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General Brooke Succeeded by General Leonard Wood--Favorable Reception of the Soldier-Statesman--A Cabinet of Cubans--Efficient Attention Paid to Public Education--Cuban Teachers at Harvard--Caring for Derelict Children--Public Works--Sanitation--Port Improvements--Roads--Paving--The Heroic Drama of the Conquest of Yellow Fever--Work of General Gorgas--A Home of Pestilence Transformed into a Sanitarium--Reforms in Court Procedure--Cleaning Up the Prisons--The First Election in Free Cuba--Rise of Political Parties--Taxation and the Tariff--Increase of Commerce.