Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1901 — Surrender Tree at Santiago. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Surrender Tree at Santiago.

“El Arbol de la Paz” is the name given to the beautiful ceiba tree, situated northwest of San Juan hill, not far from the junction of the roads from San Juan to El Caney and Siboney, Cuba, under the shade of which the conference between Gen. Shafter and Gen. Torel took place, where Hobson’s exchange was arranged,and where the surrender of Santiago, or capitulation, as the Spaniards insisted it should be called, was made. It is also known as the Surrender Tree, and since that memorable ceremony has been visited by many tourists. Its destruction would have been inevitable had not the American authorities s u rrounded it by a double wire fence, upon which is posted a notice forbidding its mutilation.