THE CUBA REVIEW And Bulletin. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Want 

 Wreck of 



Maine 

 Removed. 



Milk 



in 



Havana. 



Tainted 



The 47,000 members of the 

 New Jersey Junior Order of 

 United American Mechanics, 

 who deplore the fact that the 

 wreck of the battleship 

 Maine still lies in the harbor 

 of Havana and that many of the bodies of 

 the crew are still in the hulk, have adopted 

 resolutions asking President Roosevelt to 

 tske action looking to the removal of the 

 wreck and the proper burial of the dead. 



These resolutions request him to include 

 in his annual message to Congress a recom- 

 mendation for legislation that will result in 

 the speedy removal of the wreck to the 

 United States and the interment of the 

 bodies with appropriate honors. 



Every day the sanitary de- 

 partment of Havana is find- 

 ing large quantities of milk 

 in bad condition, owing to 

 unscrupulous dealers, says 

 the Havana Post. No atten- 

 tion is paid ■ to whether or not the milk 

 may be alive with tuberculosis germs. 

 Nowhere in the world is consumption 

 more prevalent than in Havana. The great 

 white plague kills more of Cuba's citizens 

 than several other diseases put together. 

 This is in spite of the fact that Cuba has 

 an excellent climate, better than which can- 

 rot be found snywhere. 



A crusade i.-. urged to save the lives of 

 children, similar to that begun in some 

 cities of the United States, says the Atlan- 

 tic Monthly. The lives of 

 the city children hang in the 

 balance to-day. If there is 

 any means by which we can 

 bring back ruddy cheeks and 

 healthy bodies to children unjustly deprived 

 of them, if there is any way by which we 

 can lower our present fearful death rate, 

 v/ho of the community can refuse to lend 

 give aid? 



Another cable from iMo- 

 bile to Cuban ports is pro- 

 posed by the Western Union 

 Telegraph Company. Nego- 

 tiations, it is understood, are 

 already under way for the laying of the 

 cable. At present the cable business to 

 Cuban parts from Mobile goes by way of 

 New Orleans. The new direct cable be- 

 tween New York and Havana was formally 

 opened last month, and the first message, 

 from Clarence H. Mackay, the president of 

 the company, was to Governor Magoon, and 

 wished peace and prosperity to Cuba. The 

 governor sent a suitable response. 



SUPERINTENDENT of Schools Cor- 

 onado, of the Province of Havana, has 

 found many teachers who have be- 

 come unfit to hold their schools and who 

 will be removed. It is alleged that posi- 

 tions were obtained by persons, especially 

 women, who were unfit to teach, and some 

 liave already been discharged. Superin- 



tendents in other provinces are investigating 

 along the same lines. 



A 

 Crusade 

 Needed. 



interest or 



Another 

 Nezv 

 Cable. 



X HAVANA FIREMAN. Picture shows man with 

 bugle used to call firemen to big conflagrations. 



Havana will have a regularly paid fire 

 department just as soon as the necessary 

 preliminary steps are taken by the city gov- 

 ernment for its authorization and main- 

 tenance. A fund of $80,000 has been pro- 

 vided, $15,000 for a regular force and 

 $65,000 for a new station. The service has 

 heretofore been a volunteer one, entirely 

 inadequate for a city of 300,000 inhabitants. 



The governor has authorized Colonel 

 Greble to remove the fire station to the 

 ground floor of the Audencia building, front- 

 ing the Malecon. The department will re- 

 main there until their new building is com- 

 pleted. 



The fire on Baratillo street, in Havana, 

 some weeks ago is still a fruitful subject 

 for discussion by the Havana press, and 

 it is referred to to call public and official 

 attention to the urgent necessity of provid- 

 ing better fire apparatus for a city of 250.- 

 000 inhabitants, which was Havana's popu- 

 lation in 1899. The present system is en- 

 tirely inadequate, as the fire proved. 



THE mortgage for $203,255, which the 

 Spanish Bank of Havana had on the 

 old Cristina market, was cancelled on 

 October 24. The mortgage was transferred 

 to the Vento Works which supply the city's 

 water supply. The property will now be 

 demolished and a park constructed at the 

 place. 



