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aeroiumticiil dopjirtiiuMit (»f tlu- Goodyear Tire & lluhber Company, Akron, Ohio, for 

 the purpose, it is stated, of investigating tlie prospects for operating a line of dirigibles 

 between Florida points and Cuba, eacli machine to carry a number of i)assengers. 



NEW STEAMSHIP SEIUK^ES: Under this heading we would cite the service 

 of the I'acilic .Mail Steanislii]) Company just starting the operation of a fortnightly 

 service between the racific Coast and Havana and other Cuban ports, via the I'anama 

 Canal. 



Freight services have also recently been inaugurated from Philadeliiliia to 

 Havana by the Earn Line Steamship Company and from Jacksonville, Fla., by the 

 Jacksonville Shiiiping Company. 



Mention .should al.so be made of the South Atlantic Maritime Cori)oration, which 

 operates a freight service from South Atlantic i)orts to Havana, and also to Brazil 

 and the Iliver Plate, these latter steamers touching at Havana as well when suf- 

 ficient <argo offers. 



The services of the Pacific Steam Navigation Company and the Holland-American 

 Steamship Line are again being resumed, as steamers belonging to these two lines 

 have recently arrived with European cargo. Also this month marked the arrival of 

 the first German steamship since the commencement of the Great War. This steamer 

 came from Hamburg with a cargo of freight. 



It is expected that there will be a large number of tourist excursions to Havana 

 this season, operated by the different tourist agencies, and the papers announce that 

 several of the newest and fastest of the ships of the United Fruit Company have 

 been chartered to njake three-week trips from New York, touching at West Indies 

 ports, including Havana, thence on to the Panama Canal. 



RECEI-TION TO DEPARTING AMERICAN MINISTER: A reception was given 

 on November 22nd by the members of the American Club and the Country Club of 

 Havana to the Hon. Wm. E. Gonzales, American Minister to Cuba, who will be leaving 

 for his new post, that of Minister Plenipotentiary to Peru. His successor, Hon. Boaz 

 W. Long, has not yet arrived, but is expected here soon. 



TOURISTS: While it is naturally early for the winter tourists to arrive, yet the 

 opening of the race track has brought down a large number of visitors from the North 

 as usual and it is already dillicult to secure satisfactory hotel accommodations. The 

 newsitapers report that passenger arrivals from the United States are running over 

 a tbnusand a week, oftentimes several hundred reaching here in a single day, and, 

 as mentioned previously, Havana is looking forward to its heaviest tourist season. 



CAPTAIN LEONARD WOOD '''• "•'•! successfully cindiicled Thr Havana 



. ^ T ,.. , ,• AT • /'os7. of which he was publislu-r and pro- 



( aptaui Leonard A\ nod. son ot Major- . ^ ^ ' ,. . , 



^ , ,,. 1 ... IT 1 .- • pru'lor, and exercised a connnandnig innu- 



General ^^ ood, went to Havana late ui ' ... 



ence u\ the mauiteuance of American- 



November to study petroleum conditions 

 in the Island. 



Cuban relations. 



AERIAL TOURIST SERVICE 



GEORGE M. BRADT According to ])ress rep<»rts, George E. 



George M. Bradt. a leading American Marsters, Inc., of Boston, Mass., contem- 



resident of Havana, died on December 1st, plates the establishment of a tourist ser- 



after a sliort illness, at the Po^it Graduate vice by air in comfortable, .safe and sp?edy 



Hosjtital in New York. He was a promi- airplanes from Palm Beach to Miami and 



nent and jjrogressive citizen, conspicu- n'turn, a distance of 07 miles, and from 



ously identified with business and civic MiMini to Key West, a distance of ItiO 



affairs at Havana, and one of the most miles, and a tln-nugli service New York to 



influential Americans in that city. Here- Ilnvaiia. Cuba, stopjiing at Palm Beach 



sided in Havana fifteen years. He found .Miid Miami. 



