THE CUBA REVIEW 



11 



MINOR NOTES. 



La Lvicha, a liberal daily, comment- 

 ing December 8 upon President Taft's 

 message to Congress, says that Cuban 

 conditions are clearly defined. The Cu- 

 ban Government, it says, will not at- 

 tempt to concert treaties with any na- 

 tion without consulting Washington's 

 Government on its views about what is 

 to be done. 



Although very little coffee is cultivated 

 now in Cuba, news has come from Can- 

 delaria, Pinar del Rio Province, of some 

 very promising yields this season and of 

 a most excellent quality. 



The Cuban Consul at Shanghai, China, 

 urges the Government to introduce bam- 

 boo cane in the island. Bamboo will 

 grow very well in Cuban soil. 



Havana is enforcing a municipal ordi- 

 nance against disfiguring advertisements 

 painted on buildings. Everyone has been 

 ordered to remove them. 



Champion and Pascual, merchants of 

 Havana, purchased on December 14 the 

 Cardenas City Waterworks Co. and the 

 Cardenas Ice Co. Work will be begun 

 to complete the piping throughout the 

 city. 



At a political meeting of the Conserv- 

 ative party, held in Santiago de Cuba, 

 December 18, Congressman Guevara 

 made the sensational statement, says the 

 Havana Post, that President Gomez 

 asked the Conservatives to aid him in 

 downing Alfredo Zayas and that friends 

 of the latter were seeking Conservative 

 aid to defeat the administration. In both 

 cases, he said, his party had refused to 

 enter into any such combination. 



At an election held December 19 for 

 President and other ofificers of the Asso- 

 ciacion de Dependientes of Havana (The 

 Clerks Club) the 29,000 members chose 

 Jose jGomez, a well-known merchant, 

 and former vice-president, as president. 



Manuel Villalon, of Santa Clara, Presi- 

 dent of the Provincial Council, be- 

 came Governor of the Province upon 

 the death of Governor Robau. 



_At a meeting in Havana of the board of 

 directors of the National Bank of Cuba on 

 Dec. 22 a dividend of $200,000 was de- 

 clared and a further sum of $10,000 appro- 

 priated for gratuities to the bank's em- 

 ployees. 



A press association has been formed in 

 Santiago de Cuba. 



An election for president of the Sociedad 

 Economica de Amigos del Pais (Economic 

 Society of Friends of the Country) of Ha- 

 vana, the oldest institution in Cuba, founded 

 at the beginning of the last century, re- 

 sulted in the choice of Dr. Ramiro Cabrera, 

 the well-known lawyer. He succeeds Al- 

 fredo Zayas, Cuba's vice-president, who 

 held the office for 10 years previously. 



The Hamburg steamer Altenburg, which 

 was partly burned at the docks of the Ha- 

 vana Central Railroad some time ago was 

 bought last month by a Piiiladelphia firm 

 through Molina Bros., of Havana. The 

 Altenburg is now ready for sea and in a 

 few days will proceed to Philadelphia to 

 be broken up for scrap, which will be sent 

 to the mills in eastern Pennsylvania, to be 

 utilized in the making of different kinds of 

 steel. 



After a reorganization, the Ladies' Aid 

 Society of the American Hospital has 

 elected Mrs. James Linn Rodgers, wife 

 of the United States Consul-General, 

 president. The American Hospital has 

 been reorganized and is now called the 

 Anglo-American Hospital of Havana. 



The franking privilege is asked for of- 

 ficial and private correspondence to the 

 president, members of the Supreme Court 

 and to Senators and Congressmen. Like- 

 wise to all the departments, provincial 

 governments and municipalities. The 

 privilege granted to all others since 1902 

 is rescinded. 



The Havana City Council has resolved 

 that public carriages, which under the law 

 are allowed to charge double fare after 



11 o'clock, may not charge it now until 



12 o'clock. The resolution must receive the 

 Mayor's approval. 



The Cuban Department of Justice has de- 

 cided that the use of coupons planned by 

 the cigar manufacturers is prohibited under 

 the lottery act and must receive the Presi- 

 dent's authorization. 



The Christmas drawing of the nation- 

 al lottery, from which the Government 

 expected to derive a profit of $900,000, 

 proved a failure. The drawing took 

 place December 23. Only 18,000 of the 

 30,000 tickets were sold. 



A rumored case of yellow fever at 

 Aguada, Matanzas Province, in December, 

 proved on examination by Dr. Guiteras, Cu- 

 ban Director of Sanitation, to be malaria 

 fever. 



