The age-herald., 1898-10-25
GENERAL WOOD
 STARTS REFORMS Conducting Santiago Affairs in an
 American Manner. CUBAN C0MMlITEE NAMED
To Assist Him in the Work of Civil
 Administration.
POLICE FORCE OF THE PROVINCE
Will Be Thoroughly Reorganized and American Patrolmen Will Be Add ed-Six Companies of Hoods
 Immunes Sent to Gibara

l Santiago, October 24.-General Wood, military governor of the department of | Santiago, though satisfied with the work l ings of the Cuban committe of fifty now l recommending appointments and offering suggestions for his assistance in the work | of civil administration has decided to sim | plify this feature by appointing eight of l the most prominent members of the com mission as a permanent council to the governor. This council will meet General Wood thrice week to consult as to im- provements in the province and one or | more members may go to different points to consider local applications for office. The members of the council will receive salaries, though the amount has not yet been decided upon. Probably the position will be more one of honor than of profit One of the four matters to be considered by General Wood and the advisory council will probably be the reorganization of the police force of the province, General Wood intending to enlarge it. His idea is to make the entire police force one semi-mili- tary organization under command of an nspector-general with the rank of colonel, having headquarters at Santiago.
 Four Inspectors
 There will be four inspectors with the rank of major, with headquarters at San tiago, Guantanamo, Manzanilo and Hol- guin and sub-inspectors with the rank of captain at important places, smaller places having lieutenants. The whole service will be thoroughly drilled. The mounted police will be armed with carbines and revolvers and the foot constabulary with machetes and revolvers.
 General Wood believes that in less than six months he will have complete and we'll drilled body of men. There will be ix, aI.nr oft tho anltn Q Santiago, but General Wood contemplates adding twelve American patrolmen for dis tricts specially frequented by soldiers teamsters and Americans generally. Ap- parently no member of the present force dares to arrest an American even when the police outnumber the offenders seven to one Several wealthy Cubans have offered General Wood quantity of land to enable him to carry out his plans of furnishing work for any one who desires 1t. --.. Any such applicant will be given for one
 year the use of piece of land with imple-
 ments, seeds and rations until his crops
 grow to enable him to supply the Santiago
 market with vegetables, fruit, fowls, or
 pork. General Wood believes that no fewer
 than 500 men will accept this opportunity
 and he is confident that not only the men
 themselves, but the city generally will be
 benefited by the arrangement.
 Cubans Put to shame
 His proposal is very gratifying to self respecting Cubans, who frankly say they are put to shame by the sight of their peo-
 pie receiving free rations all the time and
 making no effort to get work. Lieutenant
 Rooney has gone with 1sO pack mules to
 Bayamo, distributing rations along the
 route. He carries 21 ,00O rations. Today
 commission composed of influential Cubans
 called to express thanks for General
 Woods efforts on behalf of the city The
 spokesman of this committee assured him
 that the Cubans who now made complaints
 were for the most part those living in the United States, with whom throughout the entire war the majority of Cubans in the island had little or no sympathy. Six companies of Colonel Hoods Second inh- mune regiment left for Gibara, where they will stay until November 10, the date fixed unon for the evacuation of Holguin.