Show UTAH AT MANILA Stood Their Baptism of Fire Did the Utah Volunteers I i LUCKIER THAT OTHERS I i i I I I BOUGH BIDEBS NOT LIKELY TO I SEE ANY SERV LKLY I But They Showed Thair Patriotism and Courage In Offering Their Services and Will Be Rsmsinhered Accordingly Same of Torreys i and Griggsbys Men Anxious to Investigate I vestigate the Resources of Cuba Washington Office of The Herald t 1415 G Street 1J W r Washington D C Aug 11 Nearly all thQ eastern papers have handsome editorials I orials on the subject of the first American battle in the Philippines Several of them I allude to the presence of Brigham Youngs I grandson In command of the volunteers as affording ample illustrationof the unanimity I una-nimity of patriotic sentiment in this country extending to ail sections and pervading all creeds War department fiiclals believe that the peace negotiations are now oo far advanced ad-vanced that there will be no more fighting fight-ing In the Philippines But the Utah soldiers sol-diers have nobly stood their baptism of fire and will return from Malaysia with the honors of battletried veterans I I never another gun is fired In this respect they are far mqre fortunate for-tunate than their friends who started for the front with Colonel Jay L Torrey Present indications are that the Tupelo accident will be the only startling experience ex-perience of the Second volunteer cavalry In the war There seems to be no reason to hope that either the Griggsby or Tor rey cavalry will see any active powder smelling service in the war and Roose I velts regiment will have all the exper I ience and be the only genuine warworn j I rough riders There is however some prospect that these regiments will form I I part of the army of occupation and will i be permitted to go to Cuba after the fall j l of the island This will not be very satisfactory I satis-factory to the enthusiastic boys who compose the rank and file of the volunteer I volun-teer cavalry regiments but it will be far I better than no service at all The most unpleasant feature of the business will I be that if sent either to Cuba or Porto 1ch they are likely to 0b called on to I I serve at least one full years enlistment This is very different from what the boys contracted for but it is the best they can hope to get 1 A great many of the men from the mountain states will be glad of a chance ito i-to investigate the mineral resources of i i sf J d eastern Cuba Copper is known srg abound I there in great quantities and there are I reports that gold may be found In richly I 1 paying deposits So there may be millions I lions in it I I Whatever may be the final details of the peace conditions there is not now and i i has not from the first been any doubt as to the Independence of Cuba the annexa 1 ton of Porto Rico and the disappearance i of the blackandyellow flag trom the i new world All the matters that will be considered by the peace commission will I pertain to the Philippines Carolines and Ladrones the Cuban debt and the transportation I trans-portation of the Spanish troops to Spain But Spanish sovereignty is known to beat I be-at an end in the new world which she discovered dis-covered and in which she has been such a powerful factor for four centuries Co I lumbla at last comes to be the prindIaI governing power in the seas where Christopher Chris-topher Columbus sailed his caravals and upon lands which he discovered The United State will become with the acquisition of Cuba the custodian of the ashes of the great discoverer which rest in Havana Both Cuba and Porto Rico were discovered discov-ered by the great admiral who gave Spain the dn wt world Columbus was delighted with Cuba One could live here forever for-ever he wrotito his sovereigns Ferdi nand and Isabella1 dlt is the most beau tiful Island that eyes ever beheld full of excellent ports and profound rivers This was written by the great discoverer discov-erer when he believed Cuba to be the I f ndw r Cipango which Marco Polo had brought to the notice of the European world Later he became convinced that I Cuba was the easternmost part of Asia and although he nearly circumnavigated I i the Island the great navigator died firm i In the belief that the Queen of the Antilles I was an Asiatic promontory I That part of the Island now Occupied by the American troops was well known to the admiral of the Indies He was the discoverer of Guantanamo bay and hH caravals I spent one night In the beautiful harbor of Santiago de Cuba from which Cerveras squadron lately went forward to destruction i It is an interesting fact that the noblest of Cerveras vessels l named for the dlscov i I erer was like himself an Italian and came from Geno I is aso noteworthy that the Cristobal Colon rushing out of Santiago bay took almost the exact I course followed by the discoverer 0 years ago The Colon gave up the struggle at Tarqulno point near the very headland from which the admiral turned the noses of his vessels for the blue mountains of Jamaica 1 Columbus was fascinated with Cuba I was the first great Island that he discovered discov-ered He came to i a fortnight after his landfall on Wailings island He had passed the intervening days cruising among the southern Bahamas Here he first began to hear of Cuba from the natives na-tives He understood it to be of great extent ex-tent abounding in gold and pearls and spices and carrying on an extensive commerce com-merce In these precious articles He at i once became Impressed with the Idea that It must be either the famed Ciango or I a part of the dominions of the Grand Khan and he sailed to the southward In search of it He approached i west of the modern Nilevitas As he neared the noble island he was struck with its magnitude magni-tude and the grandeur of its features Its high and airy mountnns reminded him of Sicily He was enthusiastic in his letters let-ters to his sovereigns upon Cubas long sweeping plains watered by noble rivers I her stately forests bold promontories and stretching headlands i Washington Irving says of Columbus first landing In Cuba He anchored in a I beautiful river of transparent clearness i free from rocks and shoals its banks i overhung with trees He continually eulo j rcized the beauty and fertility of the i island He was in a mood to see everything t every-thing through a favoring medium His j heart was full to overflowing for he was enjoying the fulfillment of his hopes and t hardearned but glorious reward of his i I I toils and perils Everything around him J I was beheld with the enamoured and ex j i ultlng