The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1899-01-07

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First American Governor General OF Cuba.
thought to invite Generals Jose
Miguel Gomez, Cardenas, Menocal and
Surgeon General Sanchez Agramonte
and their STATS 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 1t was, would
have been tenfold more joyful. The
weather was hot; the streets, the roof
tops and the wharves were 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
its stead of the flag OF the United
States on the flagstaff on the palace
roof. Salutes were fired from the
heavy guns 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
ace to witness the epoch-making func-
ton. At 0 o'clock a guard composed
of the Second battalion of the Tenth
infantry marched into the Plaza de
Armas, under command Of Captain
Van Welt, and formed around the
watched them with interest from the
balcony of his apartments as they en-
tered the square and were stationed ut
all the streets approaching the plaza.
No one was allowed to enter without a
pass, and all the doors of the palace
facing the square were ordered TO he
closed. Only those who could get on
the roofs and balconies Of the houses
in the neishborhood saw what was go.
ing on before the palace.
With the 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 SUI
bursting at intervals through the light
clouds, and the soldiers in blue who
were forced to stand i'll the sun found
the heat oppressive. The troops were
formed in extended order around the
square, three PAGES apart, and the
band was massed 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 1O:3 80
o'clock issued instructions to the Off
GERS who were to take charge of the
various departments of the govern
ment at 12 o'clock. Colonel Dudley
was assigned to the department of jus
tice, Office of the secretary OF the cap
tain general; Major L. w. v. Kennon,
adjutant general of the department. to
the department of commerce and agri-
culture; Colonel A. b. Bliss, of the
eommissary department, to the treas
ury; Captain Frank B. Hanna, assistant
adjutant general, to the department Of
public instruction, and Colonel Dun
woody, of the signal corps, to the pub
lie works department. Each of these
officers WINS instructed thus.
ION the firing OF the last gun Of the
first twcnty-One at noon, yon are to go
to the pluce assigned yon and demand
possession of the Office in the name Ut
the United States"
These orders were given under the
arcade of the palace. Each officer had
with him a Cuban interpreter. a group
of whom stood by clad i'll dark clothes
and wearing silk hats. In n carriage
near by were the American flags which
were to be raised at the various points.
AT 1880 Major General Wade and
Major General Butler, of the American
evacuation commission. arrived from
Ell Vadado on horseback, accompanied
by their stats. They were met by
Brigadier General Clous and Major I.
Bentley Mott, General Ludlow aud
staff, At the same moment Lucien J.
jerome, British vice consul, arrived.
He was warmly greeted by the Amer
lean officers.
Major Genera! Brooke, governor of
Cuba. and Major General Ludlow, gov-
ernor Of the city OF Havana, accom-
panied by their stats, arrived at511:30
in cnrrlnges, General Brooke and Gem
eral Chaffee, General Brooke's
chief OF staff, being in the first car
riage. In each of the other carriages
rode n Cuban general with American
officers. The Cubans were Generals
Lacret, Marie Menocnl, Mayia, Rod
riguez, ss;-rnfn, -ssaiiriisz. Jose Miguel
Gomez, Nodartc, Rafael de Cardenas,
Agramente aud Vidal and Colonel VAL
iente. AS the carriages drove up the
Second company Of the Thirty-eighth
Cuban cavalry. under command of
Colonel Don Rafael Salamanca, pre-
sented arms, and the American band
ELKES THE WINNER.