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THE CUBA REVIEW And Bulletin. 



The Public Scliools of Cuba. A scene In a Sagua school. Note the American desks brought lii at 

 the first Intervention, and note also that colored children are among the scholars. There is no race 

 discrimination among the children attending schools in Cnba. 



Dr. Lincoln de Zayas, act- 



Englisli in ing secretary of public in- 



Ctiban struction, proposes increasing 



Schools. the number of English teach- 

 ers in the public schools of 

 Cuba. The number of teachers approved 

 for this service has not been sufficient, the 

 examinations requiring 75 out of 100 points 

 to secure appointment. As a consequence 

 the teaching of the English language has 

 been far from efficient. 



Five schools per day to one teacher 

 proved too much and neglect followed. 

 Lack of enthusiam among the teachers and 

 public was also strongly in evidence, es- 

 pecially in the time of Estrada Palma. 



With the second intervention comes an 

 impetus for renewed work. There have 

 been no examinations for teachers since 

 1901. and as there are now many persons 

 in Cuba competent to teach English, new 

 examinations arc asked for and a corps of 

 able and exi^erienced instructors can easily 

 be secured. 



BARTLE's sugar MIT.L. 



To the Editor of 



The Cuba Review : 



Referring to the article in your September 



number on Bartle. we desire to add thereto 



later information in reference to the Sugar 



Centrale for Bartle. Since j'our September 



issue contract has been closed between the 

 Cuban Realty Company and the "Bartle 

 Centrale" for the purchase by the Ccntrale 

 of several thousand acres of land at Bartle 

 and guaranteeing the erection of a large 

 Centrale thereon, ready for grinding by 

 December r, 1909. This Centrale will be 

 under the control of Sugar Centrale people 

 from Porto Rico who have looked over the 

 district and believe in Bartle for one of the 

 best possible sugar districts in Cuba. 

 Bartle Centrale. 



By C. J. Field. 

 The cable ship Silvertown 

 All-Sea Cable hid the shore end of the 

 to Havana- hi ew York cable on 



Havana. October 4 last at Havana and 

 sailed for New York the same 

 afternoon. 



The acual work of paying out the cable 

 between Cuba and New York will take only 

 about two weeks, and the only all-sea cable 

 line between New York and Havana will 

 be in operation before the end of the pres- 

 ent month. 



Messages can then be sent between New 

 York and Havana in three minutes instead 

 of thirty minutes as now, predicts Vice- 

 President Nally, of the Postal Company. 

 The New York terminal will be at Coney 

 Island. 



