THE CUBA REVIEW 



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ALL AROUND CUBA 



INTERESTING NEWS NOTES REGARDING \AR10US MATTERS PERTAINING 



TO THE ISLAND 



A Cuban engineer of Cienfuegos, don 

 Evariste Montalvo, wants permission from 

 his government to use the Jabacoa river in 

 the municipality of Rodas, Santa Clara pro- 

 vince, to generate electric force for a light- 

 ing plant and other industrial enterpcises. 

 He also wants the concession given to 

 Sr. Ignacio Lauza y Lastra, for a similar 

 purpose in February, 1909. canceled on the 

 ground that the conditions of the conces- 

 sion have not been obeyed. 



The McVickar-Gaillard Realty Company 

 recently leased in the Forty-two Broadway 

 building in Xew York, space to the Havana 

 Central Railroad Company, the Cuban and 

 Pan-American Express, the United Rail- 

 way of Havana, the Central Cuba Sugar, 

 the ^^'ashington Sugar and the Western 

 Railways of Havana. 



An asylum for the aged, established by 

 a great benefactress in Cuba, ^Martha 

 Abreu, was inaugurated in Santa Clara 

 City on February 24th. 



The British Minister, Mr. Stephen Leech, 

 recently applied to the Cuban State De- 

 partment for an investigation of an attack 

 which he asserts was made on January 18 

 against James Allen, a British subject, 

 living at La Gloria. Cuba, by a native who 

 Allen states attacked him with a knife. 



The steamer Xuevitas, of the Herrera 

 line, Havana, was on March 1st reported 

 on the rocks and a total loss at the en- 

 trance of the bay at Sagua de Tanamo on 

 the north coast of Oriente province. 



The Xuevitas was a 1,020 ton steamer 

 built in Glasgow in 1883. She was bought 

 by Herrera & Co., of this city, in 1905, and 

 given her present name, her former one 

 being Stct Watert. 



To encourage the formation of music or- 

 ganizations among the youth of Cuba, the 

 Provincial Council of Santa Clara has do- 

 nated $100.00 each to the Banda Infantilde 

 Quemados de Guines and de Santo Domin- 

 go and $200.00 to the Banda Infantil de 

 Palmira. 



The City Council of Santa Clara has 

 voted $400.00 as a subsidy payalilc in twelve 

 parts toward the establishment in the city 

 of an Academy of Painting. 



La Lucha, of Havana, says the sale of 

 the Santo Domingo convent in that city is 

 planned. 



During the month of January, Caibarien, 

 in Sanfa Clara province, on the north ciast, 

 sent Havana 10.307 pounds of fish. 



A statue of Luz Caballero was unveiled 

 February 24th at the old Punta Park in 

 Havana. 



The statue represented the philosopher 

 and teacher sitting on a rock in contem- 

 plation, and is made of bronze, the work 

 of the French sculptor, M. Coucins. The 

 base of the monument is of dark gray gran- 

 ite, with bronze cornices and plates on each 

 side, and was designed by Sr. Aurelio Me- 

 lero, a Cuban artist. 



The Santiago Traction Company has 

 double-tracked its line to Vista Alegre, a 

 very beautiful suburb of the city. The 

 building up of this section and the con- 

 sequent increase of business made this im- 

 provement necessary 



A diploma and a prize of one dollar is 

 to be given children of the public schools 

 in Cuba who report any one making a 

 wrongful use of the national colors. 



The movement has been started by the 

 Xational Association of School Teachers 

 and is based on the knowledge of the lack 

 of respect shown the flag by certain classes 

 of people. 



The salaries of the municipal police in 

 Matanzas are $30.00 per month for the in- 

 fantry and $35.00 per month for the mount- 

 ed squad. The force is agitating for an 

 increase. 



Don Braulio Martinez has been given 

 governmental authorization to establish an 

 electric-light plant at Artemisa, Pinar del 

 Rio province. 



Something like sixty tons of dynamite 

 were recently found on Cayo Ratones in 

 Santiago harbor. The government authori- 

 ties' attention has been called to the matter 

 and it is likely that the dangerous sub- 

 stance will be taken elsewhere. 



The Cuban Minister to Spain, Sr. Justo 

 Garcia Velez, returned recently to Havana 

 in the hope of restoring his health, which 

 has become impaired. Sr. Navarro Revert- 

 er assumed the duties of the absent Min- 

 ister. 



The old hotel in Santiago de Cuba, the 

 Casa Granrla, which faces the Dolores Ca- 

 thedral, will soon be demolished and a new 

 hotel will be erected by the Cuba company. 

 The site is on the plaza and adjacent to 

 the handsome new building of the San Car- 

 los Club, now ncaring completion. ' 



Cardenas capitalists are considering the 

 establishment of a factory for the manu- 

 facture of a vegetable food frr caltlc. 



