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THE CUBA REVIEW 



New Hospital Building at Cienfuegoi- 



MR. ELIAS PONVERT 



Mr. Elias Ponvert, President of the Hor- 

 migiiero Central, died at Magnolia, Mass., 

 early in August. Mr. Ponvert was in the 

 seventy-eighth year of his age and was one ot 

 the most prominent sugar planters in Cuba. 

 Mr. Ponvert had resided with his family on the 

 Hormiguero sugar estate, Cienfuegos, Cuba, 

 since 1878, spending all of his time there for 

 fourteen years. In 1892 he came to the United 

 States and traveled extensively. He also spent 

 much time in visiting places of interest in 

 Europe. 



The Hormiguero estate in Cuba has been 

 developed until it is now one of the largest in 

 production and most successful of all the 

 sugar estates in the Island of Cuba. During 

 the Cuban insurrection of 1895 and 1898, the 

 Hormiguero estate was one of the few sugar 

 estates which was operating, and this estate 

 was able to produce a full crop of sugar during 

 every year of the Cuban insurrection. 



Mr. Elie L. Ponvert, son of the late Mr. 

 Ponvert, will succeed him as president and 

 manager of the large and influential estate. 

 He is well qualified to undertake the adminis- 

 tration of this great property, after thirty 

 years of training and experience as superin- 

 tendent of the Hormiguero sugar factory and 

 assistant to the late Elias Ponvert. 



SAVANNAH SUGAR REFINING CO. 



The plant of the Savannah Sugar Refining 

 Company commenced operations July 2. 

 This factory has been under construction for 

 nearly a year. 



The corporation's refinery, which is located 

 at Port Wentworth on the Savannah river, 

 where the Savannah & Atlanta Railway has 

 an extensive terminal and warehouse prop- 

 erty, will have a capacity of 150,000 tons of 

 refined sugar annually, or about 1,000,000 

 pounds a day. 



Among the directors of the corporation, 

 in addition to B. A. Oxnard, the president, are 

 Henry T. Oxnard and Robert Oxnard, both 

 vice presidents of the American Beet Sugar 

 Company; James Imbrie of William .Morris, 

 Imbrie & Co., Xew York; .Mills B. Lane, 

 president of the Citizens and Southern Bank 

 of Savannah and John H. Hunter, president 

 of the Savannah & Northwestern Railway. 



COTTON PIECE GOODS 



Exports of cotton piece goods frona the 

 United Kingdom to Cuba during the first 

 nine months of 1916 and for the like period of 

 1915 and 1914 are thus officially given: 



January-September Vards 



1914 31,597,100 



1915 37,080,800 



1916 37,171,100 



