Show OUR ODB FLAO FLAG AT SANTIAGO there was an uneasy and re atlese air of expectancy elong along the cites streets streeta many stores were closed and people wandered about looking tor for the signs of di gorder among the lower elioe ses that had been eted for this dey day there have been people to fissure you that chat the bhe oppressed isla auder would rise in his wraith aad sia ite the long pent up vange ances gouid final finally lybe be wreaked wrecked wre aked that property of Spam ards lards would be destroyed that spanish lives were not safe and that the unfitted stayten little li title k knew ne new w the vf of this long suffering but nott lAng ng happened the people who toward eleven crowded into fortaleza street treet a which leads ito bo the palace pi alace and who lined bal balconies balco condes indea and housetops were quiet and at 1130 two bait battalions tallone of the bhe eleventh preceded by their band marched down this street and ana formed facing the palace in the small am all square in fromia of want that building company H of the sixth cavalry was formed behind the infantry amid the band at aft the vallace door at alt twenty minutes n of eleven a group ot of about forty AmeT american ican army and navy officers im eluding general On eral brooke arto oke admiral schley and geneal gordan came out of the palace aad took places in the shade at a t the of the atone paved square all foreign consuls con sule and mundel municipal pal and insular officials had bad been previously invited toy by the commission to attend the ceremony and these guests were present wd with th our officers on the vala valace palace ce roof dean dmd aad castle of geneal baw ikea staff were ready to raise the mew flog flag the signal was too to be a gun gan fiam morro above the palace the trap brodal loal sky isky was and glaring against tta bright aig light hit the aaice and soldierly figure of castle was sharp ly outlined he watched for the tha chait would mark the change major dean held the flag line then Th enover over the expectant crowd crowd ziang rang out the first tones of a midday bell and in ID a ails nce of de deserted streets men counted from froan its niche on the top of a church another bell began its cadenced dirge tor for the mastera who had gone men and hearts beat fat fast down the wind from morro came an echoing bomm the gun had spoken the denslo aft OF ow he figure on the roof relaxed and the Amer american leati flag was drawn to th title wot height of the staff the music of the antell can Vat national ional anthem drowned the teat loof notes of Spa Spain nAsh ish bells there was as cheering not resounding beoo and vociferous for letl n races do nott not cheet cha t a as we do but the cheering such bachas sachas as it woe was general and heads were um covered while the band played that ww aia all A simple dignified and impressive ceremony to tio mark the firmi and surrender of puerta tico rico 1 to the within two manutes from se time set for the flag at san juian juan to begoni the troops were marching marchl ng to their newly quartee quart eins and all was over the live matted L states had become beco roe eed st aft S san W u juani juam ot the government machinery maenner i fl ot puerto rico of two fortresses and san the 0 gov gover ennior olor selex nw 1 I als palace iffie castles bel land san sam Cr isal the marine nd the yard a n fifty fo six guns guna twenty eight of um feure modern mo dern 6 ilch breech londera a large quantity ot of ammunition a 0 cargo pot the six inch guns gans which ho hia not nolt yet been the i the intendencia da and the MU bu dIding |