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SPANISH ACCOUNT OF THE BAT
TLE OF MANILA BAY.
VERY GOOD READING NOW
Tropical Temperaments Were Much
Agitated by the Sight of Dewey's
Ship—One of Dewey’s Saildrs Tells
the Men Below the Decks During
the Fight.
One of Admiral Dew< 'lads
was Charles T. Marshall, of Glenvilie.
He was on the cruiser Baltimoreduring
the battle of Manila bay, serving in
the electrical engineering department.
An account of the world-renowned fight
was published in the El Dlano De
Manila, a Spanish newspaper in Manila,
under date of May 4, 188. The paper
was a radical Spanish organ. Mr.
Marshall obtained a copy containing
the account of the battle, and has
translated it into English, says the
Cleveland Leader. As showing how
the great sea fight looked to the Span
iards. it is intensely interesting. The
translation follows:
When the enemy’s squadron was
sighted in perfect line of battle
through clouds of a misty dawn, on
the morning of the Ist ot May, gloom
and surprise were general among the
people of Manila. At last these ships
had Btrained their boldness to a point
of appearing on our coast and defying
our batteries, which showed more
courage than effect when they opened
fire on our squadron. It needs some
thing more than courage to make pro
jectiles penetrate. Indeed it does.
Our batteries, when compared with
those of the squadron which alarmed
the inhabitants of Manila at 5 in the
morning, were enough to transform
the tranquil character of our tropical
temperaments. While ladies rad
children in carriages or on foot fled
in fright to seek refuge in the outlying
suburbs around the capital, from dan
ger, multiplied by their Imaginations,
every man, from the stately personage
to the most humble workman, mer
chants and mechanics, Spaniards and
natives, soldiers and civilians, all, we
repeat, sought their stations and put
on their arms, confident that never
should the enemy land in Manila un
less he passed over their corpses. Yet,
from :he first moment, the strength of
the enemy’s armor demonstrated that
his ships were invulnerable to our en
ergies and armaments.
The city walls, the church towers,
the roofs of high buildings, and all
laces convenient for observation, were
ocupied by those who were not re
tained by their military duties within
the walls, on 'the bridges, or at the ad
vanced posts.
The slightest detail of the enemy
wus eagerly watched as they advanced
towards Cavite, In a line parallel with
Manila, as though they had Just come
out of the Pasig river. There were no
gape in the lines aa they steamed
slowly towards Cavite, where our noble
squad -on was eagerly waiting for them.
All who appreciated the Impunity with
whkh the hostile ships maneuvered as
If ou a harmless parade were full of
such rage amt desperation as belong
to 'he brave man, who can make no
us*? of his courage to whom remains no
remedy, except an honorable death
rather than a cowardly Inactivity.
A soldier of the First battalion of
Cazadores gazed at the squadron
sweeping over the waters out of reach
pf our batteries, looked out and at the
ships, and then towards heaven, say
ing: “If Holy Mary would turn that
sea Into land, the Yankees would find
put how we can charge In double
time!" and a native staring out at the
ships bald “Just let them come ashore
and give us a whack at them!”
On they stood at full speed, heading!
for Cavite with a decision due to a
senae of safety and a firm assurance
of success.
For more than an hour and a half
the bombardment held in sus
pense those whose souls followed the
struggle. In which the Spanish ships
went down with their glorious banners
fl>lng. What \vas going on in the
waters of Cavite? From Manila we
saw through glasses the two squadrons
almost mingled together In clouds of
smoke. This was not far from a vic
tory for our side, for once alongside
the enemy the cry of “Boarders,
-away!“'and the flash of cold steel
might have enabled our devoted sea
men to disturb 'the calm In which
watches and instruments were regu
lated and directing those engines of
destruction. In the blindness of our
rage how should we paint the heroic
deeds, the prowess, the waves of valor
which burst forth from our men-of
warl Those who fough't beneath the
Spanish Hag Imre themselves like
men. as cuoscn sons of our native land,
who never measure forces nor yield to
superior force lit the hands of an
enemy: who would rather die without
ships than live in one that had Bar
ren fibred.
• Witch the hostile squadron turned
towards Cavite the crew of the steamer
(Isle de heard the drums
heating to quarters, and answered with
enthusiasm:, three round cheers for
'the king, for the queen, and for Spain
was echoed along the line.
