THE CUBA REVIEW 



15 



Motor Boat Races 



The May, 1910, Philadelphia-Havana mo- 

 tor boat races will be repeated next year 

 without doubt. At the breakfast given in 

 Havana on May 29th to the visiting yachts- 

 men, prizes to the amount of $5,000 were 

 quickly secured. The City of Havana will 

 give a cup valued at $1,000 and a like 

 amount in cash, and Ernesto Perez de la 

 Riva, president of the Havana Yacht Cluli, 

 will give a $1,500 cup and $1,500 in cash. 

 President Gomez and Mayor Cardenas 

 were present. Four boats competed, the 

 Berneyo being declared the winner. Time, 

 150 hours and 23 minutes. The winner re- 

 ceived a $1,00 cup and $1,000 in cash. The 

 last boat to come in was the Caroline. Her 

 time was 173 hours and 40 minutes. 



Col. Michael J. Dady, the contractor, has 

 put in a claim to the Department of the 

 Public Works for $12,870, amount of the 

 balance due him for dredging work in the 

 port of Cienfuegos. Mr. Dady states in his 

 claim that he will appeal if necessary to 

 the courts to recover the sum in question. 



Havana's Two- Wheeled Carts 



The great lumbersome two-wheeled carts 

 of Havana are largely responsible for the 

 present condition of the city's streets, says 

 La Liicha of that city. It says further : 

 "For years the authorities have been mak- 

 ing a half-hearted effort to eliminate the 

 carts, and public interests are suffering be- 

 cause of an inclination to protect the cart 

 owners. The carts were to be abolished 

 gradually a certain number each year, but 

 they are still with us. Because of the 

 damage they do to the roads they are an 

 abomination and a nuisance, for when one 

 stops on one of the narrow streets all traf- 

 fic on that thoroughfare has to stop for the 

 time being." No pavement can long with- 

 stand the pounding it gets from these huge 

 vehicles which are very generally used for 

 the transportation of all kinds of mer- 

 chandise. , 



On ]\Iay 10th M. I. M. Beilot, a French 

 aviator, made the first flight ever seen in 

 Cuba. He drove on a Voisin biplane against 

 a strong wind, but fell to the ground after 

 a few minutes' flight, one of the planes 

 breaking. 



Havana's Heavy Two-Wheeled Carts 



