THE CUBA REVIEW 



CUBAN COMMERCIAL MATTERS 



NEW STEAMER 



The S. S. Munplacc was successfully 

 launched at 11.30 A.M., April 10th, at Spar- 

 rows Point, Maryland. The sponsor was Mrs. 

 L. V. Plac6 of Havana, and the steamer was 

 named in honor of the late Mr. Louis V. 

 Plac^ of Havana. The steamer was con- 

 structed by the Maryland Steel Company, 

 and is to be put in the Munson Line service 

 between Mobile and Cuba. The Munp'ace is 

 338 ft. long, 46 ft. beam, depth 25 ft. 6 in., 

 with a total deadweight capacity of 5,200 

 tons. 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED 



Spanish In A Week, by Teodoro S. Romero, 

 published by David McKay, Philadelphia. 

 This is the fourth edition revised and enlarged 

 of this popular and useful text book. This 

 edition makes the twelfth thousand. 



Insuring the Coal Supply by Henry J. Edsall, 

 Book Xo. 249, published by the Link-Belt 

 Company. The storage of coal is insurance 

 against either excessive fuel prices or a shut- 

 down. Certain precautions must be observed 

 in stocking bituminous coal, and the means 

 to be employed will vary widely with cir- 

 cumstances, each installation being a separ- 

 ate problem. The machinery and apparatus 

 used is exliaustively treated in this book. 



Elevators, Conveyors and Machinery, for 

 handling, preparing and storing gravel, stone, 

 sand, etc. — Book Xo. 213, published by the 

 Link-Belt Company. The enormous demand 

 for crushed stone and similar products has 

 lead to the development of a special line of 

 machinery for the handling and preparation of 

 these materials. This book illustrates a few 

 tj-pical installations of Link-Belt machinerj^ 

 and its various combinations and some of the 

 elements used in their construction. 



Grab Buckets- 

 the Link-Belt 

 two standard 

 Buckets, "AE' 

 ruggedly built 

 bucket was de 

 demand for a 



-Book Xo. 23S, published by 



Company. This book shows 

 types of Link-Belt Grab 

 and "ZB." Both tv'pes are 



for hard service. Type ".\E" 

 signed principally to meet the 



high-speed bucket of greater 



digging power than it is po.ssible to secure 

 with ordinary grabs. The "ZB" type of 

 grab bucket is a good bucket for the general 

 run of work, on practically all material. 



Copies of any of these books may be ob- 

 tained upon application to the Link-Belt 

 Company. 



Catalog of The Macmillan Company, 

 Xew York, — Practical Books on the Farm and 

 Garden, among which we notice Subtropical 

 Vegetable-Gardening, by P. H. Rolfs, and A 

 Text-Book of Tropical Agriculture, by Dr. H. 

 A. A. Xicholls. This is a general treatise on 

 agriculture in the tropics and has instructions 

 particularly applicable to the West Indies. 



CLASSIFICATION OF LITHOGRAPHED 

 TIN PLATE 



A Cuban customs decision of January 10, 

 1916, provides that rolled sheets of iron and 

 steel, specified under tariff Xo. 37, are only 

 to be so classified when not further manufac- 

 tured, and that only entirely plain manufac- 

 tures of tin plate are hereafter to be classified 

 under No. 56. All articles specified under 

 Nos. 37 and 56 including containers, adver- 

 tising signs, frames, etc , which are embossed, 

 lithographed, or stamped in any way are to 

 be dutiable under Xo. 157 of the Cuban 

 tariff, the number applicable to prints, litho- 

 graphs, etc. The duty leviable on such arti- 

 cles which have been subjected to not more 

 than three printings is $0.0455 per kilo (pre- 

 ferential rate, applicable only to United 

 States products), while the duty on manufac- 

 tures of tin plate (Tariff Xo. 56), under which 

 were formerly classified stamped or litho- 

 graphed articles of tin plate, amounts to 

 $3.90 per 100 kilos. This decision will affect, 

 among other articles not specified above, tin 

 tops for bottles for beer, mineral waters, etc., 

 the latter having been classified under Tariff 

 X'o. 56 by customs decision. 



AGENCY FOR CUBA 



James Walker & Company, Ltd., manufac- 

 turers of the well known Lion Packing, have 

 appointed Mr. Jose L. Villaamil sole ag^nt in 

 Cuba with an office at Santa Clara 29, 

 Havana. A stock of packings will^^be carried 

 in Havana. 



