THE CUBA REVIEW 



Bernardo Nunez, son of Sec- 

 City retary Emilio Xunez, of the 



Paving in Department of Agriculture, 

 New Hands Commerce and Labor, and a 

 son-in-law of Secretary of the 

 Treasury, Leopoldo Cancio, will take over 

 the paving of the Cit}- of Havana that remain 

 to be done on account of the withdrawal of 

 Messrs. McGivnej- and Rokebj' from the con- 

 tract. 



Young Nunez has been in the Department 

 of Public Works since the Conservative party 

 has been in power, but he resigned recently' to 

 go into business for himself. 



The Cuban Government recently appointed 

 a committee to investigate the contractors' 

 work. The committee reported that the 

 work was not carried out according to spec- 

 ifications, and made a number of statements 

 derogatory to the work. One was that the 

 company only placed two inches of cement 

 where the contract called for three, and has 

 not placed a cement base in many instances, 

 as the specifications provided. 



between the Cuban health authorities and 

 the United States officials. Dr. R. H. 

 Creel reports the plague, however, as still 

 serious. 



Men of the army and navy 



Must be must not indulge in promis- 



Impartial cuous activity at the polls 



during an election, is a recent 



order of Secretary of Interior Hevia. 



They must maintain a prescribed distance 

 from the voting places, and when called upon 

 to police poUtical meetings, should do so with 

 discretion and without any suggestion of 

 poUtical preferences. 



Seventeen city blocks in 



Progress of Havana have been vacated 



the Plague and turned over to the sani- 

 tary department fumigators 

 to fight the outbreak of bubonic plague. 



No traffic in the infected area is permitted 

 with the exception of street cars, which are 

 searched for bundles on passing through the 

 district. Two cordons of troops form a 

 barrier to prevent ingress into the zone, 

 which has been vacated by 18,000 persons. 



A bill was introduced in Congress to 

 reimburse the merchants in the affected 

 district for the loss they will suffer. 



The existence of two more cases of bubonic 

 plague was confirmed April 2Sth. 



The seventeenth case of plague was dis- 

 covered in Havana on May 4th. As showing 

 the virulence of the disease this last case was 

 dead in three hours. Up to May 1st there 

 had been seventeen cases of the plague with 

 three deaths, all since early in March. 



On the same date Washington issued a 

 warning that the quarantine against the 

 bubonic plague in Havana had not been 

 lifted, was issued by the public health service. 

 Restrictions placed upon passenger travel 

 between Cuba and the United States have 

 been lessened, the health service says, 

 because of sanitary measures being carried 

 out in Havana and perfect co-operation 



A bill has been passed con- 

 Among the ceding an annual credit of 

 Lawmakers .'ii;i2,000 for an anti-hydro- 

 phobia laboratory in Havana. 



A bill recently introduced in the house 

 provides for an appropriation of .^300,000 

 for the stud}' and carrying out of improve- 

 ments in the port of Santa Cruz del Sur. 



Dm'ing the debate it was asserted that the 

 port had been neglected by the government 

 when, by proper dredging, it could be made 

 of much imjjortance to the sugar industry 

 and large ships could enter there. 



Another bill provides for an appropriation 

 of $93,000 to indemnify the Western Railway 

 of Havana for extending the road so far as 

 Consilacion del Sur. 



Another important bill provides for the 

 necessary breeding of horses and mules for 

 the army. In it the President is authorized 

 to acquire ground sufficient for pasture land 

 in the different provinces to breed these 

 animals, for which an appropriation of 

 .$550,000 is asked, The President would 

 have authority to secure one thousand five 

 hundred mares, one hundred and thirty-five 

 stallions and twenty jacks. Prices of these 

 must not exceed $150 for each mare, $1,000 

 for stallions and .$2,000 for jacks. 



The very successful live stock exposition 

 just closed in Havana has stimulated legisla- 

 tion furthering the intent of the exposition. 

 The following measiu'es have been intro- 

 troduced: A bill giving free entrance, for 

 the next two years, into Cuba of bulls 

 imported from any country. The animals 

 mu.st of necessity be in prime condition and 

 of proper age. 



Bills for bridges across the San Luis River 

 in Matanzas, to cost $60,000, and one for a 

 steel bridge across the San Pedro River in 

 Camaguey, to cost $50,000, were not acted 

 upon. 



Various municipalities have asked for 

 monthly drawing of the lottery, instead of 

 three drawings a month. 



Cienfuegos asked for a road to Trinidad. 



In his last presidential message President 

 Menocal called attention to the fact that the 

 infantile death rate in Cuba was enormous, 

 having reached the number of 9,015 in one 

 year among children under twelve months 

 and 4,212 between one and five years. 



The agent of the American Bible Society, 

 in a report just made concerning Cuba, 

 i-eports the sale of no fewer than 32,000 

 Bibles and parts of Bibles in the island, 

 and finds hardly a family that does not 

 possess a copy, even if an old translation. 



