THE CUBA RE\^IEW 



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A Xew Jersey motor construction com- 

 panj' has shipped to Santa Cruz, Cuba, a 

 motor boat 3() feet long and S feet beam, 

 which will tow lighters carrying sugar 

 during the harvesting season and rafts of 

 mahogany at other times. Much of this 

 trip is in the exposed waters of the Gulf 

 of Guacarmabo, and as the boat will also 

 be used in carrying light freight and pas- 

 sengers from Manzanillo and Santa Cruz 

 and return, power, seaworthiness and 

 speed combined are demanded. 



Where there are shallow harbors and 

 freight and passengers have to be lightened 

 to the shore, a reliable fast little motor 

 boat will be found indispensable. 



At the election, recently, of officers of 

 the Cuban Horticultural Society in Cama- 

 guey, the following were chosen : 



President : Dwight W. Dart, La Gloria ; 

 Senior Vice-President and Treasurer : 

 Walfredo Rodriguez, Camaguey ; Vice- 

 President for Oriente Province : Thomas 

 R. Towns, Holguin ; Colonial or District 

 \'ice-Presidents : Angus Campell, Holguin : 

 Edward Moss. Paso Estancia ; John J. 

 Xeustel, La Gloria ; L. Rose, La Atalaya : 

 E. J. Sharon, Camaguey City ; Secretary : 

 Eli Shore, La Gloria. 



Cnited States Minister to Cuba, Arthur 

 ]\1. Beaupre, sends the following :- 



The Compahia Franco-Cubana de P^erro- 

 carriles y Construcciones, capital stock 

 $100,000, has been organized in Havana 

 for constructing a tunnel under Havana 

 harbor and a 4^L>-mile railroad from the 

 other shore to Cojimar. The object is 

 to boom real estate on the northern side 

 of Havana Bay. 



The Xew York Women's League for 

 Animals has established a newspaper, 

 called the Animal Nezi's, and has appointed 

 as its manager and editor Mrs. Edgar Van 

 Etten, the wife of the president of the 

 Cuba Eastern Railroad. 



According to a cable to the Xcic York 

 Sun, boats of the Spanish-Cuban Steam- 

 ship Line will no longer call at Lanzarote, 

 one of the larger Canary Islands, for 

 onions for the Cuban market. The in- 

 habitants, whose sole occupation is raising 

 onions, are thus deprived of a profitable 

 market. 



A Trinidad firm has commenced the 

 manufacture of chocolate creams of sev- 

 eral flavors, and the product compares 

 favorably with the best imported. Success 

 seems assured, as it would be also if a 

 similar industry were started in Cuba. 

 Like in Trinidad, sugar and cacao are 

 largely produced and the cost can be kept 

 at a low figure. 



It is stated that good prices for the home- 

 made confectionary were secured. 



The Marconi Wireless Telegraph Com- 

 pany of America plans for the erection of 

 a high power station near New York City, 

 which will communicate south, through 

 Cuba, to Panama and all South-Amercian 

 countries. 



Laborers on the wharves at Cardenas 

 struck March 1.3th, demanding $1.80 Amer- 

 ican money for wages. They receive at 

 present $1.00 Spanish, worth about 97 cents 

 American currency. 



Provincial governments are demanding 

 more money. Unless this is forthcoming, 

 they say, it will be impossible for the 

 provincial organizations to continue. 



Modern sanitary regulations have for- 

 bidden the use of the picturesque old 

 "tinajon" in Camaguey, and the residents 

 of that old city must make connection 

 with the mains of the new aqueduct for 

 their drinking water. 



The "tinajon'' is a massive earthenware 

 jar made on the island and big enough for 

 AH Baba's purposes. They have been used 

 from time immemorial for the storage of 

 rain water. One finds them in almost 

 all houses. 



rinajones in Camaguey, used for storing rain- 

 water. 



Howard Gould, recently in Havana, was 

 served with a suinmons and charged with 

 breaking Cuba's maritime health laws be- 

 cause his yacht "Niagara" arrived April 

 1st from Jacksonville without the Cuban 

 consul's certificate of health. 



Captain Gabrielson of the yacht settled 

 the matter by paying a $.50 fine on April 4th. 



The sugar central "Angelita" in Ma- 

 tanzas was destroyed by fire on March 

 22d. The mill was situated at Vilalba, 

 municipality of Marti. It is of Cuban 

 ownership and its output averaged 30,000 

 bags annually. 



Frank S. ]\Ielvin, manager of the Bank 

 of Nova Scotia branch in Cienfuegos, died 

 in that city March 14th. He was a victim 

 of typhoid fever. 



