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SCARCITY OF LABORERS IN CUBA: Apropos of the labor shortage in Cuba, the 

 Secretary of Agriculture, Commerce and Labor has granted the United Fruit Company 

 permission to import via the subport of Preston, Nipe Bay, Oriente Province, 

 '3,000 laborers of Haitian nationality. These laborers will be taken from there 

 to Central Preston, OAvned by the United Fruit Company, where they Avill be put to 

 work. The United Fruit Company has also obtained permission to import 2,000 

 Haitians, who will be brought to Cuba via the ports of Santiago de Cuba and 

 Nipe to be put to work at Central Boston, located tributary to Banes. 



The United Railways of Havana & Regla Warehouses, Ltd., Havana, have obtained 

 permission from the Secretary of Agriculture to bring 25 Mexicans from Progreso, 

 Mexico, to work on the United Railways properties. Authority has been granted to 

 Sr. Alfredo Sust, Immigration Agent, to bring to Havana 1,000 Chinese immigrants, 

 who will do agricultural and other kind of work. Similarly Sr. Jose Wong, another 

 Immigration Agent, has obtained permission to import into Havana from Hongkong 

 50O Chinese laborers. 



NEW DEPARTMENT FOR THE TREATMENT OF CANCER IN MERCEDES HOSPITAL: 

 Not long ago Congress passed a law authorizing the inauguration of a special depart- 

 ment to be formed in the Avell known Mercedes Hospital of this city. It will undertake 

 the cure and prevention of cancer. This department will have a capacity of forty 

 patients, men and women, and will be equipped with an apparatus for the application 

 of X-rays and radium, a laboratory, etc. A credit of $100,000 has been conceded for 

 the establishment of this department, of which $30,000 is to be used for the acquisition 

 of radium, $7,000 for the installation of an X-ray apparatus, $5,000 for the laboratory, 

 etc. Also, an annual credit of $7,814.50 has been voted for the maintenance of the 

 department. The treatment rendered will be free of charge and is intended only for 

 persons without means. It is further stated that only those persons in whom, in 

 the estimation of the chief of this department, the disease is curable, or whose condi- 

 tion can at least be improved, will be admitted for treatment. 



NEW ROADS TO BE BUILT: Various laws have been passed by Congress and 

 signed by President Menocal voting large sums of money for the construction of roads 

 in various parts of the Island, hospitals, etc. We mention some of these appropriations 

 below : 



$150,000 for the construction in Matanzas of an edifice which will house the Board 

 of Education, Meteorological Observatory, etc., of that Province. A credit of $25,000 

 was also voted to cover cost of furnishing this building when complete. 



$200,000 for the construction of a road from Rio de Hanabanillo, near Cienfuegos, 

 to Trinidad.' 



$120,000 for the building of a road from Marti to Maximo Gomez and thence 

 through Rancho del Medio to San Vicente, where same will make connection with the 

 Central road and that which runs fi*om Jovellanos to San Vicente. 



The credit voted some time ago for the purpose of completing the work of repairing 

 and remodeling the building which houses the Hospital of Santiago de Cuba has been 

 augmented in the amount of $300,000. This work is being carried on by the Department 

 of Public Works. 



$85,000 for the construction of a road to unite the towns of Mendez Capote and 

 Carlos Rojas, in the Province of Matanzas. 



$170,000 to be devoted to the continuation and completion of the Gibara Aqueduct. 



$250,000 for the purpose of continuing the work of building the road now in course 

 of construction from Jaruco to Boca de Jaruco. 



$80,000 to be devoted to the termination of the paving of Calle de Estrada Palma, 

 Vibora (Havana), which street will be made to connect with the Calzada de Palatino, 

 thereby connecting the Vibora with the suburb known as the Cerro, and the construc- 

 tion of a park to be known as "Estrada Palma Park." 



