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THE CUBA REVIEW 



GENERAL NOTES 



RACE PREJUDICE TO GROW 



The chief Protestant bodies of this 

 country having missions in Cuba are the 

 Baptist; North and South; the Episcopal, 

 and the Methodist, South. 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 both white and 

 black, has been steady and along educa- 

 tional lines large, says the Galveston (Tex.) 

 News. 



Baptist, North, work was early projected 

 in Santiago and the extreme east, and sup- 

 ported by Americans through Baptist 

 churches here and a large Baptist church 

 in Santiago itself, and several smaller 

 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 Alission Society show that chapels 

 at La Maya and at Jorahucca were burned 

 during the recent negro uprising not by 

 military forces, but by marauders and mal- 

 contents. Baptists 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. 



"I do not look for race prejudice ever 

 to grow less in Cuba,"' says a worker there 

 of years. "I have often wondered that 

 it had not developed before. Now that it 

 is here, it is here to stay, I fear. It will 

 not seriously affect religious work beyond 

 what it does in our own southern States." 



NEW MINING PROPERTIES 



The governor of Oriente Province for- 

 wards the description of the following new 

 mining concessions all in favor of the 

 Guantanamo Exploration Co. 



Salamanca, 100 hectares, containing man- 

 ganese in the barrio of Guisa municipality 

 of Bayamo. 



The San Rafael, 120 hectares, also con- 

 taming manganese, same barrio and muni- 

 cipality. 



The Datil, barrio of Datil, Bavamo mu- 

 nicipality, 90 hectares, manganese. 



The Datil No. 2, 50 hectares manganese, 

 same barrio and municipality. 



The San Luis, barrio Horno arriba, 

 Bayamo 40 hectares manganese. 



NEW CONSULAR REPRESENTATIVES 



Sr. Wilfredo Mazon y Norona will act 

 as honorary vice consul for Guatamala in 

 Havana. 



Sr. Faustino Garcia Vieta will exercise 

 the functions of honorary vice consul for 

 Austria-Hungary in Cienfuegos. 



Sr._ Pedro Sanso del Pan will act as 

 Spanish consul at Santiago de Cuba. 



Sr. Calieto Bergnes de las Casas y Soler 

 is honorary consul for Uruguay at Guan- 

 tanamo. 



Sr. Luis Amezaga y Roldan will exercise 

 the function of honorary consul for Uru- 

 guay at Matanzas. 



Sr. Ricardo Urrutia e Izurieta will act 

 as Spanish vice consul at Cardenas. 



TO PROMOTE SPORT 



A bill has been reported favorably in 

 the Cuban Senate granting a 30 -year con- 

 cession for horse races and jai alai. Its 

 object is declared to be to attract tourists 

 and to keep them in Havana as long as 

 possible. The bill allows the establishment 

 of one race track and jai alai game in 

 every province. It permits gambling in 

 mutuals and by bookmakers and allows the 

 government 2 per cent of all the bets, be- 

 sides $50 for every betting booth. The bill 

 grants the concession to the Cuban Sports 

 Company, which is obliged to pay to the 

 state $1,500,000 in sums of $50,000 annually. 

 The company is exempted from all other 

 taxes. At the end of the concession all 

 buildings, stands, grounds and other prop- 

 erties revert to the state. 



TROLLEY FOR MATANZAS CITY 



The Compania de Tranvias de Matanzas, 

 a domestic corporation owning the rights 

 of the concession granted some years ago 

 to William F. Fulton for a trolley system 

 for Matanzas and which is composed of 

 Cuban and American capital, was the only 

 company making application for the rights 

 when bids for the purpose were opened at 

 the office of Secretary of Public Works 

 Carrera on August 15th. 



As there was no other bidder, the secre- 

 tary of public works must decide the 

 matter. 



The construction of a trolley for Ma- 

 tanzas City has begun at the village of 

 Bellemar, where the caves are situated. 



The central Dehcias in Oriente Province 

 finished grinding on August 15th, with 

 181,000 bags of sugar as its season's work. 



The city council of Havana has voted to 

 contribute the sum of $200 to aid the weekly 

 La Bohemia, in its philanthropic work of 

 giving toys to children on Christmas day. 



