THE CUBA REVIEW. 



13 



MR. BUTMAN S REPORT CONTINUED. 



Agricultural implements of 

 Agricultural American manufacture have 

 Implements, a firm foothold and lead the 

 imports of such articles. 

 Practically the same kind of implements 

 used in the Ijnited States are employed, no 

 radical changes in construction being nec- 

 essary. American manufacturers and ex- 

 porters of agricultural implements would 

 do well to keep in constant touch with 

 Cuba's markets, for as the country de- 

 vtlops the demand is bound to be consider- 

 able. 



Five thousand buildings in 

 Sanitary Havana are being renovated 

 Maniufactures or built and quantities of 

 Demand sanitary goods are needed. 

 Large. Despite sharp competition 

 from foreign houses, Ameri- 

 can products have the largest sale. Iron 

 water pipe, fittings, valves, etc., are also in 

 good demand. 



American groceries have a 

 Groceries, fair sale, in competition with 

 Food foreign goods, canned toma- 



Supplies, toes from Spain are cheaper 

 Etc. than American. English fancy 



crackers and biscuits are 

 largely used, because better known, which 

 is true also' of English jams, but the Cali- 

 fornia product is in favor. Cuban mer- 

 chants advise the distribution of samples 

 throughout the island. European firms find 

 this profitable. 



RAILROAD NOTES. 



Inland transportation facil- 



The ities are being constantly im- 



Ciiba proved. The annual gross 



Railroad. earnings for the fiscal year 



ended June 6, 1907, were 



$1,953,309, and the net $658,424; $153,738 



was expended for roadbed improvements. 



The earnings show an increase of 270 per 



cent in three years. 



The Cuba Railroad Com- 



Nezu pany has begun the con- 



Railroad struction of a railroad station 



Station at at the town of Holguin, 



Holguin. Province of Oriente. The 



station will be a modern one 



of cement and steel, following the model 



of the other stations already constructed 



by the company along its route. 



THE United Railways of Havana re- 

 ceived recently from the Baldwin Lo- 

 comotive Works of Phdadelphia a 

 shipment of ten new American locomotives 

 of a large type and four small ones. The 

 value of these engines, according to the 

 customhouse statement, is $250,000. 



PROSPERITY OF HAVANA. 



In the first six months of 



Big Trade the provisional government 



Increase in the increase of receipts for 



Havana. customs in Havana over the 



same period in 1906 was 



$22,435. During the six months ending 



I^iovember extensive public works have 



been in progress and there is an increase 



of $1,379,635- 



This shows the trade of Havana has in- 

 creased approximately $6,000,00 and that 

 the government has received back approx- 

 imately one-fourth of what it has spent 

 in public works. 



When the provisional administration was 

 established there was in the treasury $13,- 

 625,539.65. The governm'ent was called 

 upon to pay expenses resulting from the 

 revolution of 1906 and obligations of the 

 previous administration, provided for na- 

 tional defense, the price of church property, 

 rents, repairs to barracks for the American 

 troops, an increase of 1,400 men in the 

 rural guards, repair of damages to the 

 national municipal property by the cyclone 

 of October, 1906, and public works. To- 

 day there is $15,254,333.36 in the treasury. — 

 Governor Magoon's speech. 



QUARANTINE STILL ON. 



From the Treasury Department, 

 Office of the Treasurer. 

 Washington, November 30, 1907. 

 Tc National, State and Local Quarantine 

 Officers, Collectors of Customs, Ship- 

 owners and Agents, and others con- 

 cerned : 

 Owing to the continued prevalence of yel- 

 low fever in_ certain ports of the island of 

 Cuba, the season of close quarantine will 

 be maintained against Cuban ports until 

 further notice. 



(Signed) George B. Cortelyou, S'ecy. 

 Washington despatches under date of 

 December 14th, state that the quarantine 

 at American ports against Cuba would 

 end on December 15th. Gov. Magoon 

 several days before had objected vigor- 

 ously against the continuance of the 

 quarantine and it was due to his objec- 

 tions that the quarantine was raised. 



The decision will satisfy the business 

 interests especially the hotels and trans- 

 portation companies dependent upon the 

 tourist traffic. 



EDUCATIONAL. 



Dr. Lincoln de Zayas, 



English in secretary of public instruc- 



Cuban tion, will soon put into ef- 



Schools. feet a plan for the teaching 



of English in a great many 



schools of the island. 



For the present English teachers will be 

 sent to the larger centers of population, 

 where the school attendance has some regu- 

 larity. 



Dr. de Zayas has secured the Provisional 

 Governor's permission to employ seventy 

 teachers. He has already secured nineteen, 

 and will take on others as rapidly as pos- 

 sible. 



"The school system," Governor Magoon 

 said recently, "needs to' be taken out of 

 politics and to have better qualified teachers. 

 A normal school is a necessity and will be 

 established. To establish a normal school 

 is easy, but to take anything out of politics 

 in Cuba is difficult. It is also difficult to 

 secure Spanish-speaking teachers who have 

 a knowledge of modern methods of instruc- 

 tion." 



