THE CUBA REVIEW. 



Philaletists generally will 



Ncii< be interested in the announce- 



Ciiban ment that a new issue of 



Stamps. Cuban postal and telegraph 



stamps is contemplated for 



January 1, 1910. 



Portraits of Cuban patriots will appear on 

 the new stamps, according to the plan pre- 

 pared by Director of Post and Telegraphs 

 Orencio Nodarse. 



The new issue will be in two colors and 

 of the usual size stamps in present use, 

 which bear the Columbus photo, and the 

 Cuban palms will be discarded. 



The one-cent stamps will be dark green 

 and black, and bear the portrait of General 

 Bartolome ]\laso. The two-cent stamps will 

 be read and dark green and will show the 

 photo of General Maximo Gomez. The 

 three-cent stamps will be of violet and dark 

 blue and carry General Julio Sanguily's pic- 

 tur. The three-cent stamp will be blue and 

 brown and show the features of General 

 Ignacio Agramonte. The eight-cent stamp 

 will be of blue and lilac and will have the 

 photo of General Calixto Garcia. The ten- 

 cent stamp will be extra large, bearing two 

 ovals and will be sepia and green. In the 

 right oval the photo of General Juan Bruno 

 Zayas, brother of Vice-President Zayas, will 

 appear. On the left oval will be seen a mes- 

 senger mounted on a bicycle. Besides the 

 usual script of "Republica de Cuba," the 

 ten-cent issue will have the words "imme- 

 diate delivery." The ordinary ten-cent 

 stamp will be of orange and light blue. It 

 will bear the photo of General "Mayia" 

 Rodriguez. The fifty-cent stamp of black 

 and lilac will have the photo of General 

 Antonio Maceo, and finally the dollar stamp 

 of black and yellow will have the picture of 

 General Carlos Roloff. 



Stamped envelopes will also be put in use 

 again. These envelopes will be of small 

 and large size and of one, two and five-cent 

 denominations. The stamps will bear the 

 likenesses of General Sorain Sanchez, Col- 

 onel Enrique Villuondas and Joaquin 

 Aguero, the Camagueyan patriot. 



Under orders of Dr. Matias 

 Vaccination Duque, Cuban Secretary of 

 in Cuba. Sanitation, Dr. Juan Geieteras 

 issued October 15 a circular 

 ordering the local health office to pro- 

 ceed with the work of vaccination and 

 revocation. Vaccination is to be made 

 on all persons in the first year of life, 

 who have not been previously vacci- 

 nated, the operation to be repeated at 

 the end of ten years. All persons who 

 were never before vaccinated are also 

 included, and those that were vaccinated 

 six years ago. All vaccine which does 

 not take must be repeated at the end 

 of two months. 



According to reliable in- 

 Hon. Edicin formation obtained, the 

 Morgan Hon. Edwin V. Morgan* 

 to Remain. United States minister to 

 Cuba, will return to Ha- 

 vana within a short time, again to re- 

 sume his diplomatic duties, says the Ha- 

 vana Post. This news is contradictory 

 of the reports issued from Washington 

 recently that General Upham had been 

 mentioned to replace Mr. Morgan, who 

 was to be given another post in the 

 service of the United States. 



Senor Salustio Garcia 

 Public C o r d e r o , Inspector of 

 School Schools of the Province of 

 Education. Camaguey, Cuba, was re- 

 cently on a visit to Phila- 

 delphia and other cities, and made a tour 

 of the public schools. Interviewed re- 

 garding public education in Cuba in re- 

 cent years, he said yesterday: 



"Cuba's present system of public 

 schools began under the American inter- 

 vention, but has reached its present high 

 state of efficiency under self-government. 

 The administration of President Gomez 

 is bending its best efforts toward educa- 

 tion. 



"We have in Cuba 200,000 children of 

 school age. Under the Spanish Colonial 

 Government barely 20,000 went to school. 

 Now we have 150,000 children attending 

 school, and in three or four years every 

 child of school age will be under instruc- 

 tion. The teaching of English is com- 

 pulsory. New buildings are being put 

 up in all the provinces. There are now 

 3,600 public schools, which are absolutely 

 free to all. Some of the teachers are 

 Americans, but most are Cubans. In the 

 sections where there are large American 

 populations special schools are built for 

 them and paid for by the Cuban Govern- 

 ment. 



"The building of normal schools for 

 the training of teachers will be the next 

 step in Cuba's educational progress. 

 Our teachers now are good, but we want 

 the best. We will adhere to the Amer- 

 ican system. There are already special 

 schools for manual training, cooking and 

 sewing." 



A committee of the board 



Improve- of navigation, headed by 



mcnfs President Julio Blanco 



JJ^anfed. Blanco Herrera, petitioned 



President Gomez on Octo- 



l)er 14 for improvements- at the Luz 



wharves, and an extension to the Paula 



wharf in Havana. The committee also 



presented a board resolution asking the 



rescission of an old military order which 



establishes dockage charges. 



