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THE CUBA REVIEW. 



The plans and designs 

 The of the new Almendares 



Almendares River Bridge are by Wil- 

 River ham Barclay Parsons, who 

 Bridge. will supervise the work for 

 the Provisional Govern- 

 ment. The bridge is being constructed 

 by the Government of the Province of 

 Havana. Appropriation was for $200,000 

 and contract was awarded to Champion 

 & Pascual of Havana for $179,823. The 

 bridge will be 750 feet long and 45 feet 

 wide, all of reinforced concrete, with 

 four arches, and will be the first viaduct 

 concrete structure of its nature to be 

 erected in Cuba and the second largest 

 on the island, the bridge which is being 

 constructed over the Yaybo River in 

 Sancti Spiritus being the largest. Un- 

 der the contract the structure must be 

 ready by June 1, 1909. Work was be- 

 gun on September 11 last. 



Governor-elect Ernesto Asbert of 

 Havana wants the bridge constructed by 

 the federal government, instead of by 

 the province, as the province is very 

 short of funds at the present time, and 

 the great expense called for by this 

 bridge would deplete the treasury very 

 seriously. 



The Public Health and 

 Quarantine Marine Hospital Service 

 Removed, removed, October 1, the 

 quarantine which had been 

 established against Havana. The quar- 

 antine against the Province of Santiago 

 still remains intact. 



On October 2 the Texas State Health 

 Department likewise removed the 

 quarantine against Havana and other 

 Cuban points, except Santiago and 

 Cienfuegos. 



On September 21, the 

 Cienfuegos Cienfuegos city council no- 

 Protests. tified Governor Magoon 

 that it had appealed to the 

 Supreme Court against the action of 

 President Roosevelt, by which Cienfue- 

 gos is required to pay three-fifths of the 

 cost of the Cienfuegos sewerage con- 

 struction, the contract for which was 

 awarded to Hugh J. Reilly of New 

 York. The appeal is based on the 

 ground that the city has not the super- 

 vision of the work, but that this has 

 been handed over to the State. 



On October 6, Governor Magoon re- 

 voked the resolution taken by the Cien- 

 fuegos municipality on September 17. 

 This resolution was to withdraw the 

 city's offer to defray three-fifths of the 

 expenses of completing the sewering and 

 the water works of the city. In com- 

 menting on this work. Fire and Water 

 Engineering of New York says: "At 

 Cienfuegos, as was the case with all 

 other cities under Spanish rule up to 

 the time of the Spanish-American war, 

 the need of an ample supply of whole- 

 some water both for domestic purposes 

 and for fire protection was a crying one, 

 and was called for, if only for sanitary 

 reasons. The improvement will go on 

 and be brought to a happy end, all the 

 more that the plans have been made in 

 accordance with the dictation of econ- 

 omy and efficiency, and, under existing 

 conditions, no better contract could 

 have been made. Governor Magoon, in- 

 stead of being censured by a portion of 

 the community, deserves praise for ap- 

 proving the contract for the construc- 

 tion of an aqueduct and appurtenant 

 works to supply the city of Cienfuegos, 

 Cuba, with water." 



Drawing of the new bridge over the Almendares River near Havana. See description 



on this page. 



