The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-17
NEED FEVER HOSPITALS.
No Attempt to Isolate Yellow Jack I'm
Havana Institutions.


HAVANA via Key West, Oct 16.-Drs.
Lane and O'Reilly have made report to
the surgeon general insisting en- the imme-
date establishment of an American fever
hospital here. The existing hospitals do not
isolate yellow fever patients. and the result
is that if person suffering from any other
complaint is removed to the hospital he
runs the risk of contracting the fever. This
was the case with Stenographer Dalhey, of
the American evacuation commission, who is
suffering from malarial fever. His next
door neighbor is i'll with fever of a different
character.
Colonel CIous has received plan Of every
fortification on the island, each one signed
personally by General Blanco. These plans
had been requested by our commissioners
ever since their arrival, but were not de-
Iivered until yesterday.
The transportation commission has be-
gun work on the plans for the extension OF
the railroad to the camp at Guanabacoa,
which will be the first to be got ready
They have asked for bids, and laborers are
being employed to push the work actively.
Colonel Waring has found Havana dirtier
than he anticipated. He says it will be
necessary to tear open the streets and lay
drainage pipes and sewers. He sees no
reason to fear an epidemic, as there was no
spread of disease when the streets were
open recently to lay water pipes. He is
greatly satisfied with the excellence of Ha-
vana's water supply.
Industry and commerce continue at
standstill. Many planters and merchants
who recently returned here anticipating an
early resumption Of business are going
abroad again to wait until after affairs are
Tt.,1,o %h0xy do
bark in business ventures or risk a cent in
the present unsatisfactory and indefinite
condition of political affairs on the island
In the meantime the country daily grows
poorer The sugar and tobacco crops are
unsown.
That the condition of the Cubans is not
so desperate or black as is painted outside
of the fact that they are short of rations
is confirmed by Colonel Rowen and Lieuten-
ant Parker, who, after crossing the island
five times, covering one hundred miles and
visiting every insurgent camp on the island,
report that the men in the camps are effi-
cient, we'll disciplined and Differed by men
of high order Of intelligence and educa-
ton. From these men, who have struggled
and suffered for three long years for their
ideal Of freedom, resistance is to be feared
to any solution Of the problem not having
for it's basis independence.
The day has passed very quietly in every
quarter. 1t is reported that the Spanish
evacuation commissioners have handed the
American commissioners a note giving the
names and number of Spanish transports
now on the way to Cuba. 1t is understood
that there are twenty-seven.
The general health of the various United
States commissioners and their respective
staffs is excellent. The sprained ankles Of
Major Allison and Captain Crawford mark
the limit of disabilities, save the case Of Mr..
Dalby, the stenographer. who is reported
as improved. Colonel Hecker visited Gen.
Wade this afternoon and discussed the ques-
ton of camps for the United States troops.