Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-09-01
American Eng1neer,s Comment.

New York, Sept. III. NJ. Balch, an
electrical engineer in the employ of the
Santo Domingo Improvement Company,
and who has been in the Dominican re-
public several years has Just arrived
in New York, having left Porto Plate
Aug. 81.
"wednesday, Aug. 1s said Mr..
Balch, .tthe governor of San Francisco
de Macoris, town sixty miles from
Santiago, in the interior surrendered
the town to the insnrgent chief, Gen.
Ramon Caceres. the assassin who killed
President Heureaux and who has not
been captured since the murder Ca
ceres had but 800 men with him. The
governor of san Francisco de Macoris
has garrison of only fifty infantrymen
armed with Remington rifles. The gov
ernor offered no opposition, consequent
lily there was no fighting and no blood
shed.
Upon the surrender Caceres at once
autographed TO the governors of other
Important cities in Santo Domingo who
were appointed by the president, that
4 he, Caceres, was then in supreme COM
nland at san Francisco de Macors
adding. with fine sarcasm, that he
/ held himself at their command. This
message was a subtle defiance for them
to come and take him. His invitation
was not accepted by any Of them. He
i then marched toward Porto Plata, Of
! which Gen. Emelio Cordero was COVER
nor, and / see the papers state thar
Governor Cordero surrendered Porto
4 Plata.
II think 7 is quite likely that all the
larger towns of santo Domingo, and
/ finally the capital Itself, Santo Domingo
lCity. will surrender. | say this because
la state of great dissatisfaction exists
lin such cities as Santiago, lie Vega,
Moca. Dapabon, Mao and Savanetta
land the seaports of Santo Domingo.
Porto Plata, San Pedro de Macoris.
Sanchez, banana and Monte Christi
The population of the republic is
about half million. Whenever a town
surrenders the insurgents take the de-
feated government troops with them.
All government employees, the police,
watchmen, etc, are armed with Rem
ingtons and reyolvers. An American
is as safe in Santo Domingo as he is in
New York-safer when the trolley and
cable cars are considered.
THE chief cause of dissatisfaction
and uprising in San Domingo is the
currency question. a man who has
prestige and who can obtain loans is
The man the natives are looking for as
president. Jiminez is hardly the man
He is we'll known in New York, Ham.
burg. London and Paris. where his
banking houses have suspended.
The chief products of San Domingo
are tobacco, chocolate, fruits, wood
honey, beeswax and hides. The bes
mahogany in existence grows there
Mahogany is the scarcest and most val
liable timber known to the lumbe
trade. The tobacco crops of this yea
will be $4,000 sefons, of ITO pounds each
THE country is in a fine sanitar.
condition, the interior furnishing excel
lent springs for drinking water, Will
rain water is caught in shallow vessel
for drinking purposes in the cities
There is nothing offensive in the way o
sewage in any Of the towns notwith
standing the fact that there are as We
no water works in the republic of sa,
Domingo, except in a few points alon
our railroad.
Notwithstanding the present insur
rectfon commerce is not affected. Sal
Domingo was never SO prosperous as q