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THE CUBA REVIEW 



ALL AROUND CUBA 



INTERESTING NEWS NOTES REGARDING VARIOUS MATTERS PERTAINING 



TO THE ISLAND. 



HORSE RACING IN DECEMBER 



H. D. Brown (Curley) has just returned 

 from Cuba, where he is building a raceti'ack, 

 and hopes to have it completed by next win- 

 ter. He is much in love with the prospect, 

 and while at the races to-day gave a glowing 

 descrii^tion of it. 



"I am advertising our winter meeting," 

 he said, "and there is already stabling at the 

 track for between 700 and 800 head, and 

 we are getting more built as soon as possible. 



"I expect to give a meeting of seventy' 

 or eighty days. 



"I am getting along finely with the grading 

 of the track and shall have it completed in 

 three weeks' time. Then I shall begin to ])ut 

 the grandstand in position. I have all the 

 steel framework there. The contractor is 

 bound by the terms of his contract to have 

 everything finished by October 1. There 

 will be both stakes and purses, and you will 

 agree there have never been such stakes and 

 purses offered at any previous winter meet- 

 ing. 



"There will be two stakes each week, and 

 during the season one stake worth $5,000. one 

 worth $10,000, and one worth $15,000. The 

 purses will be worth from $400 to $600. 



"The climate in Cuba is something delight- 

 ful; the average temperature is from 70 to 80 

 degrees, and never colder than 60 degrees. 

 The track has three trolley roads running 

 direct to the grounds. It is most conveni- 

 ently situated, six miles from Havana an.d 

 two"^ blocks only from Marianao. Three 

 members of the Cabinet are among my direc- 

 tors and the President himself is highly in 

 favor of racing there. It is a mile track, with 

 a chute of three-quarters. I expect to begin 

 racing about December 15 to 25, and shall 

 race right along to the middle of March. 



"The track lies in the shape of a saucer, with 

 the grandstand twenty-five feet above the 

 level of the track, and looking out over 

 beautifully wooded hills on the far side. We 

 shall have both an open ring there and 

 mutuels. I have a concession for five years, 

 and there is no chance of interference." — 

 N. Y. Telegraph, Aug. 27. 



The inspection of baggage of passengers 

 saihng for Florida by United States inspectors 

 on the Havana wharves, which has been the 

 custom for several years, is to be discon- 

 tinued October 1. 



In response to urgent invitations from 

 the people and the exhibition officials of 

 Boston the Municipal Band will be sent 

 there and will remain there the entire month 

 of October during the Food Show. 



WHERE IS CAPABLANCA? 



A member of the Manhattan Chess Club 

 a refugee from Europe, arriving at New York 

 on August 29, said that he left Capablanca and 

 Lasker in Berlin a week previous to the out- 

 break of the war. 



On reaching Berlin, Lasker was met, but 

 not Capablanca. It was then said that the 

 latter had been in con-espondence with par- 

 ties to go to Buenos Ayres, whither he may 

 have started. 



Inquiries made at the home of Sr. Capa- 

 blanca, in Havana, elicited the information 

 that the noted chess player's family were verj' 

 anxious about his whereabouts. The last 

 news they had was that he was in Hamburg 

 on July 24, but that after that date they had 

 received no further news from him. 



WISHES MILK INFORMATION 



Dr. E. B. Barnett, chief of the Bureau of 

 Libraries and Publications, Havana, Cuba, 

 has wTitten to the City Health Board of 

 Indianapolis, Ind., for information in regard 

 to ])ure milk stations and the distribution of 

 milk for sick babies. Dr. Barnett says that 

 the National Department of Health and 

 Charities of the Republic of Cuba is now in- 

 terested in the creation of milk stations. 



SMUGGLING ARMS AND AMMUNITION 

 SUPPRESSED 



\'igorous steps are being taken by the 

 Federal authorities to aid the Cuban Govern- 

 ment in the suppression of the wholesale 

 smuggling of arms and ammunition from 

 the United States into Cuba. To this end 

 the ..American authorities are invoking the 

 law which prevents the shipment of such 

 goods insecurely packed or unlabeled from 

 any port. According to Assistant United 

 States Attorney Roger Wood there is no fear 

 on the part of the Cuban Government that 

 arms and ammunition smuggled in are to 

 be used in the promotion of another rebelhon. 

 In order to prevent such contingencies, how- 

 ever, and stop the carrying of firearms, the 

 Cuban Government has passed a law more 

 drastic than the SuUivan Law in New York 

 State. 



The members of the Havana police were 

 ordered recently to arrest all milk dealers 

 dehvering milk from horseback in accordance 

 with an old custom. 



The delivery of milk from horseback is 

 prohibited by the new city ordinances which 

 went into effect in August and affects cities 

 of the first class, as Havana. 



