THE CUBA REVIEW 



15 



GENERAL NOTES— Continued. 



Major Gen. Guerra in Europe. 



Major Gen. Pino Guerra, accompanied 

 by Major Marti and Capt. Landa of the 

 Cuban Army, left the United States on 

 Aug. 16 to witness the German and French 

 army maneuvers to be held this fall. 

 Among those who bade them fare- 

 well on the pier were Gov. Magoon, Dr. 

 Landa, Frank Steinhart and Nicholas 

 Rivero, editor of the Diario de la Ma- 

 rina of Havana. 



Gen. Guerra said he hoped for a fusion 

 of the two Liberal parties in Cuba rather 

 than an electoral coalition. The latter 

 would be a temporary political expedient, 

 while a fusion would be an act of patriot- 

 ism. 



Thefts in Havana Post Office. 



Ricardo Rodriguez, chief of the bu- 

 reau of stamps and materials in the Ha- 

 vana Post Office, was arrested Septem- 

 ber 1 on the charge of having stolen 

 stamps of the value of $53,135. Rodri- 

 guez is 70 years of age and was em- 

 ployed for ten years in the Philadelphia 

 post office. He entered the Cuban serv- 

 ice at the time of the first intervention 

 on the recommendation of the Philadel- 

 phia postal authorities. Three outsiders, 

 one Cuban and two Spaniards, suspected 

 of complicity, were also arrested. 



On the recommendation of Colonel 

 Bullard, supervisor of the department of 

 public instruction, the certificates at 

 present held by school teachers have 

 been made good for another year. 



Authorization has been granted the 

 Panupo Magnese Company of Cobre 

 Oriente, to construct a pier, with sheds, 

 seventy-six meters long, at the inlet of 

 Nimanima, in Cobre. 



Havana's City Council has renamed 

 Central, San Francisco and Bergueria 

 streets in the borough of Casa Blanca, 

 "Charles E. Magoon," "Colonel Black" 

 and "Lombillo Clark." 



In the city of Havana there are fifteen 

 places where moving picture shows are 

 in operation and throughout the island 

 there are many shows of this character, 

 although in not so high a proportion as 

 in the capital city. 



The Republic of Mexico will establish a 

 "Commercial Museum" in Havana. The 

 museum is to be a permanent exhibit of 

 the products of Mexico and will be located 

 at ahe office of the consul. Exhibits of 

 tobacco, fine woods, minerals, textile 

 works, cotton, etc., will be shown and full 

 information of the land where the products 

 come from will be supplied. 



Meat Consumption Increasing. 



The consumption of cattle for slaugh- 

 ter is increasing steadily in Cuba, as 

 shown by the following table, which 

 shows the number of animals killed dur- 

 ing the last three years: 



Animals. 1905. 1906. 1997. 



Beeves 219,038 228,108 257,840 



Hogs 146,590 141,635 148,809 



Sheep 7,375 8,480 9,791 



Goats 2,645 3,971 6,635 



Totals 375,646 382,194 422,075 



— Statement Cuban Department of Ag- 

 riculture. 



Gonzalo de Quesada, Cuba's minister 

 to the United States, is in Italy with his 

 family just now, and was presented to 

 the Pope in private audience on August 

 22. The Pope paid them the special hon- 

 or of presenting Mme. Quesada and their 

 children with gifts. - 



On August 7, Governor Magoon al- 

 lowed an appropriation of $6,625 for the 

 finishing of work on the road between 

 Caraballo and Bainao and an additional 

 $15,000 for the road between Cienfuegos 

 and Manicaragua. 



Cardenas may have a sheet steel mill. 

 It is stated that the material for the 

 construction of the plant was contracted 

 for in Europe recently and that work 

 will soon begin. The necessary labor- 

 ers will come from Spain. 



The construction of a wharf and ware- 

 house in the bay of Havana is under con- 

 sideration. The wharves are to include 

 all that part of the bay from O'Reilly 

 street to the pier of the Havana Central. 



The corner stone of the Cervantes 

 monument to be placed in San Juan de 

 Dios park will be laid this month. The 

 name of the park will then be changed 

 to Cervantes Park. 



Bids for the construction of the bridge 

 over the Almendares river were opened 

 on August 31. It is expected that the 

 structure will be completed July, 1909. 



An appropriation of $40,000 was made 

 August 14 by Governor Magoon to con- 

 tinue the work of dredging the Bay of 

 Matanzas. 



It is an interesting and curious fact to 

 note that, according to the census of Cuba, 

 just completed, not a single aborigine re- 

 mains alive to-day of the race which inhabi- 

 ted the island when i was discovered by Co- 

 lumbus. — English Mechanic, London, Eng- 

 land. 



