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"The outlet of the outfall lies about three 

 quarters of a mile east of the enlranco 

 to the harbor, and within the current of the 

 Gulf Stream, that passes this point at the 

 average rate of four miles per hour. The 

 sewage is thus carried away from the 

 harbor and out to the sea. 



"The siphon under the harbor is a 7-foot 

 internal diameter, concrete-lined, shield- 

 driven tunnel. The tunnel through Cabatia 

 Hill is generally in rock. The outfall lies 

 in a trench cut into the exposed coral 

 rock that here forms the shore line." 



Chief Engineer McComb, the govern- 

 ment's supervisor of the sewering of the 

 city, resigned January 3d, because, he says, 

 of the endless obstacles and annoyances 

 from which he has suffered. President 

 Gomez appointed an official of the Depart- 

 ment of Public Works to fill the vacancy 

 temporarily. 



Mr. McComb was appointed under the 

 terms of the decree issued by provisional 

 Governor Magoon authorizing the sewer 

 contract. 



TO BE SUNK AT SEA 



February 15, 1912, that is to say, the 

 fourteenth anniversary of the day the bat- 

 tleship "Maine" was blown up in the harbor 

 of Havana, is the day selected to float the 

 after part of the wreck, by means of the 

 construction of a bulkhead forward and 

 the flooding of the caisson. The section of 

 the hull will then be towed out into the 

 Atlantic and sunk with appropriate cere- 

 monies. A battleship convoy will be pro- 

 vided. When the historic vessel, the de- 

 struction of which precipitated a modern 

 war, sinks beneath the waves for the sec- 

 ond and last time naval funeral salvos 

 will be fired. 



The shattered forward part of the 

 "Maine" will have to be cut to pieces bit 

 by bit. 



Requests for cannon from the wreck 

 from a dozen Ohio towns have been re- 

 fused by the officials at Washington. The 

 urgent deficiency bill recently passed by 

 the United States Senate forbids the sale 

 of any part of the "Maine," and provides 

 for its burial at sea. The bill also author- 

 izes the secretary of war to give "some 

 portion of the wreck" to the Republic of 

 Cuba, for incorporation in a public monu- 

 ment, to be erected in Havana. 



In accordance with the action of the 

 United States Congress in giving to the 

 Cuban government a portion of the wreck 

 of the battleship "Maine" for a monument 

 to be erected in Havana, the Cuban secre- 

 tary of public works selected the after 

 turret and the guns in it. The topmast 

 of the battleship is to go to Pittsburgh by 

 request of the citizens. 



■ DO NOT PLAY BRAINY BASEBALL 



"Cubans," said Mr. John McGraw, mana- 

 g r of the New York Giants, on his return 

 from Cuba, "are only fair ball players. 

 They are as fast as lightning on the bases 

 and they can throw to beat the band. They 

 have picked up all the knacks of fielding, 

 but they cannot bat. 



"Not only that, Init they do not play 

 what we call brainy baseball. Very little 

 attention is given to brainwork on the dia- 

 mond. They perform the manual part of 

 the game very well, but the keen, crafty 

 headwork we see in the game here is 

 missing. They know nothing about 'in- 

 side ball,' and we were able to out-trick 

 them most of the time. In an opposing 

 pitcher they look for speed, and, usually, 

 they hit a fast ball, but when they try to 

 solve the mysteries of a curve they churn 

 the air very aggressively. 'Matty's' fade- 

 away was a great puzzle to them and they 

 were at a loss to find the ball when he 

 sent over the slow drop. 



"But I must say a good word," said Mr. 

 McGraw, "about Mendez, the Cuban 

 pitcher. He is a fine pitcher, sure enough, 

 with as fast a ball as you'd see anywhere. 

 He burns it over like a rifle ball and de- 

 pends entirely on his great speed. We 

 found it, however, even if it was traveling 

 at a fast clip." 



The Giants made the most successful in- 

 vasion that has yet been made against the 

 Cuban teams. Detroit managed to finish 

 ahead in a series with the islanders last 

 year, but their victory was far from being 

 as decisive as that scored by the New 

 Yorkers. Twelve games were played, six 

 against the Havana team and six against 

 the Almendares. The Giants won nine of 

 the twelve games, taking five from the Ha- 

 vanas and four from the Almendares. 



This record has earned them a great 

 deal of popularity, and they are generally 

 considered the greatest aggregation of ball- 

 players in the world. Their efforts to play 

 hard and win have been appreciated by the 

 Cubans. 



A peculiar Cuban trend is that Monday 

 is one of the big baseball days of the week. 

 Games in Havana are played only upon 

 Sunday and Monday, when from 10,000 to 

 15,000 shell out the price at the ticket win- 

 dow and then bet their socks off upon 

 every turn of the game, says the Chicago 

 luterocean. 



It finds also that the tempermental and 

 peppery islander doesn't stop at betting 

 upon the score. His coin goes up on every 

 hit and put-out made, covering each play 

 from the first base hit to the final out in 

 the ninth. 



The first colored religious organization 

 in Cuba was that of the Paptist denomina- 

 tion in Havana January 7th. 



