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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-21

gested that Leonard Wood be made
colonel and he lieutenant colonel.
This suggestion was readily agreed
to, az Wood had many letters from
officers under whom or with whom
he had served, recommending him
for line command.
This regiment, which soon became
known as the Rough Riders" was
officially designated as the 1st Vol
unteer Cavalry. It's organization
gave Colonel Wood a great oppor-
tunity to utilize his experience and
demonstrate his organizing ability.
The regiment was authorized late in
April, 1898, and on June "a it had
fought and won its first battle--at
Las Guasimas, Cuba.
The Rough Riders were General
Woods first notable creation-the
first Of his constructive achieve
ments. Roosevelt inspired this ad-
venturesome band Of American cru
sa6ers, but Wood made them into a
regiment--and did 1t despite the
chaos and turmoil of a confused
War Department. 1t Is recorded
that Wood drafted every order
requisition and other paper form of
the necessary red tape and laid the
whole bundle on General Ayers
desk one day.
What do I do?" asked Alger.
Nothing but sign" said Wood.
Alger signed.
The making Of the Rough Riders
led to the making Of Cuba. No
need to tell the story Of how Wood
succeeded General Wheeler as COM
mander Of the cavalry brigade in
the Santiago campaign and was
made military governor Of the city
and district after the surrender of
the Spaniards. At last at thirty
seven, Wood got his great oppor-
tunity. Before the Cuban campaign
he had achieved hy measure Of
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roads were impossible and the
streets not much better. The yellow
fever filled all with panic fear.
There was neither an organization
to work with nor instruments for it
to use if there had been one.
General Wood was confronted
with the social, political and ma
terial regeneration Of a community
that had been degenerating for dec
AIDES.
Wood tackled tho Augean Job. A
rough plan was made Of the things
that must be done, q competent Of
ficer was assigned to each task, en-
dowed with ample authority and told
to do 1t. Wood gave general direc-
ton and inspiration. Manifestly,
the first things to be done were to
feed the starving people and bury
the dead. Horrible, deadly work
IL was" says General Wood in his
own account Of this second task,
''hut at last 10 was fnixhed. At the
same time numbers ot men we're
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Trade and industry restored to
healthy activity.
Water supply In process Of be-
ing greatly increased at very
slight expenditure.
School system in process Of or
ganization.
This unparalleled regeneration"
the quoted writer continues, 'had
been wrought not by host of men
native to the locality and occupying
Offices long established and enjoying
traditional prestige, but by an
American brigadier general of VOL
unteers, stranger to the place and
the people, embarked in the work on
moments notice, and having for
his immediate aids only few fellow
army officers, some Of whom had
been out Of West Point less than two
years, and all Of whom were as new
to the situation as himself. It was
the tour d. fq,ce Of . man Of genius,
Tor In the hssdsr, moro Fundamental
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-21

working day and night In the streets,

working day and night In the streets,
removing the dead animals and other
disease producing materials. Others
were engaged in distributing food to
the hospitals, prisons, asylums and
convents-in fact, to everybody, for
all were starving"
Even while the famine was being
relieved and the dead were being
buried General Wood began laying
five miles of city street pavement,
building two hundred miles of coun-
try road and the improvement of the
water supply. In four months the
Santiago job was either done or Sc
we'll on the way to being done that
its success was certain. A writer of
that time found that at the end of
that period these things had been
accomplished:
Population rescued from star
walton, provided with work and
made to work.
One Of the foulest cities on earth
made clean.
Great progress In street paving
and road building.
Radical reform in custom house
service.
Reduction of municipal ex-
penses.
Reformation Of the courts.
Law and order esta blished and
maintained.
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Settling a Riot

