THE CUBA REVIEW. 



17 



Cuba's Trade in 1907. 



The annual report of the department 

 of hacienda for the fiscal year_ of 1906-7, 

 just issued, contains some interesting 

 data. 



Of Cuba's imports the United States 

 supplied only 49 per cent. The United 

 Kingdom, 14 per cent, other American 

 countries, 9 per cent; Spain, 8 per cent.; 

 Germany and France each 6 per cent, 

 and the balance scattering. 



Exports: United States, 88 per cent.; 

 United Kingdom, 4 per cent.; other 

 countries, 8 per cent. 



Other countries are doing business 

 with Cuba which the United States 

 should have. Reliable merchants, con- 

 suls and others have often said that it 

 is not so much a matter of price and 

 quality, but rather the indifference and 

 obstinacy of the American manufacturer 

 which hinders the expansion of the 

 United States trade in the island. 



Importations of Food Products. 



Value of some importations of farm 

 and forest products during 1905, 1906, 

 1907, by the United States from Cuba 

 are as follows: 



1907 

 $93,702 

 33,380 

 346,615 



1905 



Beeswax .... $24,006 



Honey 57,918 



Cattle hides.. 44,046 

 Packing house 



products . . 123,465 



Cocoa shells. 259,720 

 Chocolate and 



cocoa 260,965 



Bananas ....1,437,952 

 Prepared 



or preserved 



fruits 19,687 



Cocoanuts . . 254,374 



Onions 21,860 



Total vege- 

 tables.. . . 



Mahogany . . 



Other cab- 

 inet woods. 



Lumber, 

 boards, etc. 



Other wood. 



112,854 

 88,500 



1906 

 $48,120 



26,239 

 152,191 



232,019 

 160,258 



162,541 

 959,628 



280,764 



302,478 



6,206 



93,654 

 120,201 



438,567 

 445,178 



448,545 

 1,273,826 



27,466 



262,822 



10,226 



149,565 

 187,011 



368,058 452,060 986,679 



158,091 194,959 

 615,349 767,237 

 Figures from report of the U. 

 of Agriculture, Jan. 12, 1909. 



331,878 

 1,507,484 

 S. Dept. 



Telephone girls in Havana, says La 

 Lucha, receive $30 silver per month work- 

 ing every day, Sundays included. To per- 

 mit of the maintenance of an active sub- 

 list no girl is allowed to work more than 

 22 days, with a corresponding decrease in 

 wages. 



Cuba Trade With New Orleans. 



Exports to Cuba through New Orleans 

 during 1908 were about half the volume of 

 exports during 1907 ; and imports from Cu- 

 ba through New Orleans during 1908 were 

 about one-third of the volume of 1907. The 

 end of commercial relations between New 

 Orleans and Cuba will soon be reached un- 

 less something is done to increase the fa- 

 cilities for handling commerce between New 

 Orleans and Havana, said the Cuban Consul 

 at New Orleans, recently, to a Pecayune 

 representative. 



Last year New Orleans shipped only $2,- 

 146,103, as against $3,596,740 in 1907, and 

 $3,273,600 in 1906. In articles imported from 

 Cuba in 1906 there were $5,993,534 worth; 

 in 1907, $6,976,855, and in 1908 only $1,- 

 962,161. 



Cargoes from New Orleans to Havana in 

 1906 amounted to 69,1/1 tons; in 1907, 75,- 

 813, and in 1908, 54,946. Cargo from Hav- 

 ana, in 1906, 9.883 tons: in 1907, 14,928, 

 and in 1908, 8,055. 



Methodist Church Changes. 



The Methodist Church in Cuba, accord- 

 ing to Bishop Warren A. Candler, has 

 more than 3,000 members. The changes 

 in pastorates made at the annual meeting 

 in Matanzas Jan. 20 are as follows : 



Rev. E. E. Clements fromi Havana to 

 Cardenas. 



Rev. S. A. Neblett from Matanzas to 

 Havana. 



Rev. H. B. Bardwell succeeds the for- 

 mer in Havana. 



Rev. H. W. Baker from Havana to San- 

 tiago. 



Rev. W. G. Fletcher from Santiago to 

 Matanzas. 



Rev. J. T. Redman will continue in 

 charge of the work on the Isle of Pines, 

 and Rev. J. R. Lancaster will remain at 

 Camaguey. 



The steamship Oteri, running between 

 Santiago de Cuba and Jamaica, was with- 

 drawn January 11, and th? Aviles, former- 

 ly of the Herrera line, substituted. 



Demetrio Castillo, a Cuban, will be ad- 

 mitted to the West Point Military Acad- 

 emy by virtue of a joint resolution of Con- 

 gress January 14, suspending the provi- 

 sions of the Revised Statutes making for- 

 eigners ineligible. 



Mrs. Tomas Estrada Palma, widow of 

 the late President of Cuba, has decided 

 to return to Central Valley, Orange Coun- 

 ty, to spend her remaining days. Mrs. 

 Palma said the happiest days of her life 

 were spent in that village. 



