THE CUBA REVIEW 



Episcopal Church Consecrated 



The first consecration of an Episcopal 

 church in Cuba was held in February last 

 at Ensenada de Mora, a sugar estate in the 

 southeastern part of the island. This 

 church, built in the Spanish style, is very 

 beautiful, and complete in every detail, 

 from pews to bell, the gift of a Philadel- 

 phia friend of the Church of Cuba, who 

 is also building a rectory. At all sugar 

 estates in Cuba there are Enghsh speak- 

 ing people, managers, engineers, foremen, 

 and such like, all men of education. In 

 addition to these there is usually a large 

 number of Jamaica negroes, nearly all of 

 them trained in the Church, and so attached 

 to it that they refuse to work where they 

 cannot have its ministrations. Many of 

 them cannot read, but have committed to 

 memory most if not all canticles of the 

 service, together with many hymns, so that 

 the service moves on almost as well as if 

 they could read. Services are held both in 

 English and in Spanish. The Rev. C. W. 

 Frazer, formerly at Calvario Mission, Jesus 

 del Monte, Havana, and more recently at 

 Savannah, Ga., has been placed in charge 

 of this work. 



Episcopal Church at Ensenada de Mora, Cuba 



Baptist Churches in Cuba 



The Baptists of Washington have been 

 closely allied to religious work in Eastern 

 Cuba, in the erection of eight houses of 

 worship, that were given on condition that 

 twelve others be built. That is now an 

 accomplished fact. The school located at 

 El Cristo, erected four years ago, now has 

 150 students, eight acres of ground and 

 two dormitories. 



We have 45 church organizations in the 

 island, 27 of which have houses of worship. 

 In addition there are 54 preaching stations. 



A special pleasure was in store for us 

 at Baracoa, the oldest town on the island. 

 The town is cut off from the rest of Cuba 

 by a mountain range, and was reached by 

 us through the Carribean Sea, thence 

 around the East point of the island into 

 the Atlantic to a point due west, on the 

 north side. That cut ofif territory contains 

 about 25,000 people. Four additional 



church buildings will be erected there this 

 year. 



As a denomination we have day schools 

 in connection with the church work at 

 Guantonamo. These schools are so crowd- 

 ed that a waiting list is maintained, of 

 those anxious to enter when a vacancy 

 occurs. The same conditions prevail at 

 Camaguey. The accessions to the church 

 during the year numbered about 500. — 

 Report of M. S. Smalley's lecture in 

 Washington {Pa.) Observer. 



Raising of the Maine Assured 



The adoption by the United States Sen- 

 ate on May 4th of the Loud bill, provid- 

 ine for the raising of the wreck of the 

 battleship Maine in Havana Harbor, com- 

 pletes the legislative portion of the second 

 act Congress has adopted for this purpose. 

 The first bill, passed in 1898, appropriated 

 only $200,000, and although a firm of Chi- 

 cago contractors bid for and obtained the 

 contract they abandoned it, presumably be- 

 cause they found their bid too low to per- 

 mit of their carrying it out without loss. 

 The bill passed now carries an appropria- 

 tion of $500,000, which the Secretary of 

 the Navy has advised Congress will prob- 

 ably prove sufficient to cover the expense. 

 It is feared that the only feasible method 

 of removing the hulk will be by blowing 

 it to pieces and removing it piecemeal. 



The Neiv York Sun says : "It is a great 

 relief to suppose that the coming Memorial 

 Day is to be the last occasion when the 

 American colony in Havana will visit the 

 broken mast of the wreck and hang 

 wreaths there and attach the Stars and 

 Stripes in remembrance of the dead that lie 

 below." 



El Pais of Madrid, Spain, suggests that 

 an examination of the wreck of the "Maine" 

 be made to determine definitely the cause 

 of its destruction, and proposes that the 

 examination board consist of American, 

 Spanish and French engineers. This would 

 give a representative to the two countries 

 intirhately concerned in the matter and to 

 a third country, a disinterested party. 



The British Minister in Havana has 

 asked the Cuba government for a list of 

 Cuban laborers who have died while work- 

 ing in the mines of the country, with the 

 object of making a comparison of the death 

 rate of miners in Cuba and in the Trans- 

 vaal. 



Arrangement has been made with the 

 Havana Electric Railway to have mail 

 boxes installed on every car by Director of 

 Posts and Telegraph Nodarse, for the con- 

 venience of the public. The contract on 

 public bid went to a Saqua la Grande mer- 

 chant. 



