Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1898-07-23

Coming spain. Way-H. >. Ru.
Others Do Not Believe in Cuban
Di,sat isfactiOn With Americans
Timely Warming TO Miles
Fever Wide Spreading, but Mild
in Type-Toral Made a Scapesoat
-Spaniurds Accept Defeat Grace.
fully-War News and Notes From
All Points Of the Compass.
Washington, July 2l-General Miles
sent Il long dispatch to " ashingtoL
yesterday, reporting some of the con
ditiOnS prey ailing at Santiago. by the
.elief of which the Porto Rico eXpedi-
ion would be expedited. He described
he men ON thetransports as exceedingly
'estless. They are uncomfortably To-
Gated, and while confined to the ships
are in danger of contagion should dis
ease break out. He clearly intimated
hat he saw no occasion for delay, and
he tenor vi his dispatch was such as &c
:tir up the Washington officials.
Most of them appeared to be sur
orised that discomfort and restlessness
should exist among the confined sol
liers, and General Miles disclosures
we're VERT able revelation to many vi
hem He described the horses as dy
ng from the effects OF the voyage and
he failure to land them. He expressed
he intention of placing the command
and the animals Oh shore II there should
3e much further delay.
He explained that the repeated post
punement of the departure OF the l.
transports, which will form the con-
:ingent from Santiago and Tampa for
Porto Rico, was caused by the failure Of
he navy to furnish conveys, and lit
insisted in unmistakable terms that the
navy department be requested to issue
such orders to Admiral Sampson as
would provide the naval vessel neces
:ary for the protection of the troop
slips intended for Porto Rico en- route t.
hat point
General Miles dispatch conveyed the
impression that he did not sympathlze
With or cordially approve of the attitude
Of the naval authorities at Santiago. III,
evidently regarded their policy Of delay
as inmical to the plans of the army.
Il is the plan of General Miles to &C
al the northern coast of Hayti and
Porto Rico until he reaches the extreme
eastern end of the latter island. His
course will then be southwark tor few
miles to the harbor of Fajardo, "a miles
from San Juan. After mature cOnsid-
Grafton, this point has been decided upon
as an excellent base from which to direct
operations. General Miles will not
move actively upon the interior of tn.
island for two weeks, but will wait fol
the 600 troops now on the way from
Tampa for Ernst's brigade, which saileC
from Charleston last night, and for the
rest of the troops expected to sail from
Newport News during the next IL days
The army will enter Porto Rico under
greatly superior conditions than those
which attended the movement against
Santiago. There will be no unnecessary
prvations: NO starvatiun; no unseason-
able clothing, nor any of the other dis
comforts experienced at Santiago, which
have been blamed directly to the neglect
of the war department and to the mex
pericnce of officials newly appointed tC
responsible positions. The experience
gained in the Santiago expedition vii
tighten the work of the men operating
against San Juan.
Not only is the war department bet
ter able to care for the army in tbs
field, but the experience of the past ha
been of vallie to the manufacturers OF
the country upon whom the government
depended for goods bought in open mar
ket. Every regiment ordered on the
Porto Rican expedition takes from its
own camp the supplies needed during
the early ays of the invasion. AT eaci
camp food and supplies have been con
centrated and as the troops move from
the camp to the coast to embark on tn,
transports, they take with them full
compliments of clothing and food. The
troops leaving Santiago are not so wei
supplied, but shipments have already
been prepared for their use. For sup
plying the troops after the invasion ha.
begun the arrangements are equally
complete.
The news from Madrid that Genera
Parreja, the Spanish commander a
Guantanamo. refuses to be included il
the "capitulaliun Of Santiago, cause.
some concern in administration circles
If the terms made by General TOral anC
accepted by General Shafter are re-
pudiated by the other military com
manders in the coded territory ther,
will of course be a renewal of the fight
ing and a continuance of die campo igr
in eastern Cuba, with the same resu!
which has characterized operation:
heretofore.
Until this uncertainty Is cleared up
would be unwise for General Sha fter'.
force to be weakened, which is an al
ditional reas why the Fifth arm,
corps cannot be heavily drawn upon t,
furnish troops for the Porto Rican tx
petition.
Arrangements practically were con
cluded by the government last night fo
the transportation of the Spanish pris
oners at Santiago from Cuba to Spain
The contract was awarded to the Span
ish Transatlantic company, represente,
by j. NJ. Ceballos 4 Co. of New York
The company agrees to carry the pris
oners from Cuban ports to Spain at thu
rate of $40 for each enlisted man an,
$50 for each commissioned officer, sub
sistence to be furnished by the conipan,
on the army ration basis. as provided 70
in the governments advertisement 70
bids. The award provides also that tn
company shall have five ships at San
tiago in nine days from today two NOR
The Firemen Broke the News.
Boston, July 1S.-t,mily +. I.unt, II
years old, wife of Frank Lunt. was
burned to death Sunday afternoon at
her rooms IN South Boston. The fire
originated in the basement from an
unknown cause, and caused a damage
of about $500 The flames worked
rapidly up through the tenements aud
Crept about the sofa where MS. Lunt
vas sleeping and overpowered her.