Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-10-18
OCCUPATION OF CUBA.
Early November Will See Several
Divisions There.
1HE CUBANS AS GENDARMES.
rejected Employment of the Patri-
OTIS as Local Police Will Relieve
Distress on the Island to
No Small Extent.

Washington Oct. 1S.-It is said at the
rar department that nothing has oc-
'urred to change the plans already
'ramed for the movement of troops to
ruba. 1t was not intended that the &C.
uration of the island should begin i'm
1ediately, except at such towns as
Ianzanillo and perhaps Holguin, where
immune regiments could be used to adj
'antage Colonel HeCker's investiga-
ION into the situation has been of great
alue to the department, disclosing, as
{ has, the views of a thoroughly prac-
ical man based on keen observation.
But Colonel Hecker's primary object
Yas to locate camp sites for the occu-
alton Of the troops, and he is proceed
ng in exact accordance with his in
ftructions The conditions that he
'ound, it is said thoroughly warrant
he belief that the war department will
Re obliged to face the most difficult
problems that have yet arisen in con-
nection with the handling Of troops in
order to insure the protection of the
lealth of the soldiers.
1t has become evident that the men
must be isolated for some time in their
camps to avoid the danger of infection,
and the department is not quite clear
that any useful purpose will be served
by placing soldiers where their services
cannot be available. While the wet sea-
son has now almost reached its end in
Cuba, it is said that the yellow fever is
more prevalent and more dangerous in
type just now than at any time during
the year.
These conditions, however, will not
continue long, and it is believed that
before November has progressed far 1t
will be possible to have several divi-
sions of troops safely camped on Gu
ban soil.
Would Relieve Distress.
A proposition that is now under con-
looks to the employment Of
the Cubans as local gendafmes, it being
urged that they would be more service
able in maintaining order in the towns
than American soldiers unacQuainted
with the Spanish language and Cuban
customs.
The United States government in this
way also would be able, by the pay
ment of small salaries to these men, to
relieve the distress that
exists on the island without breeding q
class Of professional paupers or lower
ing the pride of the Cubans.
Unless General Lee specifically asks
to be relieved from that duty, he is to
the first expedition, seconded
by General Greene and General Arnold.
So far as the navy department is con-
cerned nothing is known of any pro-
test from any one in Cuba, either au-
thorized or unauthorized, against the
establishment of coaling station at
bay. About a month ago
Captain Goodrich, then the senior off,
GER on the station, being unwilling to
subject the government to the consid-
srable charges involved in keeping coal
ng schooners lying in the harbor asked
permission to have the vessels land
heir coal and relieve the government
If the demurrage expense. The de-
oartment authorized him to proceed If
he could find a tract of land open to
such use
He did find such tract and landed
his coal, and the department regards
t as singular that objection should be
made to this action. in view of the fact
hat the United States government now
holds all of the public buildings and
property in Santiago, Manzanillo and
ther Cuban cities without objection.