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THE CUBA REVIEW 



PUNTA GURDA, BAY OF CIENFUEGOS. 



to discourage their use by fixing a maxi- 

 mum limit upon the weight to be carried 

 in one vehicle, and the gospel of wide tires 

 is being preached from one end of the isl- 

 and to the other. 



Churches on Plantations. 



Several of the great sugar estates have 

 made overtures to the effect that if a resi- 

 dent clergyman can be found for each es- 

 tate the companies will not only pay his sal- 

 ary, but also build a church at each place, 

 says the ^Milwaukee Living Church. Cha- 

 parra is the name of the largest of these. 

 It is regularly supplied with services, either 

 by the clergy or lay-readers and seminary 

 students. The ratio of the increase of com- 

 municants in this district is now said to be 

 greater than in any diocese or missionary 

 district in the United States. 



Home for Young Women. 



A good friend of the church in Cuba gave 

 to Bishop Knight last summer funds for 

 the purpose of establishing in Havana a 

 boarding house, which might afford young 

 women who' were earning their living in 

 the city the conveniences of a good home, 

 with proper associations, and at the lowest 

 possible cost. Apartments have been rented 



near the cathedral, with accommodation for 

 about twenty-six people. At present it is 

 being run at a loss, owing to the fact that 

 not all of the rooms are occupied, and con- 

 sequently the manager has been receiving 

 from time to time some tourists, in order 

 to relieve the financial situation. 



A New City. 



La Independencia of Colon, Cuba, in a re- 

 cent issue says that a resident and large 

 landowner named Heraclio Ochoa has sold 

 to a i\Ir. W. Shaw, representing an Ameri- 

 can syndicate, 800 caballerias, situated some 

 fourteen leagues from Moron in the barrio 

 of Punta Alegre. On eight to ten cabal- 

 lerias the purchasers design the beginnings 

 of a city and to build a sugar mill of the 

 proportions of Chaparra or Preston. 



Charles E. Magoon, formerly Pro- 

 visional Governor of Cuba, will leave 

 New York May 22 for Antwerp and will 

 spend about six months in Europe. 



Havana Customs Collection. 



April, 1909 $1,359,536.50 



1908 1,420,777.11 



1907 1,830,054.95 



