. The chicago Record's war stories : by staff correspondents in the field ; copiously illustrated. ft of Spanish authority in theeasternmost province. Our ride into the city was like the openingof a worn, decayed and worm-eaten book. Ateach turn, indeed wherever we looked, in thenarrow streets, the low, lattice-windowedhouses, painted blue, pink or yellow, theold, dismantled plazas and half-ruinedchurches, there were stories just distin-guishable, but only partly told. What a mul-titude of great events they suggest! Andyet how little of all that has happened hereis even faintly divined. For we
. The chicago Record's war stories : by staff correspondents in the field ; copiously illustrated. ft of Spanish authority in theeasternmost province. Our ride into the city was like the openingof a worn, decayed and worm-eaten book. Ateach turn, indeed wherever we looked, in thenarrow streets, the low, lattice-windowedhouses, painted blue, pink or yellow, theold, dismantled plazas and half-ruinedchurches, there were stories just distin-guishable, but only partly told. What a mul-titude of great events they suggest! Andyet how little of all that has happened hereis even faintly divined. For we are in theoldest city in the new world, the city whenceCortez sailed to conquer Mexico and the be-ginning of Spanish dominion in the is a passing thought that perchance it ishistoric irony that has directed the first greatpower to arise in the west to come hereto Santiago, where Spain first exercised andabused her authority, and humble her. Butthe memory of other events crowd upon themind. Over there by the seashore—we catch THE CHICAGO RECORDS WAR STORIES 150 ^~~T~-^-:-—pJiii .^_. SHAFTER AT SIBONEY STARTING FOR THE FRONT. [From a photograph taken by Katherine White.] scarcely more than a glimpse of the placeas we go on toward the city—is the spotwhere the crew of the Virginius was shotin 1869. We pass directly under the long,narrow buildings of the military are 1,739 sick men confined there, andall the grated windows are now full of palefaces eager to see what sort of men theconquerors are. As we go on the streets be-come narrower and dirtier, the houses moregloomy and more forbidding without. Someare of two stories, with a balcony above, butthose showing evidences of greatest respecta-bility are upon a single floor elevated a fewfeet above the pavement. The windows aregenerally above the reach of peeping passers-by and are provided with heavy grating orlattice-work. Wherever there is a door orwindow open one sees through a single roomi
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