Many Incidents of this time are
recorded showing tho mans force Of
character. On one occasion a mob
Of five hundred Cubans attacked the
Spanish Club in Santiago, near the
generals headquarters 81 know it."
said the general, when q sentry re-
ported tho affair to him IL have
heard the row. We will 20 over and
stop It."
HE picked up his riding whip,
the only weapon he ever carries"
continues the chronicler, land, &C.
companied by tho one American SOL
der, strolled across to the scene Of
the trouble"
Arrived there the general told the
lone soldier to "shove them back"
"Around swung the rife, and in
much less time than is taken In the
telling, way was cleared in front
Of the door"
Instructing the soldier to shoot the
first man who approached tho club,
the general strobe away, and the
riot was over.
Appointed major general and
made Governor General Of Cuba by
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the people Of the tropics and sub
tropics It is doubtful whether tho
Panama Canal ever would have been
completed but for this discovery.
or Woods third constructive task,
the organization Of Cuba, Theodore
Roosevelt wrote In 1902 that II it
had been performed three thousand
years ago ut would have made him
hero mixed up with the Sun God In
various ways"
The fourth constructive enter
prise OF his career as a public man
came to General Wood when Presi-
dent Roosevelt sent him to the
Philippines to deal with the Moros.
the fierce Mahometan inhabitants
Of the southern archipelagos Of the
Philippines. Going there as mill
tary commander and civil governor,
the general had absolute power, bat
the situation that confronted him
seemed hopeless. It was the accumu-
lation Of several centuries Of Span
ish misrule or failure to rule, racial
hatred and religious and social DIFF
ferences of the bulk Of the In
habitants Of the Philippines.
A hundred battles impressed the
fierce barbarians with the power Of
the new rulers, but at the same time
the benefcent intentions Of tho
United States were steadily aud
tactfully demonstrated to them.
Two years of unrelenting deter
mination and uninterrupted driving
toward the goal turned the Moros
"from a slave-holding. polygamoua.
headhunting band" into "a self
governing community of the highest
order" at was a remarkable In
stance Of state building" says the
biographer Sears, (which, following
upon the Cuban episodes, stands out
as the greatest achievement any
man has accomplished In colonial
history"
AS always with Wood. the physi-
cal reconstruction Of the country
went hand in hand with It's political
and social regeneration, and he
marked Moro land with improved
and new trails, roads and trans
portation routes.
When General Wood returned to
the United States after q term as
military commander Of the Philip
pines as whole he turned his hand
soon to the fifth creative task Of his
career, namely, the creation Of a cit
izen army. The coming Of the World
War brought the citizen army with
It, but the ease with which tho ma
ton accepted CONSUMPTION and the
rapidity with which officers wers
trained and provided were due, In
part at least, to the tireless CAM
paign in behalf Of universal train
ing, reserve officers training and
preparedness that he had carried on
for years.
The sixth national Job that fell
to Wood the builder was that Of
an army maker. Denied the privi-
lege Of serving in France, he organ
lied and trained two divisions for
service. One Of them, the 89th, was
in the A. E. F., and though tho
other, the 10th, never got abroad, il
was declared by French and British
officers at the end Of three months
to be the "best prepared and trained
division they h;si seen Ia this eoun.
try."
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General Leonard Wood Builder:
Some of His Lasting Public Works
Cuba, the Philippines, New York,
All Show Enduring Examples
of His Constructive Ability

possible way through actual obser-
walton the necessity for bodily
health" says Joseph Hamblen Sears
in his recently published life Of Cen
eral Wood He learned that prep
aration. while it should never delay
action, can never be overdone. This
must have been drilled into the
young man by tho hardest and most
gruelins Of experiences. because it
has been one OF the gospels Of his
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-21
His Meeting With Roosevelt

Meeting at some social function
at the Lowndes house one night in
1896, they walked homo together,
and were soon plunged into that
friendship which was to continue to
the end. When the Spanish-Ameri-
can War came, or until it became
apparent that it was coming, Wood,
tired Of the tame life in Washing
ton, was planning to leave the army
and start sheep ranching some
where In the West.
Both Roosevelt and Wood were
for war for months before 1t came,
and they had planned to raise vol
unteer ACKNOWLEDGMENT In New
York and Wood in Massachusetts,
but they were not able to carry out
this plan because of the confusion
existing in the War Department.
Then General Alger offered Roose-
welt the colonelcy of a cavalry regi-
ment, but the latter, aware Of his in
experience In military affairs. sue-
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Bv Theodore Nj. knappon

