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THE CUBA REVI E W 



Hospital at Cienfuegos. A new building constructed at a cost of $60,000. 



Havana's 



Paid 

 Firemen. 



A paid fire department for 

 Havana is now being organ- 

 ized under tlie approval of 

 Governor Magoon and the 

 City Council. The salary 

 will be $50 per month. The old Volunteer 

 Organization will not be immediately 'dis- 

 solved and the members will work in har- 

 mony with the paid men. The service 

 heretofore has not been at all adequate, 

 but it now promises to become so when 

 the regular service by paid men will be- 

 gin. The new fire house illustrated on 

 this page is now being built on Zuleta 

 street. 



It is probable that Congress will provide 

 for the opening of the Rio Cauto, Cuba's 

 largest river. The opening of this stream 

 to the navigation of small boats would be 

 a most important enterprise .to the com- 

 mercial development of the island. — L. V. 

 de Abad, in the New Orleans Picayune. 



A school for deaf and dumb will be 

 shortly opened at Santiago de Cuba. This 

 is the first school of its kind to be opened 

 in the province of Oriente. There is a 

 deaf and dumb school in Havana, main- 

 tained by a Catholic priest, which is giving 

 very good results. 



According to the Bu- 

 Cuban reau of Statistics of the 

 Immigration. Department of Finance, 

 during the fiscal year end- 

 ing June 30, 1908, 31,227 immigrants 

 arrived in the Republic. Of these 23,668 

 arrived at Havana, 6,678 at Santiago, 397 

 at Nuevitas, 144 at Caibarien, 188 at 

 Cienfuegos and the rest at other ports. 

 Of these new arrivals 24,792 are Span- 

 ish, 1,528 North Americans, 1,438 Eng- 

 lish, 1,110 West Indians, 619 Porto 

 Ricans, 257 French, 322 Syrian, 231 

 Turkish, 215 Italian, 188 Mexican and 

 83 German. 



Eighteen boxes containing 

 the wireless telegraph outfit 

 which is to be installed here 

 connecting this city with 

 other points in the island 

 arrived recently in Camaguey. Work on 

 the new station will be commenced shortly. 

 The new wireless station will be located 

 at a point to be known as El Polvorin and 

 now called Cuartel de Agramonte. 



New 

 Wireless 

 Station. 



Governor Magoon has issued a decree 

 providing an appropriation of $15,000 for 

 the continuation of the work of dredging 

 the harbor of Cienfuegos. 



