THE CUBA REVIEW And Bulletin. 



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The railroad and steamship wharf at Amila. Nipe Bay. 



NEW BUILDINGS 

 AND CONSTRUCTION WORK 



ANTILLA. 



The Cuba Company will build eighteen 

 new cement block-houses, and contracts 

 have been let for ten. The houses are for 

 the use of the employees of the company. 



A car system is promised for Camaguay, 

 and engineers are beginning the prelim- 

 inary work. Ground was broken near the 

 Jatibonico river on February 12 last, and 

 the building of a bridge begun. Jiqui vi'ood 

 was used in the construction of the bridge, 

 which will be something over 50 feet long. 

 The company backing the enterprise is the 

 Royal Securities Corporation, of Halifax 

 and Montreal. There will be an election 

 for offices early in April, but for the pres- 

 ent W. B. Ross, K. C, of Halifax, is 

 president of both companies. 



The city will be well covered by the rail- 

 way, but the main purpose is to build up 

 the city's suburbs. The company has 437 

 acres southeast of Camaguey and are break- 

 ing these up into building lots. The price 

 asked is $600 to $1,000 per lot. The com- 

 pany are already laying concrete sidewalks, 

 conduits, macadam roads, and curbing, and 

 in addition sufficient ground has been re- 

 served for an extensive park. The subur- 

 ban residence idea has taken strong hold 

 of the city dwellers of Cuba, and proposi- 

 tions of this kind, with improvements al- 

 ready to hand, and others in contempla- 

 tion, are favored. Some of the best people 

 in Camaguey have already bought lots in 

 the new section. 



The new reservoir for Camaguey has been 

 held up owing to the recent disturbances, 

 and as a consequence the city suffers for 

 lack of water, which is peddled in the 

 streets, brought in wagons from the rivers 

 near by. It is none too clean, and is, there- 



and found the telegraph lines and postal 

 fore, unhealthy Nevertheless, the people 

 are compelled to buy this water for house- 

 hold necessities. It sells for a cent or two 

 per gallon. Some of the residents have cis- 

 terns, which keep them and their neighbors 

 supplied, but the abnormal drought has 

 dried up many springs and the supply of 

 good drinking water is limited. There is 

 no more important improvement needed for 

 the city than the building of the reservoir. 

 The money required for the project, some 

 $600,000, was appropriated some time ago.' 



The Royal Bank of Canada building is 

 rapidly nearing completion. It is a hand- 

 some structure, and is in a very prom- 

 inent location facing the Plaza de las Mer- 

 cedes. 



The Bank of Nova Scotia purposes open- 

 ing a branch office in Cienfuegos. An ex- 

 cellent site has been found on the corner 

 of San Carlos street and the Plaza, near 

 the Liceo. 



Purdy & Henderson have made a con- 

 tract to erect a new hotel on the lots on 

 Zulueta, Monserrate and Neptune streets, 

 and near the Hotel Leal. This wil be 

 five stories high and furnished with every 

 modern improvement. The work will be 

 ■ begun within a few days. 



An electric plant will be installed in 

 Matanzas. The firm of Charles Hempel 

 has the concession. 



Major Greble, supervisor of the depart- 

 ment of government, and Colonel Charles 

 Hernandez, director of posts, made a tour 

 through the island and scrutinized the plans 

 for a proposed government telegraph line, 

 which is to follow the line of the Cuba 

 Railway from Santa Clara to Santiago de 

 Cuba. While in Camaguey they select- 

 ed a site for the wireless telegraph sta- 

 tion, the equipment of which is now on 

 the way to Cuba. They have chosen Punta 

 Diamante as the station. 