’Until a quarter to 5 absolute silence
*Mgned. Everything was ready. The
Va of death was lost In ardor for the
"'v, and every eye was fixed on the
r * tie flags waving at our mastheads.
*** -erfect orde: (why should we
Mhls?l the six Yankee ships ad-
Cu battle array.
Herb -njjia opened f.re and an in-
Secn i.^f rora the battery- up
Pa., and * -.Tul*. N
At StantoV tn Johnsq
vKai.w •riper, was jf lied b> his
S; I ' - * ,
tii'fc mole, whicß kept on firing at in
tervals of five mikjutes, while the iron
clads shaped chefv course for the
Reins Christina ajjrd Castilla. Another
ship was the Ua/timore, and so the
cannonade went on until a Quarter to 8.
At that moment the Don Juan de
Austria advanced against the Olympia,
intending to board her, and if a tre
mendous Broadside had not stopped
her self-devoted charge both ships per
haps would have sunk to the bottom.
The captain of the Reina Christina,
seeing that the resolute attempt of
consort had failed, advanced at full
speed until within 20 yards of the
Baltimore, aiming to attack her. Then
a shower of projectiles swept the
bridge and decks, filling the ship with
’Span ZjarwU4- ~^
(Heroes and martyrs whom *th<r Ga
llon will remember as ‘long as It en-‘
dures.)
A dense column of smoke from the
bow compartments showed that an in
cendiary projectile, such as the law of
God and man prohibits, had set fire to
the cruiser. The ship, still keeping up
her fire on the enemy, withdrew to
ward the arsenal, where she sunk to
keep her from falling into the hands of
the enemy.
The desperation of the men of the
Reina Christina was aggravated by
the sight of the Castilla, also In a
blaze from a use of similar incendiary
projectiles.
The principal ships of our squadron
having thus been put out of commis
sion, the Yankee ships, some of them
badly crippled by the fire from our
ships, and the batteries at Sangby
Fort, stood out toward Mairneles and
the entrance of the boy, "ceasing their
fire, occupying themselves in repair
ing injuries until 10 o’clock, when they
began a second attempt to complete
their work of destruction.
In this second attack the fire at the
arsenal was extinguished, and they
continued to cannonade the gunboats.
Now that the ships were in flames,
the admiral, Senor Montejo, who had
shown his flag as long as there was a
vessel afloat, landed, and hostilities
ceased.
By naval authority the most care
ful watch was kept in the river as well
as along the coast, to protect the fleet
from attack.
The gunners of the batteries defend
ing Manila and Cavite showed the
highest degree of energy and heroism.
Every one applauds the. brave artil
lerymen who by their calmness and
skill did all that was possible with
the guns assigned them.
The battery that did most harm was
the one on Poin't Sanghy, made up of
Hcntoria guns. To one of these guns
is attributed the harm which turned
the Baltimore from the fight. This
gun must have greatly annoyed the
Yankees, to judge by the efforts they
made to silence its fires, following it
up until six gunners had been killed
and four wounded.
Guns were also mounted at the en
trance of the bay on Corrigedon and
Caballe islands, on Eifraile Rock, on
the south shore at Point Restinga, and
at Marlneles Punrta Gorda, and Point
Lassi on the north shore. The guns
on Corrigedor island were of six-inch
caliber. Similar guns were mounted
o*i the rook and on Point Restinga.
The other guns were of mixed batter
ies of larger and smaller calibers.
Mr. Marshall contributes the follow
ing regarding the men who worked
below deck during the great battle:
Underground savages, as the en
gineer's force of a ship is commonly
called, went to their stations op the
night ot \prll 30 in thd engine and
fire room* at 10:30 p. m., not leaving
them until 7:30 next morning. What
thoughts rushed through the minds of
these men far below the scene of open
action, battened down in their respect
ive compartments In heat, cool and
welcome a't 120 degrees, and thankful
when the thermometer stopped at 140
degrees, they alone can tell. As one
mail very frankly remarked: “If the
Spaniards send me to hell, I'm getting
a good start here.” Somewhat blunt,
but terribly true.
Working midst fires, whose glare
made the place seem like furnaces
manned by imps, the men, clothelcss
but for overalls, minus the legs, and
thick shoes, to protect their feet from
blistering, on the heated decks, toiled
on, joking, and silently encouraging
one another, almost in another world.
