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MARIANAO RACE TRACK: Once more il is reported that the controlling inter- 

 est in iliis enterprise has changed hands, the latesl purchasers being given by the news- 

 papers ;is <'li;is. E. Stoneham and John J. McGraw, President and Vice-President of 

 the New York National League Baseball Oluh, who have just made a short business 

 trip here. It is understood that the operation of the track will continue about along 

 the same linos as heretofore, although it is expected thai considerable improvements 

 will be made to the present plant 



The opening day for the coming annual race meet has not yet been announced, 

 but presumably it will he the latter part of November, as in the past. 



CABLE ADDRESSES: ■ The Commercial Cable (Postal i and Western Union Com- 

 panies here announce that effective November 1st, all present registered cable ad- 

 dresses, both here and in the United States, will expire unless they are renewed at a 

 . cost of $2..~<i per annum for each such registered address. The main reason given 

 for this, as we understand it, is that there are a large number of cable addresses 

 registered with these companies, which are practically never used. Therefore, with 

 the idea of cutting them out and also to pay for the expense of maintaining all the 

 addresses in proper form, it is necessary to make the above charge. 



HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS: While the newspapers report a number of projects 

 for increased hotel accommodations in Havana, the only definite information we can 

 secure on this subject is that the large new building known as the Carrefio Building 

 on Marina Street, facing the sea between Havana and Vedado, originally built for 

 a garage and automobile showroom, will have several additional stories added to it 

 and will be transformed into a hotel, to be called Hotel Malecon, the intention being 

 to have it in operation by another season. 



It is also stated that the former Hotel Sevilla will again be opened up by New 

 York hotel interests and the building is being gone over now for this purpose. It 

 is further reported that New York capitalists will put up a large hotel on the former 

 site of the Centre Asturiano, which faces Central Park. The Hotel Miramar will 

 also again he in operation, after having been closed as a hotel for a few years past. 



SUBMARINE TELEPHONE BETWEEN CUBA AND THE UNITED STATES: 



Some time ago we reported the formation of the Intercontinental Telephone and 

 Telegraph Co., Musso System, for the purpose of establishing telephonic communica- 

 tion by means of a submarine cable between Havana and Key West. The public 

 was offered an opportunity to suhscribe to the stock, but we are unable to learn that 

 anything definite has been done towards putting this system in operation. 



On the other hand, the newspapers have just announcedthe organization of the 

 Cuban-American Telephone and Telegraph Co., with a paid-up capital of $2,000,000. 

 This company is formed by interests connected with the Cuban Telephone Co., which 

 has a monopoly of the telephone business in the Island of Cuba, and the purpose of 

 the company is the laying of a submarine telephone and telegraph cable, connecting 

 Havana with Key West and thence to New York, so that a direct service may be 

 had between these two cities. It is stated that the cables have already been ordered 

 from England and that the new service will he in operation within a lew months. 



EXPRESS-TRAIN SERVICE FROM HAVANA Rolling stock has been ordered. Trains 



WT „. will be made up of two first-class coaches, 



TO SANTIAGO DE CUBA . l ' 



one third-class coach, one diner, one sleep- 



The Bulletin of the Pan American er, and one baggage car. Trains will make 



Union states that the United Railways of fast time and if is calculated that the run 



Havana and the Cuba Railroad Company between the two points can be made in six 



have decided to establish an express-train hours less than the schedule maintained 



service from Havana to Santiago de Cuba*. by the mail train. 



