THE CUBA R E V I E W 



13 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Interesting News Items From All Parts of the Island. 



Isle of Pines News. Labor Notes. 



Following are the thermometer read- The longshoremen, workmen and boat- 

 ings as taken by T. B. Anderson for the men of the harbor of Cienfuegos want 

 seven days ending Friday, Feb. 12: eight hours to constitute a day's work. 



Hio-h Low -^^ committee interviewed the President 



Saturday 84 ll' ^^t). 14. He assured them that they 



Sunday '. 78 72 could count on his favoring the move- 

 Monday 75 70 ment, and that he would have their peti- 



Tuesd'av 78 74 ^'°''' brought to the attention of the 



Wednesday ....."....'.! ^! 74 70 legislature. 



Thursday 76 70 ^"^b. 15. President Gomez promised a 



Friday' 74 12 g'^'oi^^P of stevedores from Cienfuegos 



that he would send a message to Con- 

 Bids for supplies, etc., to reconstruct gress urging the passage of a bill limit- 

 the bridge across the Casas River at ing work to eight hours per day. 

 Nueva Gerona. The proposed improve- Peb. 14 the Diario de la Marine said 

 ment will, if carried out, constitute the that threatened strikes in Havana were 

 last effort necessary to put the Nueva probably inspired at thq instance of 

 Gerona-Santa Fe calzada in perfect order, labor unions, incited by annexationists. 

 — Isle of Pines News. It recalls that Samuel Gompers came to 



The Santa Fe-La Ceiba calzada has Cuba towards the end of 1906, shortly 



been accepted by the government in- after the provisional government started, 



spectors and found to be in every way and while in the city did not conceal his 



according to the specifications of the advocacy of making American control of 



government engineers. — Isle of Pines Cuba permanent r i -r, . 



^ ,^1 ® On March 4 the Captain of the Port, 



Col. Charles Aguirre, informed President 



Under the new schedule the steam- Gomez that a general strike of stevedores 



ship Veguero sails evjry Wednesday ^vas announced for March 8. He also 



evening from Batabano on the arrival g^id that the Stevedores' Union want the 



there of the train leaving Havana at steamship lines to pay for labor accord- 



5.50 P. M. Returning the Veguero leaves ing to tariff order No. 17. 



ivueva Gerona Friday mornings, arriv- ^ 



ing at Batabano during the afternoon 



in time to connect with the train for The Negro Problem. 



Havana. A traveler from Mexico in Cuba found 



The Cristobal Colon sails from Nueva m"ch difference in the population. Cubans 



Gerona, Isle of Pines, Sundays, Tues- bemg smaller and notably slenderer 



days and Fridays, at 4 P. M., and Jucaro than Mexicans Another difference he 



at 6 P M found was in the presence of the negro 



and the absence of the Indian. The 



For the island the Colon leaves Bata- negro is always a "problem"; the Indian 



bano Mondays, Wednesdays and Satur- in Mexico is not. The negroes in Cuba 



days on the arrival of the train leaving do not mix freelv with the whites. The 



Havana, Villanueva Station, at 5.50 P. M. race line is, to be sure, not drawn so 



sharply as in our own country. Yet the 



Rev. Fathers Casimer and Florencis, substantial white population of Cuba, the 



Cuban Carmelite priests, are now in indigenous Cuban people, in so far as 



Maryland studying the English Ian- there is such an element — the old resi- 



guage. They state that American Cath- dents — hold themselves firmly aloof from 



olics have located in Cuba to such an the blacks and the colored people. It is 



extent that it is imperative that some long since the stock was replenished 



of the priests come to the United States from Africa; and protracted residence, 



to learn the language in order that they race amalgamation, climatic conditions, 



can hear confessions. The Cuban Car- and perhaps original traits, have made 



melites speak words of praise for Amer- the prognathous, thick-lipped, kinky- 



ica and Americans, and think that when headed, burly type exceedingly rare. The 



all the Cubans have quieted down they mulattoes of various grades are very 



will thank God that the Americans have numerous, and have had much to do 



given them their help. — Catholic Mes- with the public affairs of the island. — 



senger, Davenport, Iowa. Nashville (Tenn.) Christian Advocate. 