Water brought down from decks, as
cool ns could be had, quickly turned
into steam, yet, on they kept, endur
ing in minutes trials and hardships
sufficient for many ripe old ages, not
knowing what moment a shell would
send them to eternity. These men
were heroes in the true sense of th >
word.
The great Talnvage once said: “I
finished a very perilous voyage, and
when the passengers were leaving the
ship. they all thanked the captain, but
lafter. 1 remembered that no one
'thought of the engineers and firemen
who. down In '-be bottom of the ves
sel, were tolling and faithfully doing
the work that brought the ship safely
through the storm."
Take'the engineers and firemen Into
your hearts—the largely unseen and
unappreciated men—for the work
they have done and do. You will And
them bright and intelligent, often with
great hearts and brains. The grime
of their work Is only on the surface
and a little water and soap cleans It
all away, just as It does the powder
and grime of battle on their brothers
In other parts of the ship.
The croks, making a clear majority
of the men detailed to tend the maga
zines. and send up the monstrous
shells and powder for guns, though sta
tioned below, out of sound and hearing
of all going on above decks, fared,
through their own Ingenuity and push,
like i> happy family going to Sunday
excursion to Coney Island. At the
call to "quarters” early Sunday morn
ing each one furnished—as his duties
for the m*uent were completed—such
part of thE luncheon allotted, sending
up sandwiches on top of armor
piercers: lime water, which was fa
vored with the enemy’s smoke, coming
down the hoists, and other luxuries too
numerous to mention.
To pass away the hours that other
wise would have been long with sus
pense, the latest popular songs were
sung, and old well-worn jokes cracked,
keeping tune to the sending up of more
powder and shells on deck.
All in all, the day passed pleasantly,
considering how each sudden shock
sounded to those not knowing Hs
cause.
WORK OF 5-INCH HOWITZERS.
• ~ r T:
llAvoc Wrought DffiyWTfj-to MabdiS
' Tomb' at dmdurman.
The last Issue of the “Proceedings of
the Royal Artillery Institution” con
tains some very interesting particulars
as to the preformances of the 5-inch
Howitzers which wrecked the cnahdi’s
tomb at Omdurman, this being the firs’,
occasion on which high explosives
have been fired in actual warfare. These
weapons Are a shell weighing fifty
pounds, and in those used at Omdur
man the bursting charge was four
pounds fourteen ounces of lyddite.
The new shell now supplied, however,
contains nine pounds fifteen ounces of
this explosive, and has been proved to
still more effectual than Its predeces
sor. The latter is 3.2 calibers long,
while the new shell is 3.65 calibers in
length. In Egypt the gun was
“horsed” by eight mules, the weight
hauled being forty-five hundredweight,
inclusive of two rounds of case over
and above the proper equipment of the
gun. These mules were fitted with
pack twiddles, so that once the guns
wore in position the team could be used
for bringing up the ammunition, one
| mule being able to carry four shells,
or two (boxes of cartridges. With this
arrangement for transport a good fire
could, it is stated, be maintained, even
when the ammunition base was as
much as two miles from the gun. The
cartridge used is loaded with cordite,
and the charge can. be varied with
great ease. This is often necessary,
though it was not done at Omdurman,
owing the fact that the direct-action
fuse with which the shell is fitted will
not act with certainty unless fired at
an angle of 10 degrees, the range with
the full charge being then 2,000 yards.
At Omdurman the ranges varied from
3,200 yards down to 1,250 yards, the
former requiring an elevation of 18 de
grees and the latter one of 6 degrees,
at the shorter range there were some
blinds, the shell failing to explode. The
new shells are, it was announced, to be
fitted with a fuse which bursts on
graze. The difficulty in arranging
this lies in the safety of the gun at
tachment in case of "prematures” in
the gun. This difficulty has now, it
seems, been surmounted, and the shells
will burst on striking horizontal
ground after being fired from an eleva
tion of 2 degrees only.
