THE CUBA REVIEW 



ALL AROUND CUBA 



INTERESTING NEWS NOTES REGARDING VARIOUS MATTERS PERTAINING 



TO THE ISLAND 



Earthquakes sliook the city of Santiago 

 dc Cuba on Novemljcr 28th and two more 

 on the following day. Much alarm was 

 caused, but no damage reported. 



Three men of Patchogue, Long Island, 

 have gone to Culia to open up a typical 

 American moving picture theatre. 



On November 32d, President Gomez 

 signed the bill passed by Congress author- 

 izing the creation of 150 more school 

 rooms throughout the island. 



Captain Philip Sheridan Golderman, 

 U.S. .A., who for the last two years has 

 been instructor in coast artillery to the 

 Cuban army, has been appointed director 

 of the military academy recently established 

 at Cabaiia fortress. This is a military 

 school for the instruction of officers of 

 the coast artillery and infantry of the "per- 

 manent army." 



The Cuban navy, when completed, will 

 comprise the following vessels: Cruiser 

 "Cuba," 2,200 tons; schoolship "Patria," 

 1,750 tons ; flagship "Hatuey," 538 tons ; 

 "Baire," 500 tons; "Yara," 339 tons; 

 "Twentieth of May," 141 tons ; "Enrique 

 Villuendas," 132 tons; "Twenty-fourth of 

 February," 208 tons; "Oriente," 150 tons; 

 and "Tenth of October," 208 tons. The 

 vessels will aggregate 6,166 tons and 1,000 

 men. 



The notorious bandit Solis has kidnapped 

 two youths, the son and nephew of a rich 

 planter of the name of Alvarez, living 

 near Camaguey. and has demanded $15,000 

 ransom. 



The new drinking fountain, which was 

 recently given by the National Humane 

 Alliance of New York to the city of Ha- 

 vana, costs about $800. It will be installed 

 in the Plaza de San Francisco, one of 

 the places where a fountain is most needed, 

 because through it hundreds of mules and 

 horses pass daily, many of them coming 

 from long distances in the country with 

 heavy loads, and returning with still 

 heavier ones. 



The president has signed the bill admit- 

 ting the fountain free of duty. 



The construction of an important high- 

 way in Santa Clara Province is proposed. 

 The road in question is one which starts 

 from Santa Clara and runs north to Cala- 

 bazar de Sagua and which when finished 

 will be a part of the central highway from 

 Sagua la Grande to Cienfuegos, reaching 

 clear across the province. 



The question of the two-wheeled carts 

 has been one that has troubled Havana 

 for years. From time to time the city 

 council has nxcd periods for them to be 

 retired from traffic, without, however, 

 meeting with much success, and the great 

 wagons are still a nuisance in the city's 

 narrow streets, l)locking all traffic for the 

 time being. The three-year extension ob- 

 tained by the Cart-owners' Union to allow 

 the two-wheeled carts to be removed, ends 

 this month, and the association is now 

 working for a further extension. 



The American government lias asked the 

 Cuban government for information regard- 

 ing the depth of water in the bay at Puerto 

 Padre. Two steamers have grounded re- 

 cently in this bay, and the testimony given 

 by both captains tends to show that the 

 hydrographical maps in the possession of 

 the United States government are incorrect. 



A survey made immediately after the 

 Spanish-American war gave much deeper 

 water for Puerto Padre bay than now. 



President Gomez has preferred charges 

 of libel recently against three orators, 

 citizens of Remedios. Santa Clara Prov- 

 ince, who at various political meetings ner- 

 mitted their denunciation of the adminis- 

 tration to pass the limit of the law. The 

 cases will he pushed. 



The director of the boys' reform school 

 at Guanajay, Pinar del Rio Province, has 

 been charged with employing the inmates 

 on his private farm. The Department of 

 Sanitation has ordered an investigation. 



The Havana Board of Health is pre- 

 paring to supply typhoid fever vaccine to 

 any one wdio wishes to guard against 

 typhoid fever. It will be manufactured in 

 the National Laboratory. 



The aviators of the United States navy, 

 who have been conducting a series of tests 

 with difl'erent types of flying machines at 

 Annapolis, Maryland, for the last three 

 months, will leave for Santiago, Cuba, 

 about January 1st, where further tests will 

 be made during the winter. 



A new department to be known as the 

 Foreign Information Bureau is to be added 

 to the Cuban Department of State. Its 

 business will be to keep the government 

 informed of the trend of opinion regarding 

 Cuba-i matters, as shown in the foreign 

 press or reported by the different consuls 

 and ministers, and also to answer them 

 and prove the falsity when untrue. 



