THE C L' B A R E \' I E W 



The Union Carbide Company has pre- 

 ferred charges against an Havana im- 

 porter of carbide from Xorsvay as in- 

 fringing on its rights, the Union Carbide 

 ConTpany claiming the patent right to that 

 product in Cuba. If the criminal case is 

 decided against the defendant, he must 

 go to jail for two months and pay a fine 

 of five thousand dollars. The plaintiffs 

 in that event will seek civil damages. 



Capt. Frank Parker, U. S. Cav., in- 

 structor to the Rural Guard of Cuba and 

 director of the military- academj- at Camp 

 Columbia, Havana, received orders re- 

 cently to proceed to the Argentine Re- 

 public on a special mission. 



He is expected to return within six or 

 eight weeks when he will make his an- 

 nual report and be ready to begin the next 

 academic year commencing September Ist. 



Workingmen's homes are to be built 

 in Sagua and sold to the people under the 

 same terms and conditions of those built 

 in Havana. The House on .Tuh" 3d passed 

 a bill providing for thirtv--two of these 

 houses immediately. 



Two years ago the tax for street hand 

 organs in Havana was $10. The citv- 

 coundl in order to drive them out raised 

 the tax to SlOO, but the organs continued 

 until lateh- w-hen a motion was approved 

 in the council to take the tax off alto- 

 gether, which makes the ■'"industry" ille- 

 gal- 

 It is now up to the police to drive them 

 out. 



The plant of the Batabano Electric 

 Power Company in Havana Province is to 

 be enlarged and electricity." supplied the 

 towns of La Salud. Quivican, Bejucal, Rin- 

 con and Santiago de las Vegas. The com- 

 pany expects to have the plant installed by 

 January 1, 1912. 



A Cuban- American company has begun 

 drilling for oil at Rio Blanco, Pinar del 

 Rio Province. A shaft has been sunk 

 sevent\--five feet and the statement is made 

 that oil signs are plentiful. 



The building committee of the Methodist 

 Church of Havana has had prepared plans 

 for a large boarding school for bovs to be 

 built at once in Reparto San Z^^Iartin, half 

 way between Vedado and Camp Columbia, 

 outside of Havana. 



The Matanzas Terminal Company has 

 purchased the rights of the Matanzas 

 Warehouse Company, according to official 

 information. The new- company obligates 

 itself to cany- out all of the terms of the 

 concession granted by the government on 

 June 4, 1906. _ including several small 

 branches to ditterent w-arehouses in Ma- 

 tanzas and along the full length of the 

 harbor shore. 



The National Humane Alliance with 

 headquarters in New York has offered the 

 City of Havana, through the Havana Band 

 of 'Mercj-. a drinking fountain for animals 

 which will cost about $200. 



They stipulate that the city shall pro- 

 vide a place meeting their approval and 

 furnish the water and the maintenance of 

 the fountain when installed. 



Representatives of the Indianapolis /In- 

 diana) Trade Association will investigate 

 Cuban trade conditions and prospects for 

 six weeks, and two members will shortly 

 visit the island. 



The bakers of Bayamo. Oriente Prov- 

 ince, who had gone on strike in a demand 

 for an increase of wages, obtained a com.- 

 plete victory. 



Tobacco selectors of Sancti Spiritus have 

 struck in an attempt to obtain higher 

 wages. They demand eighty- cents and the 

 employers offer seventy- sents. The presi- 

 dent suggested that the parties split the 

 difference and make the wage seventy-nve 

 cents. The employers declared that the 

 present price of tobacco would not warrant 

 their paying this price. 



The Castafieda cigar and cigarette fac- 

 tor}- of Havana has been sold to a Cuban 

 firin. formed by Xicolas and Fernando de 

 Cardenas. 



Havana's cit}- council recently distributed 

 1-53 pairs of shoes to poor children of the 

 public schools of the city. 



Work is soon to commence on the new 

 leper hospital near San Francisco de Paula, 

 eleven kilometers from Havana on the 

 Havana Central. 



The sum of $1.50,000 has been set aside 

 for the construction of the building. When 

 completed the hospital of San Lazaro. on 

 the Malecon w-ater front, will be removed. 

 The present hospital site is valued at 

 $300,000. 



General Mario Menocal may become a 

 a candidate for the presidency of Cuba 

 if the ConserA-ative part}- insists on his 

 candidacv, according to information re- 

 ceived ill Havana by friends to the can- 

 didacv of the general, says the Havana 

 Po.yf.' Although on June 26th. the general. 

 while in Matanzas. repeated his declaration 

 that he would refuse the nomination. 



A $200,000 soap, candle and glycerine 

 factorv in the Ceiba suburb of Havana on 

 the Havana Central tracks at Bulle sta- 

 tion is projected. It will be a modern 

 plant, built of brick and steel, the main 

 building being 60x30 metres. 



The output of Chaparra is expected to 

 be in the neishborhood of 600.000 bags, 

 <:avs Gustavo ^Menocal. a brother ot the 

 general manager of the great estate. 



