TRE L L E S 



the newspaper organ of the revolutionists 

 then published in New York, contributing 

 to its columns between eighty and a hun- 

 dred propagandist articles, not ceasing 

 meantime to contribute regularly to the 

 pages of Cuba y America, the magazine 

 which his compatriot Raimundo Cabrera 

 was publishing in the same cause in the 

 same city. 



In 1898, at the close of the war, Trelles 

 returned to Cuba and organized in his 

 native town the Public Library of Matan- 

 zas of which he was the first librarian. It 

 began with two thousand volumes and he 

 was able when, at the end of ten months, 

 he turned it over to his successor to deliver 

 thirteen thousand volumes a thing with- 

 out parallel in the history of Cuban 

 libraries. 



In 1900 he was selected to collect and 

 organize the products and characteristic 

 objects of the Province of Matanzas for 

 exhibition at the Paris Exposition. He 

 met with such a measure of success in this 

 that he was commissioned to organize the 

 Cuban section in the Exposition and was 



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