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THE CUBA REVIEW 



ELECTRIC LIGHT CONCESSIONS 



Eloy Novoa has been authorized to in- 

 stall an electric plant in Rancho Veloz, 

 Santa Clara Province, for the purpose of 

 suppling light and power to neighboring 

 towns and industrial enterprises. 



Tomas Gonzalez's request to establish in 

 Havana a radiograph station with a radius 

 of 500 miles for the purpose of studying its 

 workings has been denied by the govern- 

 ment. 



Permission has been granted to the com- 

 mon council of the city of Puerto Padre, 

 Oriente Province, to establish a system of 

 electric power distribution using the fluid 

 generated in the electric plant of the San 

 Manuel Sugar Company in the same dis- 

 trict. 



NEW BRANCH IN GUANTANAMO 



The new building of the Royal Bank of 

 Canada in Guantanamo is rapidly ap- 

 proaching completion and will be inaugu- 

 rated within a short time. 



TO ENLARGE STEEL PLANT 



It is stated by the Fust of Havana that 

 the American Steel Company of Cuba has 

 purchased a tract of thirteen acres of land 

 at Palatino, located on the line of the West- 

 ern Railway and Vento Avenue within 

 Havana's limits. 



The company will build on this property 

 an additional plant which will cost over 

 $100,000 and which will be in operation be- 

 fore the end of the year. 



The Cuban Senate on February 26th 

 passed a bill appropriating $1,000,000 for the 

 erection of a Cuban Capitol building. 



HONEY FOR ERYSIPELAS 



A correspondent in Gleanings of Bee 

 Culture, of Medina, Ohio, writes that honey 

 was found to be a cure for erysipelas. 



The patient was advised by his physician 

 to get strained honey and apply by spread- 

 ing on a soft cloth, and covering the parts, 

 removing every two or three hours, bathing 

 the parts in warm water, and applying a 

 fresh cloth prepared as before. This was 

 done, and in a short time the erysipelas dis- 

 appeared, and there has been no more 

 trouble with it. 



The correspondent cites at least three 

 cases where the honey applied as above 

 effected a complete cure. 



CUBAN SUGAR AT PHILADELPHIA 



Philadelphia now has access to the great- 

 est sugar crop ever turned out in Cuba. 

 \\'ithin the last three or four years virtually 

 the bulk of sugar imported to this port has 

 come from Cuba. Figures at the custom 

 house show no beet sugar has been im- 

 ported from Germany, Austria and Russia 

 for five years. Some of the present supply 

 comes from Java, and some imported free 

 of duty from Porto Rico, Hawaii and the 

 Philippines. 



There are a number of mills on the is- 

 land of Cuba making white sugar without 

 any chemical refining process, which are 

 disposing of it on the local market, but 

 tliey refuse to make any quotations on it 

 for the American market. What the price 

 is on the Cuban market is not yet known. 



The president has issued an exequatur 

 to Jose H. Beola recognizing him as vice- 

 consul of Norway in Gibara and all the 

 iudicial district of Holguin. 



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