THE CUBA REVIEW 



11 



United States Minister to Cuba John Brinkerlioff Jackson leaving the President's 

 palace in Havana on April 23d after presenting his credentials. Behind hirn is 

 President Gomez's aide, and at the right are standing Mr. Frederick Morris Bearing, 

 American charge d'affaires, and Major Henry Anson Barber, military attache to the 



American Legation. 



The Cuban army and 



The Latest rural guard are to be 



Model armed with the best weap- 



for Cuba on in the world, in the 



opinion of United States 



ordinance experts, namely, the latest model 



of the Springfield musket, which is now 



issued to the American army. 



Major Eduardo Lores, who is the com- 

 mander of the Cuban rural guard, has com- 

 pleted the purchase of these muskets. Five 

 thousand are intended for the rural guard 

 and 5,000 for the Cuban army. The new 

 muskets will cost the Cubans $15 each, - 

 making a total of $150,000. The ammu- 

 nition will have to be purchased in open 

 market. 



The United States Congress authorized 

 the War Department to sell to the Cuban 

 government such arms and ammunition as 

 it should need. 



In speaking of the recent trouble among 

 the negro population Major Lores said : 

 "We can take care of these little out- 

 breaks, but we want to be in readiness for 

 anything greater that might turn up. If 

 the United States should go to war, Cuba 

 would like to be prepared to assist. We 

 need 5,000 guns of the latest type. Ours 

 are not modern." 



General 



Menocal 



III 



General Mario Menocal, 



Manager of the Chaparra 



Sugar Company's great in- 



interests in Cuba, was taken 



ill at Chaparra on April 



28th with an attack of appendicitis, and 



underwent an operation in Havana on May 



4th, at a private clinic in Vedado. 



The operation was performed most ex- 

 neditiously, and seemingly with every indi- 

 cation of success, although the period of 

 convalescence will be longer, owing to the 

 fact that the appendix was inflamed from 

 the recent attack suffered by the patient. 



A cable despatch on May 12th said the 

 General was getting along finely and was 

 sitting up. The stitches had also been 

 taken out. 



The American Minister Mr. Jackson, has 

 rented Sefior Juan Pedro's magnificent 

 mansion in Compostela Street, where the 

 American Legation will be installed. Sefior 

 Pedro is one of the wealthiest Cuban plan- 

 ters, and his residence is one of the best 

 private buildings in the old aristocratic 

 quarter of the city. It faces the Jesuits' 

 College. Seiior Juan Pedro Baro, the own- 

 er, is also the proprietor of the Conchita 

 sugar plantation in Matanzas Province. 



