Show THE BAY OF S NTIAGO Remarkable Features ot the Now Famous liar bet The bay of Santiago do Cuba Itself Is I virtually a bottle with the entrance as an extremely Email neck thereto The coast presents a frowning wall of granite to the Caribbean sea extending ex-tending for many miles east and wet of the harbor In appearance theo walls are markedly similar to those ot the Inllcades on the Hudson They are almost exactly perpendicular so much so handlwarlt as to give the Imrtealson of human The entrance to the hay la I a cleft In I the rock and la I Invisible until fate Is I It steamer exactly abeam e > f Morro castle which guards the entrance en-trance to all West Indian Spanish ports Is I perched on the rlghthan cliff It was at the outbreak of ho tllltlM nothing more than a plctur eAquo ruin and waR used its a dungeon for pollllcaj suspects At that time the gun In place were of ancient pattern and there Is no Information that thee have been replaced by modern armament arma-ment Across the channel and a little further fur-ther In Cal Soopa a more modern I 4 i tructure giv more aainst 0ruct gl cau raorerprotelion nr x Intruders AthousaM rest trm Moto and ornt ell 1ldxxIf J t he channell l Iorn back I ln 1 n t e I x a strong ba tery Still furlher In Pantn Cllallnn foil points I Its Kims monaclnKlyover the channel five miles nl Inside of bay And just before the city Is reached Is I another an-other battery lllanca by name wlilcH commaMB the waters Immediately In front ot the city of Santiago Th boy la surrounded by hlch bluffs iovlrcil with a shrubbery which inakic excellent excel-lent locations for masked batteries he channel In the bay ot RanthlSo Is narrow and would I Rive I the Impression that two vessels could not PBM without dancer ot collision In this clmriiel which Is between perpendicular rocks Identical in formation to that of the sea will The walls on cither side are so high that the llaht Is I shut out even un der a tropical Bull to a Iere that Is 1 like passing I from daylight to dark naP s naPThe run however 1s short Into the bay which Is I without doubt the moat beautiful In the world J Is I theatrical In shape and studded with tiny Islets vittere the nMiermin live end whence he poor people of Santiago dtrlve their chief supply of food I li I Incredible that any considerable fleet of vessels can even find anhenrnge In tilts bay Oi account of the shallow depth and the torturous shin pare to tho ely or inllaEo at file head of th bal No merchant shift or regular liner can enter en-ter this bay without a native pilot and tile ships have to proceed with great caution even under such guidance There Is of course sea room In this bay lmclnt In Irea to necllmmMII the fleets of the world but no depth of water Such a thing as a naval light In this bay li t out of the 1 question for various reasons Chief ot these la that our fleet could never enter the bay It there was tiny resistance One monot war stationed on the Inside ot the outer Imnnel could hold at hy 1 the combined not of the world The same ndiant rise to a na11 TPletAne In I offered bore a H was offered the Crocks In the lass ot Thermopylae The ships could only enter on at n time and as they poked their noses past the granite wall 0 at the entrance thy could be blbwn out of the water by a well equipped Ben fighter or battery O course the same holds good in the way of bottling up the enemys fleet One ot our monitors the IHiitanomah or the rurllanslatloned outside could destroy the Spanish fleet vessel by vessel If It attempted to each the open sea Z The only way by which our fleet can get nt Admiral Cervcra would be to throw their projectiles over the elltts I that bar the entrance to Santiago bay This of course would be haphazard fighting and absolutely Ineffective In the destruction of warships I would be nn easy mailer to bombard Santl I oarn r dd ago In this way rb not to deal troy he Spanish fleet There lg I no doubt > In the mind of naval experts but that It Is now Imply a question ot a waitIng wait-Ing game with Admiral Sampson as the terror and theSpanlsh admiral as the rat In the trap The bay of Santiago Is beautiful beyond be-yond description tropical forests surrounding sur-rounding It on all sides perennially green The city of Santiago Is gloomIng gloom-Ing white In the sunshine but much to the contrary on closer Inspection The streets are Indescribably filthy and the same will apply to the In labltants There Is I no sewerage ays tom and the offal ot all descriptions Is I dumped In the streets to tie consumed con-sumed or left alone by the buzzards who constitute the scavenger system of the city There is but one bathtub In this city of CD 000 Inhabitants I Is a secondhand second-hand bathtub and was Imported to Santiago by a eon ul under Prp lden Mdtavkus oaurllofgols Cho yr Cleveland When he lull th it city two years ago he led his bathtub to his successor The city is compactly built The streets are narrow the houses are of adobe and brick and very residence IR strongly fortified The wall of these houses are on an average ot three feet In thickness The windows find door are protected1by baY Iron gratings and the entire city looks o though It Is prepared to resist a selge Most of these houses were built from < ono to two centuries ago and were ictunlly fortified for protection against bandits and robber Santiago la I next to Havana the richest rich-est city on the Island There Is com paratlvely 1 I little poverty and the ml Ilonittres are counted by the scores un tho plaza are the cathedral one of the oldest and finest on the Western continent and the opera house The display of diamonds In either of these most popular places of resort will equal that of a first night n the Metropolitan opera house In New York Cltv A vast majority ot the menof Sanla g are decidedly dusky In hue There are probably not a dozen fullblooded Spanish women In the city Back of the city of Santiago are the mountains which extend almost tho entire length ot the southern coast I was In these mountains that the In aurclon started and had Its tong bold and where the arms and ammuni ton bequeathed to the present Insurgents Insur-gents by all preceding Insurrections were stored These strongholds are absolutely Impregnable and none of the Spnlh commanders have ever attempted at-tempted to penetrate them There are two good coaling depot along the shares ot the bayt at Clnco Ieiies three miles train the entrance en-trance and another directly across from the city Thee ore not government govern-ment coal yards but are owned by the Juraugun iron company which brings the coal from the United States In the steamers used In Its Iron trade some coal Is brought from Great Britain but only a small percentage of the stock The Iron company Is controlled by American capital which also controls the short lines ot rnllroadrunnlng train the city to the mines A last account the average amount of coal brought Into these yard v early ear-ly from abroad was 13000 tons Host of this was anthracite and Cumberland with a small percentage of Welsh English Eng-lish and Scotch There arc n known facilities for docking vlsI but the elty ha several machine sjiops capable ot rejoicing ordinary repair on visiting vessels On the outskirts of the city Is I wha I Is row a slaughter house where the VIrdnlus crew was shot In 1873 The city of Santiago was founded In I I by Diego Velasquez and was Incorporated In-corporated In 1522 For a time It was the capital of the Island In i ja Frenchmen captured the city and the paniards were forced ta give a ran mm of 180000 for Its release For a Spanish force to get from Santiago to Havana would rtaulre a moron ofSOO miles mostly through woos and Impossible mountain pasne full of Insurgents The nearest IK 1 Mat M-at Which n Ialroad could Je taken In the direction ot Havana I Clentng or Santa Cam for the simple reason that with the exception of a couple ot lines running front sea to se across the Island the nearest line begins st Dlcnruego and even this line la I dan gEOU because of the dynamiting cam wilgn popular with the insurgents and which play such havoc with traveling Spanish troops From Clenfuegos I 1 Is I but a days ride to Havana It the road Is unmoleatedChlcaco Tribune |