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THE CUBA REVIEW 



ALL AROUND CUBA 



INTERESTING NEWS NOTES REGARDING VARIOUS MATTERS PERTAINING 



TO THE ISLAND 



Excommunication to all Catholic women 

 who shall wear the "harem" skirt has been 

 decreed by the Roman Catholic bishop of 

 Havana, the Right Rev. Father Pedro Es- 

 trada. 



Dr. N. L. Britton, director of the New 

 York Botanical Gardens, was in Cuba re- 

 cently, collecting plants for the gardens. He 

 was accompanied by Dr. J. Cowel, director 

 of the Buffalo Botanical Gardens. 



A co-operative irrigating and lighting 

 plant is contemplated for Santa Maria del 

 Bobo. 



The Jaragua Iron Company has been re- 

 fused permission to remove the two old 

 cemeteries in its locality, transferring the 

 remains to the new cemetery, holding that 

 ten years must elapse after the last burial. 



The mayor of Nuevitas and the president 

 of the city council as a commission recently 

 called upon the president to petition for 

 the necessary credit for the construction of 

 an aqueduct, of a highway from Nuevitas 

 across the island to San Miguel on the south 

 coast and for a subsidy for the projected 

 railroad to Caibarien. 



Dr. Orestes Ferrara, speaker of the Cvi- 

 ban house of representatives, and Roland 

 Garros, one of the Moisant aviators, were 

 sent crashing to earth at the Vento grounds 

 in Havana on March 27th in a passsenger 

 monoplane. Speaker Ferrara sustained a 

 fractured wrist. Garros escaped unhurt. 

 The big passenger monoplane was badly 

 wrecked. 



The money order treaty between Cuba 

 and Germany which has been agreed to by 

 both countries became effective March 17th 

 when it was formally ratified at the state 

 department. 



. The Journal of the American bankers, in 

 its comment, says : "It affords us satis- 

 faction to note that the influence of the Na- 

 tional Bank of Cuba is extending to prac- 

 tical subjects and that to Cuba chapter be- 

 longs the credit of having enabled deposit- 

 ors in Cuba, who from any cause are unable 

 to write, to keep their funds in the institu- 

 tion which has adopted the finger print sys- 

 tem of identification." 



Havana will offer a prize of $2,000 for the 

 winners in the coming Philadelphia-Havana 

 motor-boat races. One-half of this will 

 be invested in a cup, and the balance goes 

 to the victor in the contests. The cup must 

 be won three consecutive times before be- 

 coming the property of the winner. 



A Durchase of the Simon property of 

 65,000 acres of land close to Guantanamo by 

 New York capitahsts is announced. The 

 deal was consummated through Lafayette 

 Pence, a New York lawyer. 



A system of irrigation and an electric 

 light plant will be built on the immense 

 tract. Alfalfa is said to be one of the 

 principal products which the owners of 

 the land propose to grow because of the 

 high price of hay in Cuba. 



Michael J. Dady, the Brooklyn contractor, 

 who is at work on a dredging project at 

 Caibarien harbor, has found it cheaper to 

 build a steel vessel, especially designed to 

 load water with which to supply his 

 dredges. The new boat will carry 11,000 

 gallons and cost $10,000. 



Csotain George G. Gatley, one of the two 

 American officers assigned as instructors in 

 the Cuban army, has been promoted to be 

 major of field artillery. His promotion is 

 numbered among those recently occurring. 

 He will, it is understood, remain on duty 

 in Cuba. 



The Cuban department of justice has reg- 

 istered a new religion in the republic under 

 the name of the "Iglesia Evangelica Reden- 

 terista." 



The commission named by the govern- 

 ment to go to Spain and direct emigration 

 to Cuba found their quest useless upon ar- 

 riving at their destination at Vigo. The 

 commission learned that their work was in 

 violation of a Spanish law which prohibits 

 any effort at inducing emigration, and for- 

 mer Secretary of Agriculture Foyo, who 

 presided over the commission, at once re- 

 turned to Cuba. 



The Italian bark "Lombra" with a cargo 

 of 700,000 roof tiles, foundered and sunk 

 at the entrance of the port of Cardenas 

 on March 21st. Her crew of sixteen men 

 swam ashore. 



On and after March 30th, the old pontoon 

 bridge over the Almendaries River near 

 Havana at La Madama was officially de- 

 clared closed to traffic. The new bridge 

 recently completed takes its place and ful- 

 fills all traffic requirements. 



By decre signed by the president, F. M. 

 Vandervoort, representing the Montreal En- 

 gineering Compan}^, has been authorized to 

 establish an electric plant in Cienfuegos. 



Charles Russell and Wilson N. Palmer, 

 ice-plant manufacturers of Boston, are plan- 

 ning to install an ice plant at Sancti Spiri- 

 tus, Santa Clara Province. 



