THE CUB A REVIEW 



1 



FOR MOLASSES USE 



MATERIAL 

 FABRICATED 



Off ice in Gushing, 

 Oklahoma, Gas Building 



2630 Whitehall BuUding 

 NEW YORK 



STEEL TANKS 



H AIMOIND T AINK 



COMPLETE 

 OR ERECTED 



Agents in Cuba: 



ZALDO & MARTINEZ 



26 O'Reilly Street, Havana 



BUILT BY 



HAMMOND IRON WORKS, Warren, Pa., U.S.A. 



SHORT PAID POSTAGE 



In accordance with a request from the De- 

 partment of Commerce, The Cuba Review 

 desires to call the attention of American mer- 

 chants doing business with Cuba and other 

 foreign countries, to the necessity of having all 

 mail matter properly stamped. In spite of 

 the wide publicity given to this matter by the 

 Department of Commerce and the i:)ress of the 

 United States, the matter has not been 

 l^roperly taken care of, and we are advised 

 that numerous reports constantly reach the 

 Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce 

 from all part of the world, which indicate that 

 the practice of American business men in send- 

 ing out their foreign correspondence insuffi- 

 ciently stamped is a factor which affects very 

 unfavorably the transaction of American 

 foreign trade. To remedy this evil the De- 

 partment of Commerce has asked the co-oper- 

 ation of the United States Post Office Depart- 

 ment, which has resulted in the following 

 order : 



Notwithstanding special attention has been 

 called rei:)eatedly through the official publica- 

 tions of the De|)artment and also through the 

 press to the rates of postage ai)plical>le to 

 articles mailed in the United States addressed 

 for delivery aljroad, the Dei^artment con- 

 tinues to receive complaints on account of the 

 receipt in foreign countries of much short-paid 

 mail from the United States. Postmasters are 

 directed again, therefore, to give the widest 

 possible publicity to the rates of postage appli- 

 cable to articles for foreign countries as indi- 

 cated on page 116 of the Postal Guide for 

 July, 1914, and to the regulations which re- 

 quires the collection of DOUBLE the amount 

 of the deficient POSTAGE upon the delivery 

 of short-paid articles in international mails. 

 Whenever it is practicable to do so, post- 

 masters shall also promptly inform the send- 



ers of short-paid articles mailed at their 

 offices of the amount necessary fully to i)re- 

 pay the postage on such articles and to hold 

 the articles until the senders supply the 

 necessary postage stamps or specifically 

 authorize the dispatch of the articles as short- 

 paid. 



As the failure properly to prepay letters for 

 foreign countries appears to he the result in 

 many cases of an erroneous impression as to 

 the application of the United States domestic 

 rate, postmasters should adopt all measures 

 practicable to give notice to the public that 

 the only destinations to which the two-cent 

 letter rate applies are Canada, Cuba, Mexico, 

 Republic of Panama, the Canal Zone, Baha- 

 mas, Barbados, British Honduras, Leeward 

 Islands, Newfoundland, Germany (by direct 

 steamers only) England, Scotland, Wales, 

 Ireland and the City of Shanghai, China; 

 and that TO ALL OTHER PLACES the rate 

 is five cents for the first oimce or fraction of 

 an ovmce and three cents for each additional 

 ounce or fraction of an ounce, which must be 

 fully prepaid or the letters become liable on 

 delivery to a charge of DOUBLE the amount 

 of the deficient POSTAGE. 



APRIL ISSUE, PAGE 27 



We are advised by Mr. Ross. E. Holaday, 

 American Consul at Santiago de Cuba, that 

 the article entitled "The Timber Resources of 

 Cuba" should have been credited to Mr. Hola- 

 day, and not to the "Journal of the Society 

 of Arts," London, as the original article ap- 

 l^eared in the Daily Consular and Trade Re- 

 pjrts, under date of August 14, 1914. 



SHIPMENTS FROM PORTO RICO TO CUBA 



1914 $2,500,000 1913.... $3,600,000 



