The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-10-23
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THE GOOD WORK
DON CUBA.
governor General Wood Talks About
His Reports.
asMUMs FOR ORPHANS BUILT.
Prisons oycrhauled and Repaired.
aud Prisoners Who Had Been De-
taincd U.,reasonabIy With
ont Trial, Released.
asMUMs FOR ORPHANS. BUILT.
Prisons Ovcrhauled and Repaired,
am Prisoners WHO II ad Been De-
nv Associated Press

by Associated Press
WASHINGTON. October Major-Gen-
e:al Leonard Wood to-day made a state
ment as to contents OF his several reports
as Governor-tseaerai of Cuba. IT Is, IN
part as follows:
The civil report of The island will not
be published until the end of the present
calendar year. 1t vii! cover, in detail. the
work under the various civil departments
of the military government during me
entire present year.
Under the head of hospitals and charities
it will be found that every town OF coilse,
cuence in the island has been PROVIDED
with a hospital we'll equipped Win iieece-s-
Sary supplies and appliances.
Asy,,lms for orphan children have been
established wherever necessary II Is Inc
purpose If the insJiar government 10 es-
1anish four State institutions, Two for
boys and two for girls. two to be lnous-5
trial and agricultural. and two to be cor
rectiona! and Industrial
PRISONS IMPROVED
1.-The prisons have been overhauled and
repaired from one end of the Island 10 the
other. and the sanitary conditions inn
proved, The Military Government has had
its agents go over the island investigating
s every case under detention, ind many
hundreds of prisoners who had been de-
tanned for long periods of time awaiting
trial, have been released, only such being
released however. as had awaited trial for
a period as long, Or longer, than they would
have been sentenced, had they been found
guilty. Judges who have been found dere-
lici have been dismissed, and every effort
IS being made to impress upon the COM
munity at large that individual rights and
individual liberty are the foundations of
every good and stable government Cor
ractional courts have been established
throughout the larger cities where the
trial is oral and summary. as in our police
courts Their success has been phenome-
nal and while opposed at first every
town is now anxious to have one. and Or
ders already have been published estaD-
fishing thirty more.
HABEAS CORPUS.
The writ of habeas corpus has been pub
l.shed TO take effect on December list Of
this year
During the present year over 5000 pub
lie schools have been established: thirty
six hundred teachers are employed in
them and one hundred and fifty thousand
children are in the schools This number
is constantly increasing. and by the end
of the present school year it is believed
that We shall have two hundred and fifty
thousand children in school. The largest
number at school under the Spanish rule
was between twenty-siX and thirty thou
sand
The United States troops have not been
used during the present Year for the main
tepance of order. The police work In the
rural districts is done by the Rural Guard,
witch amounts to about twelve hundred
men for the entire island of Cuba These
men and their officers are all Cubans.
SANITARY WORK.
Sanitary work of great Importance has
been carried on from one end Of Cuba to
the other Two eastern provinces in the
cJo n off ,l.a frr l,n firSf tir11a have.
passed through a summer without a case
of yellow fever, and in general there has
been a great Improvement in health
throughout the islands. Plans in dstail
are now ready for advertisement for
having and sewering in a thoroughly first
class and modern manner the city of
Havana and its suburbs, and there is
every reason tic believe that in few
years yellow fever in Cuba can be gotten
under the same control as now exists an
Jamaica.
"A thoroughly efficient mail service has
been established and is being conducted
with efficiency and economy. The fnan-
cial condition is excellent. The Govern
,nent is entirely self-supporting. and the
treasury has \ balance Of u million and
q half dollars.
.-The tobacco crop OF last year was an
immense one. This year the sugar crop
win be between 10000 and sD0,oo and If the
present prices continue the money obtained
by the planters WIFI equal the amount re-
ceired by the planters for their great crop
of million tons. The value of this years
crop of sugar and the coming tobacco crop
will be conserratipeEy one hundred million
dollars.
1.-THE condition of the people of the
island, TO the best of my knowledge and
belief, is one of content. and they realize
that wonderful progress has been made
and they feel as a people kindly toward
and have faith in the people of the United
STATES States