Bv Theodore Nj. knappen
r. EoNARD WOOD, the builder.
At Santiago de Cuba you
drive over the we'll paved
Gale Marina and out the
iplsndid Boniata Road. Leonard
Wool
A Havana you motor over the
Axious Esplanada Of La Punta or
slons ths Csr1o or Vedado. Leonard
Vsu1i
n ~ Sand AZ the MoroA, In far
Hindanao and thu Sulus Of the Phil
ppinss 700 ind roads where once
vsrs trails, and public palaces where
spcs were novels. General Woodl
In the Harbor Of Now York, on
Governors Island, you will find the
lasting material records of Leonard
Wood.
; In Washington, as chief Of staff,
his impress was so deep that the war
Of wars was fought along burrows
10 began.
Wherever General Wood was long
IN authority you will find some physi-
cal construction that constitutes an
enduring monument to his achieve
ments. He is one of the great pro-
consuls Of the American Republic
builder and administrator of PROV
inces, organizer, reorganizer, regen-
orator and administrator.
To this record as builder General
Woods friends point in their cam
pagn to make him Presidents:
General Woods career is of ab-
sorbing interest, though for thirty
seven years it went on without be-
coming Of national concern or signif-
canoe To the nation at large Cap
tain Leonard Wood, at the outbreak
Of the Spanish-American War, was
unknown. He had been a surgeon
IN the regular army for thirteen
years and he had not yet realized
his desire to be transferred to the
me, though from the first months of
his entrance into the regular army
he vas in fact fighting officer and
had distinguished himself as such
before he had been a week in active
service.
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creed stnce that time, and IL 10 this
day his text upon occasions"
Followed some quiet years of
army life in California and Georgia,
and then in 1898 Wood was ordered
to Washington to become assistant
attending surgeon, his duties being
those of medical adviser to army Of
ficers and their families, physician
to the Secretary Of War and, In
company with the navy surgeons,
medical attendant Of the President.
1t was not a place that appealed
to an active, out-of-doors man, and
it did not seem to hold out much
promise OF military career. Yet it
gave him an opportunity to become
intimately acquainted with Presl-
dents Cleveland and Mckinley. 1t
also gave him the opportunity to
meet Theodore Roosevelt.
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SCENE ~ LEWa4P0
wO0ERW SU4UG6 o.
AAE7Na, PLANNED ~
GEM6EAL Moc0.
c~o 70 G~E]HS% s>1eRo x<~H

fame, but his capacity was we'll un-
dSrstood by those who had been as
ISOLATED with him in the army. As
q medical man. line officer and an
organizer he was peculiarly fitted
for the task that now came to him.
In Santiago, one Of the foulest cities
IN the world, which sea captains de-
clared could be smelled ten miles off
shore, were $4,000 civilians, Of
whom $4,000 were sick of yellow
fever and other diseases. OF the
Spanish garrison 1000 were i'll and
5000 Of the American soldiers were
in hospitals or what suff1ced for
hospitals. The entire water supply
of the city was conveyed in an
eleven-inch pipe which delivered
only 100000 gallons a day.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-21
Scene of Terror

There was no drainage or sewer
system except the street cutters.
Deserted houses Of death held the
bodies of men, women and children
where they had died unattended,
and along the roads leading to the
city lay the bodies Of those who had
fallen and died by the roadside.
There was no food or attendance for
the sick. "Horrible odors filled the
air Terror walked abroad" Ths
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tasks that confronted him here Cen
eral Leonard Wood had had no pre-
vious experience"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-21
Asked for Action

