The evening times., 1899-02-06
AMERICAN TROOPS
LOCATED In CUBA
List of the Regiments Station
ed in Each Province.
Points From the Only American
Newspaper in Havana.
4 Military Sanitarium to Be Estab-
Iished on the Isle of Pines-Syn-
dicate- to Buy Beevcs.

Havana, Feb 6.-The Havana Adver-
tiser." 1.-The first and only English news
paper published by an American in the
city of Havana gives much Cuban news
of interest.
From the Advertiser it appears that
the United States troops in Cuba are now
distributed as follows:
Havana City-Eighth and Tenth United
States Infantry, Second United States Ar
tillery, and one squadron of the Seventh
United States Cavalry.
Havana Province-Second, Fourth, and
Ninth Illinois, Sixth Missouri, Forty ninth
Iowa, Fourth Virginia, Third Nebraska.
First Texas, Second louisiana First North
Carolina, One Hundred and Sixty first In
diana, Second. South Carolina, First Maine
Artillery, a battalion of Second United
States Volunteer Engineers, two compa
nies United States Volunteer Signal Corps,
and two light batteries OF Second United
States Artillery.
Matanzas-One Hundred and Sixtieth In
DIANA Twelfth New York, Twelfth and
Sixteenth companies United States Volun-
teer Signal Corps, and one battalion Third
United States Volunteer Engineers, Third
Kentucky, Eighth Massachusetts,.
Pinar Del Rio-First United States In
fantry, Two Hundred and Second New
York Infantry, and one squadron Seventh
United States Cavalry.
Puerto Principe-Fifteenth United States
Infantry, Eighth United States Cavalry
Third Georgia.
Santa Ciara-Thirty- first Michigan, Sixth
Ohio, Fourth Tennessee.
Santiago-Eighth Illinois, Twenty-third
Kansas, Second, Fourth Fifth, and Ninth
United States Volunteer Infantry, Fifth
United States Infantry (regularsl.
The seashore for mile or so upon eaci
side of Playa de Marianao has become a
favorite recreation ground for the slldi ers
of the Seventh Corps. The coast is chi fly
rocky. but there are several fine beach IS,
and here they reveI in surf bathing. Gu
Tiosity hunters have found many haCd one
shells and sea ferns. The pleasure CT |
This outing is doubled when the men think
Of the weather in their own houses ju /
nov. Outdoor bathing in January wou d
be slightly imprudent in most parts of the
United States.
The four infantry battalions of the
Seventh Corps who left camp last SIuday
on practice march to Guines returned to-
day. The march was very pleasant af-
fair, besides giving the men valuable eX-
perience in actual campaigning. The hea II
of the men was excellent throughout. and
they returned in fine heath and spirits
Lieut.. Leonard Wildman, of the vo.ua-
tcer signal corps, has received his COM
mission as captain. Major Eugene T. Ladd
! has been relieved from duty as chief q ar
I termaster on General Davis staff and ap-
! poi.ied treasurer of customs Of this city
under Colonel Bliss. chief of customs.
Capt. Alexander Cook, Second United
/ States Volunteer Engineers, has bsen de-
/ tailed as acting assistant quartermas tel
and commissary for the military hospita
recently established in Havana
The old Spanish bomb proof. near B Ie.
na Vista, has been converted into a CORA
! for the animals of the First Division OF
/ General Lees corps, and where. only a fen
months ago. the deadly Mauser p eke
! forth, now the passer-by meets nothina
more alarming than the peculiarly paci
| gaze of the army mule.
The young Cuban physician j. Medina
! Ferrer acting assistant surgeon United
/ States Army, is now on duty at the mil
itary hospital in this city
Capt. Carroll Mercer, commissary de-
partmsnt, formerly first lieutenant. United
! States Marine Corps, a resident of Wash
lngton, ID. c., is in Havana ordered tC
/ duty on General Ludlow's staff He is
accompanied By his clerk, Mr. Thomas
Kalbfus, for thirty years connected with
the local press in Washington.
In the Advertiser the advertisements
/ seem largely directed to American tourist:
! and give abundant information about ci.
! gars, hotels, and restaurants.
J In the news columns we find that 20 co;
| persons IN Cuba are daily fed at the ey.
! pense of the United States The miltar,
administration is working toward the lie.
! lief of fifteen or twenty thousand more
| and probably another million rations vii
be required in addition to the two million!
ordered on the 1st of last month. Sine,
! January 10 100000 raticns have beer
! distributed
These wars of philanthropy seem to b,
more expensive than the other kind Ii il
urged that 100000 is entirely too in
/ significant sum for acceptance by tn,
Cuban soldiers. The astonishing growth
OF the Cuban army after the fighting wa!
! all over and the talk about pay began wa!
one of the many surprises of the war.
The Advertiser" publishes an order b,
! General Brooke making the "Gaceta de |;
/ Habana' the official newspaper organ o
! the military government, and also a com
! ment on that order by a jealous rival
That rivals declares that the "Gaceta' dur
lng- the war was bitter against American
and presented to Spain a gunboat to assis
in defeating them.
A Havana syndicate has contracted b,
cable for the purchase OF 36,0 900 beeves il
Venezuela, to be delivered in Cuba in sixt,
| days.
The three regiments under command O
Brig. Gen. Henry T. Douglass, of Balti
more, are being concentrated into on
camp to the east of the road at Quemades
petition is in circulation asking 70
the suspension for one year of the fore
closure of mortgages that have fallen du
and of the public sale of land for debt
1t has been decided to establish a mill
tary sanitarium on the Isle of Pines Col
onel Hecker and party of staff officer
have made a survey of the island and ar
ranged for hospital buildings. They ar
highly impressed with the island as
health resort. as well as with the healin
qualities of the local mineral springs
Altogether the Havana Advertiser" con
tains- much to interest at this time
COULDN'T EAT THE STUFF.