Show am americans aid yr haiti na ift progress IN Fr ogress navy officers report on work accomplished in 1922 as showing success port au prince haiti the technical skill the energy the intelligence and the hard work of certain officers of the american navys navy all are being expended in the interests of the island of haiti 11 alti and its people and the year 1922 was one of peace and progress ss much was accomplished and the work Is still going on under american leadership the americans are teaching the haitians Hait ians to help themselves they are to personnel so that they may eventually ds displace place all foreigners in island administration operation cooperation co between the two elements to this end undoubtedly Is making headway early this year the american neada heads of departments made reports on the results of their labors in 1022 1922 to john IL II russell the american high commissioner tor for haiti covering activities in t the he sanitary service bervice in ore protection in police work in public works such as irrigation road building and communications in the better lighting of the coasts of haiti and in increased shipping epidemics checked the so called prison disease which in the old regime claimed chained 1800 1300 out of an everage of 2 1 MO piTso prisoners ners has been reduced to tile the baull P point in 1922 the percentage of de in the prisons was the death rate d the gendarmes gen darmes numbering 2414 list hai fians fell to the rate of per thousand the completion of the intensive campaign against smallpox assures the prevention of its spread for several years and the recent severe ept de demic m ae of olerine cb a tonn form of bacilla dysentery sen tery has been largely wiped out that the haitians HaItIan Hait ians 3 are responding in greatly increased number to tha free opportunities of american surgical and medical treatment to Is evinced by the fact that in the year applied for treatment ES as compared to for the preceding year five tree free dispensaries dispensa ries were opened in interior sections where medical facilities were nonexistent for a radius of several miles the gendarmes gen darmes have been enczur aged in field and track sports basketball baseball soccer and boxing to their physical improvement all gendarmes gen darmes in addition to theli military training ere receiving a tree free grammar school course that has en cou raged enlistment and caused favorable comment among the haitians Hait ians foi the first time in its history every man in the gendarmerie gendar merie merle has been thor thon hughly instructed in rifle practice and the contests held have developed marksmanship ot of a surprisingly high quality the regulation of all vehicle traffic and the registration of foreign era were assumed by the gendar merle merie in the closing months of the year port au prince Is now protected against disastrous fires through the recent completion of a salt water high pressure system the equipment of the capitals fire fighting forces now comprises two modern chemical end and equipment motor trucks anil and a recently acquired american horse drawn engine in which the firemen resplendent in crimson shirts and brass helmets race to the bros the department of public works hat has oper operated atod irrigation service in three ol of the leading plains where agriculture la 11 almost wholly dependent upon irrigation made preliminary investigations investigation of other needed irrigation projects and determined that fully acres ol of nt it present unproductive productive land in the great plain of the Arti bonIte era are capable of irrigation road construction Construct lon spreads work has begun on a 15 mile stretch of road that when completed will cut the present time of travel by auto mobile between the capitals of halt and nd santo domingo from three day to one the new road wll will run brov las to commendador on the santo domingo border there are today DW kilometers of 0 rond road in operation jpe ration throughout the r republic e ab forty bridges will vill be erected lit 1 inland I 1 cal P points eints where traffic has been impossible possible Irn in the rainy seasons A iw v boyc year ur program for new road con M ruction h lias is been approve approved d bort au brince now tins has a new au am ti it system which will 10 e extend extended to care for SW subscribers e r pole e elines 1 lines for a distance of 0 1500 kiam kilometers e 1 era were maintained in 1921 f for I 1 haitian alan I 1 telegraph service the figures tor for last year show sho that eti r ei Tires h traille increased 26 per cent and the telephone traffic doubled the lowered cost of operation and main teminie w was as 17 per cent baur vaur 1 fiur new automatic lashing hashing acety iene type of lighthouses with will a fisl bality of nf 10 16 miles have been placed it ir comin commission isslyn in the past year these thes to the lighting of til 11 inglr coast lluc formerly re girled ird fd by men as the vins mosi stretch of coast in the indle have riven given haiti eight excil excel lent lighta |