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THE CUBA REVI EW. 



Tch'phoiic 

 histallation. 



Captain W. M. Talbott. 

 head of the Cuban Tele- 

 phone Co. of Havana, was 

 in Cliicago late in November to complete 

 arrangements for the installation of a new 

 and modern telephone system throughout 

 the island. 



In a New York Herald interview he i> 

 quoted as saying: 



"W'c are now for the first time installing 

 a long distance service all over the island. 

 We are building approximately 1,200 miles 

 of long distance lines that will be completed 

 within two years. It will reach all towns 

 worth reaching, about ninety in number. 

 The initial expense will be about $5,000,000 

 and the work will be completed in two 

 years.'' 



Plans are being made to carry the sub- 

 terranean cables to Jesus del Monte, Cerro 

 and Vedado, all important suburbs of Ha- 

 vana, and their construction will begin 

 shortly. The underground cables for the 

 city itself are being placed and connections 

 are made direct with subscribers residences. 



SEX.VTOR MORI A DELGAD'O. 



President of the Senate and Leader of the 



Negro Party. 



Director of Ports and Tele- 

 Ne7<' Cuban graphs Nodarse is also pre- 

 Telegraph paring an issue of telegraph 

 Stamps. stamps, the telegraph service 

 in Cuba being a state mo- 

 nopoly. 

 During the first intervention cash was 

 only accepted for telegraph messages; later 

 common postal stamps were used. 



The new issue will run in the same de- 

 nomination as the postal stamps, except 

 that there will be no $1 issue. 



The one-cent telegraph stamp will be of 

 violet color and will have General Bernabe 



Dk. .MA\ri:i. \".\1<().\.\ Sl'.\R.\Z. 

 The new Cuban Cabinet official, having been 

 appointed Secretary of Sanitation in place of 

 Dr. Matias Duque who recently resigned. 



Boza's picture. The two-cent stamp will be 

 light olive and will have the picture of 

 General Jose Lacret. The three-cent stamp 

 will be dark olive and have the photo of 

 General Flor Crombet. The five-cent issue 

 will be orange yellow and have the photo of 

 General Oscar Rinelles. The twenty-cent 

 issue will be red and bear the portrait of 

 General Jose Maria Aguirre and the fifty- 

 cent issue will be of black and have the 

 picture of Narciso Lopez, the Venezuela 

 patriot who was shot by the Spaniards when 

 he came with Crittenden to lead the first 

 attempt against Spanish domination in 

 Cuba. 



The paper used in making the stamps will 

 be white and bear the water mark of R. C, 

 which will mean Republic of Cuba. 



In the five years ending 

 Cuban with 1908 the arrivals totaled 

 Immigration. 178,326, divided as follows : 

 1904, 9,116: 1905, 54.419; 1906, 

 34,556; 1907, 34,436; 1908, 27,999. Of the 

 leading countries supplying these emigrants 

 Spain leads with 145,219; North America 

 is next with 899 and Germany 633. 



The new post office in Havana opened 

 for business Nov. 21 in the new five-story 

 building, corner of ^Mercederes and Teni- 

 ente Rey Streets. 



An enumeration of all prisoners in the 

 National Penitentiary and the different jails 

 of Cuba foots up 2,676. 



