THE CUBA REVIEW 



political preferment "is an injustice towards 

 these law-abiding and good citizens who 

 have a proper right to figure in the lists of 

 candidates of the Conservative party." 



General Bermabe Sanchez, Governor of 

 Camaguey Province has been chosen as the 

 president of the Conservative Party in the 

 province. 



The prohibition to permit the 



Building erection of buildings higher 



Restrictions than " one and one-half the 



width of the street," on which 



they shall be built, is one of the principal 



features of the revised edition of the sanitary 



ordinances of Cuba, which becomes effective 



in three months. 



The construction of high buildings, unusual 

 for Cuba, has been contrary to law under 

 the construction ordinances, but these have 

 been evaded, and at present Havana has 

 some very fine large business structures in 

 its narrow streets. 



Cuba's consular receipts have 



Consular nearly doubled in the last 



Receipts five years, says a report of 



Increasing the State Department. The 



official receipts follow: 



1907-08. . . .$351,945 1911-12. . . .$602,797 



1909-10.... 408,597 1912-13.... 667.268 



1910-11. .. . 438,691 



The receipts to March, 1914, were $485,- 

 283, which, if continued, will show another 

 increase for the fiscal year 1913-14. 



The Havana Post has long 



Havana's called attention to the dis- 



Indecent graceful scenes nightly enact- 



Shows ed at some of the Havana 



theatres, and has repeatedly 



urged the government to close up these 



depraved exhibitions. The Post says: 



"Sodom and Gomorrah, the cities which 

 were destroyed by the Almighty on account 

 of their wickedness were not guilty of things 

 more wicked than are nightly displayed in 

 various theatres in this city. . There is no 

 form of lewdness and licentiousness that is 

 not exhibited for the sum of forty cents 

 Spanish silver." 



There are five of these theatres and the 

 pity is that young boys are in the audience 

 and having their young and impressionable 

 minds affected in a way that may forever 

 ruin them. The Post said that every one of 

 these shows which are run wide open in de- 

 fiance of the law are protected by persons 

 high in authority." 



"One is said to be actually owned by a 

 member of the city council of Havana," says 

 the Post. 



The Mayor of the city took the statement 

 under consideration, and then ordered that 

 every one of the obscene theatres be put 

 out of business and the actors and actresses 

 arrested. 



The Dominican friars occu- 



Selling pying the convent building 



Convent in Havana, must soon seek 



Property other quarters as the result 



of an order of the Treasury 



Department, which will, in a few weeks, sell 



the whole block in which the property is 



situated. 



The sale is in accordance with the current 

 fiscal year's budget requirements, and pro- 

 vides for the sale of the property in order to 

 use the proceeds in the rebuilding and im- 

 provement of the National University. 



The old Dominican convent came into the 

 possession of the Republic when the Magoon 

 administration settled with the church for 

 $2,000,000 for all the property taken. The 

 frairs, however, who had built the convent, 

 were allowed to occupy the property until 

 it should be sold or required by the govern- 

 ment. Some two years ago, under this 

 provision, a portion of the convent was taken 

 and converted into a police station. 



Havana University was located in that 

 building until about twelve years ago, when 

 it was transferred to the old Pirothenic 

 building at San Francisco Heights, now called 

 University Hill. The building was then 

 turned over to the Institute of Havana. 



It is said in Baltimore that 

 Cuba at Cuba will do all in its power 



Baltimore to help make The Star- 

 Spangled Banner Centennial 

 celebration in that city, from September 6 

 to 13, a success. 



No official word has been received, but 

 an unofficial report states that the Cuban 

 Cabinet discussed the celebration thoroughly 

 at a meeting held recently especially for that 

 purpose and decided to send the cruiser 

 Cuba, accompanied by the Cuban Artillery 

 Band. 



During the week of the great events the 

 Secretary of Public Improvements will be 

 the personal representative of the President 

 of the island and the Cuban ambassador at 

 Washington will be one of the visitors. 



Doctor Pablo Desvernine, 



Secretary of Secretary of State, has been 



State 111 given two months' leave of 



absence for his health's sake. 



He will spend his vacation at his farm in 



Artenisa and w'ill not go to the United States 



as previously announced. 



Some Havana papers predict that Dr. 

 Desvernine will not return to his post, but 

 will shortly tender his resignation. 



The Cuban department of State has been 

 notified that Dr. Santos has been appointed 

 Minister to United States, Mexico and Cuba 

 from Venezuela. 



Dr. Santos was formerly president of the 

 National University in Venezuela and also 

 its Minister for Germany, Belgiu i and 

 England. 



