THE CUBA REVIEW 



11 



The 1910-11 budget provides 

 Public for about $3,000,000 in pub- 

 JVorks lie improvements. Liberal 

 Coiitciiiplated representatives at a recent 

 meeting apportioned this 

 sum to the six provinces in varying 

 amounts. Havana, Santa Clara and Oriente 

 provinces, $450,000 each ; Matanzas prov- 

 ince, $400,000; Pinar del Rio and Cama- 

 guey provinces, $350,000 and $300,000 re- 

 spectively. 



Among the noted improvements provided 

 for are the dredging of the ports of Sagna 

 la Grande and Santiago de Cuba. A sani- 

 tarium near Cienfuegos will cost $150,000 

 and a children's hospital in Havana 

 $100,000. 



Bridges will be constructed at needed 

 points, and a great sum will go to the con- 

 struction and completion of aqueducts 

 throughout the island. The beautiful Male- 

 con promenade along the gulf of Havana 

 will be greatly extended. 



New postoffice buildings are planned for 

 Santiago de Cuba, Camaguey, Santa Clara, 

 Matanzas, Pinar del Rio, Guines, Manza- 

 nillo, Cienfuegos, Cardenas, Nueva Gerona, 

 Isle of Pines, Sagna la Grande and Bata- 

 bano, at a cost of $340,000, allowing $22,000 

 for each building. 



Their 

 Contract 

 Extended 



The Havana City Council, 

 on June 20th, extended the 

 city contract for gas and 

 electric service to the Gas 

 and Electric Company of 

 Havana for fifteen years from the termina- 

 tion of its present agreement on January 1, 

 1912. 



The contract totals about $200,000 per an- 

 num and includes all the boroughs. 



The extension will be valid for the pe- 

 riod stated, unless a new gas and electric 

 light company should be established in the 

 interval, in which case a call for bids will 

 be made by the city council, and the serv- 

 ice contracted with the company making 

 the most advantageous proposition. 



Cuba bars the Jeffries-Johnson fight pic- 

 tures to avoid stirring up race feeling. 



The appropriation in the 



1909 (7;;(/ new budget for the various 



1930 departments, compared 



Appropriations with the last budget, are 



as follows : 



1910 1909 



Interior Department ...$9,014,554 $9,126,138 



Public Instruction 4,140,542 4,104,116 



Sanitation 4,114,265 3,955,548 



Public Works 2,415,360 3,383,423 



Treasury Department .. 2,524,877 2,503,739 



Agriculture 793,300 378,620 



State Department 689,394 613,559 



The Executive 150,120 151,140 



Department of Justice. 209,840 158,980 



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EL PUEBLO: jPor favor!... . iQuIteme avjique ssa el bultico d« airiliaM 



EL SEN ADO: ;Callate. ma.jad«ro'.. .. . Estoy nuiy ocupado ahora coa eiMS jagueiicMl 



The Pack Mule — The artist of La Discussion shows the burdens of the Cuban people. The budget 



and legislative economies. The load is heavy, and he asks the representative of the senate to relieve 



him if only by taking off the smaller bundle. But the senator is indifferent, calls him a troviblesome 



fellow and tells him to keep still, as he is busy with his new Monte Carlo playthings. 