The fuse actually used at Omdurman,
though failing in the respect named,
proved in other respects very satisfac
tory, and the detachment were able to
stand up to the gun wih as much confi
dence as if firing common shell. The
hole blown in the dome of the mahdi’s
tomb by the shells measured twenty
feet in height by twelve feet in width,
the walls being two and one-half feet
thick. Single shells again blew holes
through the citadel walls, which were
twelve feet to twenty feet high, six feet
thick at the bottom and four and one
half feet at the top. The gun-boats
were able to fire down the main street
through one of the holes thus made.
In some cases, with walls only one foot
thick, the shells got through before
bursting. The moral effect then seems
to have been very great. The space
covered by the fragments of shell in
bursting is very large, and General
Brackenbury stated that with an 8-
inch Howitzer at Okehampton a frag
ment of shell, which had burst 2,000
yards away, came bark among the gun
detachment. At an experimental firing
at Cairo a range party stationed 1.000
yards from the target had to move,
being still within the danger zone.
The head and base of the shell each
break up. It is stated, into four or live
fairly large pieces, while the wall.- fly
into much smaller fragments. Against
unsheltered men a battery of fifteen
pound field guns firing shrapnel is, it
Is stated, more effective than a battery
of these Howitzers, but the latter are
much superior when the men are be
hind cover, which shrapnel is unable
to search out. Lyddite has now been
fired from gun3 of as much as ten
inches in diameter, and the fuse
adopted is so safe that even, with black
powder as thepropellanttherehasnever
been a “premature.”—Engineering.
At Eau Claire Dr. Parker, In the
inquest on the body of A. G. Coon,
who was killed by lightning on the
street, during the storm last week,
said: “The lightning went through his
umbrella, tearing it, struck him on the
head, and ruptured some blood vessels
of the nose. He was running south
on the sidewalk, and the lightning
struck him after it struck the tree. He
had a metal cravat holder on his col
lar band. The metal was heated to
such a degree as to burn the skin. His
watch chain was partially metted and
burned the cloth of the vest. The
watch, however, was still running. AH
the hair on the man’s body below the
neck was burned off. The lightning
seemed to make Its exit through the
right foot, the shoe on which was
torn." At the ttme Mr. Coon was killed,
Harry Gorton, a young son of Joseph
Gorton, was driving on First avenue
and wa: opposite the tree. The horse
being gentle, did not jump. The boy’s
face looked as if he had been powder
burned.
MR. HOGU’S BEARD.
Why It No Longer Adorns His Moon
like Countenanoe.
When James S. Hogg, formerly gov
ernor of Texas, lumbered into town
last week and went to the Waldorf-
Astoria, his friends hardly knew him.
He was just as big, just as breezy, just
as open-hearted and companionable as
usual, but there was a change. His
talk was like that of old time, In that
It was full of jovial observations and
punctuated with quaint western idioms.
The change was in his facial adorn
ment. The governor, as every one
calls him —and he is known by hardly
any (Jther name—formerly wore a
jgKT’faee
"and completely concesurfl-*tha*SittMing
good humor that is marked in every
line around his mouth. It was a wild,
erratic sort of a beard, and seemed to
be governed by no law. Now he Is
clean shaven, and his face beams like
a full, round moon, and his eyes
twinkle with merriment. How he
came to part with his beard is an inter
esting story.
After long neglect the governor one
day decided that he would have his
beard trimmed. To quote his own
words, he "ambled into the finest ton
sorial place” he could find. He told
the barber that he wanted to have his
beard trimmed. This barber was a
Frenchman and spoke little English.
The governor made him understand
what he wanted more by signs than
words. He said afterward that he was
an idiot to trust a barber who couldn’t
speak English, but in this case he d'd.
He climbed heavily into the cb ir,
stretched out his bulky frame, and
promptly went to sleep. The barber
clipped and nipped and the scissors
sang a lullaby that made the governor
slumber all the sounder. When he
woke up the barber was grinning and
smirking and pointing with pride to
his handiwork. The governor gave
one look in the glass and gasped with
astonishment The barber had taken
his beard and trimmed it in the latest
Parisian fashion, with a fine, sharp
point and with ail the details of a
Parisian dandy. The governor thun
dered his anger, but the poor barber
did not understand. The damage was
done however, and there was not get
ting around it. All that could be done
was to shave his face clean, and he
has dispensed with a beard ever since.
