THE CUBA REVIEW And Bulletin. 25 



VALUABLE INFORMATION COLLECTED BY u. s. forever Separated from Gomez. 



ARMY OFFICERS IN CUBA. Tliis spHts the Liberal party hope- 



The American army has dwindled by the lessly. Zayas thinks that many of 

 natural process of expiration of enlistments Gomez's supporters will join the Con- 

 from 6,500 to about 5,300 men. There are servatives, thus making two strong 

 also about 1,000 marines. Nearly 2,000 parties, meaning his own and the Con- 

 troops are quartered in Camp Columbia, servatives, with Gomez vanquished, 

 the garrison of Havana. april customs receipts. 



In a bloodless six months' campaign, says The customs receipts for the whole Island 



the Washington (D. C.) Star, its moral during the month of April amounted to 



triumphs have been the maintenance of a $2,996,211, according to the estimate made 



standard of discipline and sanitation and by the treasury department. During the 



the preservation of perfect self-control while same month of last year the total was 



in contact with an unsympathetic popula- $2,217,585. The receipts of the last fiscal 



tion. Its greatest material achievement is year were $28,609,746. 



a chart of the Island of Cuba, one of the havana custom house. 



most mmutely perfect mditary maps m ex- Receipts for May, 1907 $1,507,063.86 



istence. The possibility of successfully Receipts for May, 1906 1,741,251.07 



carrying on future guerrilla tactics may be "^ 



said to have vanished, for _ United States Decrease $ 234,187.21 



troops would begin a campaign having per- Saturnino Lastra, Collector. 



feet familiarity ^ylth the topography of the Havana, :May 31, 1907. 

 whole Island. On the map will appear 



every road, trail and pathway; every well, an interesting history of slavery in cuba 

 stream and spring; every favorable place P^^ H. H. Aimes of the College of 

 for defense and offense; every good camp- ^he City of New York has ^prepared A 

 ing ground; every pasture for horses; History of Slavery m Cuba, which was 

 every source of supplies, and much other issued by Messrs. G. P. Putnam s Sons 

 information that will be of great value ^^^'^ ^"^^ month, 

 in case it should ever be necessary to use , ^^^'^^ ^t^Y purchase approved 

 a military force there. They have been /^\ the special meeting of the stockholders 

 working after the same plan that the Jap- «* ^^e United Fruit Co. held in Jersey City, 

 anese adopted in Manchuria for nine years ^^^y 29, 1907, the proposition to take over 

 before war with Russia was declared. A the entire common stock of the Nipe Bay 

 card index has also been prepared of the Co. amounting to $3,502,500 was unani- 

 principal men in every district in Cuba. "°"^^y ratified and confirmed, say Willett 

 They have the name, the residence, the t^^^-^' r 1 at- t> /- 

 business or profession, the antecedents, the ^^^ property of the Nipe Bay Co. com- 

 record, the political opinion and associa- pnses a tract of approxiniately 130,000 acres 

 ciations of every person of importance, in- of land adjoining the shore of Nipe Bay, 

 eluding several thousand men in the differ- Cuba About 90,000 acres of the land are 

 ent provinces, so that in case of trouble f"itable for cane cultivation ; 12,000 acres 

 in the future the officers of our army may ^^^^« ^een planted and are now producing 

 know whom they can depend upon. ^f"^' ^"^ i°'°°° .^^''^s additional have been 

 , cleared and are m various stages of culti- 

 CUBA s DEPRESSION TEMPORARY. _ ^^^^-^^^ thirty miles of Standard gauge rail- 

 Cuba IS m a very depressed condition, j^j^ ^-^^^ 60-pound steel, traverse the 

 considered financially, said Mr J. T. Craw- property, and a modern cane sugar factory 

 ley director of the Agricultural Experiment ^ ^le of treating 3.500 tons of cane a day 



'?!u°^,?^ J'^^ '°"?*T^^'r^\° c^ '^P'-^l"*^*'""^ has been in operation since January 19, 

 of the Washington (D.C.)_Star. The rea- ^^^ j^as produced thus far this sea- 

 son of the stringency is m the poor crop ^^n 72,000 bags of sugar, of 320 pounds 

 prospects. Last winter a general drought ^^^^ ^^:^^^ ^3 ^U^^j -^ ^^^^^^ ^f ^1^^ 

 militated against the sugar planters, and q.^^ntity produced by the United Fruit Co.'s 

 when I left the Island the face of the coun- ^-jj ^^ ^^^^^ f^^ ^^e corresponding period 



2.T^ f '^'^ ""1 /f °!f^^ %u ?''m'"^ of last year. A description of this mill, well 



that had been scorched by fire. The failure illustrated, appeared in the March Cuba 



of. the rams caused the banks to refuse to REviEVk^ 



advance any money to the cane growers quarantine camp in cuba to lessen in- 



and the tightness of money has produced ~ conveniences for passengers to 



a stagnation that is felt m all lines of trade __^™„„p„ pautc 



and business. This depression is merely ^he Government will establish a quar- 



temporary and with another goo'd crop pros- ^^^j^^ detention camp here, thus making it 



parity will return. possible for the voyagers to southern United 



CUBAN liberals SPLIT. States to partially avoid the inconvenience of 



(Cable despatch to the N. Y. Sun.) the quarantine established a few weeks ago, 



Havana, June 12.— Sefior Zayas says he Passengers wishing to go home will re- 



will have nothing more to do with Jose main in the camp a few days and then 



Miguel Gomez. Conciliators have been board their steamers. The United States 



attempting to hold a harmony meeting on Marine Hospital service has consented to 



Friday. Sefior Zayas declares that he has this arrangement. 



