THE CUBA REVI E W 



verse," which had been in his father's 

 house as long as he could remember and 

 said that in many of the most prominent 

 homes in Cuba pictures of Lincoln had 

 been conspicuous since the emancipation. 



The Cuban State Department an- 

 nounced on Jan. 24 the resignation of 

 General Carlos Garcia Velez, Minister 

 at Washington. Senor Carera Justiz, 

 late member of the advisory commission, 

 has been named to succeed him. 



Senor Justiz, who comes to Washing- 

 ton, probably will be succeeded at 

 Madrid by Senor Quesada, now Minister 

 at Berlin. The latter post will be oc- 

 cupied by Jose Garcia \ elez, former Sec- 

 retary of State. 



General ^^lario Menocal, 

 In Aid of manager of the Chaparra 

 Immigrants. Sugar Company, plans to 

 bring to Cuba about lOO 

 Norwegian families to work at the Chap- 

 arra and San Manuel mills. They will 

 be given free transportation, home's and 



work. General Menocal asked the gov- 

 ernment to furnish transportation to 

 tnese families from Havana to Chaparra, 

 and Secretary of Agricultur-i Ortelio 

 Foyo, through whom the request was 

 made, promised that aid should be given 

 as congress intended to appropriate $300,- 

 000 for the purpose of encouraging im- 

 migration. 



Automatic 

 Fire 



Alarm. 



The President recently 

 signed a decree ordering 

 the installation in business 

 houses, offices. hotels, 

 boarding houses, etc., but 

 excluding private houses, of an au- 

 tomatic fire alarm comparatively little 

 known. The apparatus had been tested 

 but the results were not absolutely con- 

 vincing as to its efficiency. Narciso Ge- 

 lats, tne president of the Havana Cham- 

 ber of Commerce, wrote a long letter 

 to the President, protesting against the 

 carrying out of the decree as calculated 

 to work great hardships on merchants 

 everywhere who, according to the de- 

 cree are compelled to install the device 

 at their own expense. 



The Governor's Palace in Santa Clara, now in course of construction and will be ready 

 for occupancy about January, 1911. It is built of cement blocks, fronts on the plaza, will cost 

 over $200,000 and is considered the finest building in the province. 



El Palacio del Gobernador en Santa Clara, en vias de construccion, el cual estsra listo para 



ser ocupado probablemente en enoro dell aiio 1911. Esta construyendose de bloques de cemento, y 



da frente a la plaza. Su costo pasara de $200,000, y esta considerado como el major edificio en 



la Provincia de Santa Clara. 



