The age-herald., 1901-05-05
...CanadAan Schemes M Cuba.
 High Operations Brought Stop by General Wood
BY GEORGE EUGENE sRYsoN.

ed by Governor General Woods Secretary of Public Works-the work is virtually blocked; and Sir Williams more recent application to Secretary of War Root, at, Washington for an order directing authorities in Cuba not to in any way interfere with his engineers and survey in future would appear to have been de- ried-despite the charge made by General Greenwood in the Havana newspaper, "El Diario de la Marina" that the Pres ident and Cabinet, through Hon. Robert P. Porter, are largely interested in the success of the Anglo-American syndicate to begin work of constructing the line of projected railroad between Santiago and Santa Clara two years ago! The validity of the alleged lease of the United States Military Railway Con the Spanish trocha) to Van Horne's British Company" is also questioned: yet, the same Canadian syndicate are reported to be negotiating for the Triscornia Military Railroad, which Colonel Hecker caused to be built at scandalous cost to the Cuban treas ury, for the transport of American troops form Havana Bay Opposite the capitaD to Guanabacoa; and intrsecting switches of the various railways center ing here-the object being to get the soldiery into the suburban town where American garrisons were located, with out letting them pass through the city of Havana, then supposed to De 1rreme- diably infected with yellow fever ana other contagious diseases Half a million dollars and more was squandered In the construction of a line which should nave been built for less than s150000; yet the road has never been used in any way the English managers of the railway lines in Cuba already in operation ffatly refusing to allow the United States mill itarv line even switch connection with their system. And they finally compelled the chief quartermaster to lease one of thei rold sugar warehouses and dock way up in the bite of the harbor. upon which supplies for the army of occupation have since been landed If Van Horne gets control of the Trisconrina Railroad, Grenwood's friends assert that the En- eiIshman will turn his option over to the British capitalists owning the other "Consolidated" lines centering at this port pocketing a handsome profit for his trouble in the negotiations.
 The Havana Electric Company's new street car system connecting this capital by trolley lines with all the leading su- burbs. including Fl Vedado, Guanabacoa, the Cerro and Jesus del Monte. is now in full operation; but accidents have be- come so frequent that the natives espe- cially still patroniZe by preference the horse cars and "guaguas." Only yester- day the Electric Railway Company's power house and waiting room adjacent in one of the suburban stations collapsed. killing two persons and wounding quite a number more or less seriously. And, as a result, the press of Havana. almost without exception, is demanding greater precaution and that the wires be placed under ground, as the pre-existing Spanish law required This is another company from Canada. which has enjoyed virtual immunity in the matter of compliance with insular statutes and the Foraker measure, and which laid most of its rails through the streets of this city in open defiance of municipal authorities; as, whenever the police interfered with one of their gangs, the company appealed to military authority for protection" and generally obtained 1t. On the other hand Americans anxious to invest in Cuban en- terprises, to put in electric lights and construct aqueducts to supply the small CT towns with pure water, or to build trol- ley lines connecting these with the larger