THE CUBA REVIEW 



17 



Annexation the Best Solution 



Albion W. Knight, of Cuba, speaking of 

 the industrial possibilities of the island, said 

 that the iron mines contained the best ore 

 to be found anywhere in the world and that 

 there was enough there to furnish continu- 

 ous employment for over 200 years. 



"These mines are owned by the Spanish- 

 American Iron Compau}', which is really 

 an American corporation, that is known as 

 the Pennsylvania Steel Company. The Beth- 

 lehem Steel Company has also mines which 

 are being largely developed. This ore can 

 l)e taken out, according to a Pittsburg min- 

 ing engineer, at about one dollar a ton less 

 than from any other mine in the world. 



"What Cuba's future may be will I will 

 not undertake to predict. But there can 

 only be one of three things that can come 

 to Cuba ; either she will remain as she 

 is now, independent ; she will become the 

 possession of some foreign countrj^, or she 

 will be annexed to the United States. He 

 implied that the method last-named would 

 work out best for everybody concerned. 

 The second condition, we know, is prac- 

 tically impossible, according to the so-called 

 Monroe Doctrine. H she is to remain in- 

 dependent, she will be our close neighbor, 

 and it behooves us to see that she is Chris- 

 tianized and educated. The church must 

 do its work in the island." 



Speaking of the changes that have 

 occurred during the last live vears on the 

 island the bishop said : "Where formerly 

 we had eight mission points, with 220 re- 

 gistered communicants in the whole island, 

 with 75 children in the Sunday school, and 

 about the same in the day school, with only 

 one church building, we now have 21 

 clergymen at -work v/ith 1,300 communi- 

 cants, over .500 children in the day schools, 

 and over 1,000 in the Sunday schools. We 

 have a cathedral at Havana, with chapels 

 at many other mission points. In church 

 property we have something like $160,000, 

 where formerly the whole church property 

 would have been covered bj^ $20,000." — 

 Address at Episcopal Conference at Cam- 

 brdge, Mass., July 23d. 



Young Mr. Palma Married 



Mr. Thomas Estrada Palma, of No. 46 

 West 83d Street, son of the late Tomas 

 Estrada Palma, first president of Cuba, and 

 Miss Helen Douglas Brown, of New York 

 City, were married on August 7th. 



Miss Brown is a daughter of Mr. Doug- 

 las L. Brown, a British mining engineer. 

 She was born in Mexico, but has lived in 

 New York for several years. 



Mr. Palma came to the United States 

 from Cuba with his mother and four broth- 

 ers and sisters in April, 1909, following 

 the death of his father. The family took 



up their residence in Central Valley, N.Y., 

 where young Mr. Palma was born 25 years 

 ago. 



He studied at the Newburg Academy, 

 later taking an engineering course at Cor- 

 nell University. Upon being graduated 

 from the latter institution he went to work 

 with the Havana Electric Railway. 



J\Ir. Palma, it is said, owns large planta- 

 tions and other property interests in Cuba, 

 and it is likely that he will make his per- 

 manent home in that country with his 

 bride. 



Dividend Declared 



July 15th, the Havana Electric Railway 

 Company declared the regular quarterly of 

 one and one-half per cent on preferred and 

 one and one-half per cent on common stock, 

 both pavable August 13, to stock of record 

 July 23d. 



A shrine on the garden wall of the Jesuits' College 

 at Gnanabacoa, opposite Havana 



