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CUBANS OF TO-DAY 



Gonzalez de Mendoza in Havana. There 

 he served as clerk, but was not able to 

 practice in his own name because he was 

 unwilling to take the oath (of loyalty) 

 required in the Courts as a prerequisite. 

 Afterwards he got his living for a time by 

 giving lessons in private houses, but turned 

 his attention to literature acting as the sole 

 editor of Dr. Enrique J. Varona's magazine, 

 the Revista Cubana, and later of Hojas 

 Liter arias which he founded in 1893. 



During the War of Independence, 1895- 

 98, Colonel Sanguily emigrated with his 

 family to the United States, returning at its 

 close to act as a member of the Assembly 

 of Santa Cruz which appointed him to the 

 Commission which went, with Major 

 General Calixto Garcia at its head, to 

 Washington to obtain aid for the Cuban 

 forces so that they might have the means 

 of existence when they disbanded. In 

 1901 he began his career as a public man 

 when he was made a member of the Con- 

 stitutional Convention for the Province of 

 Havana. Later he held the offices of 

 Director of the Institute of Havana; Sena- 



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