THE CUBA REVIEW. 



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Assembly Room of a public school in Sagua la Grande, Province of Santa Clara. 



The salaries of Primary 

 Cuban School teachers in Cuba for 

 Teachers' the coming year, as fixed 

 Salaries. by Col. R. L. Bullard, su- 

 pervisor of the Department 

 of Public Instruction, are as follows: 

 First class district, City of Havana, 

 $70.11 per month. Second class, cities 

 of Pinar del Rio and Matanzas, $50 per 

 month, and the same amount for Car- 

 denas, Santa Clara, Camaguey, Cien- 

 fuegos and Santiago. For the second 

 class districts in Guanabacoa, Sagua le 

 Grande, Sancti Spiritus, Trinidad and 

 Manzanillo, $47 per month; rural 

 school $44 per month. 



The salaries of the secretaries of the 

 various boards of education, as follows: 

 Those having from 1 to 20 schools, $50; 

 from 21 to 30 schools, $55; more than 

 30 schools, $62.59 per month. The sec- 

 retary of the Havana board, $150. Those 

 of the other provincial capitals, including 

 Cardenas and Cienfuegos, $100; and 

 those of the other towns, $83.33 per 

 month. 



Governor Magoon has appointed Mr. 

 James Page, at present attached to the De- 

 partment of Public Works as engineer for 

 the government at Cienfuegos, where the 

 Reilly interests are constructing water^ 

 works and sewer system for the city. 



New York's high pressure 



A system started four years ago 



Clever for fighting fires, which uses 



Cuban either fresh water from the 



Engineer, city mains or salt water from 



the North and East rivers, will 



soon be in operation. 



The system was designed by Mr. I. M. de 

 Varona, the chief engineer of the Depart- 

 ment of Water Supply, Gas, and Electricity. 

 This gentleman was born in Matanzas, Cuba, 

 and is the only Cuban occupying an im- 

 portant place in New York city's govern- 

 ment. He was chief engineer of the Brook- 

 lyn Water Department for several years, and 

 was appointed to his present position be- 

 cause of his ability in handling the complex 

 problems of a great city's water supply. 



The Kingston, Jamaica, Daily Telegraph 

 printed a story recently that Chinese smug- 

 gled into Cuba from Jamaican ports are 

 being carried across on small coasting boats. 

 The local courts have taken cognizance of 

 the matter. 



The Havana City Council has appro- 

 priated $30,000 for next year's carnival and 

 has asked the S'tate to donate an equal 

 amount lor the festivities. 



Spurious money in the shape of Amer- 

 ican gold coin and currency, is circulat- 

 ing freely in Havana, according to the 

 Post. 



