Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1899-01-05

thought to invite Generals Josc
Miguel Gomez, Cardenas, Menocal and
Surgeon General Sanchez Agramonte
and their staffs TO accompany him to
the palace. The news that through
them the whole enfreed people were to
participate in the ceremonies did not
spread rapidly, else the popular
demonstration, lively as it was, would
have been tcnfold more joyful The
weather was hot; the streets, the roof
tops and the wliarvcs We're crowded.
The form of the transfer was
simple, consisting only of an
exchange of speeches in the
saloon of the palace, the hauling down
of the Spanish flag and the raising in
IFS stead OF the flag of the United
States ON the flagstaff ON the palace
roof. Statutes were fired from the
heavy gums of the forts and the war
ships, before and after the change of
flags. The raising of the stars and
stripes was greeted with cheers by the
people who covered the roofs of the
buildings around the palace and the
plaza.
No crowd was permitted TO gather
in the streets in the vicinity of the pal
acc 10 witness the epoch making func-
tion. At o'clock a guard composed
OF the Second battalion of the Tenth
infantry marched into the Plaza dc
Armas, under command of Captain
Nun Welt, and formed around the
square. Captain General Castcllanos
watched them with interest from the
balcony of his apartments as they en-
tered the square and were stationed at
all the streets approaching the plaza.
No one was allowed to enter without u
pass, and all the doors of tho palace
closed. Only those who could get on
in the ncighborhood saw what was GO
ing OH before the palace.
With tho guard was the band OF the
Second Illinois regiment, which had
been selected for the occasion as the
best band in the Seventh army corps.
With the band were the buglers of the
Eighth and Tenth infantry.
The weather was warm, the sun
bursting at intervals through the light
clouds. and the soldiers in blue who
were forced TO stand in the sun found
the heat oppressive. The troops were
formed i'm extended order around the
square, three PAGES apart, and the
band was masscd in front of the pal
ace entrance across the street at the
edge of the park.
General Clous Issues Instructions
Brigadier General Clous, the master
of ceremonies of the day, at 1890
O'Clock issued instructions to the Off
GERS who were To take charge of the
various departments of the govern
ment ut ~ O'clock. Colonel Dudley
was assigned to the department of JUS
ticc, office of the secretary of the cap
tain general: Major l.. w. Y. Kcnnon,
adjutant general OF the department, to
the department of commerce and agri-
culture; Colonel a. b. Bliss. of the
commissary department, to the treas
ury: Captain Frank b. Hanna, assistant
Iadlntan' general, to the department of
Mvblic instruction, and Colonel Dun
nc wv OF the signal corps, to the pub.
o1fcersSs department. Each of these
On tlG,s instructed thus:
first twenty -dng of the last gun of the
TO the place ASST at noon, you are to go
possession of the offSd You and demand
me United States" e in the name of
lhese orders were given #.
,.';.a OF the palace. Each o Under the
", M'.n w, MN Cuban interpreter :. had
~ Milom stood by clad in ,lorl, 1sa..2pup
una wearing silk hats. I'm y oa e,o!he's
near by were the American flaas ", ,,.,'ig
we're 10 be raised at the yarions INC, an'ch
~ 1880 Major General val o'.i.s;
MAJOR General Butler, OF the A,ne,; una
:, G, commission. arrived f ,ean
-. - .auado on horseback, accomnan nH,ii
y 1he.r statfs. They were met H..
a,s.er General Clous and NIaior ~
, !. m Mott, General Ludlow and
.an. "a. the same moment Luc;en
erome, British vice consul arr;no =.
an officers. '1ie Amer
,, ba1o and Gs sT.i Brooke, governor of
nor OF the city of Havana aod gov
'nled by their STATS. arrived ~ 11.,o !
=. 1iarr,ages, General Brooke and Gen uo !.
al Chaffee, General Rrae lei y
iea OF staff, being in the first o nsr y
lge. IN each of the other carria cal D
Hs ouoan general with Amer;ean
lcers. The Cubans we've nnecan to
cret, Mario Menocal. May;a eig p
me- S@e a, Sanchez. Jose Miguel 3;
-, re. -. Noaarte, Rafael de Cardenas ~ u.
to 'e a.. and Vidal and Colonel Val. th
.e. AS the carriages drove IN +ha IN
I !, company of the Thirty-eioh4h
pan cavalry, under command ~
ohel Don Rafael Salamanca NV ~ OF
arms, and the Amar;o,, IN