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THE CUBA REVIEW. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Jose Manuel Covin, owner 

 Holguin of the Havana El Mundo, is 

 Gold Mines, also president of the com- 

 pany owning the Santiago 

 mines, located in Holguin. 



According to Air. Covin, mining in Hol- 

 guin district is now more active than ever. 

 Development work was recently begun in 

 a number of the mines, and the Santiago 

 ore assays from $22 to $40 per ton. 



On account of rumors 



Praise for about t!he ill treatment of 



Americans. Spanish laborers on the 

 Panama Canal, the Centro 

 Gallego, a Spanish Club in Havana, sent 

 commissioners to investigate. They report- 

 ed. May 25, that the Spanish laborers on 

 the canal were better paid, treated, fed 

 and cared for in case of sickness than at 

 any other place on earth. The club prints 

 the leport and takes occasion to praise the 

 Americans ihighly. 



The new armored cruiser "North Caro- 

 lina" sailed June 6 from Annapolis on her 

 "snaking down" cruise, and it is said "will 

 probably go as far South as Cuba." 



The monument erected at Santiago de 

 Cuba to the memory of the martyrs of 

 the American steamer Virginius was un- 

 veiled June 2. Acting Governor Dough- 

 erty, Mayor Bacardi and other city offi- 

 cials and citizens were present. 



An association favoring popular edu- 

 cation was organizedl in Santa Clara a 

 few weeks ago. Julio Jover, director of 

 the Institute of Secondary Education, 

 and one of the leading meteorologists of 

 Cuba, was elected president. 



Havana clerks are agitating for the 

 dosing of stores at six o'clock. 



Storekeepers in Matanzas Province at 

 Santa Ana and near San Juan y Martinez 

 in Pinar del Rio Province report depre- 

 dations under threat of violence by 

 armed thieves. Some money and con- 

 siderable goods were taken. 



Governor Dougherty of Oriente re- 

 ports that his province by strict surveil- 

 lance has been cleared of these petty 

 thieves. 



Rev. Charles Blayney Colmore is dean 

 of the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Havana. 

 There are about 275 English-speaking com- 

 municants and about seventy-five who speak 

 Spanish. The Sunday school has sixty-five 

 scholars. 



The cornerstone of an Episcopal church 

 in Guantanamo was laid on May 6 with 

 appropriate ceremony by the Rt. Rev. Albion 

 W. Knight, Episcopal bishop of Cuba; 

 building will begin at once. 



Tobacco — May Exportations. 



The value of exportations of manufac- 

 tured tobacco and in the leaf, through 

 the port of Havana during the month of 

 May, 1908, as compared with that of the 

 same month of 1907, are as follows: 



1908. 1907. 



Tierces ....$1,140,472 $708,264 



Cigars 940,001 311,615 



Cigarettes 26,873 30,744 



Cut Tobacco 12,332 7,545 



Total .:.... $2,1 19,678 $1,058,168 



Wilmer S. Brown of Hamilton, Ohio, 

 will locate about the middle of June, this 

 year, with his family, in Havana, Cuba. 

 Mr. Brown has been at the head of the 

 National Caster Co. for several years, 

 and his trip to Cuba has been contem- 

 plated for several months. There is a 

 rumor that Mr. Brown will embark in 

 the hotel business in Havana. — Middle- 

 town (O.) Journal. 



The management of the Hotel Inglaterra 

 in Havana has changed hands, its old and 

 popular proprietor, Don Felipe Gonzalez, 

 resuming charge of the hostelry. 



Four hundred laborers engaged on the 

 Oliver section of the road from San Cris- 

 tobal to Pinar del Rio struck June 1 for 

 $1.25 American money, instead of $1.20 

 silver. 



The English pages, for more than a year 

 a feature of the Diario de la Marina of 

 Havana, were discontinued with the issue 

 of June 1. 



The cigar factory of the Henry Clay and 

 Bock & Co. at Matanzas is nearing com- 

 pletion. The building is being repaired by 

 the city of Alatanzas, which will furnish the 

 edifice free of rent to the tobacco com- 

 pany. 



The Mayor of Pinar del Rio delivered to 

 Governor Magoon a diploma on June 1 

 adopting him as a son of the city. This 

 honor was in appreciation of the road con- 

 struction work authorized by the governor. 



It is said that the Havana Y. M. C. A. 

 now has over 1,000 members. It was 

 founded three years ago and has commo- 

 dious quarters on the Prado. 



The lumber yard and mill of Alessrs. Igle- 

 sias and Diaz at the water front in Cai- . 

 barien were destroyed by fire on May 28. 

 The loss will amount to thousands of 

 dollars. 



The international convention of the 

 Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers in 

 session at Columbus, Ohio, passed a vote. 

 May 20, admitting Cuban engineers to mem- 

 bersihip. 



