The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-06-30
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
.o,oueL olsNeaos PLANNING s. FOR
coLrsImeNTs AFTER THE WAR.

coneressmen Known TO BE inter-
wss'', nj. Railroad scheme--He VIII
,Tss Be ou'a'' First Postmaster
General
-, Francisco Javier Cisneros'
Cclon''c uban civil engineer, well
Feai'ny tbe United States and South
Known ~ ..aI America, is i'll Washington
and ,i' 1u the support of a number OF
enlls'm ,;s,s for several projects when
cap p, a. undertaken in Cuba at the close
Of the war. - s,ort a connie of
! 4, GENTLY in company with senior
>dsyS TO 10 81 the Cuban legation and Lieu
Ques,uII r Artiga,in visiting the post
tenAl' Sonartment and inspecting the
once ~ aamnloyed in the United States
ns, ,aI service. They were taken through
posi-" .arons divisions and acquired a
inc ' vs.. idea of the workings OF the Of
GEM Considerable time was also spent
> lVe difference with the local officials OF
IL in VV Western Union Telegraph company
tne w. nV nurnose of gathering information
III ~, W viii be useful in establishing
WIZ .UiDor,nbic system in Cuba when peace
,ei'9 I'm established on the island.
DA St MN nostal and Geographic systems in
c.ha have been anything but efficient
=, turinc the Spanish regime. and since
u w. optbreak of the revolution both have
s wv almost entirely abandoned. The
. ~" have cut and destroyed the
s ,u1~, telegraph wires and poles and rem
~" the transmission of mail by the
c0onisb government thing practically
;rrossible. Only in the eastern portion
~ the island is there semblance OF
'sryice which is maintained by the Gu
han republic. 1t is the purpose OF Colo
mol Cisneros TO so familiarize himself
With tbe methods employed in these two
systems in the United States that at the
olosp If the war he will be able to un-
dortake the establishment Of similar in
q, titutions in Cuba.
At present there is no official In the
Cuban cabinet corresponding to a post
MASTER general for the reason that
there is no postal system, although the
constitution of the republic provides
for such an officer. Colonel Cisneros
! will probably be the man to fill that
$prtfolio in the first peace cabinet OF
| cuba after the close of the war, and 1T
is for this reason that he is now in
specting the department at Washing
Ton. He will also have the supervision
Of a Geographic system, which he al
ready has the capital pledged to con-
struct as soon as the Spaniards have
reyacuated the island.
Colonel Cisneros also has plans for
the construction of Cuban central
railroad, to extend through the island
from cast TO west, connecting Havana
and all the principal cities and towns
on the island. This project will cost
many millions Of dollars, and Colonel
.SsCisneros has been in the United States
for several weeks comforting with large
capitalists concerning the organization
Of company 10 begin the work as soon
as peace is declared. Several wealthy
congressman are known TO be interested
in the formation of such a company,
and Colonel Cisneros has conferred with
them, and the matter has been quietly
4 considered.
Colonel Cisneros is q native CubaI
and was educated in Havana, Paris anG
Boston. He has been consulting en-
gineer for large English syndicate
which built railroad in Colombia anc
has conducted large number of en-
4glneering projects in South and Contra
America He received his rank Will,
lighting in the Ten Years war. He hal
made large fortune in engineering
and expended more than half of it, sew
eral hundred thousand dollars, in tn,
support of the present revolution il
Cuba He believes that Spain will sui
-lor peace at the fall of Havana, ant
mat American capital will readily b.
invested with assurance of large returns
IN Cuba. Louis Globe Democrat.
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