THE CUBA REVIEW 



19 





United States Hospital on Hospital Key, Guantanamo, Cuba. 

 Hospital en la bahia dc Guantanamo. Cuba. 



REAL ESTATE SYNDICATE AT WORK 



It is stated by Havana papers that a 

 realty company which has been incorpo- 

 rated" in the United States nnd in which 

 Cuban capitalists are interested purposes 

 to buy several large buildings in Havana 

 such as the Carcel and Audencia at the 

 head of the Prado, the Senate building on 

 O'Reilly Street, the buildings devoted to the 

 Departments of State and Justice, the old 

 Santo Domingo convent on O'Reilly Street 

 and several others, paying the government 

 $7,000,000 for all these properties. 



As an indication that progress has been 

 made in the preliminary negotiations, it 

 is stated that a commission has been ap- 

 pointed to appraise all these holdings. The 

 syndicate agrees furthermore to build in 

 another part of Havana such suitable 

 buildings as may be required to house the 

 departments which will be forced to give 

 up their present quarters. 



Andrew E. Maynelo, consul at Savannah, 

 Georgia, for the republic of Cuba, died 

 suddenly July 15th, following an illness 

 that had lasted only through the day. He 

 was 60 years of age, and had been a resi- 

 dent of Savannah for forty years, coming 

 direct from Cuba, from which he escaped 

 as a political prisoner. 



Mr. Maynelo was of an old and distin- 

 guished family in Cuba and was a cousin 

 of General Menocal. 



Francisco Pons, the wholesale shoe mer- 

 chant of Cuba, succumbed to an attack of 

 heart disease July 13th during a business 

 visit at Boston. 



MAST OF THE MAINE 



Bearing the mast of the ill-fated battle- 

 ship "]\Iaine" which was removed after she 

 was raised from the harbor of Havana, the 

 United States naval collier "Sterling" ar- 

 rived at the Naval Academy August 7th 

 from Governor's Island, New York. The 

 mast is to be erected in a conspicuous spot 

 within the government reservation. 



Courtmartial proceedings against a vol- 

 unteer captain, three lieutenants, three ser- 

 geants and three privates, on the charge of 

 killing four volunteer soldiers in Oriente 

 Province, came to an end July 14th. 



Sentence of death was passed upon them, 

 but the president has made it imprisonment 

 for life. One hundred and sixty-two 

 women of Camaguey pleaded for executive 

 clemency. 



At the dinner given on July 27th by the 

 Havana City Council and the merchants 

 of Havana to General Monteagudo and the 

 soldiers who comprised the victorious army 

 in the late Oriente negro uprising, over 

 2,500 officers and enlisted men sat at tables 

 arranged in the walks of Central Park in 

 Havana. The enlisted men occupied tables 

 arranged on the outer rim of the park 

 while the officers and civilian guests sat 

 at tables near the Marti statue, which occu- 

 pies a prominent place in this beautiful 

 park. 



J. T. McCall, 60 years old. of Chicago, 

 secretary and treasurer of the Turiguano 

 Island Land Company with headquarters 

 at Moron, Camaguey, died suddenly in Ha- 

 vana July 18th. 



