The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-01-02
DETAILS OF THE TR4NSFER.
The Addresses of General CasteIlanos
 and General Brooke.

and General Brooke.
 Havana, Jan. 1.-The sovereignty of
 Cuba passed from Spain to the United
 States at noon to-day. The form of the
 transfer was simple, consisting only of
 an exchange of speeches in the salon
 or the palace and the hauling down of
 the Spanish flag and the raising in it's
 stead of the flag of the United States
 on the flagstaff on the palace roof. Sa-
 lutes were fired from the heavy guns
 or the forts and the warships, before
 and after the change of flags, and the
 raising of the Stars and Stripes was greeted with cheers by the people who
 covered the roofs of the buildings
 around the palace and the plaza. No crowd was permitted to gather in the streets in the vicinity of the palace to witness the epoch-making function At o'clock guard composed of the sec ond battalion of the 10th infantry marched into the Plaza de Armas un- der command of Captain Van Volt and formed around the square. Captain General Castellanos watched them with interest from the balcony of his apart ments as they entered the square and was stationed at all the streets ap- preaching the plaza. No one was al- lowed to enter without a pass and all the doors of the palace facing the square were ordered closed. Only those who could get on the roofs and balcon- ies of houses in the neighborhood saw what was going on before the palace. ft,o ar1 +, Illinois regiment, which had been se- lected for the occasion as the best band in the Seventh army corps. With the band were the buglers of the Sth and 10th infantry. The weather was warm, the sun bursting at intervals through the light clouds, and the soldiers in blue who were forced to stand in the sun found the heat oppressive. The troops were formed in order around the square, three paces apart, and the band was massed in front of the palace en- trance across the street at the edge of the park.
 Brigadier General Clous, the master of ceremonies of the day. at 10:30 o'clock issued instructions to the officers who were to take charge of the various de- partments of the government at 12 o'clock Colonel Dudley was assigned to the department of justice, Major L. w. V. Kennan to the department of commerce and agriculture, Colonel T. U. Bliss of the commissary department to the treasury, Captain Frank B. Han ma, assistant adjutant general, to the department of public instruction, and Colonel Dunwoody of the signal corps t~ 1,o ri of these officers were instructed thus: "On the firing of the last gun of the first twenty-one at noon, you are to go to the place assigned you and demand possession of the office in the name of the United States" These orders were given under the arcade of the palace. Each officer had with him a Cuban in- terpreter, a group of whom stood by clad in dark clothes and wearing silk hats. In the carriage near by were the flags which were to be raised at vari- ous points. At 11:10 Major General Wade and Major General Butler of the American evacuation commission, ar- rived from Fl Vedado on horseback, &C., companied by their staffs. They were met by Brigadied General Clous and Major T. J. Bentley Mott of General Ludlows staff. About the same mo- ment Lucien J. Jerome, British vice consul, arrived in a uniform of dark blue, wearing a monocle and carrying 8 sword with a gold hilt. He was warnl- ly greeted by the American officers.
 Major General John R. Brooke gover- nor of Cuba, and Major General Lud- low, governor of the city of Havana, accompanied by their staffs, arrived at { ii 80 in carriages, General Brooke, and General Adna Chaffee, General Brooke's chief of staff, in the first carriage. In each of the other carriages rode Cuban general with American off, CTS. The Cubans were General Lacret sMa- rie Menocal. Mayia Rodriguez Serafin, Sanchez, Jose Miguel Gomez Rafael de Cardenas, Raherto, Agramonte and Vii dal and Colonel Valiente. As the car riages drove up the second company of the 3Sth Spanish infantry, under com- mand of Colonel Don Rafael Salaman-