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THE CUBA REVIEW 



GENERAL NOTES 



OFFICIALS DISREGARD CITY LAWS 



The Havana Post comments vigorously 

 on the farce made of the speed ordinance 

 by national, provincial and city officials. 

 They race their automobiles over the 

 streets, in total disregard, not only for the 

 law, but for the lives of citizens. They 

 are immune from arrest and prosecution. 

 And no matter how badly they may muti- 

 late or injure there is no reasonable legal 

 recourse. 



Many have bought second-hand ma- 

 chines, it says further, and the numbers 

 have never been changed by the license 

 bureau. In consequence former owners 

 have been brought into court to answer for 

 the reckless driving and total disregard of 

 law by the new owners. 



The Post asserts that official immunity is 

 a stumbling block in the path of Cuba's 

 progress and that there can never be a sub- 

 stantial stability of affairs, until reforms 

 are made, that do away with the broad im- 

 munity from civil law now allowed. 



These officials pay no tax, nor license for 

 their cars. 



HAVANA BALL GROUNDS 



The Havana baseball park is bigger, 

 much so, than any we liave in the United 

 States. It is thickly turfed all over and 

 a home run can be made to any outfield. 

 It is a picturesque spot, with a forest of 

 lofty cocoanut palm trees back of right 

 field on high ground, and far in the dis- 

 tance, on an eminence, is the historical 

 penitentiary, looking like a formidable 

 fortress. 



The entire playing field, except in deep 

 center, is entirely surrounded by low 

 grandstands, and hundreds of spectators 

 were standing up back of center, but not 

 one rushed onto the field after the game, 

 as they do in New York and other cities in 

 the States. — Sam Crane in the Pittsburg 

 Sun. 



CUBAN JOINS THE GIANTS 



Emilio Palmero, the young lefthanded 

 Cuban pitcher, has joined the Giants and 

 is now practicing with the team. 



The Cuban is of medium height and 

 slim, not as heavy or as sturdily built as 

 most of the other players. He has light 

 hair and complexion and is a bright, trim 

 appearing lad. 



WILL INSTRUCT CUBAN OFFICERS 



Lieutenant Constant S. Parker, U. S. 

 Navy, has been designated by the United 

 States government at the request of Pres- 

 ident Menocal to act as instructor for the 

 Cuban navy. 



Lieutenant Parker, who was until re- 

 cently attached to the Bureau of Hydrog- 

 raphy in Washington, will remain as an 

 attache of the Cuban navy for about two 

 years. He speaks Spanish quite well. 



A FLOURISHING SPANISH SOCIETY 



The Centre Gallego of Havana now num- 

 bers 40,068 members and its income from 

 this source alone at $1.50 per head per year 

 aggregates the respectable sum of $60,102. 

 The society began its functions in 1881 

 with 629 members. For four years the 

 growth was not marked, the membership 

 at the end of 1884 being but 760 persons. 

 After that the increase was constant until 

 1900, when 8,920 members' names were on 

 the books. In 13 years the increase aggre- 

 gated over 31,000. A half-tone of the so- 

 ciety's new building appeared in the Feb- 

 ruary issue. 



The Police Gazette, a new weekly, has 

 been registered in Havana. 



DEATH OF SENATOR CISNEROS 



Senator Salvador Cisneros Betancourt, 

 ^Marquis of Santa Lucia, who was president 

 of the first Cuban revolutionary govern- 

 ment in 1868, died in Havana on February 

 27th at the age of 94. Senator Betancourt 

 gave the best years of his life for Cuban 

 liberty and lived to see the culmination of 

 his' efforts and desires. 



As a true patriot Cuba has had few like 

 Cisneros Betancourt. The Spanish govern- 

 ment granted his father the title of Marquis 

 of Santa Lucia because of his donation of 

 the lands on which the town of Nuevitas 

 in Camaguey Province was founded. He 

 for his own part never took the title, al- 

 though he has always been called the Mar- 

 quis of Santa Lucia as a pet name more 

 than anything else. 



During the last hours of the old patriot 

 an affecting scene occurred, described by 

 La Lucha. President Menocal, himself a 

 sturdy fighter for Cuba's independence, 

 though suffering from a strong attack of 

 grip, left his bed when he heard that the 

 illness of the old veteran would terminate 

 fatally, and went to his bedside. He found 

 the illustrious patient unconscious and 

 moved with deep sorrow and as a mark of 

 his sincere veneration leaned down and 

 kissed the brow of the dying patriot. 



