The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1905-09-06
GENERAL WOOD TO PANAMA.

ton Of the canal zone, no one will oh.
ject. II Is quite likely that he could
render efficient service there. II is
much more in his line than military
life anyhow. But recalling She tribute
10 the general from the president on
the occasion Of the latter's speech 20
the Long Island doctors recently, 1t Is
strange that the president should have
so extravagantly estimated Woods ge-
MUS as sanitary engineer by any
means.
The president said that this coun.
try never had done for 1t work that
reflected more honor upon the coun-
try or for humanity at large than the
work done for It in CuDa and that
"the man who above all others is re-
sponsible for doing that work so we'll
is The present Major General Wood"
The president compared Woods work
with that Of Lord Cromer in Egypt a
comparison that was frightfully Odor
ors in view Of the disparity Of the
| tasks
Moreover. the records 10 not bear
ont the presidents assertion that Gen
eral Wood performed the work Of
cleaning up Cuba. While in command
OF Santiago he cleaned up the city,
had the streets swept and some paving
done. The offal was removed and some
sewerage put in. But the sewer pipes
were never used and are not used to
this day.
When General Wood went to Havana
was as clean as a pin, the work hav-
ing been done by General William
Ludlow, an engineer of great ability.
General Wilson performed like duty
in Matanzas, Santa Clara and in Glen
fuegos, while General Carpenter clean
cd up Puerto Principe.
The credit for the stamping out OF
yellow fever belongs for the most part
TO Dr. Carlos Finsy II was his eX-
perimntation with the yellow fever
mosquito that led TO the work Of de-
stroying mosquitoes. About the biggest
Job Of cleaning mp that General Wood
9Sar performed in Havana was in re-
moving from the walls of the govern
| or generals palace the germ-nfested
and priceless paintings that had hung
there for centuries. And those paint
ings have not been replaced. They
found their way to The United Staes.
where, no doubt, they were disinfected
and the germs destroyed.
Under the circumstances therefore,
II is hardly fair to Generals Brooke,
Ludlow, Wilson, Carpenter and Davis
and Or. Finlay thar the president
should give such eXtrayagant praise
to Wood for cleaning up Cuba.
But It is to he hoped General Wood
viii be sent to Panama. lie pos -esses
good administrative ability and would !
no doubt be able TO cnder important |
service there. We are willing for him
10 do the work, even with the certain.
~ that should the canal be completed
within his lifetime and the presidents S |
that country will hear from the pres
ident's lips that the credit for the con-
strucjion of the canal belongs almost
exclusively 10 General wood - Record
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If any of the indictments against the
Quanrell men who raided Lawrence
in 1863 are ever brought to trial the
evidence win for the first time reveal
To this generation the horrors Of civil
war for 20 was only ON the Kansas.
Missouri border during the late nm.
that there was real civil
war H. as General Sherman put it.
war is hell" the doings of the Jay
hawNors ana the Quantrcll fellows
We're ten times heller.
\ Chicago real estate man found a
pocketboo, belonging to Birmng
ham negro, which contained 800 in
cash, a check for $CG,2oO and depos-
It book showing Sl9G 0o0 in Bir.
mineham bank For hLs honesty in re.
turning the treasure to him the loser
presented the finder with a nickel cl.
gar The dispatch seems to ompha-
size this fact, as though The real estate
man expected AT least teu.ccutor for