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ISLE OF PINES NOTES. 



The English public schools at ^Ic- 

 Kinley, Caleta Grande, Nueva Gerona 

 and Columbia, in the Isle of Pines, 

 which were discontinued, are to be re- 

 stored. When these schools were done 

 away with this year, the Americans re- 

 siding in the Isle of Pines petitioned 

 the government, and their petition was 

 favorably acted upon by the cabinet. 



Col. C. S. Brown, president of the 

 Canada Land & Fruit Company, which 

 owns the Los Indios tract, has recentl}' 

 opened a 48-mile roadway for automo- 

 biles, from the Nueva Gerona through 

 the McKinley, San Jose and Esperanzo 

 tracts to the town site of Los Indios. 

 When thoroughly completed there will 

 be no better road on th.; island. 



British subjects in the Isle of Pines 

 are agitating for schools. 



According to the Isle of Pines Appeal 

 there are at present 97 houses built in 

 West ]McKinley, 33 in East IMcKinley, 

 and 66 in Central McKinley, a total of 

 196 houses with 167 heads of families. 



Andrew S. Kinnum, of Schenectady, 

 X. Y., was accidently killed in March in 

 the saw mill at ^McKinley. 



The Havana Post notes that Edward 

 Collins, U. S. Commissioner for the 

 Southern District of New York; Alex- 

 ander Goldberg, proprietor of a depart- 

 ment store, and F. W. Wilson, owner 

 of the Daily News, all of Newburg, N. 

 Y., have made land purchases in the 

 Isle of Pines, and will establish a citrus 

 fruit farm. 



Mr. Thomas I. Keenan, of Pittsburg, 

 Pa., intends to form a company to take 

 marble from a rich quarry on that 

 island. 



Work on the aqueduct to supply Cienfuegos with water now being constructed at Salto de Saba- 

 nilla. The municipality of Cienfuegos has approved a loan of $3,080,000 for improving the city 

 aqueduct and providing a modern sewerage system. The loan will be made in denominations of the 

 Lnited States currency and will have a maximum of five per cent interest. 



