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THE CUBA REVIEW 



ALL AROUND CUBA 



INTERESTING NEWS NOTES REGARDING VARIOUS MATTERS PERTAINING 



TO THE ISLAND. 



NEW Y. M. C. A. HOME 



Work has been started on the new Y. M. C. 

 A. building in Havana and it is expected that 

 it will be finished early next year. The total 

 investment in the land and building will be 

 about $125,000. 



There wiU naturally be all the conveniences 

 required in a building of this character such 

 as reception rooms, reading and billiard par- 

 lors. 



A large swimming pool, 20x60 ft., modern 

 in its construction, and having all the latest 

 improvements, will be on the ground floor, 

 and there will be separate locker rooms and 

 showers for business men, senior members 

 and boys. 



The gymnasium will be 42x70 feet and can 

 easily be transformed into an acceptable 

 auditorium for concerts, lectures, minstrel 

 shows or banquets. 



Friends who firmly believed in the mission 

 to young men made the building possible. 



A THOUSAND PARROTS 



Prof. Myers, the expert parrot tamer, 

 who invades the Isle of Pines every year in 

 search of parrots, states that this year's crop 

 of parrots is the best that he has ever taken 

 on the Isle (or anywhere else), and that the 

 number greatly exceeds his expectations. 



He left the island in the early part of 

 July with about one thousand birds, which 

 he takes to Philadelphia. 



WILL PROVIDE THEIR OWN MEAT 



The Havana Association of Meat Dealers 

 (Asociacion de Expendedores de Came), has 

 been organized into a stock corporation for 

 which the meat dealers themselves will fur- 

 nish the capital. They will go into the 

 cattle raising business and sell meat at a 

 lower price, reaping the earnings which here- 

 tofore has been the profit of the cattle dealers 

 whom they have been fighting. 



A union has been effected with the new 

 Camaguey Industrial Company, owners of 

 grazing lands in the province, who will use 

 their lands for growing sugar cane, for other 

 land development purposes, and for cattle 

 breeding. 



CAIBARIEN'S POOR WATER 



Caibarien needs an aqueduct very badly 

 and the residents of this enterprising north 

 c ast city of Santa Clara Province are up 

 in arms a out it and are demanding of the 



government that something be done to give 

 the 9,000 inhabitants at least an adequaet 

 supply of water. 



Water is at present secured, it is said, 

 only from dirty wells; its quality is bad, 

 and much sickness is ascribed solely to its use. 



Complaint is made also that the govern- 

 ment has given no attention to the water 

 needs of the city, while other places which 

 do not yield as high a return in taxes as the 

 progressive City of Caibarien have been 

 given proper water facihties. 



CUBAN WOMAN'S NATIONAL PARTY 



A woman's suffrage movement of formid- 

 able proportions will have to be taken into 

 account in the next election in Cuba, says the 

 Christian Science Monitor of Boston. 



The development of this new political force 

 is only or recent origin, but political leaders 

 of all parties have already been told in so 

 many words that wherever their platforms 

 do not favor woman's participation in public 

 affair's, attempts will be made to defeat the 

 respective groups at the polls through influ- 

 ences that are expected to bring results. 



At a recent meeting of the executive com- 

 mittee of the Cuban Woman's NationalParty 

 it was decided to make a complete canvass 

 and ascertain who among the legislators 

 favored women as voters. Operations were 

 not to be confined to Havana, but to be ex- 

 tended to the other leading cities, and through 

 the country districts. 



Encouragement has been found in the fact 

 that in many parts of the island men of in- 

 fluence have openly espoused the women's 

 cau.se. More than 6,000 names of such suf- 

 frage supporters have been recorded. 



It is noticeable, says the Monitor, that the 

 Cuban press, which not many years ago, 

 would have dimissed such a matter as a 

 woman's suffrage movement as ridiculous, 

 now treats the situation in all seriousness. 



SANTA CLARA'S AQUEDUCT 



Senor Pablo Menocal, a brother of Presi- 

 dent Menocal, has secured the contract 

 for the Santa Clara aqueduct. 



Sr. Menocal, in accordance with the law, 

 placed a deposit of $100,000 with the depart- 

 ment of PubUc Works as a guarantee of the 

 completion of the work which will begin 

 almost at once. 



Santa Clara, like most Cuban cities, is 

 in urgent need of an adequate water supply. 

 At present, some few springs near the city 

 afford a supply of drinking water, which is 

 carted through the streets and sold to the 

 inhabitants at a small price. 



