THE CUBA R E A' I E W 



GENERAL NOTES 



CUBAN PHARMACISTS PROFITS 



Dr. Erancisco llerrara, secretary of the 

 Havana Pharmaceutical Association, at- 

 tended the October meeting in New York 

 of the American Pharmaceutical Associa- 

 tion and made an interesting address. He 

 spoke of the catalog of uniform prices he 

 had introduced in Cuba — all pharmacists 

 selling" patent medicines at one price, a 

 law having been passed to that effect. 

 This regulation, however, does not apply 

 to prescriptions, and the profit to the 

 pharmacist is not in prescriptions, but in 

 the patents, a condition quite the contrary 

 here. A profit of not less than eight per 

 cent is realized on all patents. Dr. Her- 

 rara's remarks proved highly interesting 

 to the members and he was accorded a vote 

 of thanks. 



LABOR TROUBLES 



Workmen in a chocolate and biscuit 

 factory at Ceirba recently went on strike. 

 Their demands were that they be given 

 wine with their meals, that the cook be 

 discharged, that employees with families 

 be paid some monej- on account every 

 Saturday, that suitable dormitories be 

 provided for employees and that seven 

 employees who were discharged on ac- 

 count of promoting the present movement 

 be reinstated. 



The emploA'ers resist their demands. 



A general movement is being made over 

 Santa Clara Province on the part of the 

 government telegraph operators for a gen- 

 eral increase in their salaries. 



THE CUBAN CHESS CHAMPION 



So eager are the chess players of the 

 Latin races to bring about a meeting for 

 the world's championship between Jose R. 

 Capablanca of Cuba, winner of the San 

 Sebastian tournament, and Dr. Emanuel 

 La.sker, the title holder, that Buenos Ayres 

 has come forward with an offer of $5,000 

 for the winner and $2,500 for the loser, 

 if such a match were played in the Argen- 

 tine Republic. 



Eor the second time Dr. Lasker has de- 

 clined to meet Capablanca and his reason 

 is unique. If play takes place in a Span- 

 ish speaking country, says he, "national 

 sympathy" will lean heavily in favor of 

 Capablanca. Another reason, and one not 

 quite so shadowy, is the fact that the 

 advantage of the choice of environment 

 will be with the 22-year-old challenger, 

 instead of with the defender of the title. 



A fine home in Havana has been pre- 

 sented to the Cuban champion. 



CLEANING HAN'ANA S HARBOR 



Capt. T. L. Huston, president of tlie 

 Cuban Ports Company, which has the 

 contract to deepen the harliors of Cu!)a, 

 while in New York recently gave the 

 newspapers some interesting facts regard- 

 ing the difficulties surrounding the clean- 

 ing out of the harbor of Havana. He 

 said that the harbor of Havana has been 

 filling up with silt for literall}^ hundreds 

 of j-ears. Every rain washed more ma- 

 terial into it. The city's sewerage has 

 been at least in part discharged into it 

 or dumped from barges not too far out 

 at sea, so that the material washed back. 

 The waters of the harbor contain 253 

 wrecks, of all sizes and ages. That is, 

 that number has been charted. There may 

 1)6 more. Every one of them is a peril 

 to navigation and every one is a nucleus 

 around which the process of silting up the 

 harbor proceeds vigorously. There has 

 never been an effort made to remove any 

 of these wrecks. Condemned vessels in 

 the old days were taken into the harbor 

 and scuttled. No one ever thought of 

 taking them out to sea. To-day vessels 

 of light draft, which are able to enter 

 the harbor proper, have to pursue a nar- 

 row and tortuous course, because of these 

 wrecks and the harbor shoals. 



So that Cuba is just going to dig up 

 that harbor and wipe it dry and put it 

 back again. It is estimated that not less 

 than 26.000.000 cubic yards of mud will 

 be dredged out. The harb(-)r will be 

 dredged from 26 to 30 feet deep, and here 

 and there even deeper, to permit the big 

 freighters to get in and rub noses with 

 the docks. 



Work on the cleaning of the harbor of 

 Santiago will begin sometime this month, 

 but will be finished before the work in 

 Havana harbor is complete. 



The nlans include the removal of the 

 Punta Diamante, extra dredging at Punta 

 Gorda and the removal of the Colorado 

 shoals. 



EPISCOPAL CHURCH GROWTH 



Speaking of missionary work being done 

 in Cuba, the Very Rev. Charles Colmore 

 Dean, dean of the cathedra!, said in a ser- 

 mon preached November ^•^th at Nashville, 

 Tenn. : 



'Tn 1905 the work was undertaken by 

 the Episcopal Church in a definite sys- 

 tematic way. Since then the work has 

 increased amazingly. When Bishop Knight 

 first went there he found only two clergy- 

 men in the field. The church now nuii- 

 isters to three classes of i^eoiile in Cuba. 



