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THE CUBA R E r I E W 



Donald St. Clair Gainer 



British Acting Charge d' Affaires, Havana 



Donald St. Clair Gainer is a native of 

 Northampton, England. He was educated 

 at Charterhouse, and also studied in France 

 and Germany. During 1913-14 he was a 

 member of an Arctic Exploration party. 

 In 1915 he entered the foreign service, his 

 first appointment being Vice Consul at 

 Narrik, Norway. During the evacuation 

 of North Russia by British forces in 1919, 

 he handled the naval transports. During 

 1920 he was appointed Vice Consul at 

 Bergen, and in 1921 transferred to Ha- 

 vana. Shortly after his arrival at Havana, 

 he was promoted to Second Secretary of 

 Legation, and in June of the present year 

 was left in charge of the Legation during 

 the absence of Mr. Godfrey Haggard. 



Union Club 



Not only the Automobile and Aero Club 

 of Cuba is to have its club building on 

 the Malecon. The Union Club, one of the 

 oldest and most important clubs of Ha- 

 vana, which numbers prominent men of 

 politics and business among its members, 

 will soon erect a club house on the Malecon 

 near the Hotel Miramar. The contract 

 was awarded in a recent auction to the 

 known Cuban architects Arellano y Mend- 

 doza, who are constructing the new Sevilla- 

 Biltmore hotel building. The club will 

 erect a two story building which will have 

 all modern appointments. The cost of 

 the building will be $166,300, and work 

 will be started soon, so as to have the 

 building completed at the beginning of 

 1924. 



Building in Cuba 



A building boom is in full swing in Cuba. 

 A certain amount of marine and municipal 

 construction is being carried out, but the 

 boom is chiefly a re.sult of the combination 

 of high rents with lowering prices for con- 

 struction materials. Prominent among 

 present projects is the building of an ex- 

 tension to the Seville Hotel — a new sky- 

 scraper for Havana — and the construction 

 of new premises for the Canadian Bank of 

 Commerce. In the rural districts, im- 

 portant street paving and municipal con- 

 struction are being undertaken at Cama- 

 guey; other interior towns are likewise in 

 a position to spend money upon municipal 

 developments. 



Transfer National Museum 



The transfer of the National Museum 

 from the "Toca" farm to Aguiar 108, began 

 September 5. The museum w^ill not be 

 installed in the new building permanently, 

 but will be transferred to the Institute 

 building as soon as it is completed. 



Table for Museum 



Secretary of Public Instruction Eduardo 

 Gonzalez Manet, has requested Speaker 

 Aurelio Alvarez of the Senate, to donate 

 the table upon which the Cuban constitu- 

 tion was signed to the National Museum. 

 This table is now in the Senate building. 



New City Historian 



Sr. Ramon Vasconcelos, has been ap- 

 pointed by Mayor Cuesta as official his- 

 torian of Havana with a salary of $4,800 a 

 year. Sr. Vasconcelos takes the place of 

 Sr. Nestor Carbonell. 



