The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-07
GOMEz's VISIT TO HAVANA.
1t May BE Postponed Until Feb. 81
Senior QueSada's Work.


Senior QueSada's Work.
HAVANA, Feb. Ex-Governor General
Brooke has as yet received no information
regarding the date when General Maxine
Gomez will arrive in Havana. Feb. "A is
the anniversary of the beginning of the
Cuban war and it is possible that Gomez
will wait until then to make a triumphal
entry into the city. The opinion is ex.
pressed in high official circles that the spe-
cial committee of the Cuban Assembly
agreed while in Washington to accept
So, 0,G0O from the United States for the pay
ment of the troops provided Gomez would
consent. Consequently the current criti-
cism of his action i'm the matter would in
dictate that the commission here has not
told the Cuban generals of the obligations
assumed at Washington. If this be true,
the opposition on the part of the generals
amounts to nothing. Senior De Quesada is
now touring in the provinces, making
speeches in which he advises the Cubans to
have full confidence in the intentions Of
the United States and to promote union
among themselves.
The United States authorities to-day be-
gan work upon a new corral for a thousand
mules between Castillo del Principe and FL
Nedado. Two hundred and fifty thousand
teet of lumber is on the way from the
United States, and will be used in the con-
struction. The present corral at Cerro will
be abandoned. The new site is on higher
and much better ground. These prepara-
tons, as we'll as others, Indicate that the
future military base will be FL Vedado in
stead of Marianao. The ground in the vicin-
ity of Castillo del Principe is the highest
and most healthful near Havana.
About noon to-day a fire broke out on the
wharI opposite the palace among the hay
for the engineer corps. The city fire de-
partment was summoned and took half an
hour TO reach the scene, though the men
worked hard enough after they got there
and had the fire e~xtinguished in about an
hour and a half. A large quantity of hay
and fifty barrels of potatoes were more or
Tess damaged. After the fire marines were
landed from the Resolute to guard the prop
erty. General Fitzhugh Lee, accompanied
by his son, went TO the Isle of Pines yes
terday to inspect its sanitary conditions
with the view to establish q military SANTA
rum there. He will return about the mid
die of the week.
The Havana police are drilling regularly
four hours a day and there is great i'm
Tor the first battalion have arrived here.
Former Police Superintendent McCullagh
expects to return TO the United States on
Maj. Gen. Warren Kelfer, commander CT
the First Division OF the Seventh Army
corps, returned here yesterday from Guines,
where he has been obtaining data referring
TO the reorganization of the local civil adj
ministration.
When the Spaniards left here they com
rletely dismantled the arsenal and repair
shop OF the ordnance department, with the
result that many laborers have been out of
employment since Jan. /. The laborers de-
termined yesterday TO parade the streets
and go to the HEADQUARTERS of General Ind-
low, the governor of the department of
Havana, for the purpose of appealing to
aim TO give them work. The parade started