SANTIAGO. 
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Carriage fares are 20 cents for one or two passengers, 10 cents each 
for more; $1 per hour in the city, $1.50 outside, for carriage holding four 
persons. To Morro Castle and return, $3.50 for one, $4 for hack carrying 
four. Military road to top of mountain $5. To San Juan battlefield and 
El Caney, one person, $1.50; $2 for hack carrying four. 
The characteristic which impresses one is the wealth of coloring in which 
the city is arrayed. The houses are painted in all the hues of the rain¬ 
bow and glow against the blue sky or amid the embowering palms and 
vines in an atmosphere of phenomenal brilliancy. Havana and Matanzas 
are plain, and Camagiiey is dingy compared with Santiago. A typical bit 
is the Plaza Crombet, the little square on San Tomas street, dedicated to 
the memory of Santiago patriots who died in the struggle for freedom; on 
one side of the square is a house, of which the body color is ultramarine 
blue; on the other side is the Church of San Francisco in old rose; in 
the plaza are flowering shrubs, rose, oleander and jasmine; and against 
the background of blue or of pink, depending upon where we stand, the 
flowers show like a painting on porcelain. One finds such effects at every 
'turn. It is a veritable picture land. 
PLAZA AND CATHEDRAL. 
