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Show rECCLUItlTIES OP CCIl. TIIXBTIIUU OF JIAKI.NU -SUJAlt. MM.-TK.STI1S OKTHETHVDl. IN THIS COMMODITY OOMVCTED 11 AUFJUCJS. HOW 8PAIJ. KCTAlhS ITS GKI1 OS HIE ISLAND. IS-LAND. DEI HtCIATlON IF lllli crime cv. The following Interesting article descriiitiveorCuba is taken fom the Dttroit A'etcK City Counselor J.W. McGnlli lias returned home after an abstace of several weeks in Culm. whither be went In company with il.H.Cham-berlaluartl il.H.Cham-berlaluartl Marvin I'reston, The latter lmd decided to extend his vif It to Yira Cmz, ilt-xlcu, while Mr. Chamberlain United in Florida Flori-da in the expectation of golnr on a turcoB'ul flbHing expedition. Soon after the return cf Jlr. Mc-Gratli Mc-Gratli an Acentoig Xetri reporter asked him for the gcueial laiprcs-uoiis laiprcs-uoiis of the trip and he obl&mgl) talked of it as follows: "It was a iry enjoyable and beneficial trip. WelcVtSew York March 1 3, landed at Santiago March 10, intenuing to remain only a few hours, but Were so interrtteain this, tho oldctt city on thu western licni-iGpDcre, licni-iGpDcre, in its quaint architecture, its beautiful colorlup,", its jietiple, that wu remained there for ten days. "From this point wemadoRA era! excursions into the Interior to see the immense wigar plantation, and along Uic coast to Guantaniino, aud thence to the Isabel and fcaledao sugar i (.tates operated by Brooks A. CoofXew Yolk. The largest estates, es-tates, lioweer, are at Cieufuegow. we witnessed the liar vetting aud the crushing uf tlie sugar cane, aud saw the sugar in Jts original state before tho 'refiner' at our sealoaTd mixes it u ith glucose. We do not eat pure sugar. Our lolicy practlially prohibits pro-hibits the importation of clarified nu?ar. augarcau be produced in Cuba at a profit at two cents per und Each sugar mill produces from 3,-UW.OuO 3,-UW.OuO to fl,0t),000 (ouniU of sugar aunually. It costs anywhere frum fVfcVXXl to $,0j0,0i to erecta sugar sug-ar plant. Larli mill owner cultl-ates cultl-ates from 500 to b00 acres of enue and take the cane pioducql b smaller sugar farmers. Theproduitaof Cuba are sugar aud tobacco, although the mountains moun-tains are filled witli Iron, copper and mauganese. JSut one mlnu is being operated by u rhllaJeltJiIa companv who are shipping from 30,-000 30,-000 to 40,0t0 tons firon each month to rhiladeh hia. It is said that the ore cau be shipped from Santiago de Cuba to Jhladeljjila cheaper than it can be carried from Lake Superior to Cleveland. TheIt Cuban cigars are exported ex-ported to Europe, not to the United state. We buy their products largely, but tell tlitm scarcely anything. any-thing. "Iheyget their sho. clothing, dry good., furulture. haniw are, etc., prlueJpnlly from Ortat ISritalu and France, alllioush Havana is lut 28 hours from lain ja, Kia. Tliey need the product of our manufacturer's ourturnlture, our agricultural implements, im-plements, our shoes, our clothing, etc The sugar tstati-s are largely operated bj free labor, mostly colored. color-ed. Laru numbciof Chlniseare emjloyetl in and about I lie sugar mlllr. The women earn from Su to 9 0 cents per da , the men frum $1 to JI.25 .er daj. In the flells tliey wort: 1" hours, but in the mills about 10 hours. "We went frcm Santiago along the southern coswt, stop) lug at banta Cruz, Trinidad and L ienfut-gostD ienfut-gostD iiatabauos, and thence by rail to Havana, where we reuiiiueil several sev-eral do s. Froui Haana we vislt'-d Matauur, the Dr fault d Vumuri Valley, the cave of Ikillauiar, the QulntadeDelieics, etc '-Ti.e Cuban Valleys are most beautiful and fertile, bugarhos been raised upon one piece of laud for sixty consecutive jears without re-plautlug, re-plautlug, cultivation,, or fertilization. fertiliza-tion. 1 he machinery I" the sugar mills I, In many Instances, of the latest and mt approved patterns, but the wagons, plows, etc., ac lhoa ill use in the mlJdieage". ' Cuba cecJs taost of all, a r u siderate goxcrniueut. The J e It-are It-are rt-stirss aud diisalisfeti. Hit reol.ilionary sirit exists ceri-when. ceri-when. They are taxed to deatli. The bjauWi govcrnn-eut txaiV-about txaiV-about 2a,0W,iXW .auuujll and mvesbacka military dtfjt,tiiiii, a bpamsh local jolice, fejat,i-h S"-ernon?, S"-ernon?, otsessors and tixgatlieiei", and a state church f vstem tlie rites of whkh but few rltrve, not-wltlistamllDg not-wltlistamllDg they are- of that faitli. "I was told that the. taxation amounts to $25 for each cultivated aero of laud. A cow can bo bought fur $10, but if you wish toslaughter tlie animal jou must paySIS to the Spanish government for tho privilege privi-lege of doing it. "Cuba haau lobulation ot l,o0,-DW, l,o0,-DW, tif whom 500,000 are negroes, 250,000 are Sjanlards and 750,000 natives or Cubans. Kinety-scven ier cent ot the people would vote fur annexation to the United States IftheyhaJ the opportunity. The Hiunish soldier aud the Spanish lullcunun are omnipresent, and one or more Spanfch gunboaH can l seen in every harbor; The harbors of Havana, at Guautauimo, at Mat-anza, Mat-anza, at Sauliago. and generally alongthecoastarethe finest in the world. 'The general condition of the negro is bad, aud not eUSerent from that in the United fetates. One sf the greatest difficulties exjieritneed by the sugar mikers is to get the negro ne-gro to work at all. Hence tlie e. tates are not operated as well as they might be were tlie- negro more willing to labor. Tliey were .liberated .liber-ated in thu seventies. There are not a great .many Chinese on tho island. There are about 4,000 jn Havana. The Chinese do not work In tlie fields, but in the sugar mlUa. They handle the cane into the crushers, direct into the rollers, and handle it back when not perfectly crashed. 