Omaha daily bee., 1898-12-23
CUBANS WILL BE GAY
They Will Celebrate Evacuation Day with
Great RejOicings
HAPPY NEW YEAR WILL DAWN FOR THEM
Festivities Will Begin January l and Last
for Five Days.
ARCHES TO GRACE PRINCIPAL STREETS
Grand Procession, Race Meeting and Big
Campaign Diuner.
RCHsS TO GRACE PRINCIPAL STREETS
SPEECHESBY WELL KNOWN CUBAN ORATORS
Solemn High Mass I'm the Havana
Cathedral VIII Usher in the Glad
Day, When Special Prayers
Will lie Read.


VIII he Read.
| Copyright 1885, by Press Publishing Coz
HAVANA, Dec. 22.-(New York World Ca
blegrsm-Special Telegram. )-The Cubans
VIII celebrate American occupation January
| l by tremendous rejoicings The junta.
various patriotic clubs and an executive
committee In each district, have appointed
! general committee to make arrangements
and raise funds for the purpose. The fes-
tivities will last five days and will be OF
the most varied character. A great meet
| ing will be held in the Tacon theater at
which speeches will be delivered by well
known Cubans. All the clubs will combine
In grand procession, race meeting will
be held and a campaign dinner will be given
| to the Cuban troops. An effort will be made
to have Gomez come to Havana to take
part. Solemn high mass will be celebrated
in the morning at the cathedral, at which
special prayers. suitable to the occasion, will
be read. Arches will be erected in all the
principal streets and the houses will be
| decorated. Numerous private balls will be
given, to which invitations by the hundreds
are being showered ON the American Of
! fcers.
General Clous and Captain Hart, the lat
Ter the official interpreter OF the comms-
! sion, called at the palace this afternoon to
arrange an interview with the commission
and Governor General Castelanos tomorrow
to draw up the details of the American oc-
! cupation January l. Colonel Girauta, the
secretary Of the Spanish commission, re-
ceived them and gave verbal information
as to points already evacuated by the Span
ish troops and the stations still held. Sur
| Cap Motpr Jnhp Aoha rI ,s,tn
his second inspection of the hospitals in
| Havana tomorrow to ascertain what can be
utilized by the American authorities. Judg-
Ing from his first investigation only the
] Alfonso XIII hospital can be used. That
is modern hospital In q good locality fitted
with electric light and other up-to- date
appliances 1t has been selected now as a
yellow fever hospital. The other regular
| hospital, San hmbros,o, ia in iad condition.
! 1t Is uoubttui " 1t can 1ssr be thoroughly
dlsinfected The four others-ReGia, Bene-
| 1cio, MADEIRA and Quemados-are only build-
| ings temporarily used as hospitals and arc
in very bad condition. Rega. which 10
merely a wharf shed, now has 5000 sick.
Colonel R. NJ. OReily at present in Jamaica
investigating the British garrison there, will
come to Cuba December 80 as chief surgeon
| in Cuba. Surgeon Ashenhard will be his
executive officer.
Doubt About Classification.
General Butler of the American evacua-
| tion commission is not oversanguine that
Cuba will peacefully settle down under the
new American administration. In an inter-
view today he said:
"In my opinion, for the purpose Of carry
ing out this work of settling Cuba it will
! be necessary at first to maintain a very
| strong force OF troops. l do not anticipate
serious trouble, either with the Cubans or
otherwise, but I think 1t wise and safe
policy to be prepared for all emergencies
There should be at least garrison OF
| 10000 troops on the island. With this
! force at immediate command, anything
likely to disturb the public peace could bs
| readily quelled l do not think 1t likely
that we should be called upon to use the
troops but the moral effect OF such large
body OF men here would do much to over
awe certain elements which only await
an opportunity to give us trouble. The
military occupation of this part of the
island Is likely to last at least until the
rainy season. 1t will be necessary to have
matters in such shape then that the greater
proportion may be withdrawn and a small
garrison-say OF 5000 men-be retained.
Possibly even this number may not be
necessary. A project has been discussed
which will solve the Cuban army problem,
and at the same time obviate the necessity
| for keeping American troops in this trop-
ical climate during the unhealthy season.
| This Is to form regiments composed Of
Cuban soldiers offcered by Americans and
| utilized for garrison duty until the event.
| ual fate OF the island is decided. do not
know that this plan will be adopted, but It
has been given serious consideration"
| han nd hv tho
Cubans against enlsting In the new police
| force men who lately were guerrllas In
| the Spanish army.
| Sports to the Front.
! On the heels of the announcement that
| Jim Corbett will open a saloon here comes
| the news that Bat Masterson, Wysart
| carp OF Tombstone, Ariz., DOC" Holiday.
Ed Casey, "The Kid of skagway." Alaska,
and Doc" Brown of Spokane Falls arc
coming to Havana to engage In various
| enterprises Judging from appearances the
| early history Of the western towns of Amer
| lea will be repeated in Havana. Gambling
houses are being opened everywhere. 1t
| Is poor building in the business district
| which has not bids on 1t for location
| for an American bar 1t seems to be the
| idea among the sporting fraternity that
Havana will be made another Monte Carlo
| to endure through the reconstruction period
at least.
The fight over electric street railway fran
chises will begin again after January I.
william Mackenzie, the president Of the To-
ronto Street Railway company, who Is here
with colleagues, representing the Montreal
| and Toronto syndcates, is confident OF OBJ
| tanning a concession. The position now,
since the revocation OF the franchise granted
to the American syndicate by the civil gov
q. tn1 h.fn
ans win again make an offer and 1t Is be-
lleved In financial circles here that the Har-
vey syndicate will enter the field again
without the Montreal and Halifax backing
Of its previous offer.