THE CUBA REVIEW 



One of the buildings in Cienfueg-os devoted to cockfights. These take place all day Sunday's and 

 holidays. The admission charge is 20 to 30 cents each person. The proprietors must pay a' heavy 

 license fee. 



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Legations 



Opposed. 



The plan of the Presi- 

 dent for legations in Ger- 

 many, Holland and Ar- 

 gentine, outlined in a re- 

 cent message to Congress, 

 was opposed in the House on February 

 15, although previously passed by the 

 Senate. It was finally approved by a 

 majority of four. 



Objections were that the treasury was 

 not in condition to stand the expense of 

 the legations. Congressman Gonzalez 

 Lanuza claimed that Minister Rafel 

 Montoro, accredited in London, was also 

 accredited before the German Govern- 

 ment, and that there was no need for a 

 legation in German3^ 



Cuba 



Free Fran 



Plagues. 



"We have not in Cuba, 

 with the exception of lep- 

 rosy, any quarantinable 

 disease. It is a long period 

 since we were visited by 

 Asiatic cholera. Bubonic plague and 

 typhus have never been our guests. 

 Smallpox has been extinguished and the 

 last case of yellow fever occurred in De- 

 cember, 1908. Our country, is at present 

 free from these plagues." — Dr. Manuel 

 Varona Suarez, secretary of the Public 

 Works and Charities, November, 1900. 



Governor Villalon, of Santa Clara, 

 suggested to the President recently, a 

 regular Government telephone line con- 

 necting Placetas and Sancti Spiritus, 

 with branches at all the posts of the 

 Rural Guard in the district. 



Miss Petronila Gomez, daughter of the 

 President, was married February 22 to 

 Dr. Mencia Garcia, at the President's 

 palace, the Bishop of Havana officiating. 

 The bride received gifts which local 

 papers estimated at $70,0C0. 



Contractors working in different places 

 on the Island in the construction of 

 roads and bridges will be paid out of an 

 appropriation passed by the Cuban House 

 on February 25, of $1,000,000. 



Gustave Bock, the cigar manufacturer, 

 died of pneumonia in Havana, February 

 15, aged seventy-three years. 



Cuba held no better known man nor 

 a wealthier than Gustave Bock, says 

 the New York Tribune. To the world 

 at large he gave many famous brands 

 of cigars. He was a native of German}-, 

 but went to Cuba as a young man, and 

 had ever since been associated with the 

 tobacco industry there. He began as a 

 clerk in a tobacco house, where he 

 learned the business, root and branch. 

 In 1864 he became his own master as 

 head of the house of Bock & Co. Five 

 years after he was making and selling 

 100,000 cigars a day. ' 



The names of Mr. F. INI. da Costa 'and 

 Don Luis Marx are mentioned for' the 

 post left vacant .by the. .dsatk- oL-iNIr. 

 Bock. 



