
{"id":248450,"date":"2022-01-25T15:39:50","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T20:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=248450"},"modified":"2022-01-25T15:39:50","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T20:39:50","slug":"tampa-havana-the-infrastructure-and-the-two-steamers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba-usa\/tampa-havana-the-infrastructure-and-the-two-steamers\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa\/Havana: the infrastructure and the two steamers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At first, the U.S. political class did not seem to be convinced of the need for Florida. For some, it was a \u201cgloomy and pandemic region, only made up of arid waste\u201d; for others, it was a \u201cswampy, low, excessively hot, sickly and repulsive terrain\u201d; not a few thought that the United States should leave it to the Indians and the mosquitoes. A place, in short, not conducive to \u201cfounding a city on a hill,\u201d far from Matthew 5:14: \u201cYou are the light of the world.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Before the second half of the 19th century, Tampa was economically irrelevant and population-wise underdeveloped, but a series of subsequent discoveries and undertakings progressively contributed to revitalizing the panorama and its social dynamics. In 1883 the discovery of phosphate \u2014 a strategic material for the production of fertilizers \u2014 in the region of Bone Valley, to the southeast, would bring about a first wave of prosperity, reinforced by the creation three years later of the Peace River Phosphate Company.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After several unsuccessful attempts, Henry Bradley Plant (1819-1899) and his Southern Florida Railroad entered Tampa in late 1883 with tracks to central and western Florida. The businessman bought the contract to build the vital stretch of the Jacksonville, Tampa, Key West line from Kissimmee to Tampa. When he completed 70 miles of new track in early 1884, Tampa was connected to the rest of the East Coast with the subsequent increase in ease and efficiency of railroad travel. Ultimately, it would connect fabulous Tampa Bay to the national rail system, enabling inbound and outbound commerce. The railroad also facilitated the subsequent evolution of tourism.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_248457\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-248457\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Plant-rail-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-248457\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Plant-rail-1.jpg\" alt=\"Plant\u2019s railroad reaches Tampa. Photo: Archive.\" width=\"800\" height=\"471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Plant-rail-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Plant-rail-1-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Plant-rail-1-768x452.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Plant-rail-1-750x442.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-248457\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Plant\u2019s railroad reaches Tampa. Photo: Archive.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 1884, in a true fact-finding task, Spanish civil engineer Gavino Guti\u00e9rrez (1849-1919) entered Tampa looking for guavas together with Cuban Bernardino Gargol for the latter\u2019s canning business in New York. They did not find them, but from Tampa they went straight to Key West with information about the land and the new local infrastructure developments. They met with Spanish producer Vicente Mart\u00ednez Ybor (1818-1896) and with another famous businessman from the tobacco industry, Ignacio Haya. The message was clear and distinct: Tampa was located in a privileged place, with a formidable bay, ideal temperature and humidity, decisive requirements to achieve a flourishing tobacco industry without the inconveniences existing in the key and in New York, basically worker strikes that did not lead to prosperity for the business.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It would then be a matter of buying land at well-negotiated prices with that Board of Commerce, building housing for the workers and factories in an area near the port, which would greatly reduce transportation costs. A very well thought out operation that in an impressively short time paid off. The first and most important, an industrial city that emerged almost as if by magic precisely from the swamp, the mosquitoes, the crocodiles and the miasmas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By 1880 Tampa was a sleepy town of about 720 inhabitants. Eight years later it came to have one of the largest populations in Florida, with a prominent presence of Cuban cigar makers and their families. According to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/core.ac.uk\/reader\/35230274\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1892 Census<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the same year West Tampa was founded, conceived by Scottish-born lawyer Hugh Mcfarlane (1851-1935) to compete with Ybor City, 2,424 Cubans lived here out of a total population of 5,532 inhabitants: almost 44%. A historic change: \u201cIn the final years of the 19th century,\u201d writes <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/-\/es\/Lisandro-P%C3%A9rez\/dp\/0814767273\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lisandro P\u00e9rez,<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201cYbor City became the first Cuban community in the United States. The 1900 Census found that 3,553 people born in Cuba resided in Hillsborough County, in which Tampa is located. It was the largest concentration of people born in Cuba, surpassing New York.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A population, on the other hand, with a distinctive diversity, made up of Spaniards and Italians \u2014 the latter originally coming mainly from a couple of small Sicilian towns \u2014 and also Germans, Scots, Irish and Americans, both white and black. In short, a true multicultural center whose implications reach to this day.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_248456\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-248456\" style=\"width: 755px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Ybor-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-248456\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Ybor-1.jpg\" alt=\"Ybor City, late 19th century. Photo: Archive.