Born In New Hampshire, in 1850,
but passing his boyhood in q Cape
Cod village, and getting his profess
slonal education at Harvard Univer-
slty Medical College, the young doc
tor Of 1884 soon tired Of life as an
ordinary practitioner and took an
Examination the following year for
position as surgeon in the regular
army. He passed, and, there being
no vacancies at the moment In the
ranks Of the commissioned medical
on'cers, he accepted a position as
contract surgeon at 500 month on
the condition that he should be sent
where he could get faction"
He got 1t soon in the form of an
order to proceed to Fort Huachuca,
Arlz., where he arrived on July 4,
1855. The next day he was in the
saddle in the last Of tho important
indian warfare campaigns - the
Srueling drive that broke the power
OF The Apaches-and for fourteen
months the "tenderfoot" led the van
OF the logged epic pursuit of Gero-
nlmo and Natchez, acting as line
officer as we'll as surgeon. On his
first day he rode horse more than
thirty-five miles, and shortly after
ward he averaged eighteen hours q
day for five days. either in the sad
die or on foot, thus demonstrating
Nat he had a physique on which
could be laid the foundation Of a
strenuous career.
In this Indian campaign he served
under Captain Henry W. Lawton
later brigadier general Reporting
to General Miles, Lawton said of
Wood. among other things:
He sought the most difficult work
and by hts determination and cour-
age rendered q successful issue of
the campaign possible"
Many years later Wood was
awarded the Congressional Medal of
Honor for his work In this, his first
campaign.
Ihree years moro Of active life In
~ Southwestern deserts, during
winch he participated In an extern
ave survey Of the unpopulated re-
lens OF Arizona under General
lilies, rounded out rich frontier
perasnce which left It's stamp on
ns whole Of General Woods after
mA
Out Of the Indian experiences
- - Mn h ~ nsest Vigorous
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-05-20
REPUBLICANS NOT
|. EXPECTED TO TRY
TARIFF CHANGES
Correspondent Says They Ex-
plain President Would Veto,
But Caution for Present Is
Factor.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.
(The News SclmItar's Special Core.
spondentl

WASHINGTON. May 2O-Congress is
again in session. As eight years ago.
when the Democrats first came into
power, the party Of Champ Clark and
Oscar Underwood then began to look
forward hopefully to 1912, just so are
the Republicans really straining today
toward 1920.
Presidential candidates abound. Con-
gress is full Of them, Party bitterness
is as intense as ever, which simply
means that representatives and sena-
tors of both parties, while apparently
glad to see each other, slapptng one
another on the back and exchanging
jests in this happy spring session, 1t
will not be long before the Congress
slonal Record will be full of speeches
by the Republicans attempting to prove
that practically all the money In the
treasury has been sp3nt by eXtrava-
giant Democratic officials while the
minority will be accusing the Republi-
can leaders Of playing politics with
the peace treaty and league Of ma
tions.
So far as the country is concerned, it
watched rather tolerantly and good-na-
turedly how the Democrats put up
shotgun bills to Mr.. Taft, knowing full
well he would veto them. The last half
of the Taft administration saw very
! tile legislation of value because Of
the difference in political complexion
between congress and the executive
branch of the government.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-05-20
tST. JOHNS EFFORTS To
LOCATE AlRMEN FAIL

ST JOHNS. N, r., May 2o.-ships
at sea from the American coast TO
the British Isles swept the air in all
directions throughout the night with
wireless queries regarding the fate OF
Mackenzie Grieve, but all radlograms
which had reached Cape Race up to
this morning from more than 20 ves-
sells were negative.
Hawker's associates here expressed
grave fears today regarding the miss
or the life preserving aids carried by
the two men would prove seaworthy
under stormy conditions
With the result OF Hawkers endeay-
ors In doubt, plans for another pros
peotlye race began TO develop today
similar to that for which Hawker and
Frederick p. Raynham were lined up
here longer than a month,
The Anglo American team, Alcott 40
pilot and Brown as navigator of the
Vimy bombing plane, which Is due to
arrive here tomorrow, announced that
this flight for Ireland would be under
taken with the coming Of the next full
moon. Alcott today wired Vice-Ad-
miral Kerr at Harbor Grace for per-
mission to use the flying field of the
Handley- Phgo plane now assembling
there for a take off" Alcott said he
would fly light from st, Johns to Har-
Dor Grace and there would start with
full load on his trans Atlantic jour
ney,
The Handley- Page will be ready At
the same time, In the opinion Of Ad-
miral Kerr, and race for what may
sttll prove to be the first crossing Is
expected TO result
Extension OF the international inter-
est In flying across the Atlantic was
shown today, when Lieut.. Leth Jen-
SEN formerly French war aviator.
arrived here to study conditions for
starting flight from Newfoundland.
Lieut. Jensen would not discuss his
mission except to say plane built In
France and manned by French airmen
might make the attempt.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-05-20
CENTENARY CANTICLE
WILL BE BRILLIANT