eye of the discoverer where triumph tri-umph mingles with admiration I is difficult dif-ficult to conceive the rapturous state of I hs feelings while thus exploring the i charms of a virgin world by his enterprise enter-prise and valor the discoverer said The serenity of the rivers the clearness of the water the multitude of palm trees of various forms the highest and most beautiful I have ever seen and an Infinity of other ret and green trees the birds in rich plumage and the verdure of the fields renders this country of such marvelous beauty tnat It surnasses all others in charms and graces I I t as the day doth the night in lustre Much as I endeavor to give a complete account of 1 to your majesties said the admiral my tongue cannot express the whole truth nor my pen describe I and I have been so overwhelmed at the sight of so much beauty that I have not known how to relate It From Neuvitas Columbus proceeded westward slant the northern corgt of Cuba putting in at various rivers endeavoring en-deavoring through hs Bahama Indian Interpreters In-terpreters to herr of the capital a Ci pango He sent envoys to the chief of an Interior village called Cbanacan located not far from the scene of the operation of General Maximo Gomez But ho heard t nothing that he deemed to his advantage On his trip to the interior tho Spaniards gained their first knowledge of the new world contributions to the necessities and luxuries of the world potatoes and tobacco tobac-co The first was a humble root that proved a more precious acouisltion to men than 1 the spices of tlif Indies and tobacco ear to be indulged to the ends of the earth west Capo on Palmas the north was Columbus coast of the farthest island I Turning eastward from this point he sailed sail-ed along the Cuban coast to the present Cape Maysl called by him Cape Alpha and Omega which he believed NtQ be the beginning and the end of Asia From here hearing of another rich island to the east which he took for Cipango he sailed to thC north shore 6f Kavti established a settlement and started back to Spain He took with him some native Cubans and ferried home to his sovereigns the news I of his addition to their crown bf a new land named Juana in honor of their son Cuba soon lost the name he gave her and resumed her aboriginal 1 appellation but J < < < = f it is 400 years later before the island becomes be-comes independent of the Spanish masters I Columbus gave her I It was not until his second voyage to the new world that Columbus explored that part of Cuba that Is playing such an important I im-portant part in current history It was on April 24 1494 that he arrived again at Cape I Alpha and Omega coming from the Mole St Nicholas from this point he i ran for 2 leagues along the south coast of CUD and then anchored In a noble harbor har-bor to which he gave the sounding name of Puerto Grande Ths was the Guantanamo Guanta-namo bay on whose shores the Star Spangled Span-gled Banner was first unfurled on Cuban soil The ancient chronicle says < The entrance to this harbor is carrQw and deep but it expands within I like a beautK kbeUrnl g N rf ful lake In the bosom of a wild and moun taiitous country covered with trees some In blossom others bearing fruit Several fires blazing on the beach gave gve signs of inhabitants Here Columbus and his crews enjoyed a bountiful repast offish of-fish and fruits served by th peaceful natives na-tives for which the admiral scrupulously paid Coming out of Guantanamo bay Cofumbus continued westward along a mountainous coast adorned by beautiful rivers and indented by commodious harbors har-bors As he advanced the untry grew more fertile and populous The natives crowded to the shores men women and children gazing in astonishment at the ships which glided by at no great distance dis-tance They held up fruits and provisions provi-sions Inviting the Spaniards to land Others came off in canoes bringing cassava cas-sava bread fish and calabashes of water as offerings to the strangers whom they Considered celestial I beings descended from the skies Columbus distributed presents which were received with gratitude grat-itude I is uron this same cct that the American warships have kept their long vigil In the Spanish war After continuing continu-ing along the coast some time Xjlumbus came to another gulf or deep cay I I was narrow at the entrance and expanding I expand-ing within surrounded bjt a rich and beautiful country says Irving There were lofty mountains sweeping up from the sea but the shores were enlivened b < numerous villages and cultivated to such a degrees as to resemble gardens and orchards or-chards This was the now famous harbor of Santiago San-tiago Here the admiral anchored and passed the night overwhelmed as usual I with the simple hostility of the natives The next day coming out of the harbor ho turned to the westward and continuing contin-uing he approached a high cape Here I not far from where his nameship now lies wrecked he abandoned his westward journey and turned south 19 explore the Island of Jamaica which he named Santiago San-tiago Later in his career the admiral visited all that part of Cuba between Manzanillo bay and Batabano He had many interesting inter-esting experiences in the fringe of small islands off the coast and in the shallow waters of this part of the Caribbean which he called the White Sea After sailing sail-ing for about six weeks and when nearly opposite the present Batabano the port now most noted for blockade running operations op-erations he abandoned the exploration of the island and returned to Hlspanola But not until he and his men had prepared a document which was a remarkable demonstration dem-onstration of the fallibility of man Convinced Con-vinced that he had been following the southern shore of Asia he caused the I masters mariners and seamen of his vessels ves-sels to join in a formally signed document declaring this to be the coast of Asia This too although a journey of less than two days to the westward would hays taken him through the Yucatan channel which separates the uban province ot Pinar del Rio from Mash o Although he twice afterwards vis d Cvbar waters he never proceeded fuher to the westward west-ward and died still hugging th1 delusion that Cuba was part of Asia The great admirals weary soul departed at Valladolid in that Spain which so poorly poor-ly requited his great deeds but la sleeps In the beleagured city of Havana on the soil of the Island that was to him the best beloved of all lands he gave to Castile Cas-tile and Leon HOSFORD |