The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-11-08
GEN. WADE DOES NOT
THINK HONOLULU DEAD

| Major General James f. Wade is a
passenger in the United States Army
| Transport Thomas which is now in
| port on its way to San Francisco. Cen
| eral Wade has been in command of the
| Military Division of the Philippines
| and is on his way to succeed General
| Corbn as commander of the depart
ment of the East, which comprises all
| the Atlantic slope and the island of
| Porto Rico. as well as most of the Gulf
| states, making it probably the largest
| and most important of the military de-
partments. General Corbin, it will be
| remembered, passed through this city
| a few weeks ago on his way to the
Philippines to take General Wade's
| place. so the two generals at the
| farthest extremes of Uncle Sans mill
tary jurisdiction have swapped COM
! mands.
General Wade was seen at the Young
Hotel last night and consented to be
| interviewed, although he laughingly
remarked that he was afraid that he
couldn't say much of interest. The
general is a middle-aged man with
grey hair and moustache and merry
| twinkle in his eye that is very COM
| forting to a reporter after some of the
CLASSY stares that he has received from
| some generals. In short the general
| is man whom it is pleasure to meet
and if he was not popular in the
| Philippines nobody could be-
''The troops now in the Philippine
| Islands are merely on garrison duty"
said General Wade last night, and
the military government has been
abolished except in the Moro district,
where there is combination of mill
| tary and civil government. General
| Wood, who is military governor there,
is also the civil governor In the
other parts of the archipelago the civil
authorities are in full control. The
| conditions in the Moro country are
| very different from those in other
parts of the islands. 1t is a very dim
| cult country to care for. 1t is full
of junglcs and the Rio Grande, which
flows through it, spreads out and
creates impenetrable swamps.
'"rhere is no danger of any general
trouble I'm the islands now. There may
be local disorders but nothing OF any
great consequence. Many uf the people
are pretty Wild and they have 10 be
watched, Communication Is not good
through the interior There are no
good roads. one can go along the sea-
coast very Well, but II Is very dirrull
10 travel through the inland PROV
inces, something Is being done IN
the way OF building roads, but there
IL not much money 10 spend on tht
work What IL spent Is derived from
the island revenue | cannot say that
the Islands are very prosperous al
present, for there is not enough agrl-
culture 10 give the people money "a
spend, The people are rather indalenl
ANA az long as they can liys they don't
rare for much more Then it is hard 4,
feadluat things aulfkly after great
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