The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-11-24


been going on for so long that they are
discouraged and care cnly to be left in
peace regardless of political eXigencies.
But that will be so only for time. When
the first crop comes there will be money
to handle and to begin &c pay debts with.
In addition there Is not town in CUBA
which VIII not have to be taken in hand
and made TO observe sanitary laws,
Then, capital will have n chance. There
is hardly a foot of Cuban soil that will
not produce crops, and there will De
plenty of room and plenty of opportun-
ties. Then, too, the Cubans, will revive
an interest in their political condition, and
believe will want their independence,
with freedom of speech, press, etc, and
the right to govern themselves"
Getting IN early the other day after
having been up late at a reception tho
night before, Governor-elect Roosevelt
ate hasty breakfast, hurried to the sta
tion. rode into New York city, rushed TO
Wall street, visited Elihu Root, went from
Roots Office to joseph II. Choate's Of
flee, after conference there called on his
cousin, W. Enlen Re osevelt, where there
was another conference on public mat
ters; conferred next with General Fitz-
gerald on National guard reorganization,
lunched at the Dow vntown club, went to
the Firth Avenue for four separate con-
ferences with different classes of ren,
testified for half an hour before the war
Investigation commission, dressed for a
swell dinner at the Metropolitan club and
wound up with a political speech, Being
famous has its draw backs.
The report of the surgeon general of
the navy shows that on the thirty-one
vessels of the north Atlantic squadron
commanded by Admiral Sampson there
were only twelve deaths out of total of
5.5l6 men, which was at the rate of 2l7
per 1000, and only three of the twelve dich
from disease--one from pneumonia, one
from consumption ind one from alcohol
ism. Three were killed or died from
wounds and six were drowned. In Ad-
miIal Dcwey's squadron of eighteen ves-
sells and 2,251 men there were only six
deaths, at the rate of 265 per 1000-oue
from chokera morbus, one from appen-
dicitis, one from drowning, one from sui
eide, one from alcoholic poison and one
from wounds This is the most remark
able record that WIS ever known in any
navy in the wCrld.
In "Sparish-AmcrlCan War Songs" a
handsomely printed volume of 1000 pages
compiled by Sidney A. Witherbee. OF De-
trot, Mich, and containing the represen-
tative American war verse generated dur
ing the late urpleasantness Scranton IS
for Cuba" by John Z. Barrett, printed
originally in the Truth, and Down
Dewey's Way" by John Courier Morris,
which first saw type in The Tribune and
was subsequently set to music and ex-
tensiVely sung on patriotic occasions.
These are the only verses accredited TO
Northeastern Pennsylvania.
The attention of the Anglo-American
commission has been drawn by the Manu-
facturers association of Canada to the
recent rulings of the United States bureau
| of immigration that the commercial trav-
| elers of Canada fall within the restrictions
| of the allen labor law and that they cam
| not carry on their work on this side of
the border. Tn bringing the matter before
the Anglo-American commission the state
ment is made that il this country intends
| to exclude Caradisn salesnen it will be
necessary to retaliate by excluding Amer
| lean statesmen from Canada.
| Assistant Secretary of State Hill. who
was in Europe during the war, says the
European nations were astounded at the
| achievements of this country. They
| thought us entirely unprepared for hos
| tilitIes. That this country should pre-.
| terd TO be able to raise a vast army in the
| course of a few weeks to cope with the
| immense standing army Spain mainta ne !
|
French people especially They haven t
yet recovered wholly from their surprise.
Joseph a. Gitt, of New oxford. Pa. dur
| ing forty years activity as a civil en-
gineer, has surveyed forty-five railroads
and travelled 400 miles. In these forty
years, according to Mr.. GIFTS diary, 1t has
rained 2,JO0 days, showed on 30. while
| $500 days were cloudy and $500 clear.
Every members of the old Portland.
| Ore. law firm, Mitchell, Dolph & SImons,
has been elected to the United States SEN
ate. Mr.. Mitchell is retired. Mr.. Dolph
| Is dead. and Mr.. Simons was elected last
| month.
According to Correspondent Pepper the
| first American institution TO establish it.
| self in Cuba iibrc was an American bar
| room, and it wasn't solicited by the Gu
| bans, either,