| Show AS DALZELL SEES CUBA Congressman Dalaell has recently been to Cuba The Washington correspondent corre-spondent of the Press interviewed him on his return and sends to his paper an Interesting statement He declared that Havana has been transformed under un-der American administration and that the improvements are almost incredible Incredi-ble Dalzell was in Cuba two years ago and he says at that time ho was I afraid to walk through tho streets of I Havana on account of their filthy condition con-dition that a person was subject to infection on even the best of the thoroughfares tho-roughfares He says today the streets are as clean as those of Washington and that Havana Is one of the cleanest cities of which he has any knowledge Again the beggars have disappeared from the streets When there before cripples exhibited their deformities and cores and the starving recited their woes and appeals were continually made to the strangers pity and charity In the two weeks of his visit he did not see a single beggar The sick and afflicted af-flicted are all in hospitals and the poor are at work earning their bread He attributes the change to the mag nlflcent administration of American officers Hq Is enthusiastic his Admiration Ad-miration of the remarkable ability displayed dis-played in Cuba by our regular army officers and Bays they have shown a celerity in dealing wjth civil and municipal mu-nicipal affairs little suspected of men educated for the trade of war He In greatly Impressed by the work MaJ Creble who has charge of the charities the hospitals industrial schools etc His accounts arc all open and every penny can be traced Ho says the educational edu-cational progress has been most remarkable re-markable Of the 1500000 inhabitants of Cuba onethird are children between be-tween the ages of 5 and 17 years One half tho population under 17 years of age In the schools both English and Spanish are taught The children arc apt pupils and tho schools are well attended He says further that the masses of the people of Cuba are not worrying1 about politics Peace and quiet have been restored to the Island and the people are busy planting crops building houses and attending to their own business He believes tho businessmen business-men and wealthy citizens are almost to a man in favor of the Platt amendment amend-ment and are urging the Constitutional Constitution-al convention to accept It and the only critics of the amendment arc the politicians poli-ticians and they are not half ns much worked up as arc the antladmlnistia tlon newspapers in the United States He thinks Gen Wood amost remarka ble man that he has a accomplished that it Is possible for a man to accomplish accom-plish and that he Is very much loved I In NL Cuba Ho adds that there arc mll Hono of capital awaiting the settle mont of government affairs In Cuba and his general general Idea of the whole island and of the progress of affairs la most rosy |
