The New-born CubaHarper & Bros., 1899 - 388 páginas |
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... BLISS , U. S. A. , COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS , HAVANA . THE STREET HAWKER 138 • 141 WALTER A. DONALDSON , DEPUTY - COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS 145 . HAVANA - CUSTOM - HOUSE WHARVES AND LANDING - STAGE AMERICAN CONSULATE THE CUSTOM - HOUSE . MAJOR ...
... BLISS , U. S. A. , COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS , HAVANA . THE STREET HAWKER 138 • 141 WALTER A. DONALDSON , DEPUTY - COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS 145 . HAVANA - CUSTOM - HOUSE WHARVES AND LANDING - STAGE AMERICAN CONSULATE THE CUSTOM - HOUSE . MAJOR ...
Página 135
... to the Marine Hospital Service. WITHIN THE TENTH U. S. INFANTRY'S RELIEF STATION ON THE PRADO COLONEL T. H. BLISS , U. S. A. , COLLECTOR. 135 SANITATION IN HAVANA WITHIN THE TENTH U S INFANTRY'S RELIEF STATION ON PAGE PRADO.
... to the Marine Hospital Service. WITHIN THE TENTH U. S. INFANTRY'S RELIEF STATION ON THE PRADO COLONEL T. H. BLISS , U. S. A. , COLLECTOR. 135 SANITATION IN HAVANA WITHIN THE TENTH U S INFANTRY'S RELIEF STATION ON PAGE PRADO.
Página 138
... Bliss , Collector of the Port of Havana , and in charge of all the other custom - houses in the island , reporting directly to the Secretary of War . The other man was Walter A. Donaldson , special Dep-. COLONEL T. H. BLISS , U. S. A. ...
... Bliss , Collector of the Port of Havana , and in charge of all the other custom - houses in the island , reporting directly to the Secretary of War . The other man was Walter A. Donaldson , special Dep-. COLONEL T. H. BLISS , U. S. A. ...
Página 139
... Bliss , who had never had experience in collecting revenue from cus- toms duties , through devious ways hedged about with technicalities . Colonel Bliss , as might have been ex- pected from an efficient officer of the army , had an idea ...
... Bliss , who had never had experience in collecting revenue from cus- toms duties , through devious ways hedged about with technicalities . Colonel Bliss , as might have been ex- pected from an efficient officer of the army , had an idea ...
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... Bliss took hold of his work . He kept the old force at work so far as possible . He opened a new bureau of audit at once . With the advice of Mr. Donaldson he established an entry division , a liquidating division , an exporting ...
... Bliss took hold of his work . He kept the old force at work so far as possible . He opened a new bureau of audit at once . With the advice of Mr. Donaldson he established an entry division , a liquidating division , an exporting ...
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affairs alcaldes Ameri American army American military American occupation American soldiers asked began Brooke buildings Cabañas camp cane Captain Greble carnival carriages cars cattle cents charge Cienfuegos clean Colonel Bliss Conant condition Cuban Assembly Cuban soldiers custom Custom-house Davis Donaldson dozen duty early February Fitzhugh Lee flag force Gomez harbor Havana Havana province houses hundreds island of Cuba kind labor land look Ludlow Major Davis Matanzas Matanzas province matter McCullagh ment merchants miles military occupation months Morro Castle night o'clock persons Pinar del Rio plant plantation plaza police postal Prado probably province Rathbone reconcentrados sanitary Santa Clara Santa Clara province Santiago seemed sewers side soon Spaniards Spanish soldiers streets sugar syndicate TENTH REGULAR thing thousands tion tobacco told town troops United Vedado Vuelta Abajo Weyler Wilson women women in black Wood
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Página 40 - That the United States hereby disclaims any disposition or intention to exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction, or control over said island except for the pacification thereof, and asserts its determination, when that is accomplished, to leave the government and control of the island to its people.
Página 220 - March 3, 1899, directed that no property, franchises, or concessions of any kind whatever shall be granted by the United States, or by any military or other authority whatever, in the island of Cuba during the occupation thereof by the United States.
Página 307 - That field is freedom of speech, freedom of the press, the right of peaceable assembly, the right of petition, the right of trial by jury, and the right to worship according to the dictates of our own consciences.
Página 204 - For many years it was a case of every man for himself and the devil take the hindermost — and the devil did take a number of the hindermost.
Página 365 - ... great prospective wealth in this commodity can be formed, provided Cuba is successful in finding favorable foreign markets. In short, it is perfectly apparent, as has been elsewhere stated, that under such conditions Cuba can easily become the greatest sugar-producing country in the world. TOBACCO. Second only in importance to the sugar industry in Cuba is that of tobacco, in the cultivation of which upward of 80,000 people are employed. Unlike sugar cane, the tobacco plant is indigenous and...
Página vi - Harper, por. il., 8°, $2.50. Most of the chapters of this book appeared in a series of articles printed in Harper's Weekly early in 1899, but it has seemed best to supplement them with others giving a fuller account of what took place in Cuba in the first sixty days of American occupation and control. The contents include chapters on: Havana under American military rule; The Cuba of...
Página 49 - We are willing to give the United States complete control of every kind, except political annexation. You may annex us commercially — that is what we want ; but we also want independence — in name at least.
Página 315 - Put the idle people who are now reading the incendiary press to work, relegate to a back seat the politicians, whose present importance rests solely on the attentions they are receiving from our people, and they will not have followers enough left to give them the slightest importance or weight in the community. Agitators have tried to stir up the people of...
Página 290 - If there was any fault to be found with him, it was the glorious fault of doing too much.
Página 302 - Wood declared over his own signature that the city was "as healthy as any city of its size in the United States, excepting, perhaps, for the constant presence of malaria.