The herald., 1898-10-13
DROPS RAPIDLY UNDER WOODS
ADMINISTRATION
THE FEVER is UNDER CONTROL
Talk of Quarantine Against Vessels
Coming From Fever-Infected
Ports-Cuban Camp Sites
Associated Press Special Wire.

SANTIAGO DE CUBA Oct 2-(Corres-
pondence of the Associated Press).-Gen-
erals Lawton and Wood are seriously con-
sidering the adv.sabilty of establishing
quarantine against vessels coming here
from infected ports, as they claim that for
its size, Santiago is one of the healthiest
ports in the West Indies. There is abso-
lutely no yellow fever, and the colentura
fever Is under complete control, and Cen
eral Lawton does not think 1t right to have
his healthy men subjected to contagion
from strangers coming from infected
ports.
The death rate now is but 10 per day,
and when the fact is taken into consider
alton that the population is composed In
the main of people who have been brought
to the verge of starvation. who nave lived
in an atmosphere of filth and bad smells,
where every effort has been put forth by
the authorities apparently to breed ma
laria and where every other man You
meet looks as though he had but few
days to live; where children up to thirteen
or fourteen wander around more or less
in a state of nudity. every bone showing.
often with arms and legs no lerger around
than the neck Of a bottle. II is wonderful
to think that the death rate can be so
low. and this condition speaks volumes
for the sanitary orders enforced by Gen.
eral Wood.
Cuban Railroads
WASHINGTON, Oct. 12.-Secretary AL
ger will recommend to congress that the
existing railway service in Cuba be eXterd-
ed so as to form line running directly
from Cape Maysi at the east end of the
island, to Cape Antonio. on the western
extremity.
He will also recommend that this work
be undertaken by the United States gov
ernment and that congress appropriate
the necessary funds. The road is mill
tary necessity and moreover the construct
ion of the road will give work to many CT
the unemployed native laborers. AS the
road progresses sections of the country Will
be opened up that are now inaccessible to
trade.
Cuban Camp Sites
HAVANA. Oct 12.-Lieutenan Colonel
Livermore of the Corps, of Engineers and
Colonel George +. Waring, Jr., with the
members of the United States board ap-
pointed to look after camp sites in Cuba,
are expected today by the Plant Line
steamer Mascotte. They will occupy
apartments at the Hotel Pasaje. The COM
mission will visit number OF proposed
sites for camps. notably along the stretch
of hills on the other side of Cabanas which
are likely to be favorably considered as
they are dry and healthful, with a good
water supply, in which most of their sug-
gested locations are deficient.
Captain Hart. Interpreter to the United
States Evacuation Commissioners. de-
l;vered several documents to the Spanish
among which was one. II
is reported calling attention to the very
small number of troops evacuating the is
land In steamers sailing for Spain from
Havana.
The Scorpion with Captain Foraker and
Lieutenant Wade. went to Mariel. in the
Province Of Pinar del Rio, to report as to
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the garrison and forts and the position of
the sunken Spanish transport, Alfonso
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Charles Gould. special representative of
the Department of Justice in connection
with the United States Evacuation Com
has completed his inquiry into
the methods of the Havana Supreme Court
The Mexican Red Cross Society has
cabled $500 in gold for the relief of sick
soldiers returning to Spain.
Admiral Sampson. who has been under
the weather for several days, Is now en-
tirely recovered.
Port Charges
WASHINGTON, Oct 12.-Secretary AL
ger has issued an order on the reQuisition
of Acting-Secretery of the Treasury Spald-
ing modifying in several particulars the
charges imposed as war measure on yes
sells entering Cuban ports In possession Of
the United States. The stinction in
duties between the entries of ves-
sells in Cuba from Cuban ports in possess
sion of the United States and those still
under Spanish control is abrogated. The
tax of 20 cents a ton on entry from port
not in Cuba will be levied not more than
ten times during a year, and the coasting
trade tax of two cents a ton Is not to be
levied more than twenty times a year. A
vessel which has paid the tax Of twenty
cents ton on entering from a port not in
Cuba is not liable on the same voyage to
further tonnage taxes on entering other
Cuban ports.
Express steamships, carrying malls for
a regular service shall be exempt from ton
mage taxes. upon being furnished by the
Secretary of War with a certificate that
it Is so employed. This exemption is in
part a military measure to secure the dis
patch of mails and pid and regular COM
munication between the United States and
our garrisons, especially on the south
coast of Cuba.