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THE CUBA REVIEW 



ALL AROUND CUBA 



INTERESTING NEWS NOTES REGARDING VARIOUS MATTERS PERTAINING 



TO THE ISLAND 



There is a scarcity of Havana's water 

 supply latterly hardly explainable, as the 

 Vento Springs yield daily enough water to 

 supply a city of twice Havana's population. 

 Says La Liicha editorially on i'ebruary 21st, 

 "Just what is now happening has never 

 occurred before. Whole districts in the 

 city, not to say the whole of the town, 

 is left without this precious liquid during 

 hours when it is absolutely necessary, 

 causing much bother and trouble to fami- 

 lies residing in the city. Water is not 

 to be obtained at cooking hours, and the 

 sanitary services are converted into focus 

 of infection, all dangerous to public health. 

 At some of the houses water is only ob- 

 tained during the night hours, and the 

 amount obtained is so little, that it is not 

 sufficient." 



Leading American citizens of Havana 

 gave a testimonial banquet on March 12th 

 in honor of Major Harely B. Ferguson, 

 corps of engineers. United States army, 

 engineer in charge of the work in Havana 

 harbor of raising the battleship "Maine." 



La Lucha sees in the scarcity of water in Havana 

 the usual "chivo" (goat), which in Cuba is 



synonymous with graft. 



EL PUBLICO: — Todos se quejan del mal servicio 



del agua .. . . iSe prapapara alguna nueva com- 



binacidn con el canal de Vento? 



The new officers of the Cuban National 

 Horticultural Society elected at the Feb- 

 ruary meeting are as follows : 



President, J. E. Roberts, of Bartle. Vice- 

 president, for Havana Province, H. G. 

 Gocio ; for Pinar del Rio Province, E. C. 

 Goetz, of Herradura; for ]\Iatanzas Prov- 

 ince, C. E. Peck, of Itabo; for Santa Clara 

 Province, A. E. Doering, of Manacas; for 

 Camaguey Province, W. W. Travis, of 

 Minas ; for Oriente Province, E. C. Peir- 

 son, of Omaja; for the Isle of Pines, Capt. 

 J. A. Miller, of Santa Ana. Secretary, 

 Charles A. Beatty, of Havana. Treasurer, 

 E. W. Halstead, of Los Palacios. 



The Ward Line Steamship Company will 

 establish its own agency in Havana instead 

 of being represented by the banking house 

 of Zaldo and Co., as has been the case for 

 many years. The new agency will be in 

 charge of W. H. Smith, who has been con- 

 nected with the house for years, both in 

 New York and Havana. 



Stephen Decker, for many years known 

 to all Colorado, including eastern tourists 

 who spend the summer months on the 

 South Fork of the Platte River, as the 

 owner of Decker's Springs summer resort, 

 is leaving Colorado for good. He is about 

 to sell his Colorado resort, buy a tract of 

 land in the Isle of Pines and spend his re- 

 maining days in that summery spot. — Den- 

 ver (Colo.) Post. 



Some United States officials, among 

 them being Walter L. Fisher, secretary of 

 the interior, and Frank H. Hitchcock, 

 postmaster general ; Baron Hengelmuller 

 von Hengarvar, Austrian ambassador to 

 the United States ; Count Moltke, Danish 

 minister to the United States, and Mrs. 

 Nicholas Longworth arrived at Santiago 

 on March 1st on board the "Prinz Eitel 

 Friedrich," from Colon, after a visit to the 

 Panama Canal. 



They were welcomed by the civic and 

 port authorities and later visited Havana. 



In New York on March 5th, Justice 

 Gavegan of the Supreme Court granted 

 permission to the Benevolent Society of 

 Divine Providence to dissolve. This 

 charity was incorporated shortly after the 

 Spanish war to care for Cuban orphans. 



Mr. Herman Upmann has been elected 

 president of the German Club in Havana. 



Congress on February 17th enacted a 

 divorce law. 



