The record-union., 1898-12-15

on detail work, reporting or asking for
information; others deSirOus of merely
paying their respects and some With
grievances they desire to lay before the
General.
To all patient hearing is given and
as a rule by quarter to II they have
been disposed of, and then General
Scott, Captain Of the Port, pays his
usual visit to report progress in his de-
partment.
From - to 1 the General devotes the
time to his mail, which is heavy. He
dictates brief and pointed answers to
all letters, using no regular form of re-
ply, though possibly fifty letters in the
same mail may be on precisely the
same subject. Every answer is type
written and signed with his own hand.
AT / o'clock the General again makes
his way to the civil palace, where he
partakes of lunch, at which meal are
present his two aides, Lieutenants
Brooks of the Sixth Cavalry and Hanna
Of the Second Cavalry, also three other
members of his staff, Captain Mendoza
and Lieutenants Allen and Wright OF
the Fifth Immunes, and generally some
personal friend of the General.
Half an hour suffices for lunch, when
the General at once goes to his office,
across the passage, and for at least
three hours attends to the civil buSl-
ness of the province of Santiago.
By o'clock he takes a drive or pos
sibly a run down to Morro in the
steam launch, inspecting on the way
the yellow fever hospital and the
island where the explosives are stored
On evenings when he takes his water
tour he lands at a wharf at the foot of
the hill, where his house is situated in
one of the most beautiful suburbs Of
Santiago.
The house was formerly the prop
erty of Mr.. Ramsden, the late British
Consul, in whose hands it had become
veritable paradise. 1t has magnih-
cent view of the harbor and since the
arrival of Mrs. Wood has put on a very
homelike appearance.
At about o'clock the General dimes.
The more often than not his work for
the day is by no means over and from
to 10 he is often attending to CORE
spondence and other details of the
Government. Being an early riser, the
General endeavorS to get to bed be-
tween 10 and IL
The opinion of the Cuban part of
the population has been completely
changed during the last sixty days. At
first they were more or less antagoniS-
tic to Americans, but the tact of Gen
eral Wood and his evident desire to
give them every possible show to
prove their ability for government
have convinced the most anti-Ameri-
can Cuban of his sincerity and good
faith.
The charges of the Government fiscal
agents are decided here to be excess
i've, as they charged ! per cent on all
money sent to the United States, also
l per cent on their own drafts from
the United States. The consequence
of this is that men having large sums
of money to send off prefer sending
direct by steamer instead of sending a
draft.
General Wood has for some time
been advising the Washington Gov
ernment of the fact, and he has re-
Gently been notified that though they
are unable to grant his request for a
regiment, they will send him 1000
horses, carbineS and accOutrements for
the purpose of mounting two compa-
nies in each of the white infantry regi-
ments in the province. The Fifth I'M
munes, who are stationed in Santiago
will have their two mounted companies
at San Luis, twenty miles away near
where the negro regiments are en-
camped. Those of the Third Immunes
will be used in the neighborhood Of
Guantanamo, where their regiment is
stationed. Those of the Fourth I'm
munes will be located in the district
around Manzanillo, and those of the
Second Immunes will be placed in the
neighborhood of Holguin. 1t is ex-
pected that the horses, etc, will arrive
before the beginning Of the year, and
the companies have been told off by
the ColOnelS Of their respective regi-
and are now going through
a course of cavalry instruction.
The work of translating and codify-
Ing the Cuban laws is progressing rap
idly. Lieutenant Blount has COM
pleted the translation of the code of
the organization of the courts and the
decree, and has nearly
a digest of the railroad laws
of Cuba.