The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-10-23
CONDITIONS IN CUBA
A Synopsis of Governor Gen.
eraI Woods Civil Report.
Over Three thousand Public Schools Estab.
Ifhed this Year. Finances in Fine Shape.
Improvement Along Other Lines.
(By the Associated Press.

Washington, Oct. 22.-Major General
Leonard Wood today made a statement
as to the contents of his civil report as
Governor General of Cuba. 1t is in part
as follows:
"Asylums for orphan children have been
established wherever necessary. 1t is
the purpose of the insular government
to establish four State institutions. two
for boys and two for girls, two to be in
dustrial and agricultural and two to be
correctional and industrial.
1.-THE prisons have been overhauled and
repaired from one end of the island to
the other and the sanitary conditions
vastly improved. The military govern
ment has had it's agents go over the is
land Investigating every case under de-
tention and many hundreds of prisoners
who had been detained for long periods
Of time awaiting trial have been released,
only such being released however, as had
awaited trial for q period as long or
longer than they would have been SEN
fenced, had they been found guilty.
Judges who have been found deleicit have
been summariy dismissed and every ef-
fort is being made to impress on the COM
munity at large that individual rights
and individual liberty are the foundations
of every good and stable government. The
writ of habeas corpus has been published
year.
During the present year over 5000
public schools have been established
thirty-six hundred teachers are employed
in them and one hundred and fifty thou
sand children are in the schools. The
largest number at school under the Span
ish rule was between twenty-six and
thirty thousand.
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 rural guard,
which amounts to above twelve hundred
men for the entire island of Cuba. These
men and their officers are all Cubans.
Sanitary work of great Importance has
been carried on from one end of Cuba to
the other. The two eastern provinces in
the island of Cuba for the first time
have passed through a summer without
case of yellow fever and in general
there has been 4 great Improvement in
health throughout the island Plans in
detail are now ready for advertisement
for paving and Sewering in a thoroughly
first class and modern manner the city
of Havana and it's suburbs. and there is
every reason to believe that in few
years yellow fever in Cuba can be got un"
der the same control as now exercised in
Jamaica.
"a thoroughly efficient mail service has
been established and is being conducted
with efficiency and economy.
"The financial condition of the country
| is excellent. The Government is entire
| ly self-supportng and the treasury has
an unincumbered balance of a million and
| a half.
The tobacco crop of last year was an
| immense one. The value of this years
crop Of sugar and the coming tobacco
crop will be conservatively $1C0,0O0,000.
"The condition of the people of the is
land, to the o3st of my knowledge and
| belief is one of content and they realize
| that wonderful progress has been made
and they feel as a people living kindly
toward and have faith in the people Of the
| United States.