Show SPANISH SPIES IN HAVANA I j How SneakThief Detectives Americans Dog the Footsteps of J II i J Havana April 5Thls city simply f swarms with spies and every American Ameri-can now in Havana knows that all his actions his goings out and his comings iu are watched By whom A spy He knows that his mail is opened and read in transit By whom A spy He f knows that In his absence his room is t entered his trunk broken open and searched Ey whom A spy He knows r that at any moment he may be arrested t arrest-ed and thrown into Cabanas prison On what charge As an American spy 11 you leave your hotel and go out in the early morning you at once feel yourself in the omnipresent shadow of the spy With the first heat of the drum of the volunteers the plaza in front of the opera house the streets I or the city h > gin to fill with people mostly < igarmakers their way to > work But they all move along with the air of people who know that they are watched They talk but little to each other and it is evident that they fear to speak freely Mo ing among the I I people and corspicuous by their uni r frrms the volunteers are seen with their rifles over their shoulders slouching 1 slouch-ing along singly and in groups of two or three In the direction of Moro castle k l r I J rj R h i 1Y II r t 1tl I tf l l J J t J r H J j r f iff1 lt 4 I l J I k J i I J I I e II I THE SPANISH WOMAN SPY I where they are going to do 24 hours j I guard duty They too have an anxious anx-ious worried look Every one seems to he living in an atmosphere of suspic g ft Jeu ion spying and being spied upon There is a poorly concealed expression of distrust dis-trust upon the face of nearly every cne soldier or civilian whom you pass The trail of the serpentlike spy Is over 1 It all And so life goes on in Havana from j i morning to night It is a onesided I state of things The Americano is not in the game at all The Spaniards never I regard their agents as spies They say IVe are III our own city minding our Ion I-on busires5 What right have these Yankees spying upon us They are I spies Lots kick em out So in order or-der to find an excuse for expelling the Yankees we are watched individually every shining minute The Spaniards cannot expel us in a body so they proceed pro-ceed to get rid of us one by one As an American spy you are put in I Cabanas on the charge of general conspiracy I i con-spiracy aganst the government of Sppin A L w days later to show hop I I magnanimous he can bp the Spaniard I offers you your freedom If you will j i leave Havana This has been the I experience of more than a score of I Americans since the blowing up of the i Mare > THE SPANISH WOMAN SPY I The spies are all sorts and conditions of men and women And the chief of i these is the Spanish woman Woe to i the American who succumbs to the j wiles and walks into the snares of the j j plump and palefaced senora She I seems charming She is usually beautiful j I beau-tiful She looks at her victim through the mantilla with glances that kill She I is a delusion and a snare Her Ayes seem to swim with love but hatred fills her heart Her seductive smile seems all sympathy it is the smile of the woman who hates It is all cruelty The senora gives her services to Spain free of charge She spies for lovenot of Spain but of spying Let this be a warning to all Americans who intend I coming to Havana Your correspondent occupies the i i apartment In which an American was arrested recently at midnight The spy I responsible for his imprisonment was a beautiful senora On the evening of his arrival in Havana he was strolling in the park opposite the Inglaterra hotel ho-tel A stranger jostled against him and stopped to apologize in English An acquaintance followed The stranger stran-ger said he would like to present the American to ah she was sitting just beyond the fountain Two minutes later the American was seated by a woman whom the stranger called his wife The I stranger disappeared The band was playing the Cuban night was charming charm-ing the senoras eyes were large and luminous her teeth were glistening the American talked The next evening hemet he-met the senora again in the same place and again he talked He met her again I and again He talked till he talked too much Even an American will tell a woman things which the rack itself I could not draw from him THE SOLDIER SPY I The boldest of the Spanish spies is the soldier He makes no attempt to disguise his contempt for the Americans Ameri-cans whose steps he is dogging Americano The Spaniard In Havana Ha-vana never utters this word without an accompanying sneer or gesture of contempt The soldier spy follows the unfortunate American here there everywhere His plan of procedure is to attempt to pass you on one of the narrowest of Havanas narrow sidewalks side-walks He pushes you aside roughly You naturally resent He proceeds on his way without a word goes direct to his superior officer and reports that Senor SoandSo pushed him a soldier of Spain violently from the sidewailk He had witnessesfellow spies of course Charge filed against you insulting in-sulting the military by laying violent hands on a Spanish soldier That night I the clerk at your hotel informs you that you have been ordered to leave I Havana by the first steamer To refuse is to take the consequences The I nature of the said consequences is not specified This little trick