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THE CUBA REVIEW 



D. L. Hough, President of the New York Tunnel 

 Co. and The United Engineering and Contracting 

 Co., now constructing the huge sewer system for 

 Havana. Among other noted work carried on in 

 New York City luider his directions, were the 

 Pennsylvania Railroad tunnels across the city and 

 the tunnel from the Hattery under the East River 

 to Brooklyn for the Rapid Transit Subway Co. 



President Gomez has ap- 

 Pavituj of proved the plans for the 

 Havana's new paving of this cit\', as 

 Streets. presented by the commis- 

 sion composed of Mr. Paul 

 E. McComb, chief engineer of the sewerage 

 works; Mr. J. M. Babe, chief engineer of 

 roads and bridges ; Senor E. Diique Es- 

 trada, chief engineer of public shops, and 

 Walfrido Fuentes, municipal architect. 

 After careful study and observation the 

 commission recommended the use of gran- 

 ite blocks for the thoroughfares where 

 traffic is heavy. For those streets where 

 the electric cars run compressed blocks will 

 be used, and for the rest of the streets 

 asphalt blocks, with modified layers. The 

 streets surrounding public buildings prob- 

 ably will l)e paved with wood blocks. 



The paving materials will be imported 

 from the United States. The McGiveney 

 and Rockeby Companies are the contract- 

 ors. The total outlay will be $f),0()0,000. 

 The work will begin tliis month: in the 

 suburbs it will begin at an early date. 



Part of the plant to be used in paving the 

 streets of Havana arrived June 22d, con- 

 signed to the Cuban Engineering Company. 

 It is understood that the paving part of the 

 contract will be carried out by the Uvalde 

 Asphalt Company. 



The lesson of the Pinar del 

 Storatje Rio dynamite explosion in 

 of May, when some forty-five 



R.vplosii'cs lives were lost and a hun- 

 dred or more persons 

 wounded, has been learned. Instructions 

 have been sent to the provincial governors, 

 which will prevent any such dangerous ac- 

 cumulation of explosives at any point near 

 public buildings and roads, as was foimd to 

 i)c the case in Pinar del Rio. The (|uan- 

 tity of dynamite or other explosives which 

 can be stored, and the dis(;Mice from bniM 

 iiigs and roads arc \ery cU'.'irly (lelnuMl .ind 

 are as follows : 



.">() pounds 'to meters 



100 " 117 



200 " 1.51 



300 " 16S 



400 " 18.5 



.500 " 202 



fiOO " 219 



700 " 23f) 



800 " 25:? 



900 " 270 



1,000 " 278 



No itnporter is allowed to store a larger 

 quantity than ,5,000 pounds anywhere. 



The houses of poor people, destroyed by 

 the explosion, will be rebuilt by the govern- 

 ment. 



The strike of the bakers at Sagua la 

 Grande was settled satisfactorily to the 

 men. The strike originated through the re- 

 fusal of one of the largest bakeries in this 

 city to admit union men, and to pay union 

 wages and observe union hours. 



Under the terms of the settlement the 

 owners will pay the union wages and ob- 

 serve the union hours. 



.Sefior Walfrido de Fuentes, Municipal .\rchilect 

 of Havana 



