THE CUBA REVIEW. 



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Senora Zahonet is the 

 Woman's president of the Female 

 Society Liberal Vanguard, of S'an- 



in Politics, tiago de Las Vegas, an or- 

 ganization working in t'lie 

 interests of Alfredo Zayas, the liberal can- 

 didate for President of Cuba. 



In addition to politics she is laboring to 

 better the condition of Cuban women. 



"What we most seek," she said recently, 

 "is that Cuban women, like our sisters of 

 the United States, shall have varied employ- 

 ment opened to them, instead of as hereto- 

 fore being confined to choosing between 

 stemming tobacco or making millinery." 



On orders all government telegraph sta- 

 tions were kept open all night, on August 

 1 and 2, and the people throughout Cuba 

 were promptly informed of the election re- 

 sults. 



P. D. McComb, Chief en- 



Havana gineer in charge of the sewer 



Se-iVer and paving work in Havana, 



and makes the following state- 



Paving ments : 



Work. A new contract has been 



entered into and between the 

 Department of Public Works of Cuba and 

 the McGivoney and Rokeby Construction 

 Company of New Jersey, under Governor 

 Magoon's recent decree, which ordered a 

 supplementary contract to be made. 



The supplementary contract was signed 

 June 23 and work under its terms is to 

 be commenced about September 23 or 

 earlier. 



ihe approximate cost of the work will be 

 about $12,824,411, one-third of which is to 

 be paid by the city of Havana and the 

 balance by the State government. 



Under the contract sewers are to be pro- 

 vided for the whole municipality of Havana, 

 including the suburbs of Regla, Casa Blanca, 

 Jesus de Monte, Vedado, Cerro and Vibora. 

 1 he streets in all these boroughs are to be 

 paved. 



The sewage and refuse, Mr. McComb 

 says, will be discharged into the Gulf of 

 Mexico at a point between Morro' and Co- 

 jimar. It will be siphoned across the harbor 

 to Casa Blanca where a pumping station 

 will be erected. At Casa Blanca a tunnel 

 will be built along the Cabanas ridge 

 which will give passage to the sewage to 

 regular sewers emptying through a pipe 

 which will run ISO meters into deep sea. 

 No outlets will be in the harbor. 



The first sewers will be constructed in 

 Jesus del Monte. In that section the pres- 

 ent sewers empty into the Agua Dulce and 

 other streams so that the outlets in the 

 lower city will not be overburdened. 



A wireless station is planned for San- 

 tiago de Cuba, to be erected at the Old 

 Reina Mercedes Barracks, now occupied 

 by the Rural Guard. 



Cuba's Economic Condition. 



Custom House collections during the first 

 six months of the fiscal year, which ended 

 on the 30th of last June, show a falling off 

 of $1,193,307.36, as compared with the same 

 period of the preceding year. The collec- 

 tions of the second six months showed an 

 increase, but there is still a deficit for the 

 whole fiscal year of $136,755.44. 



It should be kept in mind, however, tint 

 the year 1906-7 included the months of the 

 revolution, during which business, and espe- 

 cially imports suffered a complete paraly- 

 zation, involving also some months of the 

 first half of the present year, which accounts 

 for the deficit which we have noted. 1908 

 thus continues to show a decrease in collec- 

 tions as compared with last year. 



In consequence the Provisional Govern- 

 ment has cut down the budgets presented by 

 the different departments in order to avoid 

 a 'deficit, but before long the funds in the 

 treasury will be complete exhausted. 



The general paralyzation of business con- 

 tinues. Monev is scarce, and planters and 

 colonos are obliged to depend entirely upon 

 their own resources. These feel very appre- 

 hensive that when the time comes for rlow- 

 ing and clearing no their plantations, money 

 will be hard to obtain. We confidently be- 

 lieve, however, that the election having 

 passed and a normal government resting on 

 sound guarantees having been established, 

 confidence will reawaken. — Diario de la 

 Marina, Havana. 



A Good Surplus. 



The budget for 1908-09 was announced 

 August 4. The estimated expenditures are 

 $24,285,313, and the estimated receipts, $29,- 

 275,000, giving a surplus of $5,129,860. 



Mails arrive and depart 

 Mail from Havana as follows : 



Schedule. From Miami via Knight's 

 Key Mondays and Fridays at 

 8 a. m. Leave Mondays and Fridays at 1 

 p. m. 



From Mobile Mondays. 



From New York direct Mondays and 

 Wednesdays at 7 a. m. 



From New Orleans, no fixed day. Leaves 

 Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays at 10 

 a. m. 



From Tampa Tuesdays and Saturdays 

 6.30 a. m. Leaves Tuesdays and Saturdays 

 at 11.30 a. m. 



Ordinary correspondence from the United 

 States, Europe, etc., is received and sent 

 through MiamJ, via Knight's Key. 



Registered and ordinary correspondence to 

 and from the United States, Europe, etc., 

 is received and sent through Tampa. This 

 schedule in force July 1, 1908. 



Governor Magoon has granted a further 

 appropriation of $14,000 for the extirpation 

 of the disease affecting the cocoanut trees in 

 the Baracoa district. 