Despite the fact that Mr. Hogg is a
democrat, believes in free silver, and
is a follower of William J. Bryan, he
is something of an epicure and likes to
live well. “I stay at tne Waldorf-As
toria,” he said, “because I like it there,
and I can afford to. I have done hard
work in my life, and I believe .that
every one should get all the good he
can out of the world.” —New York
Times.
THE FILIPINO SCHOOLBOY.
His Knowledge of the United States
Is Very Limited.
It has t>een frequently remarked that
the Filipinos could have no conception
of the extent and resources of the Uni
ted States, or they never would have
been deceived into the hallucination
that they could successfully combat us.
In going through their school here, I
found a little manuscript volume in
which, in less than a hundred manu
script pages, was comprised all of syn
tax and geography that was taught the
children here. And it must be remem
bered that Malolos, before the insur
rection, was an important city in this
part of the world, and one where the
children would be expected to receive
the average education. Turning to
one of the pages in this book that I
picked up, I found the United States
of America discoursed upon, immedi
ately after Nlgricia, and just before
Mexico. Here is the entire lot of in
formation given as to the United
States, in the form of questions and an
swers:
“Where is this country (the United
States) situated? In North America.
“What are its boundaries? To the
north, British America; to the east, the
Alantic ocean and the Bahama chan
nel; to the south, the Strait of
Florida and the Gulf of Mexico, and to
the west, Mexico and the Grande (Paci
fic) ocean.
"What is the form of government?
It is a federal republic.
“Of what is this republic composed?
Of forty different states.
’“What are its rivers and mountains?
The most notable rivers are the Mis
isipl (literal spelling), the Niagara, the
Missorl (again the literal spelling), the
Colorado, and the St. L<awrenee, and
the principal mountains are the Cum
berland and Rockies.
“What is the capital? Washington:
but the most Important city is New
York.
"Protestantism prevalis, but there
are Catholic archbishops.”
And this is the sum total of what
the average Filipino boy has been
taught about our rather considerable
and somewhat prosperous country.—
LeMie’s Weekly.
SOME SENSATIONAL METHODS.
Tho evangelistic band of the Chris
tian Endeavor Society met at the Cen
tral Presbyterian church, in Detroit
and was given instruction in the work
by Rev. H. B. Glbet of Springfield.
Mass..who has become famous in the
east for success in evangelistic work.
Some of Mr. Gibet’s instructions
are brought to hand by the Detroit
Journal and are reprinted here for
those who are interested In the sen
sational methods. Said Mr. Glbett:
there'll be some noise around where
the crowd is likely to be, but If you
want quiet go to the cemetery.
Get above your audience. Stand on
a beer keg or a soap box. In Boaton
they gave me a title. They called
me the S. B. D. D.—Soap Box Devil
Dr ver,
I get upon a beer keg end tell the
crowd I’d rather have it under my feet
than going in this wa.,, and getting
into my feet this way, said the evan
gelist, tipping across the platfornf.
That gets the crowd with.,you.
Look out for interruptiqrnrand steer
clear of them. If you see. a dog com
ing down the road to meet another
dog, don’t ever think you can stand up
against a dog fight. Stop your speech
too.
Avoid argument. A fellow asked
me once where Cain got his wife. 1
told him that fellows got into trouble
before now by concerning themselves
with other -tfifn’s wives bet
ter let the subject alone. “A good
wife is of the Lord” the Bible says,
and you get right with the Lord and
the other matter’ll take care of itself.
Hand out tracts at the close, only
don’t call ’em tracts, and don’t get
those handbill tracts that were printed
centuries ago. My tracts are called
“Put the Baby to Bed Early,” every
man with a baby wants to read it;
“Black Crook,” "And the Barber
Kept on Shaving.” They’ll read things
like that.
When I go to the horse races to do
evangelistic work I do something like
this:
And Rev. Mr. Gibet whisked a
pack of cards out of his grip and shuf
fled them into shape, suspiciously un
like a Christian Endeavor delegate,
rattled off a good imitation of gamblers
jargon, and with a skilful hand he
threw the cards out into the audience.
They were discovered to be good im
itations of playing cards on the back,
with a few pointed gospel messages on
the other side.
There are doubtless many people who
will question whether this is in “good
taste”, but Mr. Gibbett says that
“good taste” can’t always be relied on
to induce a man to think about his
soul’s salvation.
REAL THING IN CYCLONES.
