THE CUBA REVIEW 



17 



A Scene in Santiago. A pack train at rest near the old Cathedral. 

 Una vista en Santiago; mulos de cargo descansandose cerca al viejo Catedral. 



(Courtesy the Publicity League of Cuba.) 



Injurious Cheap Drinks. 

 In Havana there are any number of 

 cheap "gasiosas" and so-called refrescos 

 on the market which are sold at the 

 grocery stores for 2 and 3 cents a bottle, 

 and I understand that the factories sell 

 their products for as low as 30 cents a 

 case of twenty-four bottles. From the 

 very nature of things a pure soda-water 

 cannot be put up and sold at a profit 

 for 30 cents a case. Hence the need of 

 inspection of these "gasiosas" and soda- 

 waters, which inspection would prob- 

 ably result in showing a great many of 

 them to be unhealthy and injurious. 

 — W. B. Goodrich in the Havana Post. 



Clean Vaudeville Profitable. 



George B. Greenwood, manager of the 

 Empire Theatrical Exchange, said in 

 Havana recently to a Post representative 

 that he believed Cuba to be a wonder- 

 fully lucrative field for first-class vaude- 

 ville, run on American ideas. Good, 

 clean, honest vaudeville presented in the 

 right way would be appreciated by Cu- 

 bans after the questionable moving pic- 

 tures presented in the island for the 

 last two years. 



For Bravery in Action. 



Among the officers awarded medals of 

 honor for gallant conduct in action in 

 various places was First Lieutenant 

 James Robb Church, assistant surgeon, 

 First United States Volunteers Cavalry 

 (now major. Medical Corps), at Las 

 Guasimas, Cuba, June 24, 1898. In ad- 

 dition to performing gallantly the duties 

 pertaining to his position, voluntarily 

 and unaided he carried several seriously 

 wounded men from the firing line, to a 

 secure position in the rear, in each in- 

 stance being subjected to a very heavy 

 fire and great exposure and danger. 



For a Jewish Cemetery. 



The Jewesses of Cuba are endeavoring 

 to acquire consecrated ground for Jew- 

 ish burial, says the Portland, Oregon, 

 Jewish Tribune. Because the Jewish 

 community is small and the people of 

 small means, the ladies in the island are 

 appealing to the Jews of the United 

 States for aid. Up to now they_ have 

 been dependent upon the generosity of 

 the Catholic community to use their 

 ground. The hope for the cemetery is 

 that the bones of the dead Jewish sol- 

 diers and sailors scattered through 

 Cuba, and especially those who died 

 on the Maine, shall be reinterred in 

 hallowed grounds. The office of the 

 United Hebrew Congregations of Cuba 

 is at 6 San Rafael street, Havana. 



