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respect, being ahead of all Latin America. Tlie City of Havana has to-day five telejihones jier 

 every hundred inhal)itants,and in comi)arison has more telephones than London, Paris, Petrograd 

 or Vienna, and has half the number of telephones that New York has, which city is recognized 

 as the telejjhone cajjital of the world. The city of Havana has three times as many telephones 

 as the city of Madrid. Taking the population by an average of one hundred there are in 

 Havana more telephones than in the C'itj' ot Mexico, Caracas, (Juayaquil, Montevitleo, Guate- 

 mala, Santiago de Chile, Rio Janerio, or in any other Latin- American city, and almost 

 twice as many telephones as in Buenos Aires. There are in Cuba one-tenth part of all the 

 telephones installed in the Antilles and in Central and South America. 



AUTOMOBILES 



1915 1913 



Private Automobiles in Havana 1,131 492 



Hire Automobiles (4 to 5 seats) 1,607 76 



Hire Automobileo (6 to 7 seats) 300 181 



Automobiles exempt from license 124 23 



Auto Trucks 219 11 



Auto busses 7 



Sight-seeing Automobiles 9 



Motor Cycles 73 



Total in Havana 3,470 783 



In addition to the above there are 5,688 wagon.s of various classes; 1,976 carriages of differ- 

 ent kinds and 2,330 other vehicles, consisting of push carts, omnibuses, etc., making a grand 

 total of 13,464 vehicles. 



L-CUBAN TREASURY 



The report of the Cuban treasury shows the 

 balance on October 1st of $7,680,151.25 in the 

 treasury. Of this amount $7,036,977.24 is in 

 the hands of the pajTnasters for current and 

 special expenses. 



The receipts for the month of September 

 totalled $4,711,184.56. The increase in cus- 

 toms receipts, which in September amounted 

 to $2,915,389.94, played a large part in form- 

 ing the large total. Other receipts were con- 

 sular fees, $76,254.02; communications de- 

 partment, $106,970.56; department of the 

 interior, $205,909.93; taxes, $50,905.13; lot- 

 tery, $274,185.14; money orders, $100,351.12, 

 and many other smaller sums from various 

 sources. 



The total ex-penses for the month were $4,- 

 184,511.40, almost $600,0000 less than the 

 governmental income. Of this amount $7,- 

 542.31 was paid out for private works, $10,000 

 for the Cienfuegos aqueduct, $50,489.02 held 

 out under the law of economic defense, and 

 $1,489.48 for pensions. In addition to these 

 payments, one of $94,705.78 was made on the 

 $3,000,000 loan and $162,329.68 on other 

 loans. 



Of the money on hand, $706,540 is in the 

 national treasury in Cuban money; $4,055,- 

 103.89 in the general treasury; $2,670,117.09 



in the National Bank of Cuba, and $43.45 in 

 the Royal Bank of Canada. An amount of 

 $248,346.82 unpaid bills is in the hands of col- 

 lectors. 



MATANZAS-AMERICAN SUGAR COMPANY 



The Matanzas-American Sugar Company 

 desires to purchase for sinking fund purposes 

 $15,000 principal amount of its First and 

 Refunding Mortgage 6% 20-yr. gold bonds, 

 due 1935. 



Sealed tenders will be received at the office 

 of the company, 37 Wall Street, New York 

 City, up to noon of Monday, November 20, 

 1916. The company reserves the right to re- 

 ject any or all offers. Bonds accepted for 

 purchase must be delivered to the Company 

 at the above address on or before December 

 10th. Payment therefor will be made on de- 

 livery. 



Tenders should he inclosed in plain 

 envelopes indorsed for indentification and 

 mailed in separate envelopes addressed to 

 he Company. 



CUBA CROP 1915-16— FINAL OUTTURN 

 Special cable received from ^Messrs. 

 Joaquin Guma-Leandro Mejer, Havana, 

 October 10, 1916: "Cuba crop harvesting 

 ended; production 3,007,915 tons. 



