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T?IE CUBA REVIEW 



ALL AROUND CUBA 



INTERESTING NEWS NOTES REGARDING VARIOUS MATTERS PERTAINING 



TO THE ISLAND 



CUBAN TELEPHONE COMPANY 



The report of the Cuban Telephone Com- 

 pany for the month of January last shows 

 an increase of 4,16-4 subscribers over last 

 year, the number being 16,053 as against 

 '11,889 last year. 



The receipts show a corresponding m- 

 crease, being $87,550 this year as against 

 $65,891, an increase of $21,659. 

 ' By presidential decree the Cuban Tele- 

 phone Company is given until ^March 10, 

 1915. to finish the installation of its service 

 throughout the island. The regular time 

 for the company to complete the installa- 

 tion was March loth this year, but the work 

 has been such an immense one and the 

 company has made such earnest efforts to 

 complete it that the president willingly 

 "granted an extension of time. 



COTTON GROWING IN CUBA 



In the rocky sections of Pinar del Rio 

 Province in that incomparable land of to- 

 bacco, cotton grows beautifully as the trav- 

 eler may witness by taking a trip to the 

 southern section of the province and see 

 the beautiful plantings of this product, says 

 La Lucha of Havana. 



It says that the district around Mangas. 

 Candelaria, San Cristobal and in that dis- 

 trict thereabouts are most excellent lands 

 for cotton growing as experiments made 

 there demonstrate. Reports have been 

 made of the formation of a company which 

 will exploit the business on a great scale, 

 a fact that should be well taken into con- 

 sideration by land owners in these places. 



EXTENSION OF TELEPHONE LINES 



Practically all of Cuba is now covered by 

 long distance lines, the Isle of Pines being 

 the only considera))le territory which re- 

 mains isolated. It is not unlikely that the 

 Cuban Telephone Co. may turn its attention 

 to this field in the near future. A previous 

 concession exists, but as little or nothing 

 has ever been done under it to give the 

 island a telephone service, it is not unrea- 

 sonable to suppose that it must either be 

 cancelled or transferred in due time. An 

 inexpensive cable laid in the shoal waters 

 between the Isle of Pines and the mainland 

 of Cuba, in connection with an insular ser- 

 vice on the Isle of Pines itself, would bring 

 the colonists and natives into quick touch 

 with the outside world. — Isle of Pines N ezvs. 



HAVANA DRY DOCK PROJECTED 



On February 27th President Alenocal 

 signed a decree granting a concession for 

 the construction of a drydock in the port 

 of Havana to Gabriel G. Menocal, president 

 of the Cuban Drydock & Dockyards Com- 

 pany. Propositions for the building of the 

 dock were received from several American 

 firm.s. 



A hospital for children in Havana is 

 projected in a bill recently presented in 

 Congress. 



MARCONI HAS CUBAN WIRELESS 



The ^larconi Wireless Company con- 

 cluded arrangements on February 6th by 

 which it will take over the wireless sta- 

 tions of the Cuban government throughout 

 the island on a profit sharing basis. 



It is said that this link will complete the 

 chain of Marconi stations throughout the 

 West Indies. 



CUBA BREAKS THE RECORD 



A sign very favorable to Protestantism 

 in Cuba is the increased circulation of the 

 scriptures during the nine months of the 

 year up to September .30th. In spite of 

 scarcity of money and abundance of lottery 

 ticket sellers, the colporteurs and agent of 

 the American Bible Society, aided by the 

 pastors, have circulated over 23,000 copies 

 of the scriptures. The circulation for the 

 year will easily pass 30.000. a record-break- 

 ing circulation for Cuba. — Report of S. A. 

 Xeblett, Santa Clara. Cuba. 



A money order oflice has been established 

 in Omaja, Oriente Province. A flourishing 

 American colony is settled there. 



A DUELLIST ARRESTED 



Anibal Justo :Mesa, the wealthy young 

 Cuban, who on April 5, 1913, killed in a 

 duel Rudolph Warren, another prominent 

 young man, son of J. J. Warren of Ha- 

 vana, was arrested on his return to that 

 city on February 17th from the United 

 States. He gave a bond of $2,000 to guar- 

 antee his appearance for trial. 



He has been under indictment since a 

 few days after the fatal duel, which cost 

 young W^arren his life. 



