The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-07-20

''' r.aertaken by the United States
-. Peace Is Declared - Ex-
w.a,her Man Dunn.
,,.w WORK, July 19.-lSpecial. RE
y doplorable developments In Cuba
s sD home to thinking men the iact that
prlne .his Governments greatest tasks
one U pearl of the Antilles chall have
hTr Wv Inv our sailors and soldiers will
been W." canning out of yellow fever there.
'n' ,his can be done despite the firm
Tna' sn disease has obtained in Cuba, is
holu ~" for a moment by scientific
po1 Nc have studied the fever and the
mel Ans in which 1t thriyes and Is prop
cOnui S thouph the difficulties of the job
sga%S ~ something tremendous, especially
IN the older clues. ,o,.;oroo IN o,,r
.,rn southern states, acquired during cpl
,"n,,cs Of the fever, that strict enforce
UNI ont If the rules of sanitation and clean
Mnoss act as perfect preventives SO Tar as
lpe UInol eases are concerned, though, OF
Ors yno they cannot more than mitigate
wui s,tions when tho disease comes as n
V OSasor from some infected region. 1t will
, sS.i be comparatively easy after a
.nao m control, If not altogether to pre-
uant the scourge in a large portion of the
island. .
..ms will be a powerful factor in this be-
roacent work probably, though 1t may be
s"und necessary to burn garbage and thor
auchlv disinfect sewage in order to being
OSont the best results. These things will
rorv likely have to be done In all the
large g towns and, in addition, as has been
stated many times by experts, some OF the
older harbors, that Of Havana among the
others. will have to be thoroughly cleaned.
How Can the Harbors BE Cleaned?
The cleansing of Havana's harbor has
hoen mooted more than once, and it Is un-
derstood that an English company made
tbe Spanish government q proposition to
that end some years ago. AS the story
coes the government was at first inclined
10 treat favorably with the company, for,
while Spain has ever been careless as to
sanitary measures, she has been tremen-
dously chagrined by the prevalence of yell
low fever in her West Indian possessions.
The price mentioned by the English COM
pany, however, was so large that no ar
rangement was entered into.
Just how the company proposed to clean
the harbor has never been made public. 1t
has been stated, however, that general
plans thought to be feasible were perfect
ed though the details were admittedly
not worked out. To the lay mind the only
practicable plan for thorough cleaning
would be to lay the bottom bare and re-
move a thick layer of the filthy sewage set
things that have been accommodating ever
since the city was settled. But this plan
must be dismissed, as a matter Of course,
since 1t would involve an almost unthink-
able expense in the construction of Golfer
dams, would close the harbor all through
the cleaning process and would probably
result in degree Of mortality among the
men employed that would be comparable
only to that of the most deadly wars in all
history
modification Of this plan which would
not present the contingency of closing the
port would be to do the cleaning in sec
tons isolating a part of the harbor at a
time by means of small dams. The diff
culties of inordinate expense and probable
mortality among the workmen employed
would not be overcome by this plan, how
ever, and there is strong likelihood that
exposing the harbor bottom would cause O
yellow fever outbreak of appalling proper
tons in Havana and all the surrounding
country.
In all probability thorough and long
continued dredging is tho best possible
plan, but manifestly no amount of harbor
plpancpr xuot,lI 1Na off xx-tthn.tt tho
Introduction of greatly improved sewer
age system and much better sanitary APP
planes generally than are now common
in the Cuban capital That the United
States government will take hold of this
matter without delay after the close Of the
war there can be no doubt, and the stamp
Ing out of the disease will unqucstionably
mark the beginning of new era both in
Cuba and in those parts of the mainland
now subject to yellow fever epidemics by
reason Of their nearness to the fever's most
deadly center of distribution.
Elias Il. Dunn.
The recent row to which Z. b. Dunn, now
ex-United States weather observer for the
city of New York and its vicinity, was one
party and Willis l.. Moore, the department
chief, the other was by no means Dunn
nrst imbroglio. He is in appearance one
OF The meekest, most self effacing men
imaginable, but somehow he has managed
toincur the displeasure of almost every de-
partment chief under whom he has served.
Dunn himself holds-at least SO his
friends report-that all his troubles have
arisen from the fact that his name has oft
ener appeared in the columns Of the New
iork newspapers than the names OF his
chiefs. On the other side it has invariably
Deen asserted that Dunn's characterization
Is frightful thing and that he is sell
seeking to degree, assuming when talk
ing 10 the newspaper men that he Is In
enect the be all and end all of the whole
bureau. Probably the strained conditions
Snown for a long time to exist between
moore and Dunn have been much intensi
neu by the attitude of the newspaper men
40 them the fact that Moore has never
Thought sufficient publicity was given t.
,ne weather dispatches signed by his name
nas always seemed humorous thing, ant
'ney have therefore studiously avoided ex
plotting him for years, though, as they
say without the slightest completely OF
,ne part Of Dunn. And no one who knows
Dunn and his devotion to this city was II
'ne least surprised that no should resign
rainier than go to the West Indies.
Dunn's most serious row with the Unit