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 CUBA RLVILW 



''ALL ABOUT CUBA" 



Copyright, 1910, by the Munson Steamship Line 



Volume YIII 



JUNE, 1910 



Number 7 



CUBAN GOVERNMENT MATTERS 



PERMISSION GIVEN TO RAISE THE MAINE — THE SIX-0 CLOCK LAW 



— TELEPHONE DEAL — A GREAT CENTRAL ROAD PROPOSED 



— FREE ENTRY FOR BOOKS 



Cuba's 

 Permission 

 Given 



By a decree issued June 1st 

 by President Gomez, per- 

 mission was given to the 

 United States Government 

 to raise the wreck of the 

 battleship "Maine," which now Ues in the 

 harbor of Havana. 



The decree says that Cuba will offer ev- 

 ery possible assistance to the United States. 

 The difficulty lies not so much in the depth 

 of water — thirty feet — as in the eighteen 

 feet of mud in which the shattered re- 

 mains of the noble ship lie, says the Army 

 and Naz'y Journal. Anyone acquainted 

 with the difficulties attending such a task 

 will understand that the chief trouble will 

 arise in overcoming the obstacle of the 

 mud in such a way as to be able to get 

 chains under the wreck. The building of 

 a coffer-dam around the wreck will prove 

 a very costly undertaking. 



The Arteaga "six-o'clock 



The closing" law went into ef- 



"Six-o'Clock" feet at midnight. May 24th, 



Laiv from which date all shops, 



stores and other establish- 

 ments were obliged each day to close at 

 6 p. m. 



The law only affects municipalities of 

 the first and second class. The one first- 

 class municipality in the island is Havana. 

 The second-class municipalities are Cama- 

 guey, Guanabacoa, Guines, San Antonio de 

 los Banos, Cardenas, Matanzas, Colon, 

 Alto Songo, Baracoa, Bayamo, Gibara, 

 Guantanamo, Holguin, Manzanillo, Palma 

 Soriano, Puerto Padre, Santiago de Cuba, 

 Consolacion de Sur, Guane, Pinar del Rio, 



San Cristobal, Cienfuegos, Rodas, Sagua 

 la Grande, Sancti Spiritus, Remedios, 

 Santo Domingo, Santa Clara and Trini- 

 dad. 



The word "municipality" includes all 

 boroughs within its boundaries, and as a 

 consequence the law as fratiied presses un- 

 equally and unjustly in many cases. 



For instance. La Fe borough is part of 

 the municipality of Guane, and has but 137 

 inhabitants, yet must close its stores at 

 six o'clock, because Guane is a municipal- 

 ity of the second class. On the other 

 hand, Bolondron, in Matanzas Province, 

 has 2, .581 inhabitants and need not close 

 because the municipality of which it is a 

 part belongs to the third class, to which 

 the law does not apply. 



Cuban 



Telephone 



Deal 



Martin N. Littleton, of 

 New York, who went to 

 London to unravel a tan- 

 gle, has developed a deal 

 whereby the Havana Tele- 

 phone Company takes over the bonds of 

 the Cuban Telephone Company to the 

 amount of $6,000,000. Lord Elcho, Lord 

 Cecil, Lord Grenfell and others on the 

 advisory board of the Havana company on 

 May 21st resolved to advise the bondhold- 

 ers of the Havana company to carry out 

 the scheme submitted in October, and to 

 exchange their bonds for bonds of the Cu- 

 ban company. 



The board expressed its pleasure at the 

 decision of the supreme court of Cuba sus- 

 taining the validity of the perpetual conces- 

 sion granted last September by the govern- 

 ment to the Cuban Telephone Company. 



