The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-12-14
GOVERNOR OF CUBA
General Brooke Designated
by the President.
HIS A MILITARY RULE
FOUR WARSHIPS ORDERED TO
HAVANA.
HY Will tOLO IT IN }U3JlCTION
Another Bloody Affrsy in Havana Funeral Pro-
.ceSsion 8eariog Man Killed in Hotel
lngIaterra & %ffr5y CoIlides with
Military 10, DfsI Force.
Military 10 pifaI Force.

Military 20 pifaI Force.
Washington, Dec. 13.-it was formally
announced to-day tnat the President had
designated Major BROOKE to lie the
Military Governor of the Island of Gu
ba. The new post carries with il all
the control over III" military and civil
branches of the island formerly cAtT-
cised by the Captain General under the
Spanish regime. General Brooke ar
rived in this city to-'lay from Fort Men
roe.
Each of the six provinces of Cuba will
have its own Military Governor, just
as General Wood is now Military Gov
ernor of the Province of Santiago but
ali of these will receive their instruc-
tions directly from Major General
Brooke, who is in supreme authority of
the island. Thus in Havana, General
Ludlow will be governor of the city, but
answerable to General Lee. the Cover
nor OF the Province of Havana, who in
turn will be answerab!e to Major Gen
eral Brooke, the Governor of the island.
In answer to question as to when
he intended to assume his new duties.
General Brooke replied that he would
proceed to Havana and take charge just
as soon as he could organize his staff
and forces. Such disturbances as occur
red in Havana night before last, it is
believed, may be expected to re-occur
there, and to happen i'll some of the
other Cuban cities and towns And, as
the United States is pledged to restore
the reign of law and order in Cuba,
General Brooke will be under the neces
sity of providing an elaborate system OF
administrative machinery in order tC
ho.d the disorderly elements in check
and secure a proper application OF the
laws.
General Ludlow, the Governor of Ha-
vana, is already giving his attention to
the organization of a semi-military force
to take the place of the Orden Publico
and the Garde Civile, the Spanish po-
lice force, which maintained order in
towns and country. The repatriation of
these forces recently has left the coun-
try and particularly the city of Havana
exposed to an epidemic of crime.
The Navy Department has taken steps
towards possessing itself Of the Navy
Yard at Havana, and orders just issued
assign Commodore b. J. Cromwell, now
a member Of the examining board, to
duty as cOmmandant OF the new naval
station there, and Chief Engineer G. =.
Howell. and Lieutenant ]. II. Glennon
and Pay Director j. A. Smith and Sur
ge0n j. ID. Gatewood to duty at the
same station.
The Navy Department has just learn
ed that the Spanish Government is
about to sell the splendid floating dry
dock, which was brought to Havana
from England just before the war at a
cost of $6J0,000.
Admiral Sampson. the naval repre-
sentative on the evacuation commission
made a determined struggle to have the
dock passed to the United States. with
other property of permanent character,
but he was overruled by his colleagues
ON the commission, Generals Wade and
Butler. who accepted the Spanish con
tention that the dock should be regard
ed as n ship, and not as stable property
The dock is to be sold, therefore, by the
Spanish officials next Friday. There
are signs that private parties are prepar-
ing to bid for it. The Navy Department
contemplates with the greatest veXatiOn
the prospective loss of this splendid struc
ture as a dry dock Of large proportions
will be an almost necessity in Havana,
so long as the American navy is to be
maintained in those waters. 1t is pos
sble that the attention Of Congress hav-
ing been attracted to the subject, an at
tempt may be made TO purchase the dock
on the part Of the United States or rath-
eer on account Of the Government of
Cuba that shall eventually be establish
cd.
WARSHIPS FOR HAVANA.
Washington, Dee. 13.--The Brooklyn.
Texas, CaStine and Resolute have been
ordered to Havana.
While there is not the faintest desire
to convey threat in the dispatch Of
these warships to Havana, it may be
noted that when they lie within the
harbor they will hold the town in per-
feet subjectiOn. 1t is surmised that the
suggestion came from Admiral Samp-
son, who is now in one of the suburbs
of Havana, as result of the unfor-
tunate eruption Sunday night at the
Hotel Inglaterra. AT any rate the event
brought the authorities to sudden
realization of the exact state of affairs
in Havana, and the imminent danger of
another such outbreak, which, might
run to proportions of a riot and cost
many innocent lives. With only a small
force of American soldiers in Havana
Province, and those removed at such
distance from the city as to make it
difficult of access in time to be of SER
vice to the American element in the
city, now swollen to large proportions by
the advent of many hundred CONNER
ties for employment, the necessity for
ties for employment. The necessity for