THE CUBA REVIEW. 



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las Just Been Hauled Down and the Cuban Flag Raised, Noon of March 31, 1909. 



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Corps of Engineers, 

 U. S. A. 



Cuban Officers, 

 Three at Left 



Gen. O. Barry- 



American 

 Officers 



27th Infantry, 

 U. S. A. 



Cuban Kural < . uaid 



arms against Spain and winning the title of 

 major when he was no more than a youth. 



Over that most exquisite instrument of 

 imaginative emprise, the Latin temperament 

 in Cuba, Gomez exerts a control quite in- 

 comprehensible to Americans who have seen 

 it displayed. He imbues or seems to imbue 

 the patriotic conceptions of his fellowers 

 with the overwhelming charm and the irre- 

 sistible appeal of his own personality. His 

 physique and his voice alike have limitations, 

 yet he looks great and he talks eloquently. 

 His influence over his followers, even in the 

 now remote days when he camped with them 

 in the Cuban hills, ragged, hungry and hunt- 

 ed, has always been a thing of the emotions. 

 a triumph of the heart over the head, a vic- 

 tory of feeling over intellect. Time and 

 again, when the Cubans in arms seemed 

 about to disperse from despair, to disinte- 

 grate in desperation, when the ten-years' war 

 was one long starvation, when the last re- 

 volt of all had brought Weyler to Havana, 

 Gomez rallied his followers anew, receiving 

 the allegiance of men still inflamed with the 

 patriotic ardors it was his privilege alone to 

 inspire. At critical junctures in more than 

 one revolution his passage from one part of 

 a province to another was signalized as far 



away as Havana by the restored vigor of 

 the campaign. 



He derived his theory of strategy and hit 

 mastery of tactics from his native soil. He 

 seems to have had little experience with 

 artillery, and he has never commanded a 

 respectable force of cavalry; but with the 

 sort of infantry available in his native isle 

 he has accomplished what European mili- 

 tary men have pronounced magnificent re- 

 sults. 



When the revolution comes again to 

 Cuba, the histrionic Latinity of the 

 genius of President Gomez will suffice 

 for the emergency in the opinion of the 

 Havana press. 



Meanwhile, the presidential palace in Ha- 

 vana has become the center of every social 

 influence calculated to charm those exclu- 

 sive coteries which give its special tone to 

 the Cuban capital. 



To Visit the United States. 



New Orleans, ]\Iay 7. — Returning to-day 

 from Havana, where he went to investigate 

 health conditions. President Harvey Dillon, 

 of the Louisiana State Board of Health, said 

 that President Gomez of Cuba will soon 

 make an extensive tour of the United States, 

 although no definite date has been set. 



