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Abegeith to Howth in England, which is only 63 nautical miles. This cable, due to 
its not having to stand the great water pressure which the cable which unites 
Havana with Key West will have to stand, is of much smaller diameter, Of the 
type of cable which will have to be used to unite Cuba with the United States, the 
longest which is in operation at the present time is the one joining Dunkirk with 
St. Margarets, which has an extension of only 40 nautical miles. 
When these cables are installed they will represent an investment of about two 
million dollars, but notwithstanding this it is expected that the great traffic between 
Havana and New York will over-merit the investment of such an enormous sum of 
money; and furthermore, the engineers claim that it will be possible to carry on 
conversations with the same success and efficacy between Montreal, Chicago, St. Louis, 
New Orleans and any point in Cuba, 
The numerous problems of engineering which have presented themselves in the 
realization of such an important project have been studied and solved by Mr. Ban- 
croft Gherardi, Vice-President and Chief Engineer of the American Telephone and 
Telegraph Company, with the co-operation of other engineers of said corporation, 
and of Sir William Slingo of London, Consulting Engineer of the International Tele- 
phone and Telegraph Corporation, 
The officials of the Cuban-American Telephone and Telegraph Company are as 
follows: Mr. Hernand Behn, President; Mr. Charles D. M. Cole, First Vice-Presi- 
dent; Col. Sosthenes Behn, Second Vice-President ; Mr. Carlos I, Parraga, Secretary, 
and Mr. Manuel Herrera, Treasurer. 
CUBAN PURCHASERS OF RAILROAD ROLLING STOCK 
There are three classes of purchasers of rolling stock in Cuba. First, there are 
the steam railroads for the public service which were all built and are controlled by 
private capital. The two leading railroads operating in Cuba are the United Railways 
of Havana, serving the western end of the Island, and the Cuba Railroad Company, 
serving the eastern end of the Island. Both these railroads were built by British 
capital, the latter being the original Van Horne railway, but now controlled by New 
York interests. The United Railways of Havana, which includes several subsidiary 
roads, is still controlled from London and the majority of its senior officers are British, 
During the war many of its officers were American, but during recent months several 
British engineers and railway officials have arrived to take over yarious departmerts. 
Mr. Morson, general manager for many years, has been superseded by Brig. Gen. Jack, 
formerly director of British railways in France. 
The Havana United is buying large quantities of rolling stock of which it is 
badly in need, and all of which has come from the United States. 
There are several smaller railroads in Cuba, constructed to serve isolated portions 
of the Island. Most of these are standard gauge, however. 
In the second place, there are electric tram lines built for passenger traffic in 
the leading cities of Cuba. Most of these are comparatively small corporations, as 
Havana is the only city in Cuba with a population of over 100,000. The United 
Railways of Havana control all the Havana electric properties except the Havana 
Electric Railway, Light & Power Co. 
In the third place, a considerable amount of railway mileage is owned by 
ingenios, or individual sugar mill corporations. Throughout the Island the sugar 
mill owners have laid their own tracks within the area from which their cane is 
