THE CUBA REVIEW 



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A steel molasses tank steamship, built 

 at the yard of the Fore River Shipbuilding 

 Company at Quincy, Mass., was launched 

 recently. She was built for the Cuban 

 Distilling Company of Alatanzas and is 

 designed to carry 1,400,000 gallons of mo- 

 lasses. She will ply between Cuban, Porto 

 Rican and United States ports. The mo- 

 lasses will be carried in tanks of 190,000 

 cubic feet capacity. 



Major F. A. Snyder, resident manager of 

 the Cuban Engineering and Contracting 

 Company in Havana, has resigned. His 

 resignation took effect on August 31st. 



A telegraph station for limited service 

 has been opened at Santa Rita, Oriente 

 Province. 



Havana cart drivers went on a strike 

 August 16th for more money, demanding 

 a higher price per load. The merchants 

 say the)' will not consent to further im- 

 position on the part of the cart drivers. 



The Spanish Royal Red Cross was re- 

 cently bestowed upon four women nurses, 

 one of them an American, because of their 

 indefatigable attention to the first case of 

 bubonic plague, a Spaniard who afterwards 

 recovered. 



The Senate on August 10th approved a 

 bill appropriating $3,000 for the expenses 

 of installing a Cuban legation in London. 



The police guard on duty at every lega- 

 tion in Havana will soon be removed as 

 not considered necessary. The custom 

 originated many j^ears ago when a murder 

 occurred at the Chinese legation. 



In order to encourage new industries to 

 be established in Cuba the government 

 favors the free admission of the necessary 

 machinery. A button factory is the latest 

 to enjoy this privilege. 



Thieves robbed the post-office of Pinar 

 del Rio August loth, obtaining about $2,000 

 in cash. 



J. M. Carbonell and J. Riego have been 

 authorized to install an electric plant for 

 power and light in Victoria de las Tunas 

 and ^Mayari, Oriente Province. 



The Senate has voted $5,000 to put the 

 legation of Cuba in London in proper con- 

 dition. It is probable that a bill will be 

 passed later providing for the purchase of 

 the legation building. 



An American consul, Mr. Harry Morgan, 

 has been sent to Pinar del Rio. His official 

 title is vice and deputy consul. 



The appointment is in recognition of the 

 growing commercial importance of the 

 province and city. 



The Treasury Department has granted 

 the request of the Dubrocq Railroad at 

 Matanzas for permission to extend its lines. 



By decree of President Gomez the old 

 cannon in Santiago de Cuba, relics of the 

 Spanish war and given to the city by 

 General Wood, will not be sold for old 

 iron as was threatened, but instead will be 

 preserved as historical souvenirs. 



The exports to Cuba from the United 

 States of cotton goods for the fiscal year 

 ending June 30th last more than doubled 

 compared- with 1910. 



The National Bank of Cuba opened a 

 new branch in Guanabacoa on August 10th, 

 being the first banking institution to be 

 established in the city. 



An all land trolley route to Guanabacoa 

 is to be built by the Havana Electric Rail- 

 way Company. 



Guanabacoa is a city of some 12,000 in- 

 habitants about three miles from Regla on 

 the opposite side of Havana harbor. 



An order has been issued to the owners 

 of laundries that chimneys on their estab- 

 lishments must be two meters high over 

 the roofs. 



On August 21st President Gomez gave 

 his sanction to a law of Congress increas- 

 ing the number of congressional repre- 

 sentatives. 



The bay of Xuevitas will soon receive 

 the attention of the government and dredg- 

 ing operations, it is believed, will shortly 

 begin. 



The Cuban Veterans' Association held 

 a mass meeting recently in Havana and 

 declared that the opinions of Roosevelt, 

 Wilson, Taft, Root and other prominent 

 Americans, as shown in their public ut- 

 terances on American expansion, consti- 

 tuted a danger to the Cuban republic. 



■Cabarien merchants have complained to 

 the government that the sponge industry on 

 their coast is in danger of being destroyed, 

 owing to the fishermen who take and sell 

 sponges under the size allowed by law. 

 These small sponges, it is said, find a 

 ready sale in Havana. 



The secretary of the treasury has ordered 

 that the strictest vigilance should be exer- 

 cised by the government over the fishing 

 and sale of sponges, imposing the penalties 

 that infractions of the law provide. 



Thirty-five Austrian gypsies recently 

 came to Havana. The men of the party 

 claim to be mechanics and that they have 

 come to Cuba to engage in boiler making 

 and similar avocations. The Post reporter 

 found the women of the party ornamented 

 "with solid gold bands about their arms, 

 while others wore solid gold belts very 

 thick, and in some instances three inches 

 wide." 



