THE CUBA R E V I E W" 



ALL AROUND CUBA 



INTERESTING NEWS NOTES REGARDING VARIOUS MATTERS PERTAINING 



TO THE ISLAND 



The population of Cuba, officiallj' com- 

 puted to December 31st, has risen to 

 2,199,859, an increase in a little more than 

 two years of 150,879. 



Rafael A. Sanches, a merchant of San- 

 tiago de Cuba, died in Gonavies, Hayti, 

 early in j\Iarch. 



A notice issued by the Cuba Railroad 

 Company announces the election of D. A. 

 Galdos, general manager of the company, 

 and George H. Whigham as vice-presidents 

 of the company. 



Mr. Galdos will retain his office of gen- 

 eral manager with headquarters at Cama- 

 guey, supervising all the company's rail- 

 way construction. 



Mr. Whigham's office will be in New 

 York City, and he will have direct charge 

 of the purchase of material and financial 

 afifairs of the company. 



The Spanish-American Iron Company of 

 Daiquiri has been authorized by the depart- 

 ment of agriculture to import 800 miners 

 to work at their mines at Cuero and Dai- 

 quiri, Oriente Province. 



The president on Februarj' 13th approved 

 the contracts for the construction of four 

 600-ton gunboats, two of which will be built 

 bj' the Krajewski-Pesant Company and two 

 by the Viuda de Ruiz de Gamiz, both of 

 Havana. The price wall be $28,000 each. 



A colonist delegation from Bartle, Ori- 

 ente Province, recently called on the presi- 

 dent and asked for certain improvements 

 for their town. They want connecting roads 

 and a telegraph station. The president 

 promises to study their petition. 



Fire consumed 200,000 arrobas of cane on 

 March 2d in the fields of the Francisco 

 plantation in Camaguey Province. 



Dr. Anastasio Saaverio, formerly a 

 mayor of the city of Havana, and recently 

 the owner of the Payret Theatre, died in 

 Havana ]\Iarch 4th. 



The naval bill amendments of the United 

 States Senate provides $378,500 for an 

 emergency repair installation for Guanta- 

 namo. 



Gustave Lopez, the Spanish consul in Ma- 

 tanzas, was murdered in his office on 

 February 22d 'by a Spaniard named Jose 

 Colmenares, who is believed to have nursed 

 an imaginary grievance against the consul. 



Orders have been given to prepare plans 

 for the installation of a wireless station 

 at Antilla, Xipe Bay. 



.\ lire at El Cobre, Oriente Province, 

 February 22d, destroyed about 15 buildings, 

 comprising stores, the local health office 

 and several residences. 



The Smithsonian Institute has sent one 

 of its most valued members, Professor J. 

 W. Fewkes, graduate of Harvard, member 

 of the Bureau of Entomology, to the Isle 

 of Pines to gather prehistoric data regard- 

 ing that territory. He is now settled at 

 Nueva Gerona, from which place he will 

 visit other sections of the island. 



Baron Edmond de Rothschild's steam 

 j-acht "Atmah," which on February 23d 

 went ashore twelve miles south of Cape 

 Antonio, Cuba, was hauled off and floated, 

 arriving later at Havana apparently unin- 

 jured. The British coal-ship which helped 

 to release the "Atmah" will, it is said, re- 

 ceive $50,000 salvage. The Herrera Steam- 

 ship Line claims the same amount. Under- 

 writers are now trying to settle the matter. 



The president on February 22d signed a 

 decree granting permission to Rita H. de 

 Betancourt to estabHsh an electric plant in 

 Cienfuegos. 



Sr. Emilio Terry y Dorticos, the Cuban 

 millionaire planter and sugar mill owner, 

 died in the Canary Islands March 7th. 

 Sr. Terry was a former member of the 

 Cuban cabinet. 



Upon receipt of the sorrowful news the 

 Sugar Central Limones at Limonar, Ma- 

 tanzas Province, owned by the deceased, 

 stopped grinding for two days. 



Children who were left homeless by rea- 

 son of the loss of their parents during the 

 war will be provided for in the new orphan 

 asylum in Havana, recently a private char- 

 ity, but now taken under the protection of 

 the government and its needs provided for. 

 The official inauguration took place on 

 February 24th. 



The great wireless plant at the Morro 

 Castle, Havana harbor, will soon be again 

 in working order, repair parts having ar- 

 rived. The station was badly damaged 

 during the storm of last October. 



In view of the scarcity of water in the 

 town of Nuevitas the provincial council 

 voted ^2,000 on March 15th to be used in 

 bringing immediate relief. 



Fire in the cane fields of the plantations 

 of Martinez broke out March 14th, burning 

 down manv thousand arrobas of cane. 



