Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-15
MAINE TO Be REMEMBERED
Anniversary Of the Explosion to Be Celebrated
in Havana Today,
WRECK OF BATTLssHIP TO Be DECORATED
Procession to the Cemetery, where
Appropriate Exercises VIII he
Held mt the Grave of the
Heroic Dead,

Copyright, 1899, by Press Publishing Coz
HAVANA, Feb. A.-(New York World
Cablegram-Specisl Telegram THE ami
versary OF the blowing UP of the Maine
in Havana harbor will be celebrated to-
morrow, but not so elaborately as was fist
planned, because of diflculties, among them
the refusal of Mgr Santander. the bishop
of Havana, to allow Rev. Thomas Sherman
to say prayers in Cristobal Colon cemetery,
where lie the sailors in their neglected
graves.
Early tomorrow marines will be landed
from the flagship Resolute and the gunboat
Nashville With them will come naval
band Decorations will first be placed upon
the wreck of the Maine Then the ma
rines and the band will go to the Prado,
where they will be met by the regulars and
the members of several Cuban societies
and representatives of the city council with
several bands
The procession will march to the GEM
etery, which is on a hill three miles out
side the city. General Brooke, General
Ludlow, General Lee, Commodore Cromwell
and other army and navy officers will be
in carriages. At the cemetery they will
be met by detachments from the Seventh
army corps. The women of Havana will
decorate the graves with flowers. The
graves are marked only by an iron cross
on which is inscribed Victims OF the
Maine"
An address will be made, the bands will
play dirge, the marines and troops will
fire three rounds blank" and taps will
be sounded.
But Little Bad Beef.
HAVANA, Feb. 14.-Brigadier General
George Ernest of Major General Brooke's
staff has completed the examination of be-
| tween 100000 and 100000 rations of beef
in army storehouses. He found that there
was less than per cent of bad beef which
was received in the same shipment as the
beef condemned last week One box in
every ten was opened and examined and
and also every box that was smelling badly.
The beef was from the Armours and was
in two and four pound cans and twelve
| and twenty four pound cans were in each
box. Eight ounces of beef constitute one
/ ration.
The fact having come to the notice of
General Brooke's headquarters that negro
| servants and other employees in Havana
are declining to work any longer, affirm
ing that it was unnecessary because the
| United States would supply them all the
food they wanted, Brigadier General Chat
! fee has directed a communication to the
| department commander calling his attention
| 10 the lact ana requesting that ne regular
| Havana police who were engaged under
1 the Anisricaa administration AMI II :-pise /
! $50 month salary in American money be
| paid the amount of salary due for the
month of January in Spanish gold, the
! centene to be figured worth $3.50 There
/ is much complaint to the effect that po-
! licemen are losing per cent of the money
| for the payment of the force, which had
been deposited by Major General Ludlow
! with the North American Trust company
| to the credit OF the police department in
in Spanish gold, instead of American money,
! as expected.
| In the matter of the withdrawal OF Gu
bans from the Garcia funeral procession
on Saturday the better element OF Cubans
are now realizing that mistake was made
| in the childish attitude and behavior of
! their generals that day. Public opin-
ion is fixing the blame upon the repre-
sentatives of the Cuban assembly and upon
| Fernando Freyre, of the vice presi-
dents of the assembly, and General An
| drade, who, 1t is alleged were responsible
for the order to withdraw Condemnation
of Saturdays action is growing and express
sons OF regret and apologies will be prob
| ably rendered to General Brooke.
General Gomez has left Sagua and pro-
ceeded to Santa Clara. Ovations in his
| honor continue with unabated enthusiasm.