'Although the Cubans are restless rest-less and dissatisfiei with the Spanish Span-ish gowrument, there are no Judications of an uprising. They have no arms and no vessel can carry a load of nniis or advance into a Cuban port without a special permit per-mit from the governor. They do not allow an American vessel to Ian! at a dock In Cuba. Our vessel anchored outside while1 the Spanbh vcels w er" moored at the eioiis. They are verr vigorous in their surveillance. Tbey will allow no foreign vessel to enter anybarboe after nightfall. lVesIbly tht-y admit ad-mit a vesst I under stress of weather? but not otherwise, ave in daylight. Them are many Ameiicans ou the islaud cf Cuba, and, Indeed, all pftlin enter-true exhibited there is by Americans or EnglUhmemOnly one sugar tVate on the islaud Is oirated by fcpaulards. The jealousy jeal-ousy of the bpanish government, govern-ment, as well as the slow-dtlibtration slow-dtlibtration of the Spanish race, is exemplified by the fa-l that Brooks A: GO, sugar farmers and manufiictureri', -Halted eleven years for a -permit apjllod -far from the Spanish government, to build a railroad rail-road from tlie coat pert to their plantation, liven then the firm was couipel'ed" jo luIIJ a custom houio at the port ata cost of $30,000, which the government dots not keep in re-nalrrbnl re-nalrrbnl allows Jt tj fall gradually Jntorului- The Spaniards, by their Inattention to tlioir public buildings, appear to indicate that they have no alJuTahceof maintaining Uielr grip ou tho queen of the Antilles, Forts, churches and custom houses are decayed de-cayed and left lo ciutnWe. Havana Is paved With tnc A soft coral rockis quarried, which by exposure to tho air becomes ban!. But this I a limestone, and the air is contiuu. ally filled w Ith its limy dusL Havana Ha-vana has underground drains, but Santiago de Cuba, a city of 45,000 inhabitants, has overground drains, and when it rains the streets are a slejit to see, I "What makes a very marked Im- I rt-mlon on the American H the ahseuce of factories seen in our own or in English aud other lJiroiau cities, bland ou top of Fort Moro and look down on the city of Havana Hava-na ami you can see every house in it. It looks llkea gieat dead dt) on account of the absence of that activity. activ-ity. There is no smoke from the factory smokestack. There are no factories. But there is no smoke at ail. You will not see a stove in all Cuba. They cook on charcoal grxtfs set in the top of a table against the wa'L On the aides of til a table are apertures, fora draft. A tin funnel, like a locomotive, smoke - conductor in a northern round Iioum;, carries oil the fumes of the cliarcoaL But for that matter, mat-ter, the fumes might as well lie left to go through the windows, since there is no glass in them, nothing no-thing lut Iron or wooden rnlan. Tm re are no two rooms paiUUoncd off is we have them. Nothing but curtains form the parti tlon,and wliat 1 going on In one room can be h ard lu the other. There are very lew d'wrs except frontdoors. Almost Al-most SO per cent of the people do business and reside in the same house. , The entrance to the store of the ordinary merchant is the entrance en-trance to bis residence. But the tobacco merchants divide the two. Tbey are merchants of the better class. Nearly every house has a court, which is a yard surrounded by the structures composing the botbe. From his dining room the merchant can sec his horse feeding across the court In the r.ar portion of the house, store and stable com blned. These courts are often Jay with flowers and filled w ith foliage and plants. There ate co alleys in Cuba. Tliey Hke more ground space than we do. and nearly all li o ou the grou nd lioor. "One tiling that struck me favor ably in Cuba was the coloring of the bouse. You look down the vista of a long street, a narrow one, as tlie streets will scarcely average lS.fett In width, and you see thu roof' are covered with terra eoiU. Hut tlie houses. One It lealcomiiied, not painted, a jure white, the next blue, the next light tnppir color. None of the coloia are loud, but all are soft and nieasinj: to the eve. The general effect Is very agreeable. Obispo Street In Havana is the widest. It Is 1G feet In width. Sidewalks are no more than 10 inches or 21 feet in width at the widest. Two .rsom cannot pa on any of their s'de walls. Curl slam are not -to exceed 10 inches in many cases fro u the house line. Most of the leoplowalk in the street and not on tbo sidewalk. But there are plenty of chicle. Tliey are Very cheap. Three of us rode a mile for 50 cents, paper money, which is equal to about 20 cents of our money. At Santiago Sjonlsh gold is at a premium, and Mexican half dollars at a discount of 20 percent. At Havana parer is u-cd which CJUuptbepaiiwl ouUhlo the city. One dollar lu Spanish gold will buy $240 in Havana paper. American silver ten and five cent pieces circulate cir-culate freely In Cuba, aud to retain it there lu circulation boles are punched In each of the pieces. The currency resembles our old worn fractional currency. American paper money aud gold are at 10 per cent premium over Spanish gold. One dollar of our money w LU bu $200 of Havana money," |