Show I L HOTEL AND CORRIDOR J A sportsman In all that the term implies im-plies Is the Hon H E Yorke of 2 Hanover Han-over Square London a member of one of the most distinguished titled families of Great Britain who isV spending four I years in encircling the globe Mr Yorke I preferred to stop at the Knutsford while in the city yesterday without intruding his name the hotel upon e O register < > v < S > I Despite his unobstruslvoness Mr Yorke becomes interesting because he has seen j I active army life in Cuba has dined with i Wpylcr the wolf and threatened the I tyrant with the terrors of British gunboats gun-boats unless some of his personal effects seized by the Spanish olficers were returned I re-turned to him on the spot El Coyote slapped the bravely spoken young Englishman En-glishman on the shoulders and laughed j into his face At that diplomatic moment I mo-ment Mr Yorke suddenly realized what I an enormous monopoly the captain gen I i I I eral had on everybody and everything In i i havana Mr Yorke laughed back Into AVerlers face and took dinner with him I again Several bottles of Spanish vln V I tars washed down his chagrin and two I I SpanIsh subordinates are still the possessors I pos-sessors of Mr Yorkes line English hunting hunt-ing weapons < < 0 The fawning of the Spanish butcher I I upon his English visitor did not have a I selfsatisfying effect on Mr Yorke Upon I the contrary he was filled with a loath in = for the man and his methodr which I have not been mollified by an absence I of several weeks from the desolated island is-land I < a < s > > Some indelllblc Impressions were carried away by the young nobleman gained by three weeks of campaigning with the I Spanish troops These were Impressions of rapine Inhumanity In more revolting forms and a lixed conviction that Cuba I should be freed from Spanish Intolerance WhIle with the army Mr Yorke witnessed I some fearful sights but he wished to be dbu shed Ifne i distinctly i understood as denying that i there is any warfare existing In Cuba i Ha did not see a pitched battle all of V the two months passed on the island > i lated bands of Cubans frequently fired on the Spanish from cover The Spanish did not try to dislodge the insurgents I but turned their hides away from the Cuban fire by taking to little wooden I forts which they have erected a few J miles apart over the island When a I railroad train i leaves Havana It goes I with guard of t rG Spanish soldiers and six officers Mr Yorke was on board otcer I one of these trains going to Matanzas The train was fired upon The Spanish guard on board protected the passengers hy stampeding for an armor plated carnet car-net to the locomotive Here they ensconced I en-sconced their precious bodies and returned the are through port holes To make matters more exciting for Mr Yorke and i I i his fellow passengers tOe trn w H felow I wrecked This was delightful So he returned to Havana to dine again with Weyler In all Mr Yorke sat at table three times with the butcher twice on Invitation from life wolf and iet i once when he I oihr I general to partake i of his hospitality i 6 > < > I Mr Yorke also saw other Pizhts He witnessed the execution of four Cuban I patriots i l1t sunrise out on the plains beyond i be-yond Havana There were no priests I i I war simply a grim march to the plains j i a dead halt until thsun ht Opctr palmettos I I mottos and then a command a flash and I I four bodies and plenty of blood He saw I I from trees the corpses of negroes banging I along corpl the roadside like dead fruit left I I I to rpen and drop to the ground They I were the victims of Spanish atrocity and 1 I He also learned that Cuban guerrillas allo leared an entire village was wiped out at Wey I I viage I Irs orders because they were not quick enough to get within the proscribed I pro-scribed lines to suit the general He also Icribt Spanish officer in the military I nt rrlson of Havana ofcer was under a life I sentence for surrendering one of the little jentcnce the Cubans A marquis wooden forts to J marqlls who had owned great estates In the Island I I I before the war Impoverished by the awful aw-ful conditions offered his services to Mr Yorke as valet in order that he might I I get out of the Island < a < < S > Mr Yorke wants i understood that the I dispatches sent to this country ae not correct for the reason that they are made out to suit the Spanish censor He made a most astonishing statement which was in effect that the Spanish furnish about efe used the DO per cent of the ammunition by I Insurgents Hundreds of prostituted women receive pay for Jrs bestial I traffic Inre cartridges from the Spanish i I soldiers They are forwarded to the I Cubans so that the Spanish bullets are II turned against themselves These are only a few of the things observed by the I young Englishman a full account of I which would lill this paper and vet Mr Yorke will not write a book but go on hunting in other lands with a party of huntng friends who meet in San Francisco < > t > > Henry Cox Fellow of the Royal Geographical Geo-graphical society of Great Britain Is at the Knutsford accompanied by his wife and daughter Dora They left England last December and have traveled leisurely through the English colonies The Canary Islands engaged a good deal of Mr Coxs attention and he pronounces It climate the most perfect In the world o > < R Pognon and L Lima of Paris arc Knutsford guests 11 < S > Max Bahr a member of the educational circles of Tandsberp Prussia stopped at the Knutsford yesterday |