Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-01-17
HoUsEcLeA.ING At HAVANA.
Expected that ia Thrse Months SANITARY Con.
dillon will 30 Fairly Coed.

Havana. Jan. 16.-The colossal task
or putting into proper sanitary condi-
ton every dwelling in Havana began,
today. Surgeon Major Davis hiring 100
resident physicians for a house to
house inspection to compel obedience
10 the new regulations. All cess pools
under houses are to be closed and
sealed. Garbage is to be daily removed.
IL is expected that the city will be in
fairly good sanitary condition within
three months. without underground
sewage. The old residents regard the
new health regulations as unnecessary
and meddlesome; and even some we'll
TODD and well-informed persons when
making their objections. described
themselves as healthy enough One
Thousand people are. today engaged in
the work of cleaning the streets and
public buildings. Capt. Huston of the
"a Engineers. who was assigned to this
| service. is reported sick with slow
fever.
Senior Eduardo Sayas and his son,
while journeying from Las Tunas to
Puerto Principe. with $1,000 to buy cat
tie. was murdered by bandits.
The casemate in the artillery Quartet
chosen for Major General Ludlow's Of
flee, near the palace, proved so foul
that the air extinguished candles and
suffocated dogs and cats which ran in.
Gen. Menocal and Capt. McCullag,l
examined, today. 800 applicants for po-
sitions on the police force here. About
80 patrolmen have been accepted so
far and of this number some 30 men
are Spaniards. Menocal is acting fair
ly towards the Spanish candidates. If
physically and morally up to the
standard they are accepted. Some
former Spanish officers are among the
applicants. Two lieutenants accepted
appointments as patrolmen. Saturday.
The height, 5 feet 6. shuts out many
applicants, including a lot of MenocaPs
men. The force will be selected, in the
main, by the end of the week.
The weakest part of the system is
| the pay. Fifty dollars q month for
patrolmen is regarded as too little
money for suitable men. San Juan de
Porto Rica pays SIS per month. The
question of raising the pay of patrol
men here to that AMOUNT is under con-
sideration.
The first piles were driven, this
lllOIHlnS, lOf the. CONSTRUCTION VI tIt
United States pier at Triscornia. The
beginning at the railroad terminal line.
| They will be finished in about a month.
| About 1900 men are at work.
| The United States transport Mani
| toba from Savannah, Jan. 8, has ar
| rived here.
The United States cruiser Brooklyn
| which has arrived from Yey West with
| United States Assistant Secretary of
| the Navy Allen on board, was saluted
| by the forts.
| Gen. Arnold arrived. today, to take
! command of the I'd Division of the 18th
| Army corps.
| This afternoon, Gov. Gen. Brooke an
| nounced the following appointments tc
| thenewly constituted cabinet of advis-
ors to the administration: Depart
ment of government, Domingo Mendoz
| Capote; department of finance, Pablo
| Dosvernine; department of justice and
public instruction, Jose Antonio Con
zales LanuZe: department Of agricul-
| ture. industry, commerce and public
works, Adobe Saenz Yanez.
| Gen Wilson, governor of the depart
ment of MatanZas, telegraphed to Chief
of Police Menocal, today. that two men
| had assaSsinated after rObbing him. Il
| former maj r of Spanish guerillas Off
GERS met the train. tonight, and arrested
| three men on suspicion. Documents be-
| longing to the murdered man We're found
| upon them with $4,000 in gold. They had
deserted from a Spanish regiment.