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SANTO DOMINGO. 



SCHLEY, WINPIELD SCOTT. 



558 feet, besides 352,670 pieces of timber. The 

 exports of coffee, cacao, and tobacco go to Eu- 

 rope ; those of sugar, logwood, lignum vitae, ma- 

 hogany, honey, wax, hides, and bananas to the 

 United States. The imports from the United States 

 are flour, lumber, kerosene, salt meat and fish, 

 canned provisions, dairy products, coal, also ma- 

 chinery and hardware, in competition with England, 

 Germany, and Belgium, and cotton goods in compe- 

 tition with England. Trade has suffered a severe 

 depression, owing to the decline in the prices of 

 sugar and coffee, the unstable paper and silver cur- 

 rency, and high duties on imports and exports. In 

 August, 1897, all customs duties were increased 3 

 per cent., and on April 1, 1898, they were raised 10 

 per cent. The export duty on sugar amounts to 25 

 cents a quintal. Many sugar estates are involved 

 in financial difficulties. The production of other 

 things is increasing and the quality of the products 

 improving. The development has been greatest 

 along the line of the railroad opened in 1887 be- 

 tween La Vega and Samana Bay, a distance of 60 

 miles. Another line, built by American engineers, 

 which connects the capital with Puerto Plata, on the 

 north coast, was completed in 1898. It is 45 miles 

 long, crossing two ranges of mountains, and affords 

 an outlet to some of the richest coffee and cacao 

 lands on the island. Immigration is encouraged by 

 the authorities, and has been large during the dis- 

 turbances in Cuba. The cultivation of bananas is 

 extending rapidly, and much American capital is 

 being invested. The public revenues are collected 

 by an American corporation, the San Domingo Im- 

 provement Company. The value of the sugar ex- 

 ported during 1898 was $2,463,906, all of it to New 

 York. The total imports of Dominican products into 

 the United States during 1897 were $2,369.424, and 

 the exports from the United States to Santo Do- 

 mingo were $1,098,635 in value. The number of 

 vessels engaged in foreign trade entered during 1897 

 was 344, of 364,609 tons, and of these 142, of 183,130 

 tons, were American. 



Attempted Rebellion. Taking advantage of 

 the popular discontent caused by the commercial 

 depression and of the financial difficulties both of 

 the Government and of the President, who had ad- 

 vanced $1.000,000 to the Government, Juan Jiminez, 

 in the beginning of June, 1898, attempted to start 

 an insurrection with the object of overthrowing 

 President Heureaux. Gen. Jiminez, once a mer- 

 chant in New York, was the founder of the flour- 

 ishing town of Monte Cristo and the originator of 

 extensive commercial enterprises covering the whole 

 of Santo Domingo. When he revealed political as- 

 pirations he incurred the jealousy of Heureaux, and 

 after participating in several revolutionary uprisings 

 he was compelled to reside abroad, settling in 1890 

 in Paris. Fitting out an expedition in the Bahamas, 

 he sailed in May, 1898, for Cape Haytien, and thence 

 to Monte Cristo. Gen. Garcia, who had the manage- 

 ment of the affair at that place, was not prepared 

 when Jiminez arrived unexpectedly on the American 

 steamer " Fanita." The Government, however, had 

 been warned in good time. Gen. Jiminez insisted 

 on making an attempt to capture the town with the 

 assistance of Gen. Garcia, Gen. Augustin Morales, 

 and only 11 men. They summoned the Governor, 

 who had 20 soldiers in his garrison, to surrender. 

 Instead of doing so, the garrison opened fire, killing 

 5 revolutionists. Jiminez escaped to his vessel, but 

 all his followers, save Garcia, were captured and 

 tried by court-martial, and all were shot except 

 his secretary, who turned informer. When Gen. 

 Jiminez returned to Great Inagua he was arrested 

 under the foreign enlistment act, and in the begin- 

 ning of August was tried before a jury at Nassau, 

 but was acquitted. 



SCHLEY, WINFIELD SCOTT, an American 

 naval officer, born in Frederick County, Maryland, 

 Oct. 9, 1839. He was appointed a cadet in the "Naval 

 Academy at Annapolis from his own State on Sept. 

 20, 1856, and was graduated in 1860. His seafaring 

 experience began with a voyage to Japan on the 

 United States vessel that escorted the Japanese 

 embassy home in 1860, and he remained abroad 

 until the beginning of the civil war. During his 

 service on the frigate " Niagara," in 1860-'61. it 

 captured the first prize ship of the war, the '-Gen- 

 eral Parkhill." In 1861 he was promoted to the 



WINFIELD SCOTT SCHLEY. 



rank of master, and was attached to the frigate 

 " Potomac" of the Western Gulf squadron at Ship 

 island. His promotion to a naval lieutenancy took 

 place July 16, 1862. He entered shortly afterward 

 upon a series of exciting experiences that culminated 

 in the capture of Port Hudson. This period ex- 

 tended from March 16 to July 9, 1863. At the be- 

 ginning of these operations," under the orders of 

 Admiral Farragut, he made the original reconnois- 

 sance leading to the attack upon Port Hudson. His 

 vessel, the '" Winona," on that occasion received 98 

 shells in her hull, and lost from 15 to 20 men. but 

 evaded capture. After the reconnoissance his duties 

 took him on board the " Monongahela " and the 

 " Richmond." He participated in all the engage- 

 ments, including service with a field battery. 



At the close of the civil war Lieut. Schley was 

 ordered to the Pacific coast. He was present at the 

 bombardment of Valparaiso and Callao by the 

 Spanish fleet. In 1865 he was instrumental in sup- 

 pressing an insurrection of Chinese coolies in tiie 

 middle Chincha island. In the following year lie 

 was promoted to lieutenant commander, dating 

 from July 25. In the same year he landed a for^e 

 at La Union, San Salvador, to protect American 

 interests while a revolution was in progress. Then 

 came a three years' term as instructor at the Naval 

 Academy (1867-'69). The next important eve it 

 recorded during Lieut.-Commander Schley's sij* 

 service was made in connection with a cruise in the 

 " Benicia," on the Asiatic station in 1871-'72. Dur- 

 ing that cruise he took part in the capture of Kore;.n 

 forts on Salee river, after two days' fighting, n 

 June, 1871. Under the Tai-Wen-Kun, ruler of 

 Korea, American survey boats were attacked n 

 Han river, and Commander Schley was sent with a 

 land expedition to chastise the Koreans. Betook 

 with him 650 men and 7 howitzers, and led this 

 force successfully to the capture of a fort that could 



