THE CUBA REVIEW And Bulletin. 



2d, 



Increase of Wealth in CuBA.-yGover- 

 nor Emilio Nunez, of the province of 

 Havana, tells Mr. Curtis, of the Record- 

 Herald, that the city has increased 30,000 

 in population during the seven^ years 

 since the republic was organized. The 

 increase consists chiefly of working peo- 

 ple from the Canary Islands, _ Galagos, 

 Galacia and other parts of Spain, "capi- 

 tal has increased much more rapidly 

 than population," said Governor Nunez. . 

 "Wealth has increased at least 50 per 

 cent, by th'e establishment of new enter- 

 prises with foreign capital, such as banks, 

 manufactories, glass works, street car 

 companies, railroads and other pubuc 

 improvements. The increase in the tax- 

 able value of property has been 100 per 

 cent., and city lots which were formerly 

 unsalable are now worth $5,cop and 

 $6,000. Business property in the city has 

 advanced about ico per cent, since inde- 

 pendence. Railway and shipping facili- 

 ties have been increased three or four 

 times. The cattle industry has devel- 

 oped so fast that the price of animals 

 has run down and our ranchmen are now 

 demanding a duty to protect them from 

 Texas cattle and other imports from the 

 United States. Perhaps the most rapid 

 agricultural development has been m 

 fruit, in orange groves and pineapple 

 farms, chiefly by Americans. There are 

 several very prosperous American colo- 

 nies in the central and eastern parts of 

 the island, and we want more of them. 

 Every class of people and the public in 

 general have enjoyed the benefits of these 

 developments and the increase in the 

 value of property. 



UNITED FRUIT COMPANY DEAL. 



A special m^eeting of the stockholders 

 of the United Fruit Company has been 

 called for May 29 to act upon the acqui- 

 sition of the common stock of the Nipe 

 Bay Company. This will place under 

 one management the sugar interests of 

 both companies, which when fully de- 

 veloped will have a combined output 

 capacity of 800,000 bags, or rising 100,- 

 000 tons of sugar each season. It is un- 

 derstood this does not involve any in- 

 crease in the caoital stock of the Fruit 

 Company. It is learned that 90 per cent, 

 of the stockholders of the Nipe Bay 

 Company are interested as such in the 

 Fruit Company. — Journal of Commerce, 

 April 29, 1907. 



SPLENDID MARKET FOR AMERICAN SAFES IN 

 CUBA. 



Consul M. J. Baehr, writing from Cien- 

 fuegos, says : There is no country having 

 fewer safes than Cuba. There is a ten- 

 dency among business men to replace their 

 ancient lock-and-key cajas with modern 

 combination safes, and even doctors, law- 

 yers and planters could easily be persuaded 

 to buy a modern safe. One local firm 

 claims to have sold 700 safes of American 

 make during 1906. 



SERVANTS IN CUBA. 



A new census will be finished before 

 the next election takes place, and the 

 last census was taken during the first 

 American intervention. The population 

 has increased greatly during the past 

 few years by the influx of immigrants 

 from Spain and other countries. How- 

 ever, the rural native of Spain still con- 

 siders Cuba a treasure grove, an El 

 Dorado, and leaves his patch of ground 

 untilled to come across the vast expanse 

 of water which separates Cuba from his 

 native land in search of fortune. The 

 colored people do not like to work, and 

 white servants are taking their places in 

 domestic service — mostly natives of Spain. 

 Wages have gone up as well as the nec- 

 essaries of life. Whereas cooks have 

 always commanded high wages, house 

 servants could be had for fifteen to eigh- 

 teen dollars a month, and women colored 

 cooks for ten or twelve. Now the un- 

 trained men and maids, just arrived from 

 Spain, who scarcely know the difference 

 between a broom and a pan, demand six- 

 teen to twenty or twenty-five dollars a 

 month. And they also want their_ laun- 

 dry bills paid by their employers in ad- 

 dition to their wages. 



Havana has five new notaries, Dr. Alberto 

 J. O'Farrill y Sanchez, Dr. Jose L. del 

 Cueto, Sanchez, Lie. Alejandro Festar 

 Fonts, Lie. Adolfo V. Nufiez y_ Gonzalez 

 and Lie. Manuel Alvarez y Garcia. 



Additional Mail Facilities for Havana. 

 — Havana is to have mail from the States 

 five days a week. A change has been 

 made in the schedule of boats leaving 

 this port for Florida, which will give 

 incoming and outgoing mail on every 

 day in the week except Wednesday and 

 Sunday. 



No Intermediary Needed. — The Depart- 

 ment of Justice of Havana notifies all claim- 

 ants for damages sustained during the last 

 revolution, that it is the government's pur- 

 pose that they receive their indemnities di- 

 rectly, without trouble or expense of any 

 kind, and that they need not make use of 

 any intermediary. They need but to in- 

 form the department of justice, through 

 the mail, of their domicile or address, to re- 

 ceive the check without any cost whatso- 

 evei ." 



marauders BUSY. 



Bands of negroes are reported to be steal- 

 ing horses and exacting money from the 

 farmers in isolated sections in Santa Clara 

 and Santiago provinces. The_ marauders 

 are probably negroes who are idle because 

 of the ending of the sugar season. 



donation to the CARDENAS MUSEUM. 



The statue of Isabella II.. which formerly 

 stood in Central Park on the spot now oc- 

 cupied by the Marti statue, and the old 

 suits of armor in the possession of the city 

 council, has been donated to the Cardenas 

 Museum by the Havana City Council. 



