New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-09-07
THE PASSING THRoNG.

Pedro =. Buzzi, OF Havana. who served IN the
latter part Of the Cuban insurreetion on the stan
CO General Jose ~. Gomez. the
HERR TO present Governor Of the Province OF
INVESTIGATE Santa Clara. and who is now In the
FAvENENTs. service Of President Palma's gov
eminent is at the Fifth Avenue
F1otel Ee IS superintendent OF the engineer
laboratory In the Obras Publica, or Department OF
Public Works. Of Havana Though native Cuban,
No was educated IN the Cnited States, and, being
chemical engineer. he was detailed By Public Works
Secretary Manu~ Diaz as special commissioner on
hit,,mtnous papements to the United States and
csnads" He has visited Philadelphia. Washing
ton Baltimore, Charleston, Nashville, New-Or-
leaas ST. LoGls. Chicago. Boston and other con-
vcnieut cities IN Massachusetts. and. after making
q similar inquiry IN New-York, win sail on satur-
DAY next for Havana
one thing" said Commissioner Buzzi. that
presents q problem IN the matter of paving in Ha-
vzaa is the fact that the streets are very narrow,
and or many OF them the trsric is very heavy
ne pavement Is mostly Belgian or Boston tgranite)
hooks The noise Of the ceaseless stream OF carts
over the granite blocks Is awful and would be
flse to substitute something sanitary and sub
st4nual that would ClimIrate the noise But
may De thal Inc oeAaAus ol leaNg - al. ~
some o. The streets. IL was nay mission 90 ina out
msnts of thar class. ] found a great amount Of
asphalt paving IN Washington ano an sausneo
sponsole for the extreme heat that prevails IN the
capital city cut hole in INC aslalt IN Or ~
sr inc6 below the surface REGISTERED Ia degrees
Fahrenheit. I had made a similar test on Tacon-st,
near Ludiow's Park. in Havana, and the highest
Temperature shown there was lSs degrees -
msoadam. but the heavy rains wash Il out. end IN
The dry season il Yields birding clouds or oust. !
extensively IN St Louis and two or three other
m Havana n is laid much like macadsm but is
made o. stone ground 10 variety q sizes aIe
voidt and that these may be FILED tar or bitumen
is mixed with IL. While the combination Is NOT y
F aid IKE asphalt. on top % this more OF the
hitamen and coat Of grouno granite are sdqeo ,
which iscks its slippery snoethness some OF this
eOrt OF pavement viii probably be laid IN Havana
or the lighter tranc and pleasure driving streets
Colonel James Brattls Burbank Z. S. A. retired
who is now oomiclled al the Everett House. was q
echoolmate OF Ex-Governor Morgan
sPrAKs O. BuIkeley when they were boys
vVFIT, OF together at Hartford. Conn. before
GENERAL the Civil War, IN which each o.
ARMY STAFF them had part. Colonel bUrpahA
entered the service member OF
-. ,ofh Connecticut Volunteer Infantry In 1867
ar the following year was Transferred 70 tne %
A-,i9ery in the regular army. He continued II the
s-ls-t arm o. the service until placed on the re-
s,-es lst when ne attained the ase limit. in Sep
.,nhsr last The colonel Tor elk years-lsH 10
Ygg2--ofessor q military science at Cornell Uni
ye-sitv under the administration OF Andrew D.
White Asked for expression concerning the
STAFF corps army reorganization. Colonel Burbank
exhibited the usual reluctance Of the ole school OF
military officer In giving utterance 10 opinions on
army Affairs. lie SAID. however. that the stan
corps vos organized IN response 70 the demand
that had long obtained that the United States
Army he PUT in line with the best known standards
o. military efficiency.
THE staH CORPS" said he. had SITS supremest
test az the beginning Of the Franco-Prussisn Var,
81 $50 v-hen the carefully deveopeo plans OF the
French strateEists contempla ting a campaign on
German soil were set at naught by the promptness
AZ 49, Ff~rnc mt
star sy-stera-three hundred ard eighty thousand
strgHs-Nele tTansported 10 me lie . Q. ~
for every important detai OF equipment and trans
portetion. and al within ten days. maj vas a re-
practical and theoretical lines in every depart.
course possible TO divine the results OF the stan
corns II tie relation 10 our army siy more nearLss
hut Il y organized on lines that are approved by
ths consensus ~ opinion prevailing among nose
most experienced and OF hiEhest attsinmenls IN the
Eu6y Of matters military. Under this system every
problem q pTactic. e3Srac5sr WI DS re-
forms that II iuaJgurates is the removal from me
rider The old system perplexcd a Secretary Of
War sad urvarrantahly claimed his time. az The
Success q he system is very promising"
Tracy Robinson. q native OF Orleans County.
\. Y but whose home for more than forty years
has been in the city % Colon, Pan
THINKS anna. is - the Marlt orough- He
CANAL went 20 the isthmus IN lS6l as an
VII EE employee OF the Panama Railroad
BUILT. Company. whose lire between the
OCEANS had been completed six
gea-s before 30 had to hEht the tropical malaria
when he first landed ia that infected latitude. but
became acclimated, and has already passed the
mark e. three score and ten. Speaking Of his eK-
FsIlenoes ON the land LUX between the Two AmeTl-
oss, he said:
4 Uas assistant superintendent q the Panama
Railroad and was is charge IN 1873 when we had a
revolution "a progress. and yea may guess those
were exciting times. I IN Colon when De Les
EeIs arrived. on December 81 1873. and during the
next eight wears 1870 10 1855 when the work was
pushed the canal tire normal population Of
Coos, which l. about four thousand. was swellec
- tweit- thousand. When the troubles OF De
4fssepe came ID Gwin6lcd again. The work has
heFer. % course been entirely suspended. II has
continued Oh a limited way. a. keep the franchise
sIVe Yes I have made study of thc canal prob
len evcr Il was rrst u90oted, and am con-
1rfncd n tho opinion that Panama affords an In
conliaroble route. 7 am also coEtr1ent the canal
VI he h1ilt on fhct route helieve the delay OF
~ Colombian Congress IS Only fgr the purpose OF
CRYING 4 better barEaln. But * the Colombian
Cove Yaunt reiet : ere pendiae treaty IL would not
&c E.rI llsug & Panama WiIlGrcE' from Tie Inion