The San Francisco call., 1905-06-18
NaxlmoG G0meg Dies
at HIS Home IN
H0U0n0.
LenUes Noble Record
as OPPONENT Of
Oppression.
Gaze His Time and
Money in Aid at
Aaopted Land.
HAVANA, June 17-General Maximo
Gonez died at 6 o'clock this evening

HAY ANA, June 17.-General Maxine
Gomez died at 6 o'clock this evening
Maxlmo Gomez, who for twenty odd
years was a most ardent advocate of and
nghter FOR Cuba's freedom from the rule
OF spain, was not native of the island,
out was born in San Domingo in 1885, He
ATTENDED school up to his eighteenth year,
When ne settled on his fathers plantation
with the expectation of following the life
of a planter
ne yoke of General Bayer, then Presi-
oent or Hayt, was becoming intolerable
70 the san Domingans, and young Gomez,
ever lover of Justice and of an inde-
pendent nature, took part with the mall
contents and fought in their ranks at the
pattle OF Sabana de San Tome, July 5,
Roo. He later became a captain in the
dominican army, which afterward was
known as the Reserves under the gov
ernment organized on annexation to
Spain On the conclusion of the war and
the withdrawal of the latter power from
san Domingo to Cuba the reserves dis
banded and Gomez, with other Dominican
ofhcers. found himself on Cuban soil
without employment. Then for the first
time he began to realize the sufferngs
OF the Cubans, and he determined in his
Hcdi 10 -OIer his HE IN any attempt
tending to their freedom.
When the ten years war began he was
one of the foremost organizers of the
movement and one of the most persistent
nghters. During its continuance he met
and married Senorita Benarda Toro, by
whom he had four sons and two daugh-
ters. When peace was declared he. re-
turned to his home in San Domingo, but
was ever alive to the interests of the
cause of liberty in Cuba, and on every
opportune occasion furthered it to his ut
most.
On the breaking out Of the war which
Spanish power on the island by the
United States forces Gomez again drew
his sword and battled for Cuban freedom.
For several years, with a mixed and bad
ly equipped band, he maintained a parti-
san warfare in the eastern and central
parts of the island, requiring the Span
iards 10 keep a strong garrison in every
town of any Importance and to heavily
guard every wagon train passing through
the country
3 When the United States landed troops
near Santiago de Cuba in June, 1898, GEN
eral Gomez was at hand and lent every
assistance, and on the investment of San
tiago he rco-operated with General Shaft
er's army with all the force he could
muster.
The conclusion of the war found him
Impoverished in purse and weakened in
physical strength by the hardships that
he had undergone. but when called to the
duty of helping to establish the new or
der of things in Cuba he gave his best
efforts to that end, and by his popularity
with the Cubans made the task of the
American officials in carrying out the
pans of the United States Government
much lighter than it would otherwise
have been.
That duty being performed, and refus-
ing preffered and we'll merited honors,
General Gomez retired again to private
life and has had little active part in pub
lie affairs, though his quiet counsel has
done much toward the establishment Of a
settled order of things and the prosperity
Of his adopted country.