Show NE NEW EW lt'S OPINION OPI Michael Daily Dady Declare l Will Soon Put lilt u New York YOlk Au Aug Colonel 28 28 Colonel Michael J. J Dady the tho Brooklyn contractor contractor con cun- tractor antI and politician who has lia boon spendIng tha last lawt two weeks whore where he bus hLL dredge the tha harbor of Cardenas returned to lo New ln r J It lt- lt nation In Iii Cuba h.-Cuba Cuba he lit said that h li thought thoUgh things would quiet Julet down In Iii a n. few days das and that lint In iii his opinion the re rebellion re- re bellion hellion Would not Ilot amount to much Last Friday said he lie h the tile tiny day before we left Havana I 1 rode lodo across the tile island from Cienfuegos to Havana Havana Ha Ha- vana ana a n dl distance tance of miles and antI the tile country seemed to have a er very peaceful I aspect Everybody E was working and I saw nothing unusual I I think the situation Is being ably handled by lJ President Palma He lie has placed General Montalvo an experienced experienced soldier at the tho JH head atI of or tho the army and aud confidence exists In Havana that lint Montalvo 1 will put the Insurrection down it may appear that Palma has handled the uprising slowly slowly slow slow- ly this tills is because time lime was required to concentrate troops No regular arm army exists In Cuba and there thero were only about 2500 jOO rural guards These Theoe were scattered over the lie island when the uprisings started and not enough of ot the guards were assembled at one place to tb do an any good Things arc are bettel better bet bet- tel ter now with tho the government forc forces and it would not surprise me to seo see seethe the revolution put down In a very short time lime The Tho government is perfectly per per- capable of coping with the revolution revo revo- lution and I think peace and amI quiet will reign ln all nil over the Island In a few days Arrest Was a a n Joke My r arrest while In Cuba was else elso more of or a Joke than anything Last Wednesday I wont with a n number number num num- ber bor of ot government go engineers aboard to make the government Jo boat Cristina some soundings In Santa Clara Clam bay which Is about twenty miles east of or Cardenas Like all aU Cuban harbors I I Santa Clara bay Is shallow In spots the Cristina Cris- Cris I and amI along alon In the tho afternoon tina Lion went aground a the Some fishermen passed Into harbor harbol at quite a distance from rom our boat hoat They did dill not recognize reco the tile vessel vessel ves Yes sd sel and reported In town that a sus I looking craft which looked asif as asIC asIf I If IC It might have llave a filibustering expedition expedition I tion aboard was anchored in lit the Ito outer harbor Great Gleat excitement prevailed and the authorities ordered d one of the mosquito Heet out to capture us So Soshe Soshe Soshe she came out a little litHe fiat bottomed nosed blunt-nosed affair with a single singie one- one pound gun mounted in lii the bow how When aboard recognized recognized rec rec- alongside those she drew the Cristina Ci Explanations were in order and anti then we took the tho aboard our 11 ve vessel el We Ye had a and all had the tile affair laugh over ovel dinner together and an afterward quite celebration The fhe men of or the tho gunboat gunboat gun gun- a aboard the Cristina all nil boat boat- stayed night and In they morning we Se floated and both hoth vessels sailed into the tile liar har harbor bor together Such Is the tile story of ot our captivity It was a funny affair |