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Yacht club headquarters on Cardenas Harbor at El Veradero. The scene is of mid-summer 

 racing activity when crowds visit this well-known resort. 



Edificio principal del Club de Yates en el Puerto de Cardenas en El T^aradero. . Es un luyar de grandes 



regatas durante los meses de verano, adondc acude un inmenso gentio a visitar 



este sitio vcranicgo tan conocido. 



churches in Oriente Province. Attached 

 to the churches are schools, and these 

 schools have been attended by children of 

 both races, usually heretofore without 

 prejudice to either. Reports received by 

 the Baptist Home Mission Society show 

 that chapels at La Alaya and at Jorahucca 

 have been burned, not by military forces 

 l)ut by marauders and malcontents. Bap- 

 tists in eastern Cuba alone have fifty-four 

 churches. The Episcopal Church has work 

 in nearly all parts of the island, with a 

 cathedral at Havana, and a considerable 

 educational .system that has headquarters 

 in Guantanamo. 



Cuban's daughter fights will 



Surrogate Cohalan of New York County 

 appointed on July 17th a referee to ascer- 

 tain whether Paul Fuller and Joseph Man- 

 dremi, as executors of the estate of Tirso 

 Mesa y Hernandez, used due diligence to 

 have placed in their hands property of the 

 estate to which a daughter of the testator 

 now lays claim. H the executors erred 

 the referee will also be required to report 

 the amount with which they should be sur- 

 charged. 



Mesa y Hernandez was a Spaniard, who 

 lived in Havana, where he was killed in 

 1908. He left a wife, two sons and a 

 daughter, the latter a Vassar student. 

 Under the Spanish law, a wife inherits 



one-half of the estate which her husband 

 acquired after his marriage. When Mesa 

 y Hernandez married, in 1881, he had prac- 

 tically nothing, but when he died his estate 

 atnounted to $1,092,896. His will left his 

 wife an income of only $300,000. Mrs. 

 Mesa y Hernandez brought an action in 

 the Cuban courts, and was granted one- 

 half the estate. 



It develops that Mesa y Hernandez in 

 1901 in New York became a citizen of the 

 United States. A special guardian ap- 

 pointed for the daughter has objected to 

 distribution under the laws of Cuba, con- 

 tending that the laws of New York State 

 should apply. Surrogate Cohalan was in- 

 clined to the opinion that the property was 

 not subject to the law of the place of 

 domicile. 



LEGITIMATE AND ILLEGITIMATE BIRTHS 



Of the 4.6.53 births registered in the re- 

 public during the month of April, 3,668 or 

 78.83 per cent were white and 98.5 or 21.17 

 per cent were colored. 



Of the white births 3,150 were legitimate 

 and 518 illegitimate; of the colored births 

 431 were legitimate and 554 illegitimate. — 

 Statistics of the Cuban Health Department. 



A telegraph office for public service has 

 been established at MafYo, Oriente Province. 



