CURIOUS POPULATION STATISTICS 



The municipality of San Jose de los 

 Ramos, Matanzas Province, comprises 

 three wards, and the 1913 population is 

 given as follows. In 1912 the population 

 was 8,008. 



San Jose de los Ramos 3,300 



Caiiagua. formerly Las Ciegas.. 1,137 

 Banaguises 3,416 



Total 7,853 



Of these 7,853 inhabitants, 4,569 are white 

 and 3,284 colored. 



There are 6,552 native Cubans and SO 

 naturalized. 1,027 Spaniards, 1 English, 

 1 French, 20 Turks, 1 Argentineo and 170 

 Chinese. 



There are 4 doctors and 2 druggists in 

 this town, 917 artizans and other workmen, 

 and 11 Cuban army men, 2,210 are engaged 

 in domestic occupations, 2,986 are without 

 any calling. There are 15 professors, 231 

 property owners and 190 merchants ; 2861 

 can read, 2832 can write. Of those who 

 can read 29 cannot write. Of those that 

 can read 1,758 are whites and 1,103 are 

 colored. Of those who can write 1,748 are 

 white and 1,084 colored. There remains 

 then 4,992 illiterate in this municipality or 

 nearly 63 per cent of its population, 2,811 

 white and 2,181 colored. 



THE CUBA REVIEW 



21 



MAYOR FACILITATES BUSINESS TRANS- 

 ACTION 



Havana's Mayor General Freyre de An- 

 drade is constantly busy in improving the 

 public service by expediting the business 

 in the several departments. 



His latest ruling provides that all ap- 

 plications for record of new taxpayers 

 when the sale of a commercial house or 

 store is made should be approved the same 

 day that the application is received, when 

 the deed of sale accompanies the appli- 

 cation. 



He also rules that applications for the 

 removal of a store from one locality to an- 

 other must also be approved on presenta- 

 tion of application when tlie cliange has 

 been approved by the health authorities. 



BASEBALL IN CUBA 



Captain Jake Dauliert, of the I5rooklyn 

 Superbas, and ten other meml)crs of the 

 team will play in ("ul)a this autumn. 



The date for departing for Cuba has not 

 been set, as Daubert is trying to arrange a 

 number of games in Florida with hotel 

 teams. The idea is to work down through 

 Florida to Key West, and take the boat for 

 the short run from ney West to Havana, 

 later in the season. 



FENDERS ON CUBAN AUTOMOBILES 



"Cuba has taken the lead in a new field 

 lor the preservation of life," remarked J 

 A. btotesbury, representative of an Amer- 

 ican exporting house of New York re- 

 cently "The Cuban Congress has passed 

 a bill reqmnng ail automobiles to be 

 equipped with fenders. These fenders are 

 designed not only to protect life, but to 

 atford protection for the machines, and 

 many automobiles have been saved from 

 wreck since the fenders came into use I 

 have not seen any of these fenders in this 

 country, though, curiouslv enough, the in- 

 vention, I am told, is that of an American 

 1 here are many 'bumpers' used on ma- 

 chines in this country, but the style of fen- 

 der which the Cuban authorities insist shall 

 be used on machines in that countrv i« 

 different from the ordinary bumper they 

 are somewhat like pneumatic tires that pro- 

 ject from the front of the automobiles, and 

 ward off an ohjectr—JJ-ashiugfou Post 



SALE OF EXPLOSIVES 



Government rules and regulations for 

 handling ex-plosives in Havana establish- 

 ments prohibit more than 25 pounds for re- 

 tail purposes at a time. 



Merchants handling and importers of ex- 

 plosives have complained to the government 

 regarding these regulations which were put 

 m force since the terrible catastrophe in 

 Cienfuegos when a stock of explosives ac- 

 cidentally Ignited, caused manv deaths 



Ihe merchants find the new rules onerous 

 and want them changed. 



CUBAN millionaire's DEATH 



Jose R Barrios, millionaire coal mer- 

 chant of Havana and New York, who out- 

 fitted native troops in the Cuban revolution 

 that preceded the Spanish-American Wa" 

 died suddenly in New York on Septembe; 

 27th Dea h had overtaken him in a street 

 car through heart failure. He was 63 years 

 old and leaves two daughters and a son. 



nf .Jl°f V?'' ^^° ^^ ^^^ ^" exporter 

 of coal to Cuba and was an importer of 

 Cuban products. During the ten years- 

 war for Cuban independence he took an 

 active part and at the conclusion of hos- 

 tilities he declined a public office that was 

 offered to him for his services and re- 

 turned here where he had been in business 

 twenty years. 



GUANTANAMO and the BAHAMAS 



Havana and Guantanamo are now in 

 touch with the Bahamas by wireless, a 

 station having been opened at x\assau 

 which has a 400 mile radius. " ' 