“Now the people back this way may
think it something wonderful that big
safes were blown about like toy bal
loons during that Wisconsin cyclone,”
said the veracious Kansan with the
inquiring eye, to the Washington
Post, “but bless their simple souls,
that’s nothing at all to thel shines cut
up by cyclones out in Kansas! D’je
ever see a tree with feathers on it, in
stead of leaves? Nope? Well, I did.
Did they grow on the tree? I guess not.
They were put there by a cyclone.
Happened in Emporia ’bout six years
ago this summer. The tree, a big
maple, in my front yard. I had several
hundred chickens and geese in my
yard when this pea-green, funnel
shaped cloud came prancing along
and dipped right in front of my
house. The wind struck the chick
ens and geese so suddenly that
it just ripped all the feathers right off
them. At the same time it tore all
the leaves off the branches of the
maple trees. The feathers were picked
up and druv right through the air with
such force that when they struck the
maple tree, as ’bout a billion of ’em
did, the quills went ’bout half way
through the trunk and branches, so
that when me and my family came out
of the cyclone cellar we had to just
open our eyes to see a seventy-foot
tree covered over with feathers so
thick that you couldn’t see the wood of
any part of it. That same cyclone eat
up all the ground and masonry around
my 185-foot well. Just as this hap
pened , a whirlwind came along, as a
sort of a sideshow to the big blow, and
for an hour it just hung over that well,
holding the water up straight and spin
ning it around. W’hen the whirlwind
passed on, the well broke and flooded
my place. That’s nothing, either, to a
cyclone they had in Leavenworth in
the early eighties. Just to show you
the force of the wind, about fifty men
were working at the bottom of a coal
mine, about 893 feet under the Mis
souri river. The wind blew so hard
over the top of the shaft that it just
sucked the whole bunch of ’em to the
surface and then dropped ’em Into the
Missouri. They weren’t hurt, outside
of the wetting.”
GOOD ONES.
Max O’Rell relates that while he was
teaching in an English school a lady
wrote to the head master: “Dear Sir—
It is our intention to piace our boy
under your care, but before doing so
we would like to know what the so
cial standard of your school is.” To
which the head master replied: “Dear
Madam—So long as your boy behaves
himself and his fees are paid regularly,
no inquiry will about his an
tecedents.”
A wildly turbulent peasant was once
a witness in a trial before Chief Baron
O'Grady. The counsel, arfter pestering
him for some|time, asked him a ques
tion which reflected on the witness’
character. “If ye ask me that again
I’ll give ye a kick in the gob!" was
the answer. The counsel appealed to
the court, stating that an answer was
necessary to his client’s case, ending
up with this query: “What would
your lordship advise me to do?” “If
you are resolved to repeat the ques
tion it would be better for you to move
a-little from the witness.”
lAbouchere tells an amusing storv
of how he did a good turn for a leg*
friend, who, although accustomed th*
address juries and judges, was afraid
of the house of commons. “One dav,
walking home with him,” says La
bouchere, “I told him he should get
over this curious dread. A matter was
coming under discussion: which in
volved a good deal of law. I said to
him: ‘lf you like, 1 \ up and
you ninst jeer at me. ' I tvilt complal*
of ttdfTand suggest thatjas you are an
eminent lawyer you should express
your objections articularly. Then yeu
—having prepared your speech—must
get up and crush me.’ This was ar
range 1. When I laid dowrisitße law,
he laughed. I looked indignant. I
‘went on; he uttered sarcastic ‘Hear,
bear’s.’ On tois I protested, sat down,
and invited him to Teply to me. H%got
up and made an excellent speech.”
WHAT SPAIN HAS DOST.
Trade With Former Colonies Was $40,-
000,000 a Year.
i fll'na porto Fttco, a.nd-the Philippines
affurded.'ar market for over $407000,000
worth of Spanish goods per annum, ac
cording to a statement of the British
consul at Barcelona, just Mceived.hy
the treasury bureau of statiSlcs. Abeut
three-fourth of this amount was in
manufactured goods and considerably
more than one-half of this market*was
that of Cuba alone.
