THE CUBA REVIEW 



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barons costumes and dance to African 

 music. 



Voodooism received its substantial checks 

 during American intervention. The stal- 

 wart soldado Americano cared nothing for 

 voodoo curses and evil consequences, but 

 broke up their meetings and ceremonials 

 with indifference. The voodooists have 

 since, until recently, concealed their evil 

 practices until it was believed they had 

 been given up. 



During the Gomez administration, they 

 began anew their activities, and a presiden- 

 tial decree allowing public ceremonials, 

 which had been stopped by the Spaniards. 

 This was regaining much former prestige, 

 and smouldering fires were fanned into a 

 neat blaze, but among the first official acts 

 of the new department of government was 

 to stop the public ceremonials. 



DEATH OF SAMUEL M. JARVIS 



Samuel M. Jarvis, vice-president of the 

 National Bank of Cuba, the fiscal agent and 

 depository of the Republic of Cuba, died 

 in New York Deecmber 26th. His death 

 was unexpected. He had suffered a stomach 

 attack recently, but it was believed he was 

 recovering. Mr. Jarvis rendered valuable 

 assistance to the United States government 

 immediately after the American occupation 

 of Cuba in 1898, and in recognition of his 

 services President McKinley offered him 

 the important post of fiscal agent of the 

 United States in Cuba. He declined this 

 post, however, and at his request the ap- 

 pointment was given to the branch of the 

 North American Trust Company which he 

 had opened in Cuba. 



Mr. Jarvis was born in McDonough 

 Countv. 111., in 1853. In 1873 he married 

 Miss Priscilla Wear. He was admitted to 

 the bar in 1876 and began practice of law, 

 but soon afterward his interest turned to 

 banking and finance. He was one of the 

 organizers and the first president of the 

 North American Trust Company. _ He was 

 also a director of several corporations. 



Mr. Jarvis is survived by his wife, two 

 daughters and a son. 



RAISING THE MAINE COSTS 



Raising the old battleship Maine from 

 the mud of Havana harbor cost $792,989, 

 according to a report on December 17th by 

 the War Department. 



This includes transportation to and burial 

 of the bodies of more than 200 of her crew 

 in Arlington. 



The English-speaking men of Cardenas 

 and vicinity have organized a club which 

 will be known as the Colonial Club of 

 Cardenas. 



CHARGES AGAINST JUDGE REILLY 



In an effort to obtain a review in the 

 Cuban courts of the transaction by which 

 the State Department on August 26, 1912, 

 forced the Cuban government to pay claims 

 amounting to more than half a million dol- 

 lars to an American contracting firm, for 

 the waterworks at Cienfuegos, ex-Senator 

 Frias has filed charges of grand larceny 

 and forgery against Hugh J. Reilly, Hugh 

 J. Reilly, Jr., of New York, and David 

 Broderick of Connecticut in Section 1 of 

 the Criminal Court of Instruction in Ha- 

 vana, says the New York Times. On these 

 charges Mr. Frias seeks the extradition of 

 the two Reillys and David Broderick to 

 Cuba. The case is attracting widespread 

 interest among Latin-Americans on account 

 of testimony already brought out in various 

 suits growing out of the contracting ven- 

 ture, in which Hugh J. Reilly, Jr., has ac- 

 counted for some of the money by saying 

 that it went to "entertain American offi- 

 cials" or was "paid to American officials." 



HOME BUILDING COSTS 



There are numerous portable saw mills 

 on the Isle of Pines and the colonist con- 

 templating the building of a house can 

 have the timber on his land converted into 

 building material or can buy it at the fol- 

 lowing prices which are quoted by the 

 Ideal Home Monthly of Milwaukee, Wis., 

 as ruling at the mill. 



Pine for house building, $19.00 to $24.00 

 per M. Sheathing and common, % inch 

 and 1 inch, $18.00 per M; $22.00 dressed. 

 Flooring, 6 inch : $30.00 per M ; 4 inch : 

 $32.00 per M ; 3 inch : $35.00 per M. Siding 

 novelty : $32.00 per M. Siding lap or drop : 

 $22.00 per M. Veneering : 7 cents a yard. 



Hard wood like mahogany, cedar, maja- 

 gua, etc. : $40.00 to $ir)0.00 per M in rough 

 at the mill. Planing: $8.00 to $10.00 per M. 



A frame cottage can be built for $300.00. 

 One thousand dollars will build a good 

 sized, commodious dwelling for the average 

 family. 



There are no log cabins — and no country 

 is so admirably adapted to this type of 

 building. The cost of one would be next to 

 nothing, as the land will furnish the tim- 

 ber and the work of shaping and cutting 

 the logs is slight. 



Because of the equable climate, one can 

 live the year 'round in comfort in an ordi- 

 nary tent or the knock-down "cottages" so 

 widely advertised. 



Paper is used largely for roofing. Paper 

 roofing guaranteed for three years — good 

 for six if properly cared for — costs $6.50 

 per roll, covering 200 square feet. 



Shingles cost $8.50 per thousand and are 

 laid four inches to the weather, requiring 

 1,600 to cover one square, 100 feet. 



