Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-09-21
1T FLIES IN HAVANA FOR, THE FIRST
TINE SINCE APRIL.
HOME OF THE COMMISSION
ENTIRE HOTEL AT vEDADO RENTED
AT A COST OF $1,4OO A WEEK.
Even the Public Bar Was ClOsed-
Party Includes Nearly Half
Hundred Persons - Whole
Party Is In the Best
of Health.

NEW YORK, Sept. 20.-A dispatch to the
Herald from Havana says the American
occupation has begun. The stars and
stripes wave over the salon or the Hotei
Trocha, a tree-embowered villa IN the SUBJ
urb of vedado. A happy omen and en-
blem of benificent power, raised on havana
soil for the first time since it was removed
from the American consulate-not flying
in the narrow confined streets of the an
tique business section, but in the newer
portion, is this breeze-blown nag, nylns
over a region suggestive of the natural
riches of a land of plenty converted into
an abode of want by internecine strife
The whole commission party moved from
the Resolute to the Trocha to-day. Inc
party includes three commissioners, Re-
cording Secretary Clous, thirteen army OH
GERS, one naval aide, one counselor, his
two assistants, fifteen interpreters, stenog-
raphers, typewriters and clerks, three mes
sengers and six servants.
The whole place is now In the hands OF
the commission, at cost of y, 400 week.
Even the public bar was closed for cash
compensation. The hotel Is still guarded
by the orden publicos against possible foes.
The comission will probably post marine
sertines as protection from possible over
intrusive would-be friends.
The whole party is in the best of health.
strength since the voyage began.
The commission will begin Its session In
new quarters tomorrow, when Major Clous
and Quartermaster Brooke have reduced the
confused chaos to systematic order. The
commission will meet in a spacious hall, a
room of pictures and bronzes, which Is
General Buffers quarters, where a big
open window looks toward the open sea,
ever restless, like the island. and separating
1t from the land of freedom.
The first work Of the commission to-mor-
| row will be to prepare second series of
propositions answering the Spanish reply
to the first series sent week ago to-day.
HAVANA, Sept. 20.-At 10 o'clock this
| morning, the first American flag in Havana
was hoisted on the flagstaff of the Trocha
| hotel, the headquarters of the American
evacuation commission. A guard of ma
rines was posted at the entrance to the
grounds.
Colonel Clous and Captain Payne stood
| on the roof of the hotel at either side of the
| Flagstaff. At 10 o'clock, sharp, a quarter
| master Of the steamer Resolute hoisted the
| flag, which unfurled and fiuttered proudly
| in the breeze.
All the members of the commission raised
| their hats and cheered the stars and
| stripes. The approaches to the grounds at
either end Of the street were patrolled by
| squads of the guardia civile, in order that
| the commissioners might not be molested
| This morning widow and two children,
| evidently persons of refinement, but in abb
iect want, approached General Wade, the
president of the commission, and pleaded
for relief. The widow and children were
seated in the dining room of the hotel and
given hearty meal. Others in need were
equally well treated, all who applied re-
ceiving relief of some sort.
The commissioners had nothing to say
| concerning the report of a protest at the
| length of time asked by the Spanish COM
mission for evacuation, denying all knowl-
| edge of such action. They maintain q
| strict reserve.
| Major Allison, who sprained his ankle
| yesterday by falling over a hatch on the
| Resolute, is still on board that vessel, as
the injury, though not serious, is causing
him much pain.
Captain Griscom remains on board with
him.
The Spanish mail steamer Alfonso XIII.
sailed for Spain this afternoon, carrying
besides 1,200 passengers, mostly women
| and children, 1000 sick soldiers.
| Marquis Ceryera. military governor of
| Marianao, has issued an order providing
-reconcentrados-to their farms and fields,
| Offering absolute protection to all those
| going back to their homes and lands. To
| this end he has arranged for three omni-
| buses to run twice week from Marianao
to different interior points In the vicinity
| taking, free of charge, the families and
baggage of those who wish to return to
their homes. The civil governor. besides
| issuing orders to the mayors Of Cano and
Bauta to cooperate with the mayor Of
| Marianao. has to the same end set aside
the sum of $500. to be distributed among
those families who return to labor on the
| farms.
Advices from Matanzas continue to re-
port great distress and spread of sickness.
to remedy which, 1t is asserted, the city
officials do absolutely nothing.
Bishop Santander, of this diocese, this
morning had long interview with Cap
tain General Blanco, supposedly for the
purpose Of considering the position of the
clergy after the evacuation of the island.
| DIR. Jose Congosto, secretary general of
Cuba, who is accredited to the Spanish
commission at Paris, will sail on Saturday
via New York and Europe.