The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-10-23
RECONSTRUCTION OF CUBA
REPORT OF GENERAL WOOD, THE
GoTERNOR GENERAL.


OWL Government-Estnb blishment OF
Hospitals and AsyIums-Repairs of
Prisons and Better Conduct of the
Courts-over 1900 Schools Started
During Last Year.
Washington, Oct. 22.-Major General
Leonard Wood to-day made the follow
ing statement as to the contents of his
civil report as governor general Of
Cuba:
when the civil report of the island
is published at the end Of the present
calendar year it will be found that
every town of consequence In the island
has been provided with a hospital well
equipped with all necessary supplies
and appliances.
"Asylums for orphan children have
been established wherever necessary.
The number has been greatly reduced
during the past few months, owing to
the great improvement in the general
conditions existing in Cuba, children
their friends. 1t is the purpose of the
insular government to establish four
state institutions, two for boys and two
for girls two to be Industrial and agri-
cultural, and two to be correctional
and Industrial
"The prisons have been overhauled
and repaired and the sanitary condi-
tions vastly improved Many hundreds
of prisoners who had been detained for
long periods of time awaiting trial for
a period as long or longer than they
would have been sentenced had they
been found guilty, have been released.
Courts have been stimulated and
urged to a prompt performance of their
duty. The result has been that many
prisons have been practically empty
and very great improvement has been
made in the conduct Of criminal chari-
ties. A special inspector Of prisons has
been appointed, whose functions are to
inspect at least once in. every three
months, each prison on the island and
to examine every prisoner therein.
"Judges who have been found derelict
have been summarily dismissed Cor
rectional courts have been established
throughout the larger cities where the
trial Is oral and summary, as in our
police courts. Thse courts are limited
to the imposition of sentences Of six
months imprisonment or $3.50 fine. or
both. Their success has been phenome-
nal The writ of habeas corpus has
been published to take effect on Decem.
Der / this year.
During the present year over three
thousand public schools have been es-
tablished, thirty-six hundred teachers
are employed in them and one hundred
and fifty thousand children are in the
schools. This number is constantly in
creasing, and by the end of the present
school year it is believed that we shall
have 250000 children in school. The
largest number at school under the
Spanish rule was between 2s 600 and
10000. Enthusiasm for public education
is great. The trip of the 1900 teachers
to Cambridge was most beneficial, and
attempts will be made to repeat it next
year.
1.-THE United States troops have not
been used during the present year for
the maintenance of order. The police
work in the rural districts is done by
the rural guard, which amounts to
about twelve hundred men for the en-
tire island. These men and their Off |
GERS are all Cubans.
Public buildings throughout the |
sland have undergone extensive repairs. |
The two eastern provinces in the island /
Of Cuba for the first time have passed
through a summer without a case of
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