The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-03-20
wagons, arc included In the fine team-
ing service of the department..

ing service of the department.
Great supplies of crude petroleum..
chloride of lime. carbolic acid, formal
dehydc. chloro naphtol and numerous
other approved preparations for sani-
tary needs are carried in stock and
lavishly (but not wastefully) applied
where needed and freely supplied to all
houses.
This Sanitary department of Santi-
ago was the very first civi! Organiza
tion created i'm Cuba the instant the
Americans We're in possession and con-
trOl. The law courts and the much
valued common free schools these be-
ing the first Of schools free to all ever
created in Cuba) were the next matters
General. Wood promptly attended to-.
Then came the water works, street
paving, remodeling the dilapidated old
public buildings. road and bridge build
ing in the COuntry hereabOuts. the
building of wharves, purifying OF the
harbOr and all the countless other re-
Quirements of an intelligent industri-
GUS. honest, sensible and truly civilized
people. But all these are elementary
qualities which the Spanish seeming y
never exercised and but little pos
sessed-an assertion very abundantIy
in evidence in all things here.
My services in creating and Operat-
ing this department If Of any merit.
have been constantly under the official
supervision of and only made possible
of creditable results by the most lib
eral unquestioning support of General
Leonard Wood, to whom credit Is well
due that he fully realized the needs and
labor of SuCh a deDartment.
WOODS GREAT WORK.
Much has been printed and illustrated
| descriptive of Major General Leonard
Wood, all highly complimentary and
| every bit was well deserved. but such
mentions have been almost entirely
| about his service in organizing and
| commanding the First regiment oe
| United States Volunteer cavalry-the
, very famous, popular and only Rough
| Riders" and all abou. how early the
! next morning when landed on Cuban
| soil he led them into and began and
/ won the first combat with the hidden
Spanish foes. or his military skill and
/ ability his personal bravery and steadi-
ness in the hour of battle danger, all
these qualities have been recognized
| and heartily appreciated by the fondiy
critical American public: but that war
was very brief and his doubtless higher
! qualities as a military chief had bur
| little opportunity to develop He is,
| however, yet young, only thirty-eight
years of age. But of his capabilities
as a civic chief he has now demon
| strated his very high genius.
His selection by President Mckinley
| to be the military governor over these
! people has proven to be one of the hap
| piest and most satisfactory measures
taken in shaping and skillfully har-
monizing these Cuban affairs. The real
state of all the native problems. the
conditions and the needs. the radical
evolution of all their past costumes and
the perplexities involved. the skeptic-
ism of and their inherent racial dis
| trust and dislike of Americans (the
| open hatred even of some) as found
! really existing among these people; all
such matters can be but vaguely or
not at all understood by the American
people at home, nor very clearly even
by our government officials in WASH
| ington. The simple methods, the tact
and the constant calm judgment he
has displayed in his management OF
affairs here has certainly proven re-
markably successful and satisfactory
to all concerned and he surely has won
opinion OF all Santiago people. natives
and foreigners.
CUTTING RED TAPE.
Real good military men Of the ideal