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THE CUBA REVIEW 



ALL AROUND CUBA 



INTERESTING NEWS NOTES REGARDING VARIOUS MATTERS PERTAINING 



TO THE ISLAND 



The scarcity of water in Havana is not 

 really due to sources of supply failing, but 

 because the aqueduct built to serve Ha- 

 vana's needs exclusively now supplies 

 Regla, Guanabacoa, INIarianao, Casa Blanca, 

 Luyano and other suburbs of the city. 



But because of this scarcity the city is 

 in danger of being wiped out by a con- 

 flagration owing to the low pressure ob- 

 tained at hydrants, especially in certain 

 parts, and the fire insurance companies are 

 becoming alarmed. 



The National Poultry Association has 

 been organized in Havana with delega- 

 tions all over the island, for the purpose 

 of promoting the breeding of all kinds of 

 poultry on a large scale. 



The Havana Chess Club formally turned 

 over to Capablanca on September 20th the 

 $4,500 which was raised by popular sub- 

 scription to buy the Cuban chess champion 

 a home. 



The amount was too small to _ buy the 

 champion a home, as was first intended, 

 and as there were no more subscriptions 

 coming in, it was determined to give him 

 the cash. 



Stephen Leech the British minister in 

 Havana, left Cuba a few days ago on a 

 leave of absence. Mr. Cowan, the British 

 consul-general, will act as charge de affairs 

 while Mr. Leech is away. 



There was incorporated on September 

 26th the Matanzas Blaugas Company with 

 a capital of $50,000. The incorporators are : 

 E. E. McWhiney, W. J. Maloney and N. P. 

 Coffin of Wilmington. 



The Ports Improvement Company has 

 begun dredging work in the harbor of 

 Caimanera. 



The wedding of Miss Alma Reed, daugh- 

 ter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph V. Reed of 

 New Albany, Ind., to Mr. George ^Morris 

 Bradt, proprietor of the Havana Post. 

 occurred in New Albany, Indiana, on Oc- 

 tober 1st. 



Manuel Lombillo Clark has been ap- 

 pointed chief engineer of the second class 

 with a salary of $3,600, and Emilio del 

 Junco y Andre, an engineer of the first 

 class with an annual salary of $4,000. 



Captain Washington I. Chambers, chief 

 of the navy aeroplane corps, has under 

 consideration the project of moving the 

 navy hydro-aeroplane station at Annapolis, 

 Md., to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for winter 

 flying about December 1st. 



Several persons were indicted recently 

 on the charge of taking sand along the 

 Jaimanitas Bay and the playa of Marianao, 

 near Havana. A personal bond of $1,000 

 was required of each of the accused men 

 pending trial. An additional bond of $15,- 

 000 was also required of each as a guar- 

 antee of the civil damages. 



The men were accused of building a 

 railroad over the lands of Walter P'letcher 

 Smith and others owning property along 

 the bay in question, says the Havana Post. 

 and of extracting their sand without either 

 their permission or permission of the state. 



The boy scout movement, or something 

 resembling it, has reached Cuba and 

 promises to be popular. Already several 

 hundred youngsters have joined the or- 

 ganization, the official title of which is the 

 Infantile Army of Salvation. The boys 

 wear the regulation army uniform and are 

 officered by sons of army and navy officers 

 and prominent politicians. 



Juan E. Hernandez Giro, a young artist, 

 25 pears of age, has been commissioned 

 by the Cuban government to paint scenes 

 of the Spanish-American war. He showed 

 such promise as a boy that he was educated 

 at the expense of Santiago, his native city. 

 He will interview Colonel Roosevelt to 

 obtain a word picture of the battle of San 

 Juan and other conflicts. 



Thomas Frederic Dever will represent 

 the Sagua district for Norway. President 

 Gomez issued an exequator on September 

 22d. 



Culia has accepted President Taft's in 

 vitation to participate in the 1915 exposi- 

 tion. Word to that effect was received 

 by the exposition company from the State 

 Department at Washington a few days ago. 

 The Cuban government has decided to ap- 

 point a commission to represent it at the 

 exposition. Cuba is the seventeenth foreign 

 nation to declare its intention to make a 

 prominent showing. 



A post-office has been established at 

 Obrea, Santa Clara Province, and a tele- 

 graph office has been opened for public 

 service at Pina, Camaguey Province. 



An immigrant station will be established 

 at Nipe, Oriente Province. Large num- 

 bers of laborers are imported through 

 Nipe for work on the sugar estates and 

 in the iron mines, and it is more conve- 

 nient to permit their entrance at Nipe 

 rather than at Santiago and Havana as 

 heretofore. 



