stated that I said there was no doubt the Maine was blown up from the outside. This is a mistake. T may have said that such was the gen- eral impression among Americans in Havana. In fact, I have no opinion about it myself and carefully avoided forming one. I gave no attention to these outside surmises. I met the mem- bers of the court on their boat, but would as soon approach our Supreme Court in regard to a pending case as that board. They are competent and trustworthy within the lines of their duty as any court in the land, and their report, when made, will carry convic- tion to all the people that the exact tory. They live mostly in cabins made of palm or in wooden houses. Some of them had houses of stone, the black- ened walls of which are all that remain to show that the country was ever in- habited. “Many doubtless did not learn of Weyler's concentration order. Others failed to grasp its terrible meaning. Its execution was left largely to the guer- rillas to drive in all that had not obeyed, and I was informed that in many cases a torch was applied to their homes without notice, and that the inmates fled with such clothing as they might have on their backs, their stock and other belongings being appropriat- ed by the guerrillas. When they on Western Reservations Be Pur- chased on This Coast. WASHINGTON, March 17.—Senator Perkins to-day presented to the Commis- sioner of Indian Affairs a memorial of the Board of Trade and the Manufactur- ers’ Association of San Francisco asking that supplies for Indians on Western reservations be purchased on the Pacific Cos{t instead of being imported from the East Tk d s SN Basceball for Charity. SAN JOSE, March 17.—Over 2000 people witnessed the ball game between the Santa Clara College and Stanford Uni- versity nines yesterday afternoon. The ame was played in behalf of the Pratt fiome and was a success financially. Santa Clara won, after a hard struggle, ‘with a score of 14 to 6 MERCED, March 17.—Charlie Acres, the 5-year-old son of Edwin Acres of this city, while playing along the banks of Bear Creek near town this afternoon, ac- cidentally fell into the water an drowned. His body was found floating in the water an hour or two after the catas- trophe. The boy was in company of a fiaymata, who evidently did not realize s companion was in danger. —_———— White Held for Time. STOCKTON, March 17.—The prelimi- nary examination of James White, a traveling pump mender, on the charge of attempted criminal assault on the S-year- old daughter of Rev. Mr. Meredith, was held with closed_doors _before Justice Parker to-day. White was held, with bonds fixed at $6000. ) 5 L The party will remain in Napa over to- morrow, when they will make an official visit to the Napa State Insane Hospital. Among other prominent visitors in Naj are R. H. Beamer and State Controller E. P. Colgan of the State Board of Equali- 3&“0!;1 H(z:n.o mU. iS. (gra.ut wite a“ld( al er, accompani Y lon. in] A fach, Supetintendent. of ‘the Mint. also arrived in Napa to-night on a tour htseeing to Napa Valley, which they will visit to-morrow. g e £ PR ‘Work on the Valley Road. TULARE, March 17.—Grant Brothers” Valley Road grading outfit reached here to-day from Bakersfield. It will proceed ut once to grade the line from Tulare to the junction of the main line, twenty miles west. Work will be pushed and the grade will be ready for tracklayers soon. avan says a bugle was blowing on the Alfonso XII at the precise moment of the explosion, but thinks this was only a coincidence. He says the suspicious suddenness with which the boats put out from the Spanish ship and began picking up tha wounded was not a thing to cause ex- citement. The men had been drilling with boats and going away from the ship for weeks, and it is not to be won- aered that they were in good prac- ce. S Captain Cahavan says he had a talk with a workman on the tug Right Arm, who said he saw a piece of submarine cable with seven wires in it which Lieu- tenant-Commander Wainwright cut off from a long piece that was pulled up get medical advice free. t the most convine- medical advice Iree, You can write an ing testimonials ane t00! Be a man! Blood taint is cured by the “30-day blood cure.” Catarrh is most excel- lently treated—XKidney, liver and bladder troubles disappear very quickly under the treatment admin- istered at the big institute. Why you continue to suffer when might be well? HUDSON MEDICAL INSTITUTE, BTOCKTON, MARKET AND ELLIS 8T8., San Francisco. el