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THE CUBA REVIEW 



La Gloria's Schools 



Dr. Garcia Kohly, secretary of public in- 

 struction, in speaking of the La Gloria 

 school situation, said he regretted very 

 much that there had been the least delay 

 or apparent hesitation in furnishing the 

 American colony with what it required for 

 educational purposes. 



He stated that he would make a thor- 

 ough investigation of the condition and 

 needs of the school and if he could aid 

 the colony in any manner he would do 

 so, for he believed that these men who 

 went into that section and by hard and 

 intelligent work had made a productive 

 garden out of what a few years ago was 

 a wilderness, deserved all the help that 

 could be given them. 



The vessels will be adapted fur shoal 

 water cruising, made necessary by the nu- 

 merous lagoons and inlets which line the 

 entire coast of Cuba. The guns will be 

 of the seven-inch type, with secondary bat- 

 teries of rapid-fire guns. Because Cuba 

 at the present time is without a navy one 

 of the cruisers will be used as a training 

 vessel. 



The bid of the Cramp Company was the 

 lowest for the entire work, being below 

 the figures of the Vulcan Shipyard at 

 Stettin and Vickers Sons & Mixim, of 

 England. Four coastal boats will be built 

 by the Vulcan shipyard, but they will be 

 of far smaller proportions than those 

 which the Cramps will construct. 



l^ista en la cittdad de Cainagiiey, mostrando la autigna iglcsia a la dcrecha. 

 Tandem ox-team, Camaguey City. Old Cathedral is on the right. 



Later he gave the colony the required 

 permit to have a private school for their 

 children and for all the desks and seats 

 they required for their school, as well as 

 material and maps for same. 



Cramps Secure Cuban Contract 



The Cuban government awarded to the 

 William Cramp & Sons Ship and Engine 

 Building Company of Philadelphia, Pa., 

 the contract for the construction of two 

 warships, the first to be built for Cuba's 

 proposed new navy. The two vessels will 

 be cruisers, and one will be about 8,000 

 tons displacement. The Cramp Company 

 has a year and a half to complete the 

 contract. 



Cubans Lacking in Thrift 



Colonel G W. Macfarlane, a wealthy 

 sugar planter of the Hawaiian Islands, who 

 has been a visitor in Cuba for the last 

 few weeks, made a statement that the Cu- 

 ban laborer is totally lacking in the way of 

 saving any of his money. He believes 

 that if the Cuban laborer tried to put aside 

 a little of his wages each week he would 

 prove a far better man for the planter and 

 greatly help himself. He said further: 



"It has also been my observation in Cuba 

 that the average planter is not alive to 

 the need of tilling his soil and getting the 

 best out of it. To scratch the surface with 

 a plow drawn by oxen, making a turnover 

 of only a few inches is not tilhng his soil 

 the wav it should.be done. 



