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THE CUBA REVIEW. 



FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL MATTERS. 



Spaniards to have his letters translated 

 by some one whose native tongue is 

 Spanish, rather than by some person who 

 has simply studied the language. 



Mr. Warren E. Harlan, Consul General 

 of Peru at Habana. 



The Consul General of Peru at Habana, 

 Mr. Warren E. Harlan, was born in Iron- 

 ton. Ohio, in 1870, and in 1897 he was ap- 

 pointed Attache to the United States Lega- 

 tion at Lima, Peru, in September of that 

 year, an office he held until September, 1902, 

 at which time he was transferred from the 

 State Department to the Department of Jus- 

 tice, and served with the Spanish Treaty 

 Claims Commission in Cuba, from March, 

 1903, until July, 1904, when he tendered his 

 resignation in order to engage in business 

 in Havana. Mr. Harlan is now the Havana 

 representative of the Cuban- American Sugar 

 Sugar Company and resides in the Vedado. 



Mr. Warren E. Harlan was appointed 

 Consul General of Peru at Habana, October 

 30, 1907, and the government he represents 

 appointed him Special Envoy to represent 

 Peru at the recent inauguration of Presi- 

 dent Jose Miguel Gomez, January 28, 1909, 

 upon the restoration of the Cuban Republic. 



Proper Translation Necessary. 



Frederic J. Haskin finds that one of 

 the amusing things about the nicety with 

 which the manufacturer has to handle 

 his Spanish or Portuguese correspondent 

 is the fact that the American is scarcely 

 able to write a letter that can be trans- 

 lated to suit him. The English is such 

 a direct language that a thought literally 

 translated from it into Spanish will often 

 give ofifense to the punctilious Castilian; 

 so that it has become advisable for the 

 exporter who seeks trade relations with 



Cuba for the twelve months ending De- 

 cember 31, 1908, shows a decrease of $20,- 

 000,000 in her imports. — Official figures of 

 the U. S. Bureau of Statistics. 



INDUSTRIAL NOTES. 



The Baldwin Locomotive Works. 



Notices under date of July 1, 1909, have 

 been sent out by the Baldwin Locomotive 

 Works, calling attention to the dissolution 

 by mutual agreement of the firm of Burn- 

 ham, Williams & Co. Its entire property 

 and interests in the locomotive business 

 have been bought by the Baldwin Locomo- 

 tive Works, which also assumes all its assets 

 and liabilities. The officers of the new cor- 

 poration are as follows : John H. Converse, 

 president ; William L. Austin, vice-presi- 

 dent ; Alba B. Johnson, vice-president and 

 treasurer; Samuel M. Vauclain, superinten- 

 dent ; William De Kraaft, secretary and as- 

 sistant treasurer. 



The capital of $20,000,000 which the firm 

 has hitherto had invested in the business 

 will be the amount of the capital stock of the 

 new company. No stocks or bonds will be 

 placed on the market. 



The property of the company comprises 

 the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Phila- 

 delphia, with a large branch at Eddystone, 

 Pa., the two having a combined capacity of 

 2.650 locomotives per annum. The same 

 company will also own the Standard Steel 

 Works Company, manufacturers of steel 

 tires and rolled steel wheels, steel and iron 

 castings, forgings and springs, located at 

 Burnham, Mifflin County, Pa. The business 

 was founded by Matthias Baldwin in 1831. 



The Pratt Engineering & Machine Co., 

 of Atlanta, Ga.. which was organized last 

 January to acquire the properties and busi- 

 ness of the Fulton Foundry & Machine 

 Works, and which has been preparing to 

 continue the work of its predecessor in sugar 

 machinery, fertilizer works and sulphuric 

 acid works machinery field, has opened of- 

 fices for Cuba and Porto Rico in Lonja Del 

 Comercia, No. 509, Havana, Cuba. This 

 office will be under Mr. W. A. Parsons, 

 as manager for Cuba and Porto Rico, who 

 has lived in Havana for a number of years 

 and is well known. All parties _ interested 

 who may be visiting Cuba are invited to call 

 at the company's office and meet Mr. Par- 

 sons, who will be glad to assist them in any 

 way he can. 



