THE CUBA REVIEW And Bulletin. 



NOTES FROM BARTLE. 



Bartie is some 6; miles east of Camaguej-, 



and the Cuba Railroad passes through the 



property. It is a place which strikes one 



favorahly at first glance, inasmuch as the 



town site was first built upon, and there are 



numerous cozy residences of the colonists 



visible from the car windows. Mr. D. O. 



RuU's house north of the track 



Till' Siif^ar makes an especially fine ap- 



.1//// Xot )'ct pearance. The colony is young 



Built. about two years and much 



cannot l)e expected in that 



time. l)Ut work is being done and the place 



the Realty Co. It has since been sold. The 

 new hotel is not ready. Among the deaths 

 in the colony have been Mr. Bearthmann, 

 Mrs. Arthur Beedham and Miss Jeannie 

 Young. There have been some departures 

 for the States, some final, and there have 

 been many new arrivals and 25 or 30 more 

 are expected this month. Mr. H. S". Bun- 

 bury, the postmaster, has been superseded 

 by Mrs. .-kcosta. the wife of the station 

 agent, who was appointed to the oflfice in 

 August. One of the sights of Bartlc is the 

 former's garden, of which a si)ecial illus- 

 trated description will be given in another 

 issue. It is a miniature agricultural experi- 

 ment station, for at considerable trouble and 

 expense Mr. Bunbury secured valuable trees 

 and shrubs from different parts of the world 

 and planted them in his garden, carefully 

 noting their growth. All the strange com- 

 pany he has collected are growing finely and 



AmoiiK till' iuipiiivt'- 

 ments in Kartli'. iimn' 

 is mori" strikiiij; ttuiii 

 the Iteaiitiful new stoiic 

 station. A year si;;". 

 Imsiness was carried on 

 in the old freight ear 

 which served as a sta- 

 tion. The i)icture shows 

 the old anil tlic new. 



is being gradually developed. Much disap- 

 pointment has been expressed because of 

 the failure of the company to build the 

 promised sugar mill. The acres of the set- 

 tlers are some distance from the town sites. 

 and the original idea was that a good in- 

 come could be attained by planting the land 

 to sugar cane and selling to the mill. As 

 the land is undeniably fer'.ile, it was be- 

 lieved that a good crop of cane could be 

 secured from year to year without much 

 trouble and expense after the original plant- 

 ing. Planted to cane the colonist was sup- 

 posed to make a profit of 



Gossip $40.00 or $50.00 per acre. 



of the But the revolution of August. 



Colony. 1906, interrupted the plans of 

 the company, as it did many 

 others in the island, government and pri- 

 vate. 



The Torrens family has left Bartie. and 

 for a little while their hotel was run by 



An Agriciil- in this work which is a labor 

 tiiral Expcri- of love. Mr. Bunbury has 

 mcnt Station proven that many valuable 



on a Small plants will grow easily in 

 Scale. Cuba. 



Miss Jeanette Overhaugh, 

 the school teacher, was married some time 

 ago to Joseph Roberts. 



Mrs. Cameron Jonson is the mother of 

 a fine boy. Mr. and Mrs. Jonson were the 

 first to leave the townsite and go to the 

 bush and live and develop their land. They 

 have 26 acres cleared and stumped, have 

 much citrus fruit planted and will go into 

 cattle raising. 



Dr. Preston, the owner of the new hotel 

 now building, has bought 60 acres and will 

 plant to grass, keeping cows and other cat- 

 tle, and planting fruit and vegetables for 

 the use of his hotel. The saw-mill has been 

 enlarged and a planer and shingle machine 

 added. 