All is in readiness for the magnificent
centennial Canticle, the story of Mem
phis put to music which will be rem
dered at the New Lyric theater Thurs
day at 2:15 o'clock, The final rehear-
sal Of the Canticle choruses will be held
on Wednesday at O'Clock at the the
ater and the finishing touches are now
being added to the decorating of the
interior Of the theater for the occasion
The boxes will be decorated as fol-
lows: p, A, R., first box on left; U.
D. c., first box on right; first upper
box on left, womans committee oi
National Defense. Second upper box
on left, city commissioners and Off
GERS OF Shriners. Second lower on
right, official Canticle committees. Sec
ond upper on right, Daughters of 1872
and Colonial Danes.
First row In orchestra, "Old Settlers
row." second row, Confederate row
These boxes will be decorated by the
patriotic societies and the committees
from all these organizations will meet
at the theater at 1880 o'clock to re-
ceive distinguished visitors who will be
seated by the committee.
All descendants of residents of Mem
phis whose families have been here over
75 years are urged to send in their
names TO Mrs. Virginia Frazer Boyle
before Thursday The admission will
be free to ALL
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-05-20
This VIII Be Some
Ball Game If Dope
On Players Is True

I'VE object, your honor" Feel his
pulse" I'VE ask a new trial" Give
him cathartic" and numerous other
calculations of similar nature, covering
the field Just as far as the Imagination
Will stretch. may be expected to re-
sound from the diamond at Hodges
field Thursday afternoon when the doc
tors and barristers of Memphis get to-
gether for clash
The game is the result OF a challenge
hurled at the lawyers by the medical
profession OF Memphis and it Is billed
as a little side diversion during the
centenary. While a small admission
will be charged, the proceeds will be
turned over to local charitable insti-
tuition.
Just what will be the nature of the
linenups put forth by the opposing fac
tions has not yet been determined,
but committees are busy on both sides
and something definite may soon be
expected.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-05-20

Off the Irish coast the weather 10
had today and there are no furthef
rumors that the Sepwith machine fell
into the sea within sight Of the river
Shannon.
The weather Is so bad off Ireland
that airplanes ordered by the air min
latry to search for Aviator Bawkere
machine are unable to fly.
All communication centers in Lon
don are silent as to the news from
Hawker and Lieutenant Commander
GrieVe, Even, the rumors which pre-
vailed yesterday and last night have
died out
London spent yesterday In tense ex-
citement and suspense awaiting the re-
suit of Hawkers bold attempt to fly
across the Atlantic, and after a day OF
Inquiries and unverified rumors ana
speculation
A Sopwith machine, supposed to be
Hawker's. according TO an admiralty
wireless report descended to the sur
face OF the ocean, 40 miles off the mouth
OF the shannon, Later admiralty re-
ports said that this information was not
considered reliable.
Fairly unverifled reports were that the
Sopwith machine encountered gale
which reduced It's speed 10 40 miles an
hour, and finally compelled II to de-
scend owing to exhaustion Of gasoline
Crowds OF people waited all day long
at the Brooklands alrdrome, where
Hawker learned to fly, believing that
the aviator would make his landing
there, although experts had EXPRESSED
the opinion that Hawker would unlikely
be able to fly there,
The fate OF Hawker and Grieve cam
not be definitely stated, and II Is im-
possible to even assert that the ma
chine found at sea Ia Hawker's,
The weather off the Irish coast Mpn-
day was holsterous with rain and haze
The admiralty sent out all available
| shipa to search for the aviatora.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-05-20
THE WORLD OUTLOOK
lBx the Associated Press.l
(By the Associated Press,

The treaty of peace may be signed until some time near
middle according advices from Parls II propapV
will be however whether the Germans Will a'
reject the Of the allies . ..,.. -.
Before the period to the Germans to make re-
expires Thursday OF this week
will submit 30
elaborate that will take the peace conference
1 a reonder. After that the Germans II IS
frame their final reply This
and the treaty must then be engossed
In final form for signing. .
delegation called together yesterday by Its
laid before his colleagues
instructions received Spa Sunday 1t Is reported an
prepared by the Germans but has been
ferred to Berlin for approval