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"ALL A1U)UT CUBA" 



Copyright, 1916, by the Munson Steamship Line 



Volume XV 



DECEMBER, 1916 



Number 1 



CUBAN GOVERNMENT MATTERS 



SUBSIDY FOR PROJECTED RAILWAY 



The President of Cuba signed a decree on 

 November 16 granting the Compania del 

 Ferrocarril del Norte de Vuelta Abajo a sub- 

 sidy ot $G,000 per kilometer ($3,650 per mile) 

 for the construction of a railway connecting 

 the city of Pinar del Rio and the port of 

 Esperanza on the north coast, with a con- 

 necting branch to La Palma. It is reported 

 that the company will begin work at once. 



The new railway will traverse a rich agri- 

 cultural and mineral section, including the 

 valley of Vinales, whose scenic beauty has 

 alwaj^s been a source of admiration to trav- 

 elers in western Cuba. Vinales, the port 

 of Esperanza and La Palma, are now con- 

 nected with the provincial capital city of 

 Pinar del Rio by a splendid highway, over 

 which an automobile-bus service is afforded 

 twice daily. 



This railway will also traverse part of the 

 lowlands of the celebrated Vuelta Abajo 

 district and the "Lomas" or hill country, 

 where the best tobacco of the world is grown. 



CUBAN FRUIT SEEDS 



Alberto F. Hevia, the Cuban consul in 

 Marseilles, France, has reported to the state 

 department the use of acids of seeds of agua- 

 cate and mamey, two well known Cuban 

 fruits, in the manufacture of toilet soap. 



MINISTER TO MEXICO 



Sr. Ramon Pio Ajuria has been designated 

 Minister of Cuba to ^Ie.\ico. 



CUBAN CITIZENSHIP 



It is stated by the State Department that 

 a great many immigrants have recently been 

 granted Cuban citizenship, in one month 

 the number amounting to 1,800. 



STOCK BREEDING STATION 



The authorities of Cienfuegos have offered 

 to the Cuban Government a plot of land 

 to be devoted to the establishment of a 

 government stock breeding station, and the 

 matter is now being considered by the 

 Department of Agriculture. 



INTERNATIONAL HEALTH COMMISSION 



Dr. Juan Guiteras, head of the Cuban Pub- 

 lic Health Service, reached New York Dec. 11 

 in company with other members of the Inter- 

 national Health Commission, headed bj' Major 

 General Wm. C. Gorgas from South America 

 after a two months trip up the Amazon and 

 in Northern Brazil, where they studied yellow 

 fever and other tropical diseases. The Com- 

 missionstopped at the principal cities and towTis 

 on the banks of the .Amazon and in Northern 

 Brazil, examining the patients in the hospitals 

 and making records of the diseases spread 

 by the fever-breeding mosquito. 



Other members of the commission were Dr. 

 Henry R. Carter of the United States Public 

 Health Service, Dr. C. C. Lyster, Dr. Eugene 

 R. WTiitmore, Dr. Wm. R. Wrightson, who 

 will make their report to the Rockefeller 

 Foundation. 



