THE CUBA REVIEW 



At a recent meeting of tlie board of di- 

 rectors of the Krejewsky-Pesant Company 

 of Havana, Mr. Adolfo B. Horn was 

 elected president. This company operates 

 a large foundry and machine shops as well 

 as the Havana Dry Docks Company. 



Mr. and Mrs. Ramon O. Williams, the 

 latter now 85 years of age, celebrated on 

 December 23d at their home in Brooklyn, 

 N. Y., the fiftieth anniversary of their 

 wedding. 



Mr. Williams is well known in Cuba, 

 having been the vice-consul for ten years 

 and consul-general for twelve years more. 



Fred Morris Dearing, former secretary 

 of the American legation in Havana, and 

 later secretary at the American embassy in 

 London, was appointed assistant chief of 

 the Latin America divison of the State De- 

 partment in Washington. 



A counterfeiting plant was recently dis- 

 covered on the Prado of Havana, with a 

 complete output of dies for making Amer- 

 ican dollar gold pieces, of which there 

 had been many in circulation during the 

 last few months. 



The siun of $8,000 was voted by Havana's 

 City Council on December ISth to Mr. 

 George M. Bradt for the publication of a 

 special edition to attract tourists. 



A resolution involving the appointment 

 of twenty-eight secretaries, one for each 

 of the city fathers, was killed at the same 

 meeting. 



Captain Frank Parker, Eleventh Cavalry, 

 United States army, and instructor to the 

 rural guard of Cuba, has bought a com- 

 plete regulation American pack train, he 

 having received orders from Major General 

 Monteagudo to organize this service along 

 the lines of the United States army. He 

 brought back with him a pack master who 

 was in the United States government serv- 

 ice at Fort Riley. 



The resolutions recently passed by the Na- 

 tional Coimcil of Veterans, which were sent 

 in the form of a circular letter to all the 

 delegations, orders all veterans to join with 

 the bandits which have been troubling some 

 sections of Camaguey Province. 



The editor and printer of a newspa])er 

 of Cienfuegos were recently fined $100 each 

 for printing an alleged immoral article. 

 Not content with this, the court also fined 

 the owner of the premises where the publi- 

 cation was printed, $50.00, although he 

 had no other connection with it. 



On January 1st nearly 11,000 poor chil- 

 dren, counting among them 4,000 from the 

 public schools of Havana, received toys and 

 books of fairy stories, as a present from 

 the well-known publication "Bohemia," 

 which arranged this feast to celebrate the 

 New Year. 



United States Senator Jonathan Bourne, 

 Jr., of Oregon, buys each year the entire 

 supply of a certain brand of tobacco in 

 Cuba and has the cigars made up accord- 

 ing to his own plans and specifications. 



After the year's yield at the Cuban 

 plantation has been made into Bourne's 

 Favorites, the cigars are all shipped to 

 New York, where an expert tobacconist 

 keeps them in cold storage, with just the 

 right amount of moisture, and from New 

 York they are sent to Senator Bourne, a 

 few boxes at a time. 



The Cuba Athletic Club went down to 

 its first defeat in football on December 

 31st at Havana, before the visiting eleven 

 of the Mississippi College of Agriculture 

 and Mechanics. The event was much one- 

 sided to have any interest in the first hall, 

 the locals having made a better effort in the 

 other half, but it was then too late, the 

 score resulting to 11 to in favor of the 

 visitors. 



An auto fire engine is now part of the 

 fire department equipment of the enter- 

 prising city of Santa Clara. It is an up- 

 to-date machine with all improvements. 

 At its public inspection, it was named 

 "America Arias," in honor of the wife of 

 President Gomez. 



At a dinner given January 1st to its 

 employees by the Cuban Telephone Com- 

 pany, the statement was made that the 

 company has now 8,325 telephones in 

 operation and that long distance 'phones 

 are working from Cienfuegos to Santo 

 Domingo and Sagua all in Santa Clara 

 Province and that communication will soon 

 be established between the cities of Santa 

 Clara and Havana. 



The first woman to fly in Cuba was Miss 

 Delphine Bradt,, daughter of Mr. George 

 M. Bradt, the Havana Post publisher, who 

 went up twice on January 1st, in the ma- 

 chine piloted by Aviator Walsh at Camp 

 Columbia, her second trip being entirely 

 successful. 



The petition of Frederick M. Van der 

 Woort, the manager of the trolley line in 

 Camaguey, to construct new lines in that 

 city has been granted. 



Indiana manufacturers to the number of 

 130 will make a business trip through the 

 South and to Cuba, leaving Indianapolis 

 towards the end of February. 



President Gomez has appointed Sr. 

 Manuel Gutierrez Quiros, of Sagua la 

 Grande, to be the new secretary of the 

 treasury, to succeed Dr. Rafael Martinez 

 Ortiz, who resigned recently. The new 

 secretary is president of the Carahatas 

 Sugar Company, owning several sugar 

 mills in Santa Clara. 



