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THE CUBA REVIEW 



ALL AROUND CUBA 



INTERESTING NEWS NOTES REGARDING VARIOUS MATTERS PERTAINING 



TO THE ISLAND 



According to the Los Angeles (Calj 

 Examiner the Los Angeles Investment 

 Company may send a man to Cuba in a 

 few months, there to take charge of the 

 construction of many Southern California 

 types of bungalows to be built for a 

 wealthy resident of that island. 



Negotiations for plans and for the send- 

 ing of representatives of the company to 

 the tropical isle are being conducted, says 

 the Examiner, between the builder and the 

 building company by Dr. A. Macare y R., 

 vice consulado adscripte a la Legation de 

 Cuba at Washington, D. C. 



An inquiry sent to the Cuban Legation 

 at Washington brought the reply that Dr. 

 Macare was in no way connected with the 

 legation. 



Havana's City Council is urged to get 

 after the hackmen and make them more 

 tidy in dress. They should have a uniform, 

 say some, and discard the "old and worn 

 out clothing they wear and their rain and 

 storm beaten hats," which, says La Luclia, 

 make their vehicles abhorrent. They ought 

 also to be made to stop smoking while on 

 duty, says the same publication. 



The suit which Michael J. Dady, head of 

 Michael J. Dady & Company, engineers and 

 contractors, brought in the Federal District 

 Court in July, 1900, against Major-General 

 Wood to recover $]"j(),000 for the making 

 of plans and specihcations for the sewering 

 and paving of the streets of Havana, was 

 discontinued August ir)th. The order was 

 purely formal, as a settlement was effected 

 in 1901, when the United States govern- 

 ment authorized General Wood to pay Dady 

 $250,000, $100,000 more than was sued for, 

 so as to secure a release of the company's 

 contract. 



General Wood abrogated the contracts 

 as militarj' governor of Cuba during the 

 first American intervention. 



Miguel Mariano Gomez, son of th: 

 president of Cuba, wrote an insulting letter 

 on August 19th to General Loynaz Castillo 

 because the latter published a communica- 

 tion to President Gomez warning him that 

 any attempt on his part to secure his re- 

 election to the presidency would mean a 

 revolution which would cost thousands of 

 Cuban lives, including that of the president 

 himself. 



La Lucha refused to print young Gomez' 

 letter, but it was later given to the public 

 by the secretary of the president. General 

 opinion severly condemns the palace for 

 letting the letter go out. 



Jerry Johnson Warren, a wealthy planter 

 of Cuba and Key West, was arrested in 

 New York August 17th and charged with 

 bigamy. Mr. Warren is well known in 

 Havana, having been for many years the 

 representative of the New York Life In- 

 surance Co. in the island. He later entered 

 the sugar industry and has been interested 

 in many sugar estates. 



The charge of bigamy was filed against 

 Mr. Warren by his former wife, Mrs. Alice 

 ]\L Bolio y Abolinisi. 



]\Ir. Warren declares that his first mar- 

 riage was dissolved by the Cuban courts. 



Sailors employed on the lighters and 

 barges of the Jose Gonzalez Co., Havana, 

 struck August ITth, demanding a recogni- 

 tion of the union and the maintenance of 

 the wage tariff agreed upon during the 

 last strike which was won by the stevedores. 



The Spanish-American Iron Company 

 has complained to the Cuban government 

 that proper facilities for its shipping are 

 not furnished at Nipe Bay. An investiga- 

 tion is under way. 



Passengers from other countries who 

 visit Porto Rico in transit and do not go 

 ashore and whose vessels do not touch the 

 docks there, can land in Havana without 

 undergoing quarantine. 



A Dental Congress is scheduled for Ha- 

 vana next October. 



A bill granting an appropriation of $34,- 

 000 for the equipment of the Art and Trade 

 School of Colon, Matanzas, endowed by 

 the late Tirsa Mesa, was approved by the 

 Senate August loth. 



Sr. Casimiro Heres, president of the 

 Diario de la Marina newspaper corpora- 

 tion, died August 15th at his summer home 

 in Spain. Sr. Heres had been a resident 

 of Havana for many years and was ac- 

 counted one of the city's wealthiest mer- 

 chants. 



The commission appointed by the gov- 

 ernment to select a fitting memorial to 

 General Antonio ]\Iaceo, the Cuban negro 

 patriot, has awarded the contract to Do- 

 mingo Boni, the Madrid sculptor. The 

 statue will cost $100,000 and will be of 

 heroic size. 



Barcelona, Spain, in 1911 sent 1,185 

 emigrants to Cuba. 



The contract for the construction of the 

 provincial palace in Havana has been 

 awarded. The General Construction Com- 

 pany got the contract. 



