THE CUBA R E \' I E W 



General Gerardo MachaJo. 



Political secretary of government. 



Nezvs says he will bow to the 



dictates of his party if it 



in its general assembly nominates him for 



the vice-presidency. Formerly he was 



firmly opposed to having his name put 



forward as a candidate. 



General Faustina Guerra is being 

 boomed for senator from Pinar del Rio. 

 Dr. Alfredo Zayas and General Eusebio 

 Hernandez, both candidates for the 

 nomination of the Liberal Party for the 

 presidency, have made a tentative agree- 

 ment whereby both bind themselves to 

 remain loyal to the dictates of the Liberal 

 Partv national convention. 



General Eusebio Hernandez does not 

 propose to retire from the presidential 

 race on the Liberal ticket. He said re- 

 cently that he saw no reason wh\- he 

 should withdraw his candidacy. 



A movement has been started in Havana 

 by the Liberal Party to boom the can- 

 didacy of Dr. Carrera Justiz for the 

 mayoralty of Havana. Dr. Justiz is at 

 present the Cuban minister to Holland. 



Mayor Cardenas will probably be the 

 Conservative candidate to succeed him- 

 self. 



Dr. Julio de Cardenas completed his fifth 

 year as mayor of Havana August 3d. He 

 was appointed mayor under a decree is- 

 sued by President Estrada Palma in 1906. 

 Three years later he was elected to the 

 same post on the Conservative ticket, 

 although the Liberals won most of the 

 other ofiices. His term expires next year. 



For governor of Oriente Province 

 Manuel Estrada and Rafael Alanduley are 

 favored by the Liberals. The Conserva- 

 tives favor General Saturnino Lora, 

 Emilio Bacardi, General Jose F. de Castro 

 and Col. Luis !Milanes. 



D. C. Henny, consulting 

 Irrigation engineer of the United 

 Commission States Reclamation Serv- 

 Hcad Arrives ice, and head of the Cuban 

 Irrigating Commission, ar- 

 rived in Havana August 3d. He will take 

 up his work with the Cuban government 

 at once. 



Mr. Henny was appointed by President 

 Gomez on the recommendation of the 

 United States government to assume the 

 chairmanship • of the commission which 

 has been appointed to study ways and 

 means of establishing an extensive irriga- 

 tion system throughout the fiimous A'uelta 

 Abajo tobacco districts of Pinar del Rio 

 Province. 



. I^''- 1-iIiberto Rivero, sec- 



^^amtary retary of Iiealth of Cuba 



Ji ork and head of the onlv tu- 



I'l Ltilhi bercular sanitarium in the 



• . island, who is visiting this 



country m search of knowledge regarding 



the care and treatment of tubercular pa- 



ti.nts said to a representative of the 



Duffalo Commercial: 



"In Cuba we have only one sanitarium 

 tor the care ot those suffering from tu- 

 berculosis, which is prevalent to a lar<^e 

 degree in the island. This sanitarium 

 comparing favorablv with the lar-^e 

 sanitanum in your country, is located m 

 Havana. It is a large institution, but it 

 IS by no means large enough to care for 

 all the cases of incipient tuberculosis. 

 \\ hen 1 return to Cuba, work on the con- 

 struction of additions and annexes to the 

 sanitarium will be started. The govern- 

 ment has appropriated $S3,000 for this 

 work of extending the war being waged 

 against the plague."' 



"Sanitary conditions in Havana " he 

 continued, "are rapidlv being improved 

 At present the city is being sewered and 

 v>-hen this work is completed it will rank 

 with the best cities in regard to sanitation. 

 Sanitary conditions throughout the coun- 

 try are also being improyed." 



Xot 

 IV anted 



Among the recent visitors 

 Annexation to Alontreal was General 

 Carlos Garcia, says the 

 Gazette of that city, and 

 he told the Gazette's repre- 

 sentative that he had alwavs the greatest 

 admiration for Canada. 



"Many French Canadians," he continued, 

 "fought under his command against the 

 Spaniards, before the first American in- 

 tervention : he lent his own sword to one 

 of them — Alajor Chapleau. a Montreal 

 man — an hour or so before the gallant 

 major fell in the attack at Las Tunas." 

 The general is eager for reciprocity be- 

 tween Canada and Cuba. "W'e intend to 

 remain a republic," he said to the Gazette's 

 reporter. ''We have fought for many 

 years to become independent, and having 

 won that we would never consent to be- 

 come anything else. 'Cuba Libre' forever 

 is our watchword. \A'e feel that we owe 

 a deep debt of gratitude to the United 

 States, but that does not m.ean that we 

 would ever consent to annexation. Xot 

 only for political and patriotic motives, 

 but for economic reasons we must remain 

 independent." 



Dr. Luis Bartal and Dr. Juan Xiques 

 will represent Cuba at the coming Pedi- 

 gocal Congress in Brussels. 



