THE CUBA REVIEW 



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ALL AROUND CUBA 



INTERESTING NEWS NOTES REGARDING VARIOUS MATTERS PERTAINING 



TO THE ISLAND 



Sr. Jose Lombart, president of the com- 

 pany owning the San Juan Bantista sugar 

 estate in Matanzas Province at Canasi, has 

 solicited authority from the government to 

 install a red telephone system from the 

 plantation to the city of I^Iatanzas. 



W. T. Grey, representing the Holguin 

 Exploration Company, has made application 

 to the Provincial Council of Oriente to 

 register 149 hectares of land supposed to 

 contain gold and other valuable minerals. 

 The lands are situated in the municipality 

 of Holguin, barrio Aguas Claras, and are 

 owned by Ricardo Martinez and others. 



Some pessimistic astronomers are pre- 

 dicting another glacial epoch that will 

 tumble the tropics into the lap of Labrador 

 and make of Cuba a vast cold storage 

 warehouse. — Los Angeles (Cal.) Times. 



The collector of customs at Los Indios, 

 Isle of Pines, urges the establishment of 

 a telephone line from Los Indios to Nueva 

 Gerona, where the wireless plant is situated. 

 The matter has been referred to the proper 

 department. 



Mr. Francis T. Cox of Pennsylvania 

 succeeds Mr. Edw. Bell as second secretary 

 of the United States legation at Havana. 



Notice has been received of the death 

 in Santo Domingo of the well known Cu- 

 ban don Jose Ramon Abad y Carvajal, 

 who has been following agricultural pur- 

 suits in that island. He was the father of 

 don Luis V. Abad of Havana. 



The establishment in Calabazar de Sagua, 

 Santa Clara Province, of an electric light 

 plant has been authorized. The plant is 

 also allowed bj^ its franchise to supply the 

 towns of Encrucijada and Mata. Another 

 electric plant has been authorized for 

 Moron. Manuel P. Cardenas has the con- 

 cession. 



Another ice plant is projected for Sagua 

 la Grande, Santa Clara Province, on a 

 large scale. $150,000 is the amount of 

 capital already raised. 



The Progreso soap factory of Matanzas 

 was burned October 20th. The loss is esti- 

 mated at $20,000. It is more than covered 

 by insurance. The building was insured 

 for $20,000 and the factory for $6,000. 



Palayo Garcia, of Havana, has bought a 

 plot with 3G2 feet frontage on the north- 

 west corner of Beverly Road and Beverly 

 Lane, Kensington, Great Neck, Long Is- 

 land, on which the purchaser will build an 

 Italian villa to cost about $50,000. 



Havana's City Council has granted per- 

 mission to the Havana Electric Railway to 

 double track its system along several im- 

 portant thoroughfares. 



Some Spanish makers of "alpargatas," 

 a cheap rope shoe largely used by Cuban 

 laborers, worked a Cuban flag on the shoes 

 in the hope of increasing sales. The 

 mayor of Placitas, however, when he saw 

 the shoes thus adorned on sale at tbe 

 various stores, promptly prohibited their 

 sale, holding the employment of the Cuban 

 banner in this way a profanation of the 

 law. On submitting the matter to the gov- 

 ernment it was ruled that there was no law 

 to prevent their sale and the shoes were 

 released. 



The sanitary authorities of Cienfuegos 

 have ordered the city market closed as 

 being a menace to public health. It is 

 probable that a new structure will be built. 



Major-General O'Reilly, who was a mem- 

 ber of the evacuation commission at Ha- 

 vana and was chief surgeon of one of the 

 divisions of the army which included Cuba, 

 during the first intervention, died at Wash- 

 ington, November 3d. 



Some sixteen third-class passengers on 

 the Hamburg-American steamer were re- 

 fused admittance to Cuba recently. The im- 

 migration authorities at Havana would not 

 let them land because they were not only 

 short of the required money, but they also 

 had granulated eyelids. 



Radio waves flashed by the station at 

 the American naval base at Guantanamo, 

 Cuba, came "strong" to the new naval sta- 

 tion at Arlington, Va., during the testing 

 period on November 1st. This is the 

 furthest point yet heard from since the 

 big station has been working. Although 

 Arlington later called Guantanamo, it was 

 not ascertained whether the waves were 

 received there. 



Billy Burbridge, whose Havana resort 

 "Miramar" threatened for a time to rival 

 the reputation of Monte Carlo, left an 

 estate of only $2,000, all in personal prop- 

 erty, says the A'ew York Times. He held 

 no realty when he died in a sanitarium 

 near New York City in September last. 



The Havana resort, with its hotel, casino 

 and race track, appeared at first to have 

 established Burbridge's fortunes, but the 

 anti-gambling laws passed by an unfriendly 

 Cuban Congress ruined the venture. 



A telegraph office has been established 

 at Bueycito, Oriente Province. 



