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THE CUBA REVIEW^ 



Bahia lic Maricl. en la casta nortc dc la proviiicia dc Piiiar del Rio. 

 Mariel Rav. North coast, Pinar del Rio Province. 



Just as General Arenando 

 A Riva, chief of Havana's po- 



Diplomatic lice, was about to leave Ha- 

 Myslcry vana, October 25th, on a spe- 

 cial diplomatic mission to 

 Washington, he was recalled and told to 

 resume his usual duties. It was said, this 

 was the result of a remonstrance on the 

 part of the American minister. 



From the palace there came immediately 

 a statement as follows : 



"A newspaper having declared that Scnor 

 Riva had a special mission to President 

 Taft, President Gomez decided tliat it was 

 advisalile to recall him, =0 as not to give 

 color to such an allegation." 



.•\t Washington nothing was known at the 

 State Department of any diploinatic mis- 

 sion, upon which General Riva was coming 

 to \N'ashington. Department officials pro- 

 fessed surprise at th.e suggestion that he 

 was detained because of representations 

 made by Minister Jackson. 



A few days previously General Riva had 

 tendered his resignation in consequence of 

 constant friction with prominent politicians 

 because of his determination not to permit 

 gambling without license. 



Nezv 



Government 



Prison 



Manuel Secades, represent- 

 ing the Cuban government, 

 while in New York a few- 

 weeks ago, engaged a firm 

 of well-known architects to 

 draw up plans to supervise the work of 

 building the government prison of Cuba, 

 as well as police precinct jails in the city 

 of Havana. 



Mr. Wetmore, one of the architects en- 



gaged, recently visited Havana to examine 

 the location and the building material pro- 

 vided. 



Mr. Secades says that the entire prison 

 system of Cuba will undergo a complete 

 change. Among these changes will be the 

 adoption of the rule compelling the pris- 

 oners to work in various industrial estab- 

 lishments that will be a feature of the new 

 jail. 



Paling 

 Work 

 Begins 



The first piece of paving, 

 done under the contract by 

 the Cuban Engineering and 

 Contracting Company for 

 Havana and its suburbs, 

 has been finished in the borough of La 

 Vibora, where the first work of construc- 

 tion of the sewers was done. 



Under the contract the paving is to vary 

 according to the traffic, granite blocks to be 

 laid where the wear and tear is the hard- 

 est. Paving is now proceeding at Cerro, 

 where the work of the sewer construction 

 is well advanced. 



The State Department of 

 Against Cuba has issued a circular 

 Infectious to the members of the con- 

 Diseases sular corps, recomtnending 

 that they keep a careful 

 watch on infectious diseases in the coun- 

 tries to which they are respectively ac- 

 credited, especially with regard to cholera, 

 and to give immediate information of any 

 suspected case to the government. Spe- 

 cial vigilance is to be observed with respect 

 to emigrants leaving Cuba. 



