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THE CUBA REVIEW 



FROM UNITED STATES NEWSPAPERS. 



The Ferryboat Havana. 



"The good old ferryboat South Brooklyn 

 has been sold and will be towed to Cul)a." 

 says the Brooklyn Eagle, "will have her 

 name changed to Havana, and will in the 

 near future accommodate reconccntrados of 

 a darker hue than those who used to watch 

 Buttermilk Channel ice floes from such 

 parts of the cabin windows as Jack Frost 

 had not made entirely opaque. Her tattered 

 ensign is torn down. The signs in her 

 cabins not even an Italian could read, for 

 they are in Spanish. Her boilers are at the 

 mercy of Latin-American hands ; her pilot 

 house left to re-echo Castlilian oaths; her 

 lifo preservers trusted to the custody of 

 Los Cubanos. Some time, if she does not 

 avenge the sinking of the INIaine, she may 

 recall it. Fate must have something in 

 store for the South Brooklvn." 



Cubans Play Good Baseball. 



We left Louisville on the night of Sep- 

 tember 25 and arrived at Havana on Oc- 

 tober 2. We were in Cuba exactly one 

 month, leaving there on November 2. While 

 we were in Cuba we played fourteen games, 

 winning eight and losing six. The strong- 

 est team in Cuba is the Almendares Club of 

 Havana. We broke even with this bunch, 

 but I want to say that they can play base- 

 ball. Most of the members of the team 

 are natives, but they have great arms and 

 can throw almost a mile if it is necessary. 

 They are fast on their feet and the only 

 thing that they lack is experience and head- 

 work. — Grover Land in the Louisville (Ky.) 

 Courier- Journal. 



Suffragettes in Cuba. 



Equal suffrage has failed in Cuba. Last 

 winter a campaign for the ballot for women 

 was started in Havana with cnerg>' and en- 

 thusiasm, says the New York Press. Sev- 

 eral hundred women of wealth and social 

 prominence rallied around Senora de Bazan. 

 the accepted leader, who began the publica- 

 tion of the Feminista, a periodical devoted 

 exclusively to the equal suffrage cause. The 

 senora had studied the suffrage movement 

 in this country and in England, and she in- 

 structed large classes daily. The Feminista 

 quickly gained a large circulation, and the 

 members of the Cuban Government began 

 to give attention. At the end of three 

 months, however, interest began to wane. 

 It developed that conservatism was too 

 deeply rooted for Cuban women to continue 

 long in a fight for political recognition. The 

 Cuban women are not of the temperament 

 to battle and to wait an indefinite period. 

 Senora de Bazan suspended her school for 



the summer, and when she reopened it a few 

 weeks ago she found her pupils had dwin- 

 dled to an even dozen. The circulation of 

 the Feminista had fallen away, and reluct- 

 antly Senora de Bazan stopped publication 

 and closed her suffrage school. 



Cuba's Industrial Well-Being. 



In view of the recent sale of bonds by 

 the Republic of Cuba, attention has been 

 again turned to the resources of the 

 island Republic. It may not have oc- 

 curred to people generally that Cuba has 

 just gathered her largest sugar crop of 

 1,437,242 tons of 2,240 pounds each. This 

 item of industrial well-being is one of 

 the greatest assurances of that public 

 order and public credit which has en- 

 abled Cuba to sell her bonds at a price 

 which Latin-American governments gen- 

 erall}' consider highly creditable. 



At the present time public tranquility 

 prevails throughout the provinces, rail- 

 roads have been extended, planters have 

 had no difficulty in getting advances of 

 funds required for their business and 

 there is said to be not a single case of 

 j-ellow fever in the island. Pessimists 

 should therefore rub their eyes again 

 and look at the Cuban situation before 

 they doubt the sister Republic's chances 

 of working out the problem of self-gov- 

 ernment on her own account. 



Among the main forces that make for 

 support of government and order are the 

 merchants, manufacturers and planters, 

 all of which are said to be offering their 

 co-operation to the powers that be. The 

 greater part of the press is working with 

 the governmental party, party unity is 

 more general than heretofore and the 

 municipalities are no doubt more in har- 

 monj- with the general government than 

 probably at any time since Cuba cut 

 loose from Spain. 



But with all these helps there is still 

 lacking much of that measure of toler- 

 ance in political feeling and thought, 

 and of that degree of catholicity and con- 

 fidence, which is necessary to prevent 

 hasty conclusions and impetuous action. 

 Cuba has a population of somewhat 

 more than 2,000.000 inhabitants, or about 

 as many as the State of Wisconsin. Its 

 area is little larger than that of Penn- 

 sylvania, but its problems are so utterly 

 different from those of an Ainerican 

 commonw-ealth in the LTnited States that 

 comparisons of this class avail little. 

 Self-government is an individual as well 

 as a political problem, and the collective 

 result is never guaranteed until the per- 

 sonal product is delivered. — Boston Tran- 

 script. 



