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E. S. Kirkpatrick. Canada's trade com- 

 missioner to Cuba, has resigned and will 

 be succeeded bj- J. E. Ray. 



The United States House of Representa- 

 tives, on March 2d, agreed to a resolution 

 permitting the secretary of war to admit 

 Melchor Batista, a Cuban boy, to the A\'cst 

 Point military academy for instruction. 



The Spanish Club in Havana intends to 

 have a home of its own and to this end has 

 purchased some houses on the Prado for 

 $110,000. Bonds covering the amount re- 

 quired were issued, and these were quickly 

 taken up by wealthy Spanish residents. 



Jose Blanco Herrera, of the well-known 

 steamship firm of the Sobrinos de Herrera 

 and one of the wealthiest landowners of 

 Havana, died March 2d. 



Sr. Herrera, despite his advanced age, 

 was in active business and was for years 

 the general manager of the firm. 



E. X. Holmes, mining engineer, died at 

 Santiago de Cuba, on Februar}- 11th, of 

 gastric fever. For several years he was 

 superintendent for the Spanish-American 

 Iron Compam- of the mines at Daiquiri, 

 but for the past three j-ears he had been 

 general superintendent at the Juragua 

 mines for the Juragua ^Mining Company. 



Ex-Governor Edwin Warfield of ]\Iary- 

 land, and now president of the Fidelity and 

 Deposit Company of Baltimore, recently 

 visited Havana, and declared that the faith 

 he first placed in the Cuban people and the 

 republic has increased with each succeed- 

 ing year. He is confident that there is 

 not the slightest reason for American capi- 

 talists to fear investing their wealth in 

 Cuba, and predicts that within the next few 

 years millions of dollars will flow to the 

 island from the United States. 



THE CUBAN CHESS CHAMPION 



It is now three short weeks since Jose 

 Raul Capablanca. the Cuban Paul INIurph}-, 

 made his debut with a sensational defeat 

 of Dr. Bernstein of St. Petersburg and 

 aroused the enthusiasm of the chess world. 

 On ^larch 12th, in Spain, with eleven 

 games contested and undefeated, he stands 

 at the head of the picked company of ex- 

 perts, credited with a score of S^u points 

 won as against 2^i; lost, the '"defeats" rep- 

 resenting one-half the number of his drawn 

 games, of which there were five. Alread}' 

 he is heralded as the winner of the tour- 

 nament, and that this prediction is a fairh- 

 safe one is shown by a survey of the grand 

 work he has accomplished. 



Following his initial victory over the 

 Russian master, which will go on record 

 as a classical specimen of a successful at- 

 tack in the Ruy Lopez, while the Queen's 

 wing is allowed to care for itself, Capa- 



blanca drew with Marshall, the United 

 States champion, in the second round, de- 

 feated Amos Burn of Liverpool in the 

 third, and then met the famous Dr. Tar- 

 rasch iri the fourth. This game gave the 

 young Cuban an opportunity to display his 

 real greatness, despite the fact that he did 

 not actually win. Dr. Tarrasch, with the 

 move, could not make the slightest impres- 

 sion upon the position of Capablanca, who 

 met him at everj- turn and even created a 

 weakness from which Dr. Tarrasch even- 

 tually saved himself with some difficulty. 



A\'lATION MEET IN HAVANA 



The largest shipment of aeroplanes ever 

 made in the L'nited States left Xew York 

 for Havana ^larch 11th. The aeroplanes 

 were used in an international aviation tour- 

 nament held in Havana from ;March ISth 

 to ^larch 27th. 



This was the first competitive meet to 

 be held in any country in the Western 

 Hemisphere outside of the United States. 



Among the air men entered were Roland 

 G. Garos, Rene Simon and Rene Barrier, 

 all of France : Edmond Audemars of 

 Switzerland: St. Croi.x Johnston and M. 

 J. Se3-mour of the United States, and John 

 J. Frisbie of Ireland. Mile. Dutrie, one of 

 the most famous of French air women, is 

 now on her way across the Atlantic to 

 drive a French biplane in the tournament. 

 It is expected that several other world- 

 famous aviators will fl}^ in the Havana 

 meet. 



The prize list, as put up by the newly 

 formed Aero Club of Cuba, alreadv' aggre- 

 gates $30,000 in cash and a number of valu- 

 able cups and trophies. Among the most 

 important prizes is the $3,000 in gold of- 

 fered by the Havana City Council for the 

 fastest flight made from Camp Columbia 

 to and around EI Morro and return before 

 March 31st. 



Another valuable prize in the Havana 

 meet is for the $3,000 in cash offered by 

 Alfred J. ^loissant while he was in Ha- 

 vana after the death of his brother John 

 on December 31st last. 



The Aero Club of America is sending 

 two representatives to Havana in order 

 that due cognizance may be taken of the 

 new speed and altitude records that, it is 

 hoped, will be established during the com- 

 petitions there. The Aero Club of Cuba, 

 under whose auspices the Havana tourna- 

 ment is held, has 150 active members, and 

 is growing very rapidly. 



The captain of the port of Havana. 

 Charles Aguirre. has been appointed chief 

 of the Havana police. Colonel Morales 

 Coello, commander of the national navy, 

 will take charge of the port, unifying both 

 posts. 



