THE CUBA REVIEW And Bulletin. 



The Liberal factions, head- 

 Liberals Unfit ed by Zayas and Gomez, are 

 to Govern, still out of harmony with 

 each other. "La Lucha," 

 which was the supporter of the Revolu- 

 tion, recently severely rebuked the factions 

 and plainly told them that their policy was 

 one of failure, and they were not fit to gov- 

 ern the country because they had no doc- 

 trines and only cared about their personality 

 without giving one single thought to the 

 country's welfare, future and reorganization. 



A few of the alleged revo- 

 Sentenced lutionists who took arms 

 as Thieves, near Cienfuegos recently, 

 have been tried and sen- 

 tenced to fourteen years in prison on the 

 charge of horse stealing. 



In appearance Sr. Alfredo 

 Pen Picture Zayas, the president of the 

 of Sr. Zayas. Liberal party and a candi- 

 date of that party for Presi- 

 dent of Cuba, says the New York World, 

 is a man of medium stature, with a schol- 

 arly stoop in his shoulders and a finely 

 formed head thatched with a mass of thick 

 iron gray hair. His beard is sparse, and 

 he is always clean shaven. On account of 

 his hair and an imaginary resemblance to 

 the Asiatic type, the enemies of Zayas 



dubbed him "El Chino." or "the China- 

 man," and the comic papers in the island 

 constantly depict him with the oriental 

 pigtail and costume of a son of the Celes- 

 tial Kingdom. 



One of the cartoonists on 

 Like Abra- a comic paper, published in 

 ham Lincoln, this capital, said lately that 

 when making his cartoon of 

 Zayas he was impressed with the resem- 

 blance of the doctor to Abraham Lincoln. 

 There were the same deeply sunken eyes, 

 high cheekbones and intellectual forehead, 

 so well known in Lincoln's pictures. The 

 manner of wearing the hair, the chin, and 

 the protruding underlip are present in both 

 men. President Lincoln was a man of 

 towering stature, while Dr. Zayas is only 

 of average height. 



Governor's Magoon's de- 

 The Census cree required that the census 

 Enumeration, enumeration be finished by 

 the 14th of next month. The 

 decree calls specific attention to the fact 

 that while the census has the character of 

 a general census of the population, it is, 

 above all things, an electoral census, and 

 special attention should be given to includ- 

 ing in the tables delivered all the necessary 

 data for the formation of a strictly accurate 

 list of all persons having a right to vote. 



GOVERNMENT CONSTRUCTION WORK 



]Many hundred miles of fine 

 Road roads will be ready by the be- 

 Building ginning of the tourist season. 

 General. Orders have been issued 

 from the palace that by De- 

 cember I, all of the calzadas of the province 

 must be finished and in good order, and, 

 never in the history of Cuba, has so much 

 road-building and road-repairing been in 

 progress as at the present time. 



The province of Havana will soon have 

 a network of smooth highways. Holguin 

 gets $4,000 for enlarging the road to Sao 

 Arriba. 



The government has been 

 New Roads, petitioned to perform needed 

 repairs to the road from Gua- 

 jimico to San Jose, in the township of 

 Cienfuegos. Plans are being prepared for 

 further improvement of cart roads between 

 Pinar del Rio and Vinales. 



Rancho Velez and Guines, in province, 

 are to have another good connecting cart 

 road. 



The chief engineer of Camaguey has been 

 authorized to purchase a steam roller to be 

 used in building the road from La Gloria 

 to Puerto Viaro, and the plans and speci- 

 fications for the bids to supply the state 

 with a dredging boat to clear the Zanja 

 channel between La Gloria and Nuevitas 

 have been approved. The said boat is not 

 to cost more than $20,000. 



$15,000 has been allowed for repairs on 

 the Najesa road, and $25,000 for the Tron- 

 cones road, both in Camaguey province. 



The Law Committee 

 Higher which is at present engaged 

 Judicial in the reorganization of the 

 Salaries. judiciary laws has recom- 

 mended that the salaries of 

 the Presiding and x\ssociate Judges of the 

 Supreme Court be raised to $8,000 and 

 $6,000 per annum, respectively. 



Governor IMagoon has au- 

 A New thorized the United Fruit 

 Wireless Co. to set up a wireless sta- 

 Station. tion at Cape San Antonio. 

 The work will begin at once, 

 and will cost $30,000 and will be as power- 

 ful as the one at Guantanamo. The decree 

 provides that the Company "transmit free 

 messages from and to vessels belonging to 

 the Cuban government and to' the United 

 States, and naval and military stations of 

 the United States." 



The station must not interfere in any way 

 with the government wireless, and shall 

 never be used detrimentally to the interests 

 of the Cuban government. In time of war 

 it shall be subject to supervision by the gov- 

 ernment. 



Other stations are rapidly nearing com- 

 pletion. Messages from the station at 

 Morro Castle were intercepted recently 490 



