THE CUBA REVIEW 



13 



GIFTS FOR CAPABLANCA 



The international chess masters tour- 

 nament was brought to an end at San 

 Sebastian, Spain, on March 17th, with Jose 

 Raul Capablanca, the young Cuban, as 

 victor. in the fourteen games he pla3'-ed 

 against the champion players of nine 

 different nations, his score was 9% games 

 won and 4:\-2 lost. Capablanca is 21 years 

 old. There is now talk of arranging for 

 a match with the world's champion, Dr. 

 Emmanuel Lasker. President Gomez cabled 

 his congratulations on jMarch ISth. 



The Havana Chess Club has started a 

 popular subscription to buy the young- 

 champion a house in the city as a gift from 

 the people. The club itself will present him 

 with a gold medal. 



By a presidential decree the contract for 

 the sale of old cannons and iron to J. M. 

 Cabrera, said to represent an American 

 firm, has been annulled. A six months in- 

 vestigation, reciuested bj^ the president and 

 carried out by Dr. Garcia Kohly, favored 

 the annulment, as the price offered was 

 much too low. 



Cuban representatives abroad give in- 

 formation of new lines to Cuba. One line 

 between Havana and Antwerp and another 

 between Xorwaj^ and Havana, the latter 

 line touching Florida ports on the return 

 trin. 



Two men of Jamaica are after the $3,000 

 prize oft'ered by the Cuban government for 

 a remedy for the disease now attacking 

 trees in the island. They want to begin 

 work at once if the government will pay 

 them their daily expenses. 



The Cuban Telephone Company, which 

 has the contract for long-distance service, 

 is looking for a plot of ground, 18 by 36 

 meters, in the Cit}^ of Cienfuegos. 



The public notice of this intention of the 

 company arouses hope that the city will soon 

 be connected by telephone with Havana. 



The Camaguey Traction Company has in- 

 formed the city council that the company 

 will proceed to extend its trolley lines to 

 other points outside the city. 



The provincial governor of Oriente has 

 suspended the resolution of the city coun- 

 cil of jNIayari of last February, ordering 

 the general managers of the Xipe Bay Com- 

 pany and the Spanish-American Iron Com- 

 pany to present plans for the improvement 

 in their lands at Felton and Preston. 



Acting under a recent resolution of the 

 Cuban national board of sanitation and 

 charities, the local health authorities 

 throughout the island are preparing to carry 

 out a compulsory vaccination in the thickly 

 settled communities and in the jails and 

 penitentiaries. 



\\ urk on the quarantine station to be lo- 

 cated on Ca\o Duany, in Santiago Bay, was 

 begun jMarch 29th. The station is to cost 

 $100,000. 



A presidential decree, published March 

 39th last, gives the contract for printing for 

 the next five 3'^ears (with power of renewal) 

 the revenue stamps required for the 

 $35,000,000 army pay loan, to Sr. Jose Lopez 

 Rodriguez. 



The price of printing is $3,500 per million 

 less than the price at which the work is 

 now being done by the American Bank Note 

 Company. 



It is a matter of common knowledge, says 

 La Lucha, that the government is trying to 

 sell the Villanueva land, which it exchanged 

 for the arsenal property, and has indeed of- 

 fered it to more than one large operator in 

 real estate. 



"Motor trucks are just beginning to find 

 favor in Havana, and the future of the com- 

 mercial motor vehicle in prosperous tropical 

 cities cannot be said to be less than in the 

 most enterprising cities of the States. The 

 most popular vehicle will be the economical 

 runabout which works in business and in 

 pleasure, and the package wagon for quick 

 deliveries in retail business." — Edzvard L. 

 Desvcrninc of Havana in the Neiu York 

 Times. 



E. de Laureal Slevin, who for the past 

 several years has been editor of the Havana 

 Telegraph, assumed JMarch 21st the_ posi- 

 tion of editor of the English page in La 

 Lucha, one of the leading Spanish dailies in 

 Havana. He will continue as editor of his 

 own paper which is published on Sundays. 

 J\Ir. Slevin has been a resident in Cuba for 

 the last twelve years and is familiar with 

 the affairs of the island. 



The telephone system of the City of Car- 

 denas on the north coast of Matanzas Prov- 

 ince is to be largely increased, owing to 

 business demands. A hundred new lines 

 will be installed in a short time. 



The residents of Bejucal in Havana Prov- 

 ince are petitioning the government to be- 

 gin the construction of an aqueduct for the 

 town, for which improvement $50,000 was 

 recently appropriated. 



Rev. Father Blanchi, provincial of the 

 Jesuit order, is planning for the building 

 in Santiago of a magnificent new college, 

 the structure to cost $150,000. It is the m- 

 tention of the Jesuits to build also a rural 

 resort outside the city, as a place of recrea- 

 tion and relaxation of students and teach- 

 ers. 



Moron, Camaguey Province, was visited 

 April 1st by a severe hail storm which dam- 

 aged the tobacco crop considerably. Twelve 

 tobacco barns were blown down. 



