Arizona republican., 1899-04-01
WANTED-A MAN.
Philadelphia Needs Kind of Work Per. formed by Gen Wood at Santiago.

Henry Harrison Lewis has contrib uted to the current number of the Brit ish Fortnightly Review an article, en-
 titled General Wood at Santiago
 which should prove interesting to this l community. The author says:
 'At the time I concluded my visit
 of observation there had been just foui
 months of American rule in Santiago
 de Cuba. These four months had ef- 1 fected:
 "The rescue of the population from | starvation to a fair satisfaction of all their daily necessities.
 ''The conversion of one of the foulest cities on earth to ore of the cleanest.
 'The reduction of an average daily death Of 200 down to 10.
 "A considerable progress in scheme of street and road improvement that will add immensely to the convenience and beauty of the city.
 "A radical reform in the custom house service, resulting in increased revenues.
 "A reduction in the municipal ex- penses.
 "The correction of numerous abuses in the management of gacls and hospi- tals and in the care of the inmates.
 4The liberation of many prisoners 02IQ on Jr1V1dI no CQ2f2cS.
 "The reformation of the courts and strict maintenance of law and order.
 'The freedom of the press.
 "A restoration of business confidence and a recovery of trade and industry from utter stagnation to healthy ac- tivity.
 This unparalleled regeneration had been wrought, not by a host of men native to the locality, and occupying offices long established, bu: by an American brigadier general of volun- teers, a stranger to the place and the people, embarked in the work on mo- ment's notice, and having for his i'm mediate aids only a fewfellow Amsrican officers. some of whom had been cut of West Point less than two years. and all of whom were as new to the situation as himseIf''
 Consideration of General Woods record, of the important reforms he has accomplished at Santiago, will, no doubt, suggest to every citizen who de- sires the improvement of our local gov ernment the propriety of General Wood being asked to accept a post under the new municipal administration, say. for instance, that of director of public works. The extraordinary usefulness and efficiency which he has shown at Santiago may possibly disincline the federal authorities to release him from that post, but if it were made clear to MT. Mckinley that Philadelphia needs reforming in some particulars Of ed- not less than Santiago did, it is not improbable that the president would be induced to tempora Gily loan General Wood to this city. Colonel Ludlow, who also has been doing ex- cellent service at Havana, was once loaned to Philadelphia, though it is un- fortunately true that when he exhibited honesty, intelligence, skill, and energy in his efforts to provide the city with an adequate supply of pure, wholesome water, the political jobbers in city councils, who were and still are op- E-c2d to any plan which has nothing in it. except that kind of water, for themselves, dismissed and sent him back to the army
 There is reason, however, for the be- lief or hope that in the present indig- nant state of the public mind, if Gen eral Wood were released from his ccm- mand in Cuba and loaned t9 Philadel- phia long enough to accomplish peces- sary reforms of administration, popu- ular sentiment would render his dis- mIssal by councils from his new field of usefulness, no matter how honest, and energetic he might be iH the political jobbes5 in and out of that body, difficult or impOs- Public Ledger.