The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-12-27
HAVANA BEING CLEANED
Americans Have Already Gotten Filth from
Some Of the Streets.
MUCH YET REMAINS TO Be ACCOMPLISHED
General budIow's rHsk Will NE nm
Appalling Onc--Years Necessary
10 do All.

New York. December ga dispatch ia
/ the Tribune from Havana says: Cuba IL
feeling the benefits OF prospective and Of
actual .Aaner!sah administration. Some Of
/ the stress ARE really clean. General
Greene had $4,000 Tor public sanitation
authorized by the department at Washing-
| ton, but Spanish sovereignty had TO he
! respected, although 1t was unable to re-
! move the gurbage from single alley.
| The Havana ajuatam1ento or common
| council had not q dollar to sp5nd. SO,
| by permission OF the Spanish authorities,
the Uneted States took mold OF the work.
Marquis de EsIaban, iths alcaide or may or
Of the city had nioclanlliions posted VI
in which the inhaDiuinis OF tine stree S
cleaned were told that It WAS done b.
the Amercan government, and ehey We're
exnortei to second the efforts of the
United States niiiulTy uuthorJues.
This removal OF the Accommodations OF
garbage does not solve the sanitary proc
lens of Havana, however 1t elbows Tat
the streets can be kept fairly Clean and uie
city be made inniDftable, wihiie tins
changes thar must be maze in the sewerase
System and otner Eyglenic itnpro 'slnen.ts
aue Isri4el OUT. Five years may We neces-
saty belcre ths plans WHICH Colonel George
Il. Waning prepared can be maze effacti e.
That will not prevent Havana from beng
Kept clean TOR the next five months, viii. b
is the period in which 1t is so Important
10 1orest4ll epidemic diseases among tina
Amsncau troops. Genanal Ludlow VIII
LruL,.iD.y be aLi-lb1a ny Inc ta;6 which
Lclltr0nts HIM as the ,ehgl ana inilitEi gov.
eG nor of HayGllss.
Americans who are In Cuba engaged In
BUSINESS are Chiefly concerned in an I'M
provanent IN the mail service, BON domes-
tic and foreign. 1t would not be lair TO
judge Spanish administration by the COM
ple.e decentralization which has appeared
in the pOSooftice arrangements in the last
few weeks Some disturbance was newt
able. 1lls knowledge OF the employees that
thsy would receive none of the back pay
increased their Indifference. Nest o. thsm
will necessarily be kept for time, and
they baow now they will receive their
wages. There is desire to please the
American officials. which will spur them
TO the better performance of Their duties.
Though the service Is badly disorganized,
the methods of administration are simple
and they are easily adjusted to the change.
This is shown IN the ease with which the
military postofffces Tor the American
troops hive been put in operation.
Under the Spanish rule the government
owned the telegraph lines and operated
them in connection with the rostoffice
department. The railroads were not per-
mitted to have lines OF their own. Their
ordinary and necessary business was
transacted under vsNattous restrictions.
Ths official regulations were as volumi-
nous and intricate as the code of civil law.
1t cam not be said that the system, under
Spanish methods at least, offers enoour-
agement to these who favor a government
postal telegraph The United States will
not have time TO meet that question be-
cause of tine practical difficulties in the
way Of administering the telegraph sys-
tenn as a part of the postoffice system.
Under the military rule which Us to b, es-
tabl.shed for the entire island. the tsle-
graph lines will be military ONES The
signal service corps will have charge OF
THAT. The lines are in bad condition To
repair them and get the system in working
order will require several weeks. When
this is done. in addition to the use By
the army. tine lines win afford ample facl-
titles for the transaction of private bus
risss. The volume OF commercial business
is not likely to be large for year or
more.