According to the statement whigh
Consul Roberts sends to Britfeh
I foreign office, dated June the
exports of Spain to Cuba in 1896
amounted to 134,461,675 pesetas; to
Porto Rico, 37,660,800 pesetas, ad to
the Philippines, pesetas,
making a total of 210,480,241 pesetas,
or, accepting the value of the peseta at
20 cents, $42,096,048. Of the 134,461,-
675 pesetas worth of goods exported
to Cuba in 1896, 82,652,093 pesetas,
according to Consul Roberts, consisted
of manufactures, 50,850,556 pesetas in
provisions and 959,026 pesetas in raw
materials.
Of the 37,660,809 pesetas worth of
goods exported from Spain to Porto
Rico in 1896, 29,107,977 pesetas was
manufactured goods, 8,401,501 pesetas
provisions and 151,321 pesetas raw ma
terials. Of the 38,357,757 pesetas worth
of goods exported from Spain to the
Philippines, 34,250,892 pesetas was
manufactures, 4,070,557 pesetas provi
sions and 36,308 pesetas raw materials.
Of the 210,480,241 pesetas worth of
goods exported from Spain to Cuba.
Porto Rico and the Philippines in 1896,
146,010,962 peseta* was manufactures,
63,322,624 pesetas provisions and 1,146,-
655 pesetas raw materials.
To this market for $42,000,000 worth
of Spanish produce which the three
colonies supplied, Consul Roberts adds
23,000,000 pesetas, or $4,600,000, for
money paid to the Spanish steamship
companies for the carrying trade to
and from the colonies. The imports
into Spain from the colonies, he says,
amounted in 1896 to 260,877 tons from
Cuba, 26,071 tons from Porto Rico, and
40,985 tons from the Philippines. He
computes that the amount paid in
freight amounted in the commerce
with Cuba to 7,826,310 pesetas; Porto
Rico, 782,130 pesetas, and the Philip
pines, 2,254,175 pesetas, a total of 10,-
862,615 pesetas. If to this be addedL
the value of passage money to anffi
from the colonies, putting it at the*
low average of 250 pesetas a head, iti
shows a further 13,900,000 pesetas
annum, giving a total of 23,000,000 pe-fe
setas paid in freight and passage,
money yearly to the steamship com-**
panies for the carrying trade to and *
from the colonies.
Consul Roberts expresses the opin
ion that Spanish manufacturers and
dealers are not going to give up the
markets of Cuba, Porto Rico and the
Philippines without a struggle. He
also intimates that other nationalities
have in the past participated in the
so-called Spanish trade with these
islands by locating in Spain and thus
getting the advantage of low tariff
rates into the islands which was orig
inally given to commerce originating in
Spain. On this subject he says:
“In the year 1892 the Spanish cus
toms tariff on manufactured goods was
very considerably increased with the
view of virtually giving a monopoly to
goods manufactured here for exporta
tion to the colonies; this, of course,
gave an enormous impetus to manufac
facture in this province, factories in
creased largely in number and the
Catalan manufacturers grsw rapidly
rich. The only way in which foreign
ers who had good clients in the colo
nies could meet this competition and
retain their markets was fey starting
factories in this country, the goodfc®
thus manufactured in the
terlng the Spanish colonies vpirf" % \J
same terms as those of the Spani; ]
manufacturers, whereas if shipped
from England or elsewhere the prohib
itive duty rendered competition im
possible; or by having a resident agent
in this city who, purchasing from the
Catalan manufacturers, exported the
merchandise from here free of duty.”
LIGHT FADES SOME BIRD’S EGGS
“The beautiful and delicate shades
on the eggs of birds are not very fast,
especially if they belong to the lighter
class of colors,” remarked an ornithol
ogist to the writer. "In many in
stances some of the finest and most
characteristic tints of eggs disappear
almost entirely on exposure to light.
A common example is the beautiful
pale blue of the starling’s egg, which
on exposure to the sunli-ht for a few
days, loses its clear blueness of tone
and becomes purpler, approaching
more to a slate tint. Such is also the
case with most of the greenish blue
eggs, like those of many sea birds, tlie
common guillements, for instance, the
beauty of which largely depends on the
clear freshness of ds blue tilts. It Is,
wise for egg collectors to
£ Ae glas3 cases containing all
cVypeciraens carefully covered up
w?te..Tiot being inspected, otherwise
much of the beauty of tint will be lost
In the course of time.”—Washington
Evening Star.
Miss Julia Dent Grant’s wedding wJll
take place Sept. t>3.