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THE CUBA REVIEW 



RAILROAD REPORTS, NEWS AND TRAFFIC RECEIPTS. 



Week ending Dec. 



Havana Electric Railway. 



Wecklj' Receipts. 

 1909. 1908. 



5 $41,510 $38,051 



12 40.896 35,687 



19 >S9.264 36,598 



26 40.291 37,508 



Receipts from January 1. 



1909. 



$1,904,337 



1,945.233 



1,984.497 



2,024.788 



1908. 



$1,758 395 



1,794.082 



1,830,680 



1,858,188 



United Railways of Havana. 



Wccklj' Receipts. 



1909. 1908. 



Week ending Nov. 27 $15,750 $14,005 



Dec. 4 16.693 15,076 



11 18,809 16,999 



" 18 22.311 18.060 



Receipts for Fiscal Year. 

 1909. 1908. 



$307,006 $268,470 



323,699 283,546 



342,508 300,545 



364,819 318,605 



Cuban Central Railway. 



Weekly Iveceipts. 

 1909. 1908. 



Week ending Nov. 27 £5.388 £4,842 



Dec. 4 5,411 4,620 



" 11 5,441 4,674 



Receipts for 

 1909. 

 £ 107,342 

 102,753 

 118,191 



Fiscal Year. 



1908. 



£ 99,550 



104,170 



108,844 



Week ending Nov. 

 Dec. 



Western Railways of Havana. 



Weekly Receipts. 



1909. 1908. 



27 £5,355 £5,507 



4 4.972 5.365 



11 4,898 5.005 



18 5,298 4,684 



Receipts for Fiscal Year. 



1909. 1908. 



£106,350 £132,863 



111,322 138,229 



116.220 143,234 



121,518 147,918 



Havana Central Wins Suit. 



Three of the five justices of the Appel- 

 late Division sustained the Havana Cen- 

 tral Railroad Company, December 10, in 

 its suit to recover $55,000 from the 

 Knickerbocker Trust Company, the 

 plaintiff company having alleged that 

 this amount was drawn from its account 

 bv the company treasurer and deposited 

 in the defendant company to his individ- 

 ual account. The treasurer. C. W. Van 

 Voorhis, ultimately closed his account 

 with the trust company. 



The company maintained Van Voorhis 

 had no right to draw the money and 

 that the trust company should have in- 

 vestigated the transaction of a company's 

 treasurer in drawing checks on its ac- 

 count and depositing them to his own 

 credit. The defendant company held 

 that there was nothing irregular in the 

 transaction. Justices Ingraham, Patter- 

 son and Laughlin decided in favor of the 

 railroad company, Justices Scott and 

 McLaughlin dissenting. 



Another Branch in Havana. 

 The National Bank of Cuba has 

 opened a third branch in Havana, in the 

 new Lonja del Comercio building. The 

 others are located in Galiano street and 

 at Cuatro Caminos respectively. It has 

 thirteen more branches in Cuba outside 

 of Havana, and an agency in New York 



Nuevitas Railroad. 



President Gomez recommended in his 

 last message to Congress the building of a 

 line between Nuevitas and Caibarien on 

 the north coast of the island, and a bill has 

 since been introduced in Congress to sub- 

 sidize the construction of this line. — U. S. 

 Consul Max J. Baehr, at Cienfuegos. 



New Ticket Offices. 

 On Dec. 27 there were provided for the 

 traveling public in Cuba new and handsome 

 offices of the United Railways of Havana, 

 at Prado 61, where tickets can be bought 

 ahead of train-time, thus saving a great 

 deal of waiting and pushing, and other an- 

 no}-ances to which the traveler is subjected 

 at the station ticket offices. 



