Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-03
HAS ALREADY QUIT sULKING OVER
ITS DISAPPOINTMENT.
AMERICANS IN FULL CONTROL
ARE CONDUCTING ALL KINDS OF
PUBLIC BUSINESS.
Cubans to FIJI All Subordinate Posi-
tions-Police System Is to Re
Strictly Modern, With
Force of About One
Thousand Men.

HAVANA. Jan. 2.-The people of Havana
are in joyful mood to-day, in spite of the
disappointment experienced over the fact
that the projected festivities have been
postponed. The resentment quickly SUBJ
sided and gave place to composure.
Captain Creble. General Ludlow's adju.
tant general, visited all the United States
posts during the night. The city was found
to be tranquil.
Major General Brookes impressions of
Cuba are pleasing. He regards the people
as being emotional. mild and orderly.
Americans are now conducting telesraphs,
customs. postoffice in fact, all public busi-
ness. with Spanish and Cuban employees.
Colonel Bliss. the American collector of
customs. has been instructed by the au-
thorities at Washington not to appoint
Americans to subordinate places. Only Gu
bans are to be appointed.
The customs receipts here this week will
probably be heavy, as the merchants
stocks are low. and several cargoes are
due to arrive.
General Brooke will not govern from the
palace for week or two. as the building
needs a thorough cleaning. After the gen.
e-al takes up his headquarters in the pal
ace, Mrs. Brooke will arrange series of
social functions.
Generals Brooks and Ludlow see many
of the prominent Cubans. They are cas-
| lily accessible and wish to make wide
| personal and official acquaintance.
| AS the civil police is slowly formed. the
| American troops will be sent into the
! country. Colonel AIouton, who is in COM
| mand of the Havana police, had, as his
| first official duty, the investigation of a.
case of cattle stealing.
General Ludlow visited MORO castle and
Cabanas fortress to-day. The batteries Of
the Second artillery have been landed from
| the United States transport Chester. One
battery was sent to MORO castle, another
is garrisoned at Cabanas fortress, 4 third
is stationed near the palace and the other
| three batteries camped at Vedado.
| Two Spaniards were stopped in the act
of taking the picture of the king and the
! crown from the throneroom of the palace
| for the Spanish club. They said former
Captain General Castelanos gave them 10
| the club.
y party of ladies was photographed in
| the throneroom, with Mrs. NJ. c. Butler
sitting in the royal chair or throne.
The body of Spanish private soldier was
! found ON Caballeria wharf this morning.
| The physicians decided that he died from
| overeXertion and that his comrades left
him there covered with straw.
| The United States transport Saratoga ar
rived here to-day from Charleston with the
! Third Nebraska regiment on board. Two
Cuban soldiers carrying rifles were stopped
| by a patrol of the Tenth United States reg
ular infantry on Galliano street last night
and were required to give up their weapons.
| They did SO after an argument.
Havana's policing is to be modern. Each
| of the twelve precinct stations will be con-
| nected with the central office by telephone
and New York hurry up wagons will
| startle pedestrians. Cp-to-date ''nippers'
will displace the tightly drawn rope which
now brings the prisoners elbows painfully
| together behind the back. No more bleeding
| men will be marched as butt of abuse
| through the narrow streets, nor will women
! offenders be bound and hustled about as
| animals
| Eighteen hundred applicati>..s for police
positions have appeared OF these about
| lGOO will be accepted. Inspector McCullagh
thinks he can pick enough good men to
| make an effective force froln the start.
There will be 7aO policemen, of whom 100
will be mounted; another 100 will be used
in special details at public buildings. the
| aters, railroads and at public gatherings.
The remainder will be patrolmen.
There will be the chief Colonel Moulton,
| one deputy chief, eight inspectors, twelve
CAPTAINS and forty-eight lieutenants. Nc
| CulIagh has created the latter rank here
| because the rank sergeant" as used in
| the United States, really means lieutenant.
and is officially recognized as being the
equivalent of that grade in the United
States army. There will be forty-eignt
| sereeauts as well with lower order of
| duties. and then the patrolmen. The term
"roundsman" Mr.. McCullash considers OBJ
| solete, and he has dropped it. assigning
those duties to his sergeants.
Colonel Moulton has recommended to
General Ludlow that experts be asked to
| report upon changes in the methods of
procedure in the low courts and in the
| penal code Under Spanish law an ac>
cused person, after being examined in the
lower courts. could be kept in prison for
| three years awaiting trial in the middle
| ones. The power thus to delay trial has
been used often by corrupt Spanish au-
| thorities to mulct the prisoner and his
| friends if they have money. Even for
minor offenses the prisoner may be kept
seventy-two hours before his case is
called. Inspector McCullash says:
"They put man in Jail and then spend
| three days finding out who he is. If he Is
anybody that's time enough to see what
his family and friends will do for him.
The veteran also says: Talk about Your
soldier policemen with rifles: just give NE
the New York policeman's club. with good
| courts behind it. and III guarantee 10 keep
| Havana the most peaceable city in the
world Its people are mild and easily
| handled
Colonel Moultons future policy as to the
suppression of public immortality. the curse
of Cuba will be as General Ludlow may
direct. Probably few changes will be made
at present, although the immoral theaters
may be warned to remove certain fixtures.
Colonel Moulton says: II shall try to
avoid either extreme and to use plain COM
mon sense in dealing with delicate ques-
tons and customs of three centuries
growth