was played upon one of the American newspaper correspondents within the last few days daysabanas Cabanas prison is not always the fate of the suspected American as Is seen in the case just mentioned The fact is that the Spanish arc not anxious to fill Cabanas with American prisoners Uncle Sam might make some inconvenient inconven-ient inquiries The Spaniards priniM I pal object In employing spies is to get the Americans out of Havana Sometimes the soldier spy does not succeed in trumping up a charge against the American whom he has been set to watch In that case the Job I is given to an officer The officer contrives con-trives to meet the American Intro TjJjjjJ 35 S IflS S I I R I I ° t Orr n i i1 ci J1b 1 i1 11 jH MORNING VIEW ON THE PLAZA SHOWING HOTEL INGRATAHBA HEADQUARTERS GEN LEE duces the victim at the Military club I and is so extremely polite in manner and so particularly insulting In speech that the American talks back and a i row follows In such Instances the victim vic-tim has always been locked up in Cabanas Ca-banas for safe keeping till the next steamer day Then he has been marched aboard the steamer by a file of eight soldiers with fixed bayonets The spies all speak English though they pretend not to understand a word of our language Hence more than one American has made indiscreet remarks re-marks to a fellowAmerican in the presence of a Spaniard whom the American supposed could not understand under-stand the English tongue SPYING AT THE HOTELS The most dangerous most monstrous and most despicable of the Spanish spies are hotel employees There is absolutely ab-solutely no way of knowing which of these hotel rascals is your particular I enemy Whoever he is he sneaks Into your room whenever you go out searches the pockets of your clothing and reads any letters or scraps of paper which you have been careless enough to leave exposed This spy peeps into your loom through the grating of your windows He forces near you in the dining room always listening and always al-ways hating 1r > A I An American who Had been thus watched for some weeks asked a hotel porter one day to direct a cabman to drive to the cemetery to the burial place of the Maines dead The porter said a few words in Spanish to the cabman cab-man the American got in the cabman lashed his horse After driving for ten minutes the American who had been to the cemetery before perceived that the cabby was driving In the wrong direction Thinking that there had been a mistake in giving the destination destina-tion the American attempted to make the driver understand The driver however paid no attention to him and I a moment later a file of soldiers issuing issu-ing from da gate in the wall stopped I the carriage dragged the American I from it and marched him into Cabanas prison The only excuse for the imprisonment r i prisonment of that young man a correspondent corre-spondent for a New York daily was that he had been seen on three several occasions driving with a Cuban family in the Praedo The charge as usual was general conspiracy against the government The next Ward line steamer left Havana with that unfortunate unfor-tunate correspondent aboard Sometimes though very rarely the spy is a Cuban When a Cuban is bad he Is very bad Only such a one would C27 rS 7Jfi Q tiir 1 it C W4 j jt II f i I t u I fAlliIIIJI rl J 11 11 wl I I r i IiIJ l I I F JU y rl Jl I II 1 = = Afi 1 = I = = J J 1 J Crowding an Americano Off the Sidewalk sell himself to the enemy of his island and his Independence With all these spying prying ratcas about him how is it that the American Ameri-can does not keep out of their clutches Because It is utterly Impossible to dls tirgulsh the lily from the ordinary mortal Things are in such a state here that Americans have acouired a habit of saying Dn the Spanish This or cours Is a seditious remark and though the Americans believe that only his comrade hears it yet it is translated trans-lated to the lalace officials in a way that gives it sufficient significance to expel the Yankees The Americans have more than once spotted a spy Sometimes the peeking peek-ing thieving lying fellow has been caught In the very act of breaking open a trunk or of stealing important papers pa-pers In such cases that particular spy reports that he has been discovered and another spy Is put on Inhis place SPIES WATCHING GENERAL LEE TOO Appeals to Consul General Lee to have certain anoyancss stopped and for redress of certain personal 1 grievances griev-ances are made in vain The general himself Is literally surrounded by both Spanish and Cuban spies The Spaniard Span-iard and the Cuban are both forever thinking of Moro castle the bastlle of Havana The year 1S98 undoubtedly means for Havana what 1793 meant for Paris The bastile fell then Moro castle is bound to fall now The Spaniard Span-iard knows it He Is desperate The Cuban knows it He is in despair Today To-day over Moro castle flies the flag of Spain In a few months the Spanish Hag will have gone and another will Heat in its place Which The Cuban blue and white or the American stars and stripes This Is the question which both Spaniards and Cubans are asking themselves today Over Moro castle each wants his own flag to float alone and neither wishes to yield up that fa pious flag pole to the red white and blue of the Americano No wonder that Havana is infested by a horde of spies |