THE CUBA REVIEW 



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ALL AROUND CUBA 



INSANE BADLY TREATED 



The Havana papers find intolerable con- 

 ditions existing at the Mazorra Insane 

 Asylum, situated near Havana, in which 

 are gathered unfortunate persons from all 

 over the island who have lost their minds. 



While gi'eat advances have been made in 

 recent years in treating the insane, it finds 

 no such advance in the treatment of these 

 unfortunate citizens in Cuba. "The same 

 methods in vogue twenty years ago, yes, 

 fifty and one hundred A-ears ago, are still 

 used," says the Post. 



It also states that the conditions at 

 Mazorra today are impossible to describe 

 adequately. Insane men are allowed to lie 

 about quite naked, and in their own filth. 

 The man only slightly insane is imprisoned 

 with another hopelessly so, and therefore 

 cannot hope to ever become better. 



DISTRIBUTING BIBLES IN CUBA 



A circulation, mainly by sale of 25,568 

 volumes of Scripture, shows Cuba to be a 

 very workable field. Mr. Neblett, who has 

 been in charge of the Bible distribution, has 

 made use of the stereopticon with pictures 

 illustrating Bible scenes, and has found that 

 it arouses interest and increases sales. Bible 

 Day here, as in Porto Rico, brings the differ- 

 ent evangelical denominations together with 

 increased conviction of the importance of 

 Bible distribution. — Report of the American 

 Bible Society. 



OBJECTIONS TO A DONATION 



The Ferrara bill providing for a donation 

 to the Havana Y. M. C. A. of a lot of land 

 on the site of the old Havana City wall has 

 been unfavorably reported by the committee 

 of the House. 



The committee points out that only three 

 lots remain now to be distributed in the 

 section desired by the Y. M. C. A., and that 

 these may be needed for the construction of 

 state buildings which are preferable to be 

 located in the immediate vicinitj' of the new 

 presidential palace. 



NEW SCHOOL PROJECTED 



A new institution of learning will bid for 

 public favor in Nueva Gerona, Isle of Pines, 

 a Methodist Episcopal school. All the plans 

 for this school have been completed and the 

 success of the undertaking is assured. Work 

 upon its buildings will soon be started. It is 

 not expected that these buildings will be 

 completed in time for use during the first half 

 of the coming term, but ample accommoda- 

 tions have been secured for the present. 



ANOTHER NEW BUILDING 



The plans of the Centro Asturiano, the 

 home of which is on the top floor of the Albisu 

 block, in Havana, to purchase that property 

 to erect their new home, with the owner of 

 the property, Mrs. Lopez Ascue of Spain, 

 have now been concluded. The property 

 will pass to the Centro Asturiano for the 

 sum of $300,000, and this includes the Albisu 

 theater. 



It is the plan of the Centro Asturiano to 

 erect their new home on the site, and to spend 

 $100,000 in the reconstruction and rebuilding 

 of the Albisu theater which will be exploited 

 as a side hue with the club in the same manner 

 that is done by the Gallego Club with the 

 National theater. 



PRESIDENT'S SON WINS PRIZES 



Interest in the amiual games of the Clason 

 Point Military Academy, at Clason Point, 

 New York, on May 15, centered in the show- 

 ing of Jose Menocal, seventeen-year-old son 

 of the President of Cuba. Jose did well for 

 a youngster in his first year of competition, 

 and came near v/inning one event, the quarter- 

 mile run, in which he finished second to 

 McCabe, in 52s. In the senior high jump he 

 was third, and in the 1 2-pound shot-put event 

 was nosed out for third place. 



TIRSO MESA'S BEQUESTS 



Tirso Mesa y Hernandez, Cuban sugar 

 planter, who became a citizen of the United 

 States, left a net estate of $1,437,571. He 

 died November 28, 1908. By his will liis 

 widow received the income from a trust of 

 $300,000 for life, but this she refused to 

 accept, obtaining instead as her legal share, 

 one-half of the property located in Cuba, and 

 valued at more than $700,000. It consists of 

 sugar plantations and a hotel in Havana. 



The Cuban property is not made a part 

 of the assets in the present report just made. 

 Two sons and a daughter each receive the 

 income from a trust fund of $300,000, to- 

 gether with $128,440 outright. Angelo 

 Nicholas, friend, received $50,000; the town 

 of Colon, Cuba, receives .$62,509 for the 

 establishment of a school of arts and trades. 

 The assets appraise 1 included stocks and 

 bonds valued at $1,631,186; growing sugar 

 .$21,000. Debts against the estate amounted 

 to $164,818. 



MORE LAMPS FOR NUEVITAS 



The electric light plant at Nuevitas will 

 greatly enlarge its service. With the installa- 

 tion of a new dynamo. It will increase its 

 light service from 2,000 to 5,000 lamps 

 beginning on July 1 next. 



