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THE CUBA REVIEW 



President Menocal has ap- 

 New Cuban pointed Carlos Manuel Ces- 

 Minister pedes to be Minister to the 

 United States. Senor Ces- 

 pedes is the son of one of Cuba's greatest 

 hero mai'tyrs. Dr. C. des Cespedes speaks 

 French, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian 

 and English. He received his early education 

 at Charher's Institute, in New York City. 

 He afterwards went to Germany and France, 

 and was graduated from the University of 

 Havana. He is a doctor of international and 

 civil law and the author of several books. 

 For six years he served as a deputy in the 

 lower house in Havana, and was the revo- 

 lutionary governor of the province of Santiago. 

 He is forty-thi-ee years old. 



Dr. de Cespedes, while in Rome, Italy, 

 was the Cuban delegate to the International 

 Congresses and to the permanent Commission 

 of International Investigation on Agi'iculture, 

 in which he also represented the Republic 

 of Salvador. Dr. de Cespedes also served his 

 country on a special mission to Greece. 

 In the last six months he served on an 

 important commission in the State Depart- 

 ment of Cuba, ]iart of the work including 

 the reforming of the diplomatic ceremonial 

 of Cuba. 



The new minister will take up his residence 

 in Washington following the announcement 

 of the appointment by President Menocal. 



Don Manuel de la Vega-Calderon, first 

 secretary of the Cuban legation, will be 

 promoted to the post of Minister to Brazil, 

 according to reports from Havana. 



Several years ago the Cuban 



Home Plan Government built working- 



a Failure men's houses near Havana, 



which were allotted from 

 time to time to worthy laboring men at a 

 small rental with the privilege of purchase, 

 the rent to apply against the purchase of 

 the house. The houses were substantially 

 built and modern in every respect. It was 

 believed that the scheme would meet the 

 desires of small wage men who were thus 

 placed in a position, by the exercise of thrift 

 and economy, of owning their own home in 

 a short time. The experiment proved "a 

 dismal failure," according to the Havana 

 Post, for with a few exceptions the workmen 

 who received homes that the Government 

 gave them on small installments, failed to 

 meet more than two or tliree payments, and 

 even failed to meet the ordinary taxes. The 

 Government two or three times blotted out 

 the debts due on installments and started 

 out the workmen again, but now again they 

 are behind, and the Government faces anew 

 the necessity for foregoing the debt or 

 seizing the houses. Many workmen confident 

 that the Government will come to their aid 

 make no pretense to try to meet the pay- 

 ments. 



A bill before the Cuban Senate, establish- 

 ing sewers, a public school, municipal 

 emergency hospital, and a fire station at 

 Pogolotti, where these houses have been 

 built, was approved in its totality without 

 any discussion. 



One of Cuba's money makers. A large sugar factory of the Republic. 



