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THE CUBA REVIEW 



GENERAL NOTES 



TAKING PICTURES IN CUBA 



The general impression which one gets 

 of lights and colors in Cuba is always sug- 

 gestive of what is known as the impres- 

 sionist style in art. Everywhere are bright 

 ■colors; the verdure is of the most vivid 

 green, the sea is the brightest crystal blue, 

 the sky is clear and the sun shines with 

 a. brightness which no one who has never 

 visited the tropics can imagine. But to 

 give an idea of the intensity of the sun- 

 light, we will relate an experience with 

 photography. We carried during our visit 

 on this occasion a 4x5 Poco camera. In 

 and around Boston, or, rather, New Eng- 

 land, we would use the largest, or the 

 next to the largest stop, with exposure 

 according to the light. In the tropics we 

 found that nine times out of ten the pic- 

 tures would be over exposed and spoiled 

 if we did not use the smallest stop and 

 speed the exposure up to one five-hundredth 

 or one-thousandth of a second. A gentle- 

 man from New York, who had an ex- 

 pensive camera, and who had the stop 

 timed to one-fiftieth of a second, using 

 the smallest stop, lost every picture by 

 over exposure. Unfortunately, we had a 

 plate camera instead of one carrying films. 



Wishing to develop some pictures while in 

 the West Indies, we chose the night as the 

 coolest portion of the twenty-four hours. 

 Now, ice, of course, was not obtainable 

 anywhere, but we procured as cool water 

 as possible in which to wash the plates, 

 but many of the pictures were ruined 

 because the gelatine film slid off the glass, 

 either entirely into the bath or enough so 

 that the film was wrinkled, which also 

 ruined the picture. 



CHURCH WORK IN CUBA 



The chief Protestant bodies of this 

 country having missions in Cuba are the 

 Baptist North and South, the Episcopal, 

 and the Methodist South, says the Pater- 

 son (N. J.) Chronicle. The earliest there, 

 even before the political freedom of the 

 island, were the Baptist South and the 

 Episcopal. The growth of Protestant 

 work in the island, among white and black 

 both, has been steady and along educational 

 lines largely. 



Baptist North work was early projected 

 in Santiago and the extreme east, and sup- 

 ported by Americans through Baptist 

 churches here are a large Baptist church 

 in Santiago itself, and several smaller 



(Courtesy of Our Dumb Animals. Boston) 



The new Ensign fountain in Havana, the gift to the city from the National Humane Alliance 



of New York. Another may be placed in Central Park in the same city. 



La nueva fucnte Ensign en la Habana, donativo hecho a la ciiidad por la National Humane .Alliance'. 



de Nueva York. Probablcmentc se colocard otra en el Parquc Central en dicha ciudad. 



