THE CUBA REVIEW. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Thirty-six thousand dol- 



Matanzas lars have been expended by 



Improve- the national and city govern- 



ments. ment to reconstruct the 



Sauto Theatre in Matanzas, 



which is owned by the municipality. 



The theater, which was lighted by gas 

 in former years, has now a modern elec- 

 trical installation, $12,000 having been used 

 for this purpose. A large amount has also 

 been spent in sanitary installation and stage 

 decorations, remodeling of the whole in- 

 terior and general furnishing, making it the 

 best theater in Cuba. 



The electric light and power company's 

 service at Matanzas will be ready February 

 I. With the closing down of the gas plant 

 the majority of the residences were left 

 without light, except that furnished by 

 kerosene and carbide. 



The electric plant is only able to furnish 

 sufficient light to a few hotels and streets, 

 which, however, does not cover the needs 

 of the city. 



]\Ir. Isidro Zertucha, a 



Water wealthy planter of Bejucal, 



Supply for has filed a petition with the 



Three . National Government asking 



Towns. for a concession to build an 



aqueduct to furnish water to 



the towns of Bejucal, Santiago de las Vegas 



and Rincon. He proposes to furnish one 



million gallons for the twenty-five thousand 



inhabitants of the three towns. 



The source of the water supply is located 

 near the town of Bejucal, where the pumps 

 will be placed. 



An unsuccessful attempt 

 Santiago .was made at Santiago de 

 Palace ."Cuba on November 18 to 

 Endangered, set fire to the government 

 headquarters. At 10 o'clock 

 in the morning a man entered the civil gov- 

 ernment department of the palace, carrying 

 a large can of gasoline. As he was pass- 

 ing the office of the governor he threw the 

 can to the floor and, slashing it open with 

 a -knife, set it on fire. Policemen on duty 

 at the palace, a number of officials and 

 others put out the fire. Furniture and dra- 

 peries were burned, and the building was 

 damaged. In the confusion the incendiary 

 escaped. The reason for his act is not 

 known. 



According to the report of 

 Yellozu Fever Dr. Carlos J. Finley, chief 

 Record. sanitary officer of the island, 

 there were in the entire year 

 of 1906 112 cases of yellow fever and 33 

 deaths, while in three months of 1905, 

 October, November and December, there 

 v/ere 77 cases and 24 deaths. 



The trolley in Santiago de 



Trolley in Cuba is nearing completion 



Santiago, and will be running in a few 



months. It covers the heart 



o: the city, traversing many of the steep 



streets leading do'wn to the harbor front. 



The carriage trade will be seriously in- 

 jured by the trolleys. The latter are 

 eciuipped with a unique extra brake in the 

 shape of a log of wood, which, when not 

 in use, hangs in front of the car. Should 

 the ordinary brakes fail to work on the 

 hilly streets the motorman releases the log, 

 v.diich effectually brings the car to a stand- 

 still. The line will be completed to a 

 suburb called Buen Alegra, situated just 

 outside the city, in the "Y" formed by the 

 roads to San Juan and El Caney. 



At a recent meeting of the 

 Filters Board of Aldermen of San- 

 for the tiago de Cuba Mayor Messa 

 Santiago was appointed to form a 

 Reservoir, committee of one to' visit 

 the Provisional Governor 

 to petition him to order the Depart- 

 ment of Public Works to place filters at 

 the aqueduct which supplies the city with 

 water. It is believed that a decree order- 

 ing such an expenditure will be signed, 

 as the water now supplied to the citizens of 

 Santiago is muddy. 



Attention is again called by 

 Trade the Havana Post to certain 

 Marks Stolen practices of people in Cuba 

 in Havana, who watch the northern pa- 

 pers for products widely adver- 

 tised in them in order to learn the trade- 

 marks of those which they think will sooner 

 or later try to enter the Cuban market. 

 The northern manufacturer finds he is. 

 unable to do business under his own trade- 

 mark, because some one in Havana has 

 registered the mark before him for the pur- 

 pose of either manufacturing an imitation 

 or of holding him up and requiring that he 

 pay a large sum. This has been done so 

 often here and so many manufacturers have 

 been driven away from Cuba for that rea- 

 son that it behooves the government to take 

 some measures to prevent the rascality — 

 for rascality it is. 



A law recently passed for- 

 No bids automobilists in Havana 



Carbide the use of big bicarbide re- 

 Lamps. flectors and restricts them 

 to oil lamps, which, the 

 ov^'ners assert, do not throw sufficient light. 

 The city council has concluded that the 

 reflectors frighten the horses, and as Hav- 

 ana boasts of its display of carriage horses, 

 the owners of the horses demand considera- 

 tion. 



Leading doctors of Havana 

 A Medical have urged the appropriation 

 Congress forcyi sufficient money to cover 

 Havana. the expenses of holding a 

 medical congress, the second 

 in the city, and the establishment of a med- 

 ical and sanitary exposition. Drs. Agra- 

 monte, Martinez, Bustamente, Ortega and 

 Aragon brought the matter to the atten- 

 tion of the governor, who expressed him- 

 self favorably toward the project. 



