THE CUBA REVIEVv^ And Bulletin. 



RAILWAY MATTERS— Continued. 



W. E. Ogilvie has been appointed 

 General Manager of the new electric 

 system at a meeting of the Directors of 

 the Havana Centra] Railway, held in 

 Jersey City, and Senor Luciano Diaz 

 was re-elected vice-president. The con- 

 trol of the Havana Central has passed 

 into the management of the London 

 bankers who are interested in the United 

 Railways. Mr. George Greenwood has 

 been re-elected General Manager of the 

 Havana Electric Company in Havana, 

 and great improvements have been voted 

 for at a recent meeting. 



Sir William Van Home has been in 

 Cuba recently accompanied by his son 

 and left for Canada December 22. He 

 has appointed his son, R. B. Van Home, 

 to the position of Assistant Manager of 

 the Cuba Railroad Company, and the 

 latter will reside in Camaguey after his 

 return to Cuba early in January. 



Cienfuegos has granted a concession to 

 the United Railways to build a line 

 through that city. 



NEW BUILDINGS 

 AND CONSTRUCTION WORK 



Manuel Lopez, proprietor of the Hotel 

 Inglaterra, and Urbano Gonzalez, pro- 

 prietor of the Hotel Pasaje, in Havana, 

 have combined their interests and are 

 building the Hotel Sevilla in Havana on 

 the corner of Trocadero and Zulueta 

 streets. Trocadero street will be widened, 

 a work provided for in the appropriation 

 by the Government for public improve- 

 ments, and the space bounded by Zulueta. 

 Montseratte, Trocadero and Colon, will 

 be made a public park. It is asserted 

 that the city has already purchased the 

 ground. The old market will be trans- 

 formed into legislative chambers. 



The new hotel will front on Trocadero 

 street and will be five stories high. The 

 250 rooms will each have a shower and tub 

 bath, and all the rooms will be front rooms. 

 Two electric elevators will be provided. 

 There will be a great court yard or patio, 

 bright with flowers and rich palms. The 

 steel entering in the construction comes 

 from the United States, the marble stair- 

 cases from Germany, and the furniture 

 from France. The china comes from Ger- 

 many and each piece will be stamped with 

 the coat of arms of Sevilla. The enameled 

 iron beds and the most comfortable mat- 

 tresses come from the United States. Noth- 

 ing has been left undone to insure the com- 

 fort of guests. Every sanitary appliance 

 will be used and every convenience intro- 

 duced that may be required. The great 



roof will be turned into a roof garden and 

 dining-room, and made brilliant with elec- 

 tric lights. It will be encosed in glass to 

 guard against sudden storms. The hotel 

 was begun in May, 1906, and will cost half 

 a million dollars. Antonio Rodriguez is 

 the architect.. 



Sr. Horacio Tamayo, Assistant En- 

 gineer of the Provincial Department of 

 Public Works, is making plans for the 

 building of a new steel bridge to span 

 the River Almendares, and which will re- 

 place the one there now. The old bridge 

 rests on pontoons. The piers of the new 

 bridge will be made of steel and concrete 

 and the bridge will be five hundred and 

 fifty feet long and entirely of steel. 



Another hotel called the Habana Hotel 

 was opened on Industria and Barcelona 

 Streets. It belongs to the proprietor of 

 the Telegrafo, and a banquet was given 

 upon the opening night. This house has 

 100 rooms and 85 are provided with pri- 

 vate baths. 



The plans of the new Produce Ex- 

 change building in Havana have been 

 made by Purdy and Henderson. The 

 National Bank of Cuba building on Cuba 

 Street, corner of Obispo, will soon be 

 finished. 



Merchants in the town of Santo Do- 

 mingo, province of Santa Clara, have 

 been authorized to install an electric 

 plant in that place. 



A competition has been called for of 

 architects to furnish designs for a new high 

 school. An appropriation of $150,000 was 

 made for this building in July, 1906. 



Colonel Black reports that water pipes 

 are being placed and improvements estab- 

 lished in the water works for supplying 

 Marianao and adjacent towns with an 

 abundance of water. Other improve- 

 ments will be rapidly carried out. 



Michael Dady has obtained a contract 

 for the construction of the Matadora 

 canal from the Christina bridge to the 

 bay in Havana harbor amounting to half 

 a million dollars. This contract was 

 awarded December 19 upon the decree 

 from the supreme court granting the con- 

 cession for the canal to the Cuba Canal 

 and Wharf Company. Contractor Dady 

 is allowed six months wherein to carry 

 out this work. This enterprise is for 

 the advantage of lumber merchants and 

 will obviate the cost of lighters. Suit- 

 able wharves will be built for the unload- 

 ing of lumber, and the new canal will 

 insure a saving of time and expense. 



A handsome new building will be 

 erected at Camaguey by the Royal Bank 

 of Canada, at an estimated cost of $50,- 

 000. The contract is in the hands of the 

 Purdy & Henderson Co. The Royal 

 Bank of Canada has alreadv established 

 branches in Cuba's largest towns, and 

 will open others throughout the Island. 



