THE CUBA REVIEW 



CUBAN CONSUL HONORED 



J. J. Luis, consul of Cuba at Philadelphia, 

 recently received from his home govern- 

 ment announcement that it had raised the 

 Philadelphia consulate to the first-class in 

 recognition of the large increase of com- 

 merce between Cuba and Philadelphia and 

 the promotion of Mr. Luis to the new po- 

 sition. 



It is a personal advancement in the grade 

 of the service for Mr. Luis as well as rec- 

 ognition of the importance of Philadelphia 

 in the eyes of the government of Cuba. 



Air. Luis' consular jurisdiction is Penn- 

 sylvania and Delaware. He was born in 

 Cuba, served in the Ten Years' War of In- 

 dependence under General Agrimonte an<I 

 also with the junta led by Palma, who be- 

 came first Cuban president. He was first 



appointed consul in Chicago and has been 

 at Philadelphia as second-class consul for 

 five years. 



WILL TEACH CUBAN NAVY 



Lieut. E. C. S. Parker of the receiving 

 ship Xorth Carolina was ordered to Cuba 

 as an instructor in the navy there. He is 

 the first American naval officer, it is be- 

 lieved, to be selected for such a position. 



He was born at Great Barrington in 1879 

 and appointed to the Naval Academy from 

 Xew Hampshire in 189S, when he was a 

 student at St. Paul's School, Concord. He 

 has been on duty at Charlestown for sev- 

 eral months. ]\Iany other officers were con- 

 sidered for the position and found capable, 

 but were not proficient in the Spanish 

 'anguase. 



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