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T HE CUBA REVIEW 



New Immigration Offices 



The government is being urged to begin 

 at once the building of suitable headquar- 

 ters in Santiago to handle the rapidly grow- 

 ing immigration at that port. 



The plans call for a quarantine camp and 

 liospital, and the government has signified 

 its intention of putting about $37,000 into 

 this alone. For the office building, through 

 which to receive the steamship arrivals, a 

 well-equipped building will be erected to 

 cost $12,000. 



In view of the recent disclosures that 

 numerous S}-rian immigrants were making 

 Santiago their rendezvous and success- 

 fully getting by the health authorities at 

 that port, it is likely that the government 

 will decide to hasten the new buildings 

 and to take measures which will put a stop 

 to further violations of the immigration 

 laws. 



The investigation into the affairs of the 

 immigration office in Santiago, to ascertain 

 why immigrants suffering from trachoma 

 had been able to get through, has yet to be 

 made. 



Association Building for Havana 



The Young ]\Ien's Christian Association 

 is _tr3'mg to raise $225,000 for an association 

 building in Havana. A subscription of 

 $75,000 from the United States is contin- 

 gent on the balance beinp raised in Havana. 

 On February 9th the total amount sub- 

 scribed aggregated $127,000, leaving nearly 

 $100,000 to be secured in the five days re- 

 maining. 



Failure to raise the $225,000 building 

 fund that the Young Men's Christian As- 

 sociation is campaigning for in Havana will 

 mean the complete abandonment of Cuba by 

 the organization so far as the project of 

 erecting association buildings in other cities 

 on the island goes. 



This is the edict which the men back of 

 the campaign movement have given out. 

 It means that a failure will not only re- 

 dound to the discredit of the city, they say, 

 but the entire Cuban republic will suffer. 



Elaborate plans had been prepared by 

 the Young Men's Christian Association's 

 foreign department prior to the opening of 

 this camoaign for building campaigns 

 through Cuba. It was proposed to follow 

 up the Havana campaign with appeals to 



the public-spirited citizens of other Cuban 

 cities. This idea, they now say, will be 

 wholly abandoned if the citizens of wealth 

 do not respond to the campaign here in the 

 remaining days left. 



Change in Old Firm 



The banking firm of G. Lawton Childs & 

 Co., S. en C, of Havana, has been reorgan- 

 ized and incorporated under the name of 

 G. Lawton Childs & Co., Ltd. This cor- 

 poration represents the interests of the 

 late Mr. Childs and has taken over the as- 

 sets and assumed the liabilities of the for- 

 mer firm, and will continue the business as 

 successor. 



Messrs. Belisario Martinez and Joaquin 

 IMiranda, who were managers of the busi- 

 ness under Mr. Childs during the last 

 twenty years of his life, have been jointly 

 and separately appointed general managers 

 of the new company, and will sign accord- 

 ingly. 



Want American Books 



From Cuba has come the suggestion that 

 a translation of "Edison : His Life and In- 

 ventions" would reach in a beneficial way 

 the Spanish-reading youth. The suggestion 

 was made to the Harpers by a citizen of 

 Havana, who says that already American 

 educational and scientific books are becom- 

 ing known, through translation, to the pres- 

 ent school-going generation. He adds that 

 these books are eagerly read and suggests 

 that the wonderful rise and achievements 

 of Edison would fire the young Cuban 

 mind with ambition. 



Washington's birthday was observed by 

 the members of the American Club in Ha- 

 vana b}' a subscription ball. The house 

 committee, at the head of which is Vice- 

 President Horter, issued several hundred 

 invitations to the function. 



The planters in the Isle of Pines have 

 been advised to plant watermelons for the 

 Havana and northern markets. "The ad- 

 vice is sound," says the Appeal, "for we 

 can grow melons, and fine ones too, and we 

 know that they are a profitable crop."' 



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