Some Facts About Santiago

Santiago, next to Baracoa, is the old:st city of the hemisphere, being foundd in 1514 by Valesquez. It was incorporated in 1522. The population is about 35,000, of H'hom not more than 10,000 are whites. According to all the compilations, the ;ity possesses one of the finest harbors [n the West Indies. It was once the capital of the island md is now the chief town of the eastern department. The city is on a hillside, part of it 15 feet above the bay. The weather is continually hot and subject to epidemics of yellow fever. The streams in the rear of the city are néü supplied with fresh water. The port is the third in Cuba in importance. The streets are very badly paved and many of them quite steep. All are lighted with gas and lined with stone tiouses. The buildings are generally low but (teil built. There are few public buildings of note. The town has the distinction of hav[ng the largest cathedral on the island. Besides, there are several other chnrches, a theatre, custom house, barracks and three hospitals. . The cathedral was started in the sixteenth century and finished in 1819. Founderies, soap works, tan yards and eigar factoriea are the only industrial establishments. The Casino, a club house, is located on the coolcst spot in the city, catching the breezes from the Caribbean sea. Here will be established probably the headquarters of the United States army. The streets are only lanes, narrow and dirty, and so badly paved that it is hard walk and harded to ride over them. Santiago has one restaurant. The cows are driven to your own door and milked. This does away with watered milk. All houses are built around court yards full of trees and flowers. The town is very unhealthy, but the hills near by are considered as desirable places to live as any part of Cuba. The place is supplied with bad water through an aqueduct. As it is shut in from northem breezes the suffocating heat and the misasmatic effuvia from adjacent marshes render it the most unhealthful abode in the Antilles. West of the city, twelve miles distant, are extensive copper mines. These export about 25,000 tons annually. The other exports are coffee, sugar, molasses, liquors, hides, cocoa, tobáceo, guavas and pineapples.