TALE “CUBA REV LEW. 29 
Ports and Companies 
Details of Service 
Lindsay, Swan, Hunter (Ltd.), Kings- 
ton, Jamaica. 
Cuba-Jamaica Steamship Co., San- 
tiago, Cuba. 
Compafiia de Navigacion del Comercio 
Compania Ron Bacardi, Santiago..... 
T. P. Thompson, Bodden, Vandy 
. Sandy, and Chapman (all of Kings- 
ton, Jamaica). 
Isle of Pines: 
Isle of Pines Steamship Co........... 
Empresa Naviera de Cuba........... 
Two-steamer passenger service between Santiago and Kingston, 
and Santiago and Aux Cayes, Haiti. 
biweekly; to Haiti, irregular. 
One-steamer passenger service between Santiago and Kingston, 
Jamaica, and any 
required for booking full load of passengers. 
Coastwise freight and passenger service of 3 steamers to the 
different ports of the island. 
Operates 2 schooners for carrying its own product (Bacardi rum). 
Schedule irregular. 
One motor schooner. 
Santiago and Kingston and other ports of the West Indies 
and the Bahamas. 
Schedule to Kingston, 
Haitian port. Schedule depends upon time 
Freight and passenger service between 
Schedule irregular. 
Operates a freight and passenger service between Jucaro and 
Nueva Gerona (Isle of Pines) and Batabano, Cuba. 
1 ship in operation. 
Operates an occasional ship to Los Indios, Isle of Pines. 
iat 2 Only 
Sailings, triweekly each way. 
Cuban Commerce with Germany 
Consul General Carlton Bailey Hurst, 
Habana, reports that during the fiscal 
year 1919-20, Cuba imported $942,377 
worth of merchandise from Germany, 
while during the previous fiscal year no 
shipments were reported from that country. 
The leading articles imported were as 
follows: 
Articles Value 
Glass and crystal ware...........| $22,150 
Earthenware and porcelain....... 29,138 
Gold, silver and platinum........ 133,686 
Imonwandistecl. occ. cee es 75,726 
Copper and alloys............... 3,823 
Allfothermetals...........5..-2 1,921 
Paints, varnishes and inks....... 3,518 
Chemical products.............. 72,186 
WSSOAD CLC. 5. sec ce eee one 7,870 
Cotton and cotton manufactures .| 35,043 
Other vegetable fibers........... 2,426 
VAVGOL, WENT Cs Ce eee 2,469 
Silk and silk manufactures....... 4911 
Paper and cardboard............ 13,534 
Booksand prints:.......:....-. 1,935 
Wood and manufactures of....... 5,158 
ImsiruIMments:....:.......2+ese: 4,629 
INIGICMIMET Ysa cs Siew selene Goes 42,059 
PMODARAUUSH 56 cH occ eee setlists 326,058 
Beverages and oils.............. 21,043 
PURO LINOT Ie aig ale sic.e Seige 133,094 
“UNG YTEEIL SS Soe oie teies eee 942,377 
Cuba, during the fiscal year 1919-20, 
exported $19,700 worth of merchandise to 
Germany, nothing having been reported 
as sent during the previous fiscal year. 
Imports from Germany began to reach 
Cuba in October, 1919. The following 
table shows the imports from and exports 
to Germany from Cuba during 1919-20, 
by months: 
Months Imports Beponr 
1919 
Octoberke seen sos $356 $175 
November............ 1,431 250 
Decembernn: ice 195,712 10,000 
1920 
Januanyee ee LP On| ete taken aaa! 
ebruarnvanenae see ee 31,320 9,025 
Misc hig sneer se peo 377,438 155 
April DVD |scacoscuc 
INMa viscera eat a USAR) is oocc aero 
RUN C Ras ia eee 81,065 25 
BO tally ees ce 942,377 19,700 
Cuban Telephone Company 
The annual report of the Cuban Tele- 
phone Company showed a gross income for 
1920 of $2,714,258, compared with $2,281,- 
720 the preceding year. After all expenses, 
including depreciation, interest on bonds, 
etc., there was a net operating income of 
$971,826, from which dividends and other 
deductions were made, leaving a final sur- 
plus for the year of $139,275. There was 
an increase in net earnings applicable to 
dividends of $89,249. 
Property accounts and inventories were 
increased by $1,719,175, of which the prin- 
cipal item was $1,090,126 devoted to en- 
largement of the plant. The report showed 
that on December 31 last there were 
33,337 telephones in the island, which have 
since been connected with the United 
States by three submarine telephone cables. 
