THE CUBA REVIEW 



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ALL AROUND CUBA 



INTERESTING NEWS NOTES REGARDING VARIOUS MATTERS PERTAINING 



TO THE ISLAND 



Kubelik and Melba are to be heard in 

 Havana next winter, and will be the 

 first time that the famous Bohemian vio- 

 linist will be heard in Havana. Mme. 

 Melba has already graced the stage of the 

 Payret in the same citv. 



Long distance telephone communication 

 has been established laetween Santiago and 

 San Luis, and from the former city to 

 Camaquey and Santa Clara. 



Eugenio Rejneri, the contractor for the 

 new presidential palace in Havana, has 

 promised the president it will be ready for 

 occupancy December 1, 1914. 



The first woman lawyer in Cuba. 

 Sencrita Eiperanza cle Quesada Villalon, doctor 

 en derecho que ejerce en Santiago de Cuba; pri- 

 mera "doctora" salida de nucstras universidades. 



The negro rebels accused of being in the 

 Estenoz revolt will presently be tried in 

 Santiago. Miss Villalon as States attorney 

 will defend many of them. 



A new theatre is about ready at Santo 

 Domingo, Santa Clara Province. The so- 

 ciety "HI Liceo" is the owner. 



On July .'',1st the insane asylum at Ma- 

 zorra, Havana Province, contained 2,462 in- 

 mates. During the month there were 148 

 new unfortunates admitted. The asylum 

 at Mazorra is the only one in C'uba. 



THE SANTIAGO EXPOSITION 



The executive committee to prepare the 

 budget and regiilations and to consider 

 plans for a national exposition in 1915 

 at Santiago de Cuba was named a few 

 weeks ago. The gentlemen composing this 

 commission which will begin active work 

 immediately are as follows : 



Governor Rodriguez Fuentes, Mr. Ger- 

 man Michaelson, President of the Chamber 

 of Commerce, Mr. Emilio Bacardi repre- 

 senting the industrial element in the city, 

 Mr. Oswaldo Morales representing the 

 sugar planters, Mr. Juan Real of the Pub- 

 lic Works Department and Mr. Charles 

 Sequera, Municipal Architect. 



MORE ELECTRIC LIGHT PLANTS 



Messrs. Andres Delgado and Carlos Mi- 

 yares have been granted authorization by 

 the government to install electric light 

 plants for Hght and power at Perico and 

 Xueva Paz, with privilege to extend the 

 service later to the adjoining towns of Pa- 

 los and Vegas, all in Havana Province. 



A Celorio Alfonso has been granted per- 

 mission to establish electric plants in the 

 towns of Cabaignan and Guayos, Santa 

 Clara province. 



^lessers. Everardo Ortiz, Dorando Vas- 

 uez and Julian G. Gova have been author- 

 ized to establish plants in Palacios, Pinar 

 del Rio province, Cifuentes, Santa Clara 

 province and Cumanayagua, also in Santa 

 Clara province. 



E. P. Mahoney has been granted per- 

 mission which he solicited several days ago, 

 to install an electric plant at Nuevitas, 

 Camaquey province, Cuba. 



Sotero Gonzalez has been granted per- 

 mission to install an electric plant in Pal- 

 mira, Santa Clara Province. 



M. Malbis will establish another at 

 Abreus. same province. 



E. G. Winters anl Miguel Font will 

 establish a plant at Moron, Camaguey 

 Province. 



Miners in the mines at Daiquiri, Oriente 

 Province, demand higher wages. Troops 

 have been ordered to the scene to prevent 

 trouble if the strikers interfere with the 

 strike breakers. 



French possessions in the West Indies 

 are so far south of the regular Panama 

 route, that a commercial base there is not 

 worth while, for shippers will rather coal 

 in Cuba. — Nezv York Herald. 



