12 THE CUBA REVIEW 
Manati Sugar Company. The importation of this Corean labor is only another illus- 
tration of the acute shortage of labor in Cuba, which shortage is caused by the poor 
prices being paid this year. 
NEW JAI-ALAI FRONTON FOR MARIANAO: A new company has been formed to 
erect a Jai-Alai Fronton on property fronting the Marianao Casino, This undertaking 
is expected to prove a splendid paying proposition, The Casino at Marianao has 
had another very profitable season and it is estimated that the gross profits so far 
this vear are in the neighborhood of $2,500,000. The Cuban populace is very en- 
thusiastic for Jai-Alai and it is considered that this new Fronton will enjoy a 
splendid patronage. 
HAVANA TOURISTS: The City of Havana, although prepared to entertain a 
record number of tourists this year, was considerably disappointed. A large number 
of tourists have this year taken advantage of the splendid excursions conducted by 
different steamship lines. Palatial steamers bring capacity crowds to Havana for 4 
stay of two or three days, from which port they pass on to other West Indies Islands’ 
ports for short visits, returning to New York after some thirty to sixty days spent 
aboard the ship. 
INAUGURATION OF DIRECT 
TELEPHONE WITH CUBA 
Direct telephone communication — be- 
tween the United States and Cuba was 
opened on April 11th by President Hard- 
ing and President Menocal, who _ ex- 
changed renewed assurances of friendship 
and good-will, 
Completion of the undersea circuit was 
marked by a formal ceremony at the Pan 
American Building, Washington, where 
Mr. Harding, several members of his 
Cabinet, and other officials gathered, 
while a similar group of notables par- 
ticipated at Havana. 
As an added feature, Washington and 
Havana, as well as other cities scattered 
across the country, listened to a report 
from a telephone operator at 
Catalina Island, in the Pacific Ocean. The 
distance from Catalina to Cuba is 5,700 
miles, and the feat 
lished a 
wireless 
is said to have estab- 
distance record for trans- 
mission of the human voice by a circuit 
new 
of radio, wire and cable. 
The ceremony here was in charge of 
the American Telephone and Telegraph 
Company and the National Club, 
and the invited guests, numbering several 
hundred, provided with 
connected with the new circuit. 
After the between the 
Executives, Secretary Hughes talked with 
the Cuban Secretary of State, George 
Desvernines; Secretary Mellon spoke to 
Press 
were 
receivers 
conversation 
the Cuban Secretary of the Treasury, 
Senor Hernandez; the Cuban Minister at 
Washington spoke to Boaz Long, Ameri- 
can Minister at Havana, and Secretary 
Weeks spoke to the Cuban Secretary of 
War and Navy, Senior Marti. 
The new enterprise, which will make 
possible telephonic conversation betweeu 
Cuba and any part of the United States, 
cost approximately $2,000,000. 
NEW CABLE LINK TO CUBA 
Announcement has been made by Clar- 
ence H, Mackay, president of the Postal 
Telegraph-Commercial Cable System, of 
the laying of a new submarine cable by 
that system between Miami and Havana, 
Cuba, which supplements the present 
cable of that system from New York to 
Havana, Cuba, thereby furnishing an al- 
ternate route. 
The new cable landing at Miami will 
be connected by direct wires with the 
offices of the Postal Telegraph system to 
all parts of the United States. 
PAYMENT TO THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS 
According to the Bulletin of the Pan 
American Union, the Government of Cuba 
has ordered the payment of $12,109 to 
the general secretariat of the League of 
Nations, as the country’s quota of its sup- 
port in accordance with the budget of the 
League of Nations for expenses to De- 
cember 31, 1920. 
