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THE CUBA REVIEW. 



All the American profes- 

 New sors and the Director-General 



Experiment of the Estacion Experimen- 

 Staiion tal Agronomica at Santiago 

 OMeers. de las Vegas were recently 

 dismissed and their places 

 filled by Cubans, with exception of Mr. 

 Home, who is an American and who retains 

 his office. The official list of the new work- 

 ers follows : 



Sr. Ramon Garcia Oses, Director-Gen- 

 eral. 



Sr. Jose G. Courct, Vice-Director. 

 Sr. J. E. Pagliery, Second Director. 

 Dr. Emilia L. Luaces, Chief Veterinary 

 Department. 



Dr. Diego V. Tejeda, Chief Chemical 

 Department. 



Dr. Antonio Ponce dc Leon. Cliief Bo- 

 tanical Department. 



Sr. William T. Home. Chief Depart- 

 ment of Plant Pathology. 



Sr. Eduardo H. Lamsfus, Chief Depart- 

 ment of Horticulture. 



Sr. Ricardo Poldo y Hcrrada, Chief Me- 

 chanical Department. 



It appears likely that there 

 Agytculfural will be government super- 

 and vision over future agricul- 



Indusfrial tural and industrial fairs in 

 Exhibitions. Havana, and that the Agri- 

 cultural Department will 

 control, eliminating any city council or 

 carnival committee. 



Permanent buildings, the property of the 

 government, are contemplated for future 

 exhibitions, and while next winter's fair 

 may be held at Palatino Park, it is prob- 

 able that a site out of the city, permitting 

 of ample space, will be taken, on the Prin- 

 cipe and Cerro trolley lines. Secretary of 

 Agriculture Foyo has the matter under 

 consideration. 



acted of the United Fruit Company by the 

 Cuban government was the appointment of 

 a government inspector over the station, to 

 be paid by the United Fruit Company. Fie 

 will not be the operator, and will remain 

 there only to give the station an official 

 character. 



The Cuban government is also given free 

 use of the station at any time it desires it, 

 and in case of necessity may assume com- 

 plete control over it. 



Work on the wireless tele- 



Thc Cape graph .station at Cape San 

 San Antonio Antonio, belonging to the 



Wireless. United Fruit Company, the 

 concession for which was re- 

 cently annulled by a decree of President 

 Gomez, has been resumed, all difficulties 

 having been removed. 



The concession for placing the wireless 

 station on Cape San Antonio was granted 

 the United Frui^ Company by Governor Ala- 

 goon. It is to be used as a relay station 

 between Panama. Honduras and other Cen- 

 tral American stations, relaying messages 

 to New Orleans, Key West, or even Jupiter, 

 on the coast of Florida. It is the present 

 policy of the administration to control the 

 wireless business in Cuba. 



It is learned that one of the terms ex- 



La Discusion printed July 

 Yellow 4 a telegram from New 

 Eever York that there was pub- 



Reports. lished a sanitary report af- 

 firming the prevalence of 

 yellow fever in Cuba. In reply the govern- 

 ment supplied the press with an extract 

 from Major Kean's letter to Secretary of 

 Sanitation Matias Duque on Cuba's sanitary 

 conditions. 



Major Kean states that he is willing to 

 prove that Cuban sanitary conditions are 

 far better than at any of the southern 

 ports of the United States, and calls it sheer 

 arrogance on his fellow countrymen's part 

 to think Cuban sanitation will not improve 

 except under .\merican rule. 



The feature of the celebra- 

 Colors tion of the Fourth of July in 

 Given to Havana was the presentation 

 Cubans. at Camp Columbia to the 

 newly organized Cuban army 

 of stands of colors purchased by popular 

 subscription by the American colony in 

 Cuba under the auspices of the Havana 

 Post. The ceremony was attended by Pres- 

 ident Gomez, his cabinet, many members 

 of Congress and 10,000 spectators. 



The colors were presented by twelve Am- 

 erican girls to twelve Cuban boys, who 

 handed them to the color guards of the 

 various regiments, which paraded before 

 the President, the bands playing the Am- 

 erican and Cuban anthems. 



\ stirring presentation address was ma-'e 

 by Albert Wright, president of the Ameri- 

 can Club. Gen. Faustina Guerra, Com- 

 mander-in-Chief of the army, responded. 



Former Governor Charles 

 Cuba's E. Magoon in Paris, early in 

 Prosperity. June, continued his optimis- 

 tic utterances on Cuba's fu- 

 ture. He said: "As in the United States, 

 prosperity is spreading throughout Cuba. 

 with it. President Gomez is an able rnan. 

 He has the mastery of the political situation, 

 and is quite able to overcome the difficul- 

 ties bred by factional dissension." 



Mr. Magoon would not discuss the debt. 



