The record-union., 1899-01-17
The Task Of Improving the Sanitary
Conditions Begun.
One Hundred Physicians Engaged to Maks
a Huuss-to-Huuss Inspection.
A Thousand People Put to Work
Cleaning the Streets and Public
Bui1dings-Very Little Sickness
Among the United States Troops
at the Cuban Capital.

at the Cuban Capital.
HAVANA, Jan. 16.-The colossal task
Iof putting into proper sanitary condi-
ton every dwelling in Havana began
to-day, Surgeon Major Davis hiring 100
resident physicians for house-to-
house inspection, to compel obedience
to the new regulations. All cesspools
under houses are to be closed and
sealed. Garbage is to be removed
daily. 1t is expected that the city Will
be in a sanitary condition within three
months To-day LOCO people are en-
gagged in the work of cleaning the
streets and public buildings
Captain Huston of the Second Engin-
GERS, who was assigned to this service.
is reported sick with a low fever.
There are two more cases of smallpox
in the Sixty-irst Indiana Regiment.
making five in AL and there Is one case
of suspected yellow fever in the First
Texas Regiment. The man has been
isolated. 1t is a favorite trick Of the
soldiers when escaping from the camp
without leave to hire Cuban uniforms,
so as to pass the sentries. Sometimes
the clothing has been exposed to in
fection and the usual results follow.
Nevertheless there is SO little sickness
among the United States troops that
| twenty female nurses out of the 1OO
originally employed have been dis
missed.
Senior Eduardo Zayas and his son,
While journeying from Las Tunas to
Puerto Principe with $1,000 to buy
cattle, were murdered by bandits.
The easement in the artillery cuartel
chosen for Major General Ludlow's Of
flee, near the palace, proved so foIl
that the air eXtinguished candles and
suffocated dogs and cats which ran in.
The cruiser Brooklyn has arrived
from Key West, with Assistant Secre-
tary Of the Navy Allen on board.
General Arnold arrived to-day to take
command of the Second Division of the
Seventh Army Corps.
This afternoon Governor General
Brooke announced the following ap-
pointments to the newly constituted
Cabinet Of advisers to the Administra-
ton:
Department of Government Domingo
Mendez Capote.
Department Of Finance, Pablo Des-
vernine.
Department of Justice and Public In
struction, Jose Antonio Gonzales
Lanuza.
Department of Agriculture, Industry,
Commerce and Public Works, Adolfo
Saenz Yaenz.
Colonel Lanuza is now in Washing
ton, where he has been for some time
with the members of the special COM
mission representing the Cuban Mill
tary Assembly.
The other members Of the Cabinet
took the oath of allegiance before the
Judge Advocate of the division, Gen.
eral Brooke and General Chaffee being
present.
The salaries of the Secretaries, as
they will be known, have not yet been
fixed, but their duties begin immedi-
ately-
In three hours conference to-day
General Brooke discussed with them
the reorganization of the former six
Spanish civil departments thus cur
tailed to four, giving each of the Sec
relaries present his special instruc-
tions. The curtailment will mean the
discharge of many civil employees when
the actual reorganization is effected.
These will be paid their salaries from
January 1st to the date of discharge.
Major General J. H. Wilson, Mill
tary Governor of the Department OF
Matanzas, telegraphed to Chief of Po-
lice Menocal to-day that two men had
assassinated former Major of Span
ish guerrillas after robbing him. The
Police Chief, Inspector Pareda and two
Cuban Majors met the train from Ma
tanzas at Regla Station tonight and
arrested Juan Godoy, Ramon Cabell
and Jose Perez on suspicion of being
connected with the crime. Documents
belonging to the murdered man were
found upon them, together with S5,0O
in gold. They had deserted from the
Spanish Reina Regiment