THE CUBA REVIEW 



15 



ALL AROUND CUBA 



PROGRESS OF ANTILLA 



The town of .liitilla, situated on Xipe Bay, 

 was established bj" Sir WiUiam Van Home 

 in 1906, and what was then an inaccessible 

 hill, has been transformed into a rich village, 

 with more than 500 residences, many busi- 

 ness establishments and agencies for American 

 and p]uropean steamsliip companies. 



Through the gi'eat warehouses of the Cuba 

 Railroad Company situated here pass annually 

 more than a million bags of sugar which leave 

 the port for distant countries. 



The custom house collections of Antilla 

 average $100,000 monthly. 



Work has begun on a portion of the road 

 from Guantanamo to Jamaica. Already 100 

 meters are being constructed from the San 

 Isabel bridge to the Guantanamo and Western 

 Railroad shops and station at San Justo. 



The work is of great necessity and it will 

 not be long before the entire road to Jamaica 

 will be constructed. 



There are at present organized in Havana 

 five creches, devoted to the care of children of 

 workingmen who are supposed to be emploA^ed 

 at dailv labor. 



The national prize of §1,500 for the best 

 aviation flight over 250 kilometers was won 

 Maj- 20th by Jaime Gonzales, a Cuban 

 aviator, who flew from Cienfuegos to Havana, 

 covering the distance of 300 kilometers in 

 exactly two hours. Gonzales used an 80 

 horse power IMorane monoplane in his 

 flight. 



The electric plant at Ai-temisa in Pinar 

 del Rio province will establish an ice factory 

 in the town. 



It will be in operation some time in June. 



EIGHTY PER CENT. CATHOLICS 



There are no religious problems in Cuba. 

 The state lives within absolute independence 

 of the church. The Catholic church, like 

 manv of the other religious communities 

 which has proselytes among the Cubans, is 

 one of the many associations which has a 

 place within our social, political and econo- 

 mical centers. It must, as a corporation, 

 duh' authorized bj' coast itutional precept, 

 have intimate relation with the ruling powers, 

 and as an association which counts among its 

 men of Cuba, it is not strange to see it repre- 

 sented b}- means of its ministers and pre- 

 lates in almost all of our social acts. — From 

 La Lucha. Havana. 



CHARMS OF HAVANA 



Havana nowadays is flushed as faultlessly 

 as Paris or Berlin. 



It has its cathedrals and its dungeons, 

 its narrow pavements whereon the battle of 

 the wall is daily fought out; its cafes that 

 sometimes turn down their lights, but never 

 seem to close their doors, and where at all 

 hours you can be served with a varied and 

 delectable meal, out-of-doors or on the roofs, 

 with the blue-jacket waters of dispensable, 

 palm-fringed avenue and its bay beneath. 

 It has its country club and its golf links, its 

 carnivals and festivals, its sparkling subm-b 

 of Vedado, its contrasts of electric street cars, 

 bullock wagons and automobiles, its shrill 

 peddlers, its opera house, its shops where 

 chaffering is carried to an almost Irish finish, 

 its peopled-fluttering balconies and, above 

 all, and permeating all, its high-pitched 

 clanging noises. All this the average visitor, 

 especially if he be from the United States 

 and has had few opportunities for contact 

 with an alien environment, finds eminently 

 satisfying. — ^Poughkeepsie Enterprise. 



Hotel of the Cuba Company and residences at Antilla. 



