THE CUBA REVIEW 



SCHOOL BUILDINGS 



The recent message of President Menocal 

 to the Cuban Co:Lgress calls attention to 

 the necessity of providing better educational 

 facilities for the Cuban children, and the 

 President recommended that the City 

 Councils of the various cities in Cuba give 

 increased attention to this problem, particu- 

 larly in providing new and adequate buildings 

 for the schools. In spite of the fact that there 

 are now in course of construction numerous 

 new school buildings, it is quite evident 

 that sufficient provision has not been made 

 for the increasing number of school children. 



Sr. Raimundo Menocal has been appointed 

 Secretary of Sanitation to succeed the late 

 Dr. Nunez. 



IMMIGRATION 



According to official statistics, there have 

 arrived in Havana between the dates of June 

 1 and September 25, 7,025 immigrants, which 

 is a greater number for this period than have 

 ever arrived before. 



It is expected that the large sugar crop of 

 1916-1917 will attract an unusual number of 

 immigrants, it being estimated that at least 

 18,000 immigrants will come to Cuba in time 

 for the next sugar season. Besides the attrac- 

 tive conditions for labor in Cuba, it is thought 

 that the Spanish immigrants who usually 

 go to the Argentine will prefer to go to Cuba 

 on account of the conditions which prevail 

 at the pr?sent time in Argentina. 



GOVERNMENT LAW SUIT 



A suit at law has been begun in the Supreme 

 Court of the United States wherein the Gov- 

 ernment of Cuba is to prosecute a claim 

 against the State of North Carolina. The 

 object of this suit is to secure pajonent of 

 bonds amounting to .$2,18'3,000. These bonds 

 were issued by the State ot North Carolina 

 more than fifty years ago and payment has 

 been repudiated. The bona fide holders of 

 the bonds cannot sue North Carolina, and 

 therefore the claim has been assigned to the 

 Government of Cuba. It is said that this is 

 the first suit that has ever been brought in 

 the Supreme Court by a foreign nation 

 against one of the United States. 



GOMEZ STATUE 



The commission in charge of the erection 

 of the monument in honor of General Maximo 

 Gomez has decided that the monument will 

 be erected in the Campo de Marti. 



UNIVERSITY OF HAVANA 



The "Traveling Fellowship" for Schools 

 of Pharmacy, Dental Surgery and Veterinary 

 Medicine being vacant, candidates may 

 present their requests to the Secretary of 

 the Faculty, accompam'ed by an accoimt of 

 their work and academic merits. The 

 alumni of the university who have received 

 their degrees in any of the schools of the 

 faculty may aspire to this office. 



The one favored with this honor will be 

 obhged to move to a foreign country within 

 the term of t\\o months in order to com- 

 plete his studies, and must give proof every 

 six months by authentic documents that 

 he has fulfilled the object of the award. 

 The amoimt of the Fellowship will not 

 commence to be earned until proof in due 

 form is given of his departure. 



ROAD CONSTRUCTION 



The Cuban Congress has recently made pro- 

 vision for road construction on an extensive 

 scale, and official authorization for the ex- 

 penditure of stated sums in this work appears 

 in late nunabers of the Boletin Oficial de la 

 Secretaria de Hacienda. The amounts and 

 routes designated are as follows. $200,000 for 

 the construction of a road from Santa Clara 

 to Manicaragua; $50,000, Sabanilla del En- 

 comendador to Union de Reyes in the Pro- 

 vince of Matanzas; $20,000, Bolondron to 

 Union, passing through Alacranes; $25,000, 

 Alacranes to Vieja Bermeja; $30,000, Saba- 

 nilla to Cabezas; $50,000, Santo Domingo to 

 Sitiecito; $25,000, Estacion de Bacunagua to 

 the central highway; $60,000, San [Miguel de 

 los Banos to the road of Limonar; $55,000 to 

 complete the road from San .\ntonio de las 

 Vegas to Guara; $35,000 for a road from Banes 

 to Embarcadero de Torrontera; $250,000 for 

 the repair and completion of the road from 

 Cienfuegos to Manicaragua; $40,000 for a 

 road from Quivican to the road from Habana 

 to Batabano. 



A credit of $60,000 is granted for the con- 

 struction of a bridge over the River San 

 Miguel; $7,000 for a bridge over the River 

 Jiguani, in the town of Jiguani; $150,000 for 

 the completion of the aqueduct of Santa 

 Clara; and $171,000 for paving and sewer 

 system in the city of Manzanillo. 