\" width=\"755\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Ybor-1.jpg 755w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Ybor-1-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Ybor-1-750x487.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 755px) 100vw, 755px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-248456\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ybor City, late 19th century. Photo: Archive.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But this development of the tobacco industry would have been practically impossible without other chapters of infrastructure. In June 1888, Plant himself had inaugurated the voyages of the steamers <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mascotte<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (884 tons) and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Olivette<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (1,611 tons), which moved between the port of Tampa and Havana with a stopover in Key West. On board came the tobacco leaves from Vueltabajo to feed the factories in Ybor City and West Tampa. But there was also the human factor: cigar makers and workers arrived from the island fleeing from the war and looking for a better life and conspirators from back and forth. The uprising order for the war of 1995 arrived on the island on the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mascotte<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, brought by train from New York to Ybor City by Gonzalo de Quesada and finally hidden in a cigar made in the factory of the O\u2019Halloran brothers, in West Tampa.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_248455\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-248455\" style=\"width: 1536px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/West-Tampa-1536x1152-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-248455\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/West-Tampa-1536x1152-1.jpg\" alt=\"The O\u2019Halloran brothers factory in West Tampa. Photo: Alfredo Prieto.\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/West-Tampa-1536x1152-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/West-Tampa-1536x1152-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/West-Tampa-1536x1152-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/West-Tampa-1536x1152-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/West-Tampa-1536x1152-1-750x563.jpg 750w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/West-Tampa-1536x1152-1-1140x855.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-248455\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The O\u2019Halloran brothers factory in West Tampa. Photo: Alfredo Prieto.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the beginning of 1896, General Valeriano Weyler declared an embargo on tobacco exports from Cuba to the United States, hoping to force the closure of the factories in Tampa, true centers of conspiracy permanently watched by Spanish diplomats and spies. According to historian Karl H. Grismer, in his <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/bebooks.com\/servlet\/BookDetailsPL?bi=31023245592&amp;cm_mmc=ggl-_-COM_Shopp_Rare_noclick30-_-product_id=bi%3A%2031023245592-_-keyword=&amp;gclid=Cj0KCQiAraSPBhDuARIsAM3Js4o0Lf1JVLFT51btp4XXJR3RNP9_oewO8a1od54twSl_d0KJnEsQSAQaAtooEALw_wcB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tampa: A History of the City of Tampa and the Tampa Bay Region of Florida<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Vicente Mart\u00ednez Ybor and other tobacco industry executives persuaded Plant himself to send the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Olivette<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mascotte<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to Havana before the deadline set by the Spanish to implement that embargo, in order to be able to bring in enough tobacco to keep his factories running. And they did.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_248454\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-248454\" style=\"width: 1536px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Olivette-foto-1536x1087-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-248454\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Olivette-foto-1536x1087-1.jpg\" alt=\"The Olivet. Photo: Archive.\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1087\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Olivette-foto-1536x1087-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Olivette-foto-1536x1087-1-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Olivette-foto-1536x1087-1-1024x725.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Olivette-foto-1536x1087-1-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Olivette-foto-1536x1087-1-120x86.jpg 120w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Olivette-foto-1536x1087-1-750x531.jpg 750w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Olivette-foto-1536x1087-1-1140x807.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-248454\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Olivet. Photo: Archive.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mascotte<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Olivette<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> covered the route between Tampa and Havana for about 25 years. The <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Olivette<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was shipwrecked in January 1918 during the cyclone that hit Havana. The <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mascotte<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> ended her days as scrap iron.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the 1920s, the seal that would characterize the city of Tampa was designed using an image of the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mascotte<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. But here comes the misunderstanding: instead of a steamer, it represents a sailboat, undoubtedly selected for a majesty that has nothing to do with the humility of that original little steamer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But it has remained that way to this day.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mascotte and the Olivette covered the route between Tampa and Havana for about 25 years. The Olivette was shipwrecked in January 1918 during the cyclone that hit Havana. 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