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THE CUBA REVIEW 



An American company will install on 

 the west coast of Guantanamo Bay, ad- 

 jacent to the wharves at Boqueron, an 

 electric power plant for the purpose of 

 supplying the naval station with water 

 from the Yateras River. They will also 

 supply water to the plantations in the plain 

 by means of irrigation ditches. 



To visiting students of the Oriente in- 

 .•stitute, Santiago, General Mario G. Ale- 

 nocal, the manager of the Chaparra mill, 

 said that "the day the 'San Manuel,' 'Cha- 

 parra' and 'Las Delicias' mills would ren- 

 der their full crop, they would produce 

 3,792,000,000 pounds of sugar." 



Senator Antonio Sanchez de Busta- 

 mente, dean of the law faculty of Havana 

 University, has presented treatises and 

 text-books worth $2,000 regarding inter- 

 national law to the National Library. He 

 also provides $500 annually for the pur- 

 chase of new books. 



An ordinance which prohibits milkmen 

 from carrying the fluid on horseback has 

 long been dormant, but will now be re- 

 vived and enforced. The practice was 

 deemed unsan.tary by the health authori- 

 ties. 



The Truckmen's Union of Havana 

 called a strike April 24th, but ordered it 

 off a few days later, the members having 

 voted to wait for a reasonable period, ex- 

 pecting that the city authorities would 

 heed their complaints, which were largely 

 of interruption to carting owing to street 

 repair work and sewer construction. 



A fine oil painting of Tomas Estrada 

 Palma, Cuba's first president, which for 

 some time had been relegated to a dark 

 corner in the store room of the depart- 

 ment of state, has been ordered rehung 

 by Secretary Sanguily. 



The syndicate which controlled the 

 "Santiago" and "Los Lazos" gold mines 

 near Holguin has sold all its rights to a 

 new company which has been floated in 

 London with a capital of $2,000,000. 



Residents of Gibara, Oriente Province, 

 walked in a religious procession recently, 

 to pray for rain, as the aqueduct of the 

 town is empty, and a water famine was 

 feared. 



The only water available is that secured 

 from artesian wells, and as these have not 

 been used for a long time, people are 

 afraid to use the water freely, fearing dis- 

 ease. 



The transfusion of blood was performed 

 for the first time in Cuba on April 15th. 

 The patient was a woman aged 36. Her 

 brother volunteered to aid in the opera- 

 tion, but his sacrifice was unnecessary, as 

 the patient died a few days later. 



Designs and plans for the new palace 

 in Cuba, which reached Havana after 

 April 1.5th, were not considered. This 

 was decided upon by the prize commission 

 on April 15th. 



Plans were received from architects in 

 Italy, France and Spain. 



William A. Varty, well known as an 

 efficient newspaper writer in Cuba, has left 

 the island, planning to go to Wyoming in 

 search of better health. 



I\lr. Varty is among the pioneer Amer- 

 ican settlers in Cuba since the Spanish- 

 American War, and his knowledge of the 

 island is extensive. He was formerly 

 connected with the Post and Telegraph of 

 Havana, and lately with the Isle of Pines 

 Appeal. 



Edv/ard A. Moseley of Xewburyport, 

 secretary of the interstate commerce com- 

 mission, died at his home in Washington 

 on April 18th, in his sixty-fifth year. 



In the course of the American military 

 occupation of Cuba, Mr. Moselev was 

 twice sent to Havana t-- assist in the 

 preparation of a general railway law for 

 the island, including the regulations gov- 

 erning and fixing tariffs and in fact every- 

 thing connected with railway transporta- 

 tions. 



Although the conservatives opposed the 

 action of the liberal members of the con- 

 gress in raising their salaries from $300 

 to $400 per month, and declared that they 

 would have nothing to do with the in- 

 crease, they now all are drawing it ree'U- 

 larly, and many who refused it at first 

 have since signed vouchers for back pay. 

 — La Lucha. 



Enrique Pineyro, the noted Cuban wh-> 

 died last month in Paris, has willed his 

 valuable collection of Cuban and Spanish 

 literature to the Cuban National Library. 



The Compafiia Naviera of Santiago de 

 Cuba has been denied the right to raise 

 the fares on the Luz wharf from five to 

 ten cents. 



The new bc*ll field at Guantanamo will 

 bear the name of Meyer's field in honor of 

 Gorge von L. Meyer, secretary of the 

 United States navy. 



br. Antonio Valderas has been author- 

 ized to install an electric plant in Reme- 

 dios, Santa Clara Province. 



"Practically all the coffee of Porto Rico 

 is now going to Cuba." — Gov. George R. 

 Colton in an interviezv in the Bangor 

 (Me.) Commercial. 



The coffee planters of Oriente will form 

 an association for mutual advantage. 



Children in nublic schools, who have 

 never been vaccinated, are to be operated 

 unon at once. 



