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THE CUBA REVIEW. 



Minor News Notes. 



Services were held in the new Episco- 

 pal Cathedral, Havana, April 12, for the 

 first time. The Easter services were like- 

 wise held in the new building, the at- 

 tendance numbering three hundred. 



Among those present were Governor 

 Charles E. Alagoon, Captain J. A. Ryan, 

 United States jNIinister Edwin V. Mor- 

 gan, Major J. R. Terrill, Secretary of 

 the Treasury, Colonel W. M. Black, Sec- 

 retary of Public Works, and Major Jef- 

 ferson R. Kean, supervisor of the Sani- 

 tary Department. 



One of the best known and most 

 popular educational institutions in Cuba, 

 "Las Escuelas Pias," situated in Guana- 

 bacoa, near Havana, was destroyed by 

 fire on April 11 with a loss of $300000. 



This institution was founded more 

 than 70 years ago by the Escolapian 

 Fathers, who came to this country to 

 establish a branch of their order here. 

 Ex-President Palma and Major-General 

 Faustina Guerra, now in command of 

 Cuba's permanent arm_y, received their 

 early education at this college. 



There was recently unearthed in the 

 upper part of the harbor by the dredge 

 which is cleaning out the wreckage in 

 the bottom of the bay, some timbers 

 which were recognized as being some of 

 a British warship sunk there during the 

 time of the attack on Havana by the 

 British in 1762. One of these timbers 

 was found to contain a good sized can- 

 non ball. 



The new electric light plant which has 

 been under construction by a German 

 syndicate at Matanzas was inaugurated 

 on the 27th inst. The new plant will 

 furnish sufficient power for the city, and 

 has a contract for public lighting for 15 

 years. 



Mr. Harry Usher has been appointed 

 as the new General Manager of the 

 Cuban Central Railways, with headquar- 

 ters at Sagua la Grande. 



The machinery for the construction of 

 a brewery and ice plant at Cardenas ar- 

 rived from New York recently and is 

 awaiting the finishing of the building be- 

 fore it is installed. 



Messrs. Martinez & Sons of Cardenas 

 have opened a soap factory near that 

 city. 



Messrs. Arachevala & Company, own- 

 ers of the alcohol and wood alcohol 

 plant of Cardenas are preparing plans 

 for the enlargement of their mill. 



In July this year a sheet-iron and 

 steel mill will be opened at Cardenas. 

 The company is being organized by a 

 syndicate of merchants. 



An appropriation has been made am- 

 ounting to $30,000 for the < onstruction 

 of a dyke to protect the City of Sagua 

 from fioods. Work will be commenced 

 at once. 



The contracts for the construction of 

 a road from San Cristobal to Pinar del 

 Rio have been awarded Messrs. Oliver 

 & Co. and a local contractor named 

 Piiion. It will be 105 kilometers long 

 and cost $1,300,000. \¥hen completed, 

 direct communication by road will be 

 had between Havana and the capital of 

 Pinar del Rio, as the highway between 

 Havana and San Cristobal is now fin- 

 ished. 



The Provincial Superintendents of 

 Schools are preparing a report on edu- 

 cation, which will show exact condi- 

 tions in each province. The acting sec- 

 retary of public instruction, Lincoln de 

 Zayas, will make his annual report 

 shortly. 



A new public school is to be estab- 

 lished at Negro, near Banes, in the 

 Province of Oriente. 



School buildings of Cuba. Public School "Llaca" 

 at Cardenas. 



General Barry has issued a request to 

 all American ariny posts in Cuba ask- 

 ing that the officers take regular courses 

 in the Spanish language during the sea- 

 son of garrison training from April i to 

 September 30. 



The United States officers acting as 

 temporary governors of the provinces 

 receive no compensation for their ser- 

 vice. 



Cuba will be represented at the Inter- 

 national Congress on Tuberculosis in 

 Washington, beginning September 21 

 next. Dr. J. Guiteras of Havana is presi- 

 dent, and Dr. J. L. Jacobsen, also of 

 Havana, is vice-president of the Cuban 

 committee, which has been asked to take 

 part in the congress and suggest means 

 for alleviating the white plague in the 

 island, popularly supposed to be one of 

 the most fatal of Cuba's diseases. 



