THE CUBA REVIEW 



An illustration of the luige 84-incli reinforced concrete lock joint pipe made by the Cuban 

 Engineering and Contracting Conii>any for the Amargura trunk drain. They were made of Portland 

 cement, silicious sand and hard biokcn stone. For this size reinforced concrete pipe was found 

 to be much better than vitrified because it can be made of the necessary thickness, is mucli 

 stronger, the woven wire reinforcement permitting it to be transported to the place required 

 and be laid as though it were cast-iron piiic. As shown in the picture, the pipe is higher than a man 



of good heiglit. 



Attention is called by U. 

 I-ice Entry S. Minister John B. Jack- 

 of Books son to a bill introduced in 

 and Machinery the Cuban House of Rep- 

 resentatives, putting on 

 the free list appliances, materials and fix- 

 tures for educational use, as well as all 

 books except those having covers of tor- 

 toise shell, ivory, or inother-of-pcarl. At 

 present, standard text-books, maps and 

 scientitk instruments, when directly im- 

 ported for use in schools, are on the free 

 list (tariff Xo. 337), while ordinary printed 

 goods (Xo. 1.').5) pay a duty of $1,025 (or 

 $1.30 if of American production) per 100 

 kilos, and other appliances pay according 

 to the material of which they are made. 



President Gomez on May 

 For a Central 26th sent a message to 

 Macadam Congress recommending an 

 Road appropriation of $2,000,000 



for continuing the con- 

 .struction of the central macadam road, 

 destined to extend the entire length of the 

 island. The road is now com])letcd from 

 Pmar del Rio to Havana and from Ha- 

 vana to Matanzas.* The project is to 

 carry it through the central and eastern 



* The Cuba Review has printed maps showing 

 road construction work for 1909 in the provinces 

 of iianta Clara, Pinar del Rio, Havana and Cama- 

 ^"«y-, „ The others, including the Isle of Pines, 

 will follow— Editor. 



proviiiccs, so that Pinar del Rio and San- 

 tiago de Cuba may be connected by high 

 road. The work would give employment 

 to the laborers from the sugar estates 

 during the summer. In his message the 

 i 'resident states that tlicrc now exists in 

 the national treasury a surplus of $2,000,000, 

 which might properh' be devoted to the 

 construction of the proposed road. 



A new telegraph line has been estab- 

 lished between Santa Clara and Cama- 

 juani, which will improve the telegraph 

 system in that province. By this new 

 service Camajuani, Encrucijada, Calabazar 

 dc Sagua and Cifuentes will Ijc greatly 

 benefited. 



Cubans 



Honor 



Gen. Wood 



While at Buenos Ayres, a 

 delegation of Cuban resi- 

 dents, headed by the Cu- 

 lian Minister, called on 

 Major General Leonard 

 Wood and handed him a golden tablet 

 which expressed the sentiments of love and 

 gratitude inspired in Cubans by Major 

 General Wood's four years' governorship 

 of the island. They said : "The memory 

 of the noble and unselfish conduct of the 

 United States will remain forever in the 

 heart of every Culjan and will ])e a high 

 moral lesson to all nations." 



The production of beer during May in 

 Cuba aggregated 1,557,007 liters. 



