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THE CUBA REVIEW 



ISLE OF PINES NOTES 



Schools Demanded 



Tlie American school question in the 

 Isle of Pines is still unsatisfactor.v. The 

 Isle of Pines Ahf^cal thus summarizes the 

 situatic^n : 



"There are 2~6 Cuban children cnrnlled 

 on the records of the Isle of Pines public 

 schools. It costs the Department about 

 $8,000 annually to maintain these schools. 

 There are at present, during the season 

 when the American population here is at 

 its minimum, 178 American children of 

 school age. Of this sum of $8,000 of public 

 monies furnished for public instruction on 

 the Isle of Pines, none is destined to be 

 expended for the education of these 178 

 American children, although a conservative 

 estimate will show that at least 75 per cent 

 of the school funds, as well as all other 

 public monies expended on the Isle of 

 Pines, is contributed by American property 

 owners in the form of municipal and in- 

 dustrial taxes and custom house collec- 

 tions. This means that during the present 

 year about $6,000 of school monies are 

 provided by the Isle of Pines Americans 

 and yet no benefit accrues to them from 

 the expenditure of this sum." 



A fine eucalyptus tree in Santa Fe, only 

 7 months old from seed, now measures 11 

 feet, 6 inches — Isle of Pines Nezvs (August 

 7th). 



A post-office has been established at San 

 Pedro, Isle of Pines. 



The l.^le of Pines Railroad Co. was re- 

 cently incorporated in Delaware. Capital, 

 $2,000,000. Incorporators : E. O. Cook, R. 

 S. Rodney, and G. L. Townsend, Jr., Wil- 

 mington. 



\'. P. Sutherland, of Xueva Gerona, is 

 the accredited representative of the United 

 States Government in the Isle of Pines, 

 having been recently appointed. 



Mr. Sutherland's appointment was in re- 

 sponse to the request of a number of the 

 Pincros, but is now declared by many of 

 them to have been a tactical mistake, says 

 the Apl^eal, inasmuch as it involved a quasi 

 recognition by the American state depart- 

 ment of the "foreign" condition of the Isle 

 of Pines. 



With the exception of a few almost 

 microscopic spots upon the map, the whole 

 of the I sic of Pines has passed from native 

 into Ameiican hands by the purchase re- 

 cently of a tract on the south coast com- 

 prising some twenty-five hundred acres by 

 Mr. Johnson-Harding of Havana. The 

 price paid is said to have been $300,000. — - 

 Havana Telegraph. 



Much of the building material required 

 for the new Episcopal Church at McKinley 

 is on the ground. 



An ice plant for Santa P"e is a project 

 very much discussed. It is believed there 

 is patronage enough in the section to war- 

 rant the establishment of a small plant. 



The Isle of Pines Intruders 

 Liborio: "These American parrots are driving me wild; when I would pet them they bite me.' 



— From PoUtica Comica. 



