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IHE CUBA REVIEW 



ALL AROUND CUBA 



INTERESTING NEWS NOTES REGARDING VARIOUS MATTERS PERTAINING 



TO THE ISLAND 



The Payret Theatre in Havana occupies 

 an area of 3,000 square meters. The 

 edifice contains 75 private boxes, 524 or- 

 chestra chairs, 158 other chairs on the 

 main floor, 708 seats in the family circle 

 and 692 others for wromen. In total the 

 house can seat 2,553 persons and about 

 4,000 when there are standees. 



Enrique Pineiro, Cuban Consul at Ma- 

 laga, Spain, died a few weeks ago. 



Pages at the palace who will be under 

 the direct order of the president's wife 

 will wear a white uniform with white caps. 

 The brass buttons on the uniform will 

 bear the republic's coat-of-arms. 



Mr. Walter F. Smith, proprietor of the 

 Hotel Plaza, Havana, has sold his interest, 

 it is said, in the Malecon and Prado hotel 

 and restaurant to a syndicate, which will 

 take possession at once. The sale includes 

 the Miramar gardens also. 



Senora Guardiola de Palma, widow of 

 Cuba's first president, will return to Cuba 

 to end her days in the land in which she 

 shared her husband's eminence and sub- 

 sequent obscurity. 



Pilot tolls in Havana are cheaper than 

 in any harbor in the Western Hemisphere, 

 says the Havana Post. They were classified 

 by the Spanish government years ago, 

 upon the 5,000 ton basis. The commission 

 that did it apparently never dreamed there 

 would ever be a ship larger than that to 

 enter the harbor. 



Dr. Manuel Valdez Rodriguez, professor 

 of the University of Havana, who is in the 

 United States making a study of institu- 

 tions of learning, has also been commis- 

 sioned by the Cuban government to pay 

 particular attention to the American ju- 

 venile courts. 



A bill for a hospital in Victoria de las 

 Tunas, Oriente Province, appropriates $18,- 

 000 for its immediate construction. The 

 sum of $7,593 was also appropriated for 

 the annual maintenance of the hospital. 



A new lighthouse double the size of the 

 present one, will be built at the Morro Cas- 

 tle of Santiago de Cuba. 



The new tower will be twelve meters 

 higher and the lamp, which is to be placed 

 on the top, will serve as a beacon to ves- 

 sels fifty miles away, an improvement con- 

 sidered one of importance, due to the com- 

 ing opening of the Panama Canal. 



Men clerks, who at present monopolize 

 the counters in the dry goods shops in 

 Cuba and who sell everything from a dress 

 down to the interior wearing apparel of 

 women, are to be replaced by girl clerks. 

 This is the reform that Congressman Bar- 

 tolome Sagaro of Oriente would Hke to 

 have introduced. 



"My purpose is," said the congressman, 

 "to open a new field by our poor girls ; to 

 give them facilities to make an honest liv- 

 ing and thus save them from falling in 

 the gutter driven by misery in most of the 

 cases." 



Money of the Republic of Bolivia is be- 

 ing manufactured in Havana, on a large 

 scale, according to information which has 

 been transmitted to the Cuban State De- 

 partment by the minister of Bolivia. 



The first nation to send its congratula- 

 tions to the administration of President 

 Menocal was China. In a long cablegram 

 President Yuan Shi Kai extended the best 

 wishes of China for his success. 



The San Francisco wharf in Havana, the 

 first pier and warehouse constructed by 

 the Port of Havana Docks Company, under 

 the Scovil concession, was formally opened 

 for traffic on March 5th, when the Morro 

 Castle, arriving from New York, went to 

 dock directly at the wharf, all its freight 

 to be handled by the Ports of Havana 

 Dock Company, passengers also landing at 

 the dock. The new wharf was illustrated 

 in the February issue of The Cuba Re- 

 view. 



Domingo Rosillo, the Cuban aviator, on 

 May 17th made the first flight ever accom- 

 plished by a Cuban airman across the 

 Florida Straits from shore to shore. He 

 started from Key West at 5.45 and arrived 

 at Havana at 8.10, making the passage of 

 ninety miles in 2 hours and 25 minutes. 

 Augustine Parla, another Cuban aviator, 

 made a similar flight the next day landing 

 at Mariel, near Havana. 



A concession has been asked of the city 

 council for a theatre in Caibarien, Santa 

 Clara province, on the north coast, pro- 

 viding the builder will pay no taxes for 

 twenty years. 



M. M. Stewart of the Methodist Epis- 

 copal Church in Cuba, has been _ author- 

 ized by the government to solemnize mar- 

 riages. 



