The New-born CubaHarper & Bros., 1899 - 388 páginas |
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... sewer which runs directly under the Custom - house , and which had been one of the most deadly agents of infection in the city . Then came a dash in a carriage through the narrow streets of the older part of the city , past ware- houses ...
... sewer which runs directly under the Custom - house , and which had been one of the most deadly agents of infection in the city . Then came a dash in a carriage through the narrow streets of the older part of the city , past ware- houses ...
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... sewers running into the ocean or into the harbor were reeking . Nauseating odors filled the air , and the condition of the public buildings was such that the American army officers practically refused to occupy them . To illustrate the ...
... sewers running into the ocean or into the harbor were reeking . Nauseating odors filled the air , and the condition of the public buildings was such that the American army officers practically refused to occupy them . To illustrate the ...
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... sewers and water distribution , everything pertaining to public works under- ground ; a third bureau was for the inspection of build- ings , similar to such bureaus in most of our large cities ; a fourth had charge of temporary public ...
... sewers and water distribution , everything pertaining to public works under- ground ; a third bureau was for the inspection of build- ings , similar to such bureaus in most of our large cities ; a fourth had charge of temporary public ...
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... sewers , General Lud- low and Colonel Black were face to face with the biggest problem in Havana . It has been the general impression that there are no sewers in Havana . That is a mistake . There are nearly ten miles of them , some ...
... sewers , General Lud- low and Colonel Black were face to face with the biggest problem in Havana . It has been the general impression that there are no sewers in Havana . That is a mistake . There are nearly ten miles of them , some ...
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Franklin Matthews. The great problem was how , when , and by whom the sewers should be established . It was conceded that they must be built . The city was full of men who were look- ing for just such contracts . Colonel Waring had been ...
Franklin Matthews. The great problem was how , when , and by whom the sewers should be established . It was conceded that they must be built . The city was full of men who were look- ing for just such contracts . Colonel Waring had been ...
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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 duty early established February Fitzhugh Lee flag force funeral Garcia Gomez harbor Havana houses hundreds island of Cuba kind labor look Ludlow Major Davis Matanzas Matanzas province matter McCullagh ment merchants miles military occupation months Morro Castle night o'clock palace persons Pinar del Rio plaza police post-office postal postmaster Prado province railroad Rathbone reconcentrados Santa Clara SANTA CLARA PROVINCE Santiago seemed sewers side soon Spaniards stations streets sugar TENTH REGULAR INFANTRY thing thousands tion tobacco told took town troops United United States army Vedado Vuelta Abajo wanted Wilson women yellow-fever
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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.