THE CUBA REVIEW 



Cuba at 

 the Fair 



The Cuban pavilion at the 

 World's Panama Pacific Ex- 

 position will be two stories in 

 height in the characteristic 

 Spanish American architectural style of Cuban 

 building with a tower at one corner. In the 

 center of the building wiU be a large glass- 

 covered patio with Cuban jilants, trees and 

 flowers. The building will be thirty-four 

 meters long by thu'ty-three meters wide. 



In addition to the exhibits in the Cuban 

 pavilion, Cuba will exhibit extensively in 

 several of the main exposition palaces. Es- 

 pecially noteworthy will be the sanitary 

 e.xhibit in the Palace of Social Economy and 

 Education, which will display the methods 

 of fighting tropical diseases which made 

 possible American construction of the Panama 

 Canal. It was in Cuba that the first battles 

 with yellow fever and the other scourges of 

 the tropics were successfully waged. 



The various provinces of the island each 

 send interesting exhibits of the riches of the 

 island wliich is sure to surprise visitors. 



Pinar del Rio can send specimens of the 

 fine tobacco, and its rich minerals. 



Havana can send chocolate, liquors of 

 di ferent kinds; maritime products from 

 Batabano and Isle of Pines such as sponges, 

 etc. Mineral waters from Madruga, Guana- 

 jay, etc., and Guines can send maps and 

 models of its extensive irrigation system. 



Matanzas and Cardenas have important 

 industries and their products will be interest- 

 ing. 



Very recently the Cuban 



Among the Senate approved a bill naming 



Lawmakers a codification commission to 



be composed of members of 



both bodies and la^vyers to be designated by 



the President for the purpose. 



Under the precepts of the proposed law, 

 the commission will have one year in which to 

 make the necessary charges for which pur- 

 pose they take up the work done during the 

 second intervention. 



On May 25, the Senate approved a bill 

 providing for a subsidy of $6,000 and $12,000 

 per kilometer for the construction of a rail- 

 road from Placetas to Fernandez. 



Representatives of Nuevitas, Camaguey 

 Province, are urging congress to allow an 

 appropriation of $200,000 for the construction 

 of an aqueduct for the city's water supplv. 



A bill appropriates $1,000,000 to be divided 

 into four parts for the continuing of the 

 dredging work at the port of Isabela de Sagua 

 was read and tabled June 2d. 



Dr. Gregorio Guiteras, of the United States 

 Marine Hospital Service, and brother of 

 Director of Health, Dr. Juan Guiteras, has 

 been appointed to succeed Dr. Richard Creel 

 as the United States Marine Hospital Service 

 delegate in Cuba. 



Dr. Creel will, it is understood, receive 

 promotion. 



Anibal Mesa, a wealthy young 



Sentenced Cuban of New York and 



to the Havana, was sentenced May 



Isle of Pines 26th, to eight years' residence 



at Neuva Gerona, on the Isle 



of Pines for fighting a duel in which he killed 



Rudolph Warren, another prominent young 



Cuban. 



He escaped to New York after the fatal 

 encounter but recently returned to stand 

 trial. He pleaded guilty and received the 

 minimum penalty. 



He must also pay the family or heirs of the 

 deceased $1,000. 



Commenting on the sentence the Isle of 

 Pines N'ews says: "The idea of making a 

 penal colony out of the Isle of Pines does not 

 set well with Americans. Cuban leaders 

 profess to have a desire to stand on a more 

 friendly footing with Americans generally 

 and especially those who own the Isle of 

 Pines and make their home there, but 

 nothing that these leaders can do will be of 

 much effect if freak prosecutors and hair- 

 brained judges go to extremes to offend the 

 people, who, with their money and labor, 

 have made the Isle what it is today. 

 * * * * ^Ye desire to go on record as 

 denouncing the policy that permits the use 

 of the Isle of Pines as a penal colcnJ^ 



In Havana, unlike New York, 

 Three Years' the tearing up of recently 

 Respite paved streets by corporations 

 will not be permitted, the 

 Public Works Department having determined 

 that streets newly paved shall not be dis- 

 turbed for three years. 



A few weeks ago when the Cuban Tele- 

 phone Company which had an old permit to 

 lay new cables along a city street aU work 

 was pre-emtorily stopped and all permits 

 cancelled. 



The department holds that all pubhc 

 corporations were given ample notice to 

 do their work in the streets while they were 

 open for the laying of the sewer pipe. 



In the repairs of the building 



Convict of the department of govern- 



Labor in ment, in the Presidential 



Havana Palace and in the edifice 



occupied by the department 



of sanitation, convicts have been doing 



nearly all of the work required and the State 



has been saved a large expense. 



The convicts are brought from the jail 

 each day, marching through the streets of 

 Havana. It is suggested that this labor be 

 employed to give Cuba a highway running 

 tlu-ough the length of the island. Repair 

 work is very much needed in the roads 

 leading into the city. The Post saj's that 

 wagons bringing in the city's daily produce 

 must be driven very slowly and carry light 

 loads and even then they are often broken. 

 During the rainy season, conditions of 

 course, are worse. 



