THE CUBA REVIEW And Bulletin. 



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Specimen new honse in the Vedado. a suburb of Havana, dellglitfully situated on the gulf. The 

 recent additions to the Vedado section are very beautiful, but the roads are still in a bad condition. 



Permits for buildings in 

 Havana Su- Havana and suburbs exceed 

 burbs Rapidly all former records. The city 

 Developing, is now undergoing a great 

 building boom which affects 

 not only the city proper, but extends to out- 

 lying sections like Cerro, Vedado, Principe, 

 Jesus del Monte, etc. Nearly all the houses 

 now being constructed are fine buildings 

 and ornaments to their locality. 



The annual report of the 

 The Army's quartermaster general shows 

 Valuable that during the fiscal year 

 Services. ending June 30, his depart- 

 ment has spent $2,554,970 on 

 the Army of Cuban Pacification, from the 

 beginning of the intervention. Cuba is re- 

 ceiving full value for the money expended. 

 The army is rendering valuable service in 

 cleaning up her cities, building her roads, 

 reorganizing all her departments, resuscitat- 

 ing her moribund school system, training 

 her armed forces, and remodeling and har- 

 monizing, her laws. 



In Cuba, says Brig. Gen. 



The U. S. James Alton, chief signal offi- 

 Signal Corps cer, the signal corps established 

 in Cuba. a telephone system with inter- 

 communicating trunk lines 

 from the headquarters of the Army of Pa- 

 cification to Camp Columbia and the City 

 of Havana, and it also undertook the opera- 

 tion of the Cuban government telephone 

 lines between these places. 



The officers and men of the corps also 

 handled all official government messages 

 over the Cuban government telegraph lines 

 wherever American troops were stationed 

 on the island. The more important army 

 posts were connected by telephone, and the 

 service proved highly satisfactory. The 

 wireless system between Havana and the 

 Isle of Pines was repaired. 



The Havana Leper Hospital 

 The Leper will be removed to Marill. It 

 Hospital's was anticipated that residents 

 Neiv Site, and property owners of the 

 latter city would offer strong 

 objections to the transfer, but these did not 

 appear. The new location is on the Horatio 

 Rubens property, well out of town on the 

 hill top with a magnificent view of the city 

 and bay, and it is perhaps because so far 

 away that more serious objections were not 

 made. $350,000 are to be spent in improv- 

 ing the building now in an uncompleted 

 condition, and many new houses will be 

 built for the lepers. The location comprises 

 1,700 acres. 



A census is being taken by 

 Tile and the Department of Agri- 

 Shoe culture. Industry and Com- 

 Factories. merce of all Cuban industries, 

 and industrial engineers are 

 visiting them to learn something of their 

 equipment, output, methods and profits. The 

 first inspection was of Diez and Planiel tile 

 factory, near Havana. This plant's weekly 

 output is 100,000 tiles, and it has a capacity 

 for a larger production. The factory is 

 provided with the best modern machinery 

 and equipment. The product, in the opin- 

 ion of the department, is not inferior to the 

 best in the market. 



Srs. Soles & Bulnes' shoe factory, in 

 Cerro, was next visited, where up- 

 wards of 100 workmen are employed. 

 The factory is run by hydraulic power, and 

 has all necessary mechanical appliances. The 

 weekly output is 150 dozen pair of shoes, of 

 a variety of models. The machinery, which 

 is all from the United States, is as good as 

 the best employed at the largest shoe fac- 

 tories in the United States. 



