THE CUBA REVIEW And Bulletin. 



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STEEL BRIDGE NEEDED NEAR SANCTI SPIRITUS. 



Senator Martin Morua Delgado and Jose 

 Maria Espinosa presented to the governor 

 a petition signed by many of the citizens 

 of Sancti Spiritus, asking that a bridge be 

 constructed over the Tubainicu, on the 

 Santa Rosa road. They explained to Gov. 

 Magoon that this road was the principal 

 one to many of the great fruit farms of 

 the district, and that its construction was 

 urgent and necessary. 



NEW ROUTES OF THE HAVANA ELECTRIC RY. 



By the establishment of the Vedado- 

 Malecon route, the Vedado' will be con- 

 nected with the Malecon and residential 

 district. Heretofore passengers bound 

 from Vedado who wished to get to the 

 Malecon were obliged to come to Central 

 Park, get off at the corner of Egido and 

 Neptuno and then take a Vedado car, pay- 

 ing another fare. This expense is obivated 

 by the new route. 



The other change, the Vedado-Jesus del 

 Monte route, will be a great convenience 

 to working people living in these sections. 

 Both lines as now established have been 

 very favorably commented upon. This im- 

 provement is one of the first made by the 

 new general manager, ]\Ir. Frank Steinhart, 



iormer U. S. Consul to Cuba. 



Fifty trolley cars for use in 

 the City of Havana are at pres- 

 ent being constructed at the 

 shops of the Havana Electric 

 Railways in Havana. Ten of 

 these new cars will be placed 

 in service within a few weeks. 

 The traffic department of the 

 Havana Electric Railway, un- 

 der the direction of Chief En- 

 gineer Hild, are at present 

 studying new routes and the 

 construction of curbs, etc., with 

 the object of facilitating more 

 communication between points 

 within the City of Havana. 



By a decision rendered on 

 July 31 by the Supreme Court 

 of Cuba confirming judgment 

 of the Audiencia of the Prov- 

 ince of Havana, the Havana 

 Central Railroad is obliged to 

 indemnify the Western Rail- 

 ways of Havana in the sum of 

 $223,821.09 Spanish gold for 

 a strip of land taken by the 

 former company at Tallapiedra. 

 Recent resolutions of the rail- 

 way commission were approved 

 July 22 by Govorner Magoon. 

 These included the approval of 

 the itinerary of trains on the 

 Gibara and Holguin Railway's 

 Chaparra branch and a recom- 

 mendation to the Treasury De- 

 partment to transfer to the 

 United Railways of Havana of 

 the deposit of $7,600, deposited 

 in the treasury by the South 

 Cardenas Railway to guar-^ntee 

 the construction of the line. 



THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH. 



The work of building the new Episcopal 

 Church in Havana is progressing satisfac- 

 torily. The walls on the Aguilar street side 

 of the edifice have reached their full height, 

 and a roof has been placed over part of 

 the structure. It is expected that Novem- 

 ber will see the completion of the building. 



NEW WIRELESS STATION AT POINT SAN 

 ANTONIOj CUBA. 



Representatives of the United Fruit Co., 

 a Boston concern, controlling a large por- 

 tion of the trade in tropical fruits, had a 

 meeting by appointment with Secretary 

 Taft, August 15, in furtherance of their' 

 application for permission to erect a wire- 

 less telegraph station at Point San Antonio, 

 on the extreme westerly end of Cuba. 



It appears that the application for the 

 permit was originally made to the present 

 government in Cuba, but its approval had 

 been withheld for the reason that the gov- 

 ernment has projected a general system of 

 wireless stations on the coast of Cuba, in- 

 cluding one of Pinar del Rio, only sixty 

 miles distant from the point selected by 

 the United Fruit Company as a site for its 

 (Continued on page 15.) 



Frank Steinhardt. formpi- U. S. Consul Geueral to Cuba, and 

 now Geueral Manager of the Havana Electric Railway, heartily 

 eulogized by the Provisional Governor and endorsed by him as 

 the "Man behind Magoon." 



