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THE CUBA R E \' 1 E W 



ALL AROUND CUBA 



INTERESTING NEWS NOTES REGARDING VARIOUS MATTERS PERTAINING 



TO THE ISLAND 



Dr. Juan Guiteras, sub-director of 

 health, has been commissioned b}' Presi- 

 dent Gomez and is in New York studying 

 the cholera cases quarantined in that port. 

 The doctor lives in the quarantine station 

 where he can closely observe the methods 

 which are being adopted by the American 

 authorities to fight the disease. 



The postal money order treaty between 

 Cuba and Germany is almost ready for 

 the signature of President Gomez. By 

 its terms, orders for amounts not exceed- 

 ing one hundred dollars, or four hundred 

 and twenty marks, can be sent to Germany 

 or from that country here. By the terms 

 of the treaty each nation retains the fees 

 collected. 



The Havana Agriculturist' Colonization 

 Co., Havana, Cuba, has been incorporated 

 under the laws_of Delaware to acquire and 

 develop lands for the raising of tobacco 

 and to manufacture and market cigars. 

 The stated capital is $1,000,000. 



The Society of Jesuits will build a 

 college at Santiago de Cuba. The corner 

 stone was laid with appropriate ceremonies 

 on July 31st. 



Some unknown parties have secured a 

 franchise from the city council of Mari- 

 anao, a city near Havana, to build and 

 control for 30 years an equeduct from a 

 spring in the neighborhood. The city now 

 receives its water from the Vento springs 

 which supply Havana. 



Plans for an elevated railway passenger 

 line for the city of Havana have been filed 

 with the provincial government by Sr. 

 Tiburcio Castafieda. There are extensions 

 provided to the principal suburbs. 



Although President Gomez considered 

 the price of $55,000 too high for the coal- 

 ing station lands of the United States gov- 

 ernment at Bahia Honda, and refused to 

 pay it, the Havana lawyers to whom the 

 matter was referred have issued their re- 

 port and say that they do not see how the 

 government can evade paying the amount 

 demanded as indemnity for the lands. 



Pile driving has begun in the construc- 

 tion of the four custom-house docks in 

 Havana, by the Mc Arthur Perks Co., who 

 are executing the work under the Scoville 

 concession. 



The cement piles required in the con- 

 struction of the piers are made at the 

 company's works in Regla just across the 

 harbor. 



Dr. Fernandez ]\Iendez Capote made a 

 most brilliant speech recently before the 

 Academy of Sciences, attacking the greed 

 of Havana house owners, in their exploi- 

 tation of the "ciudadelas," or rooming 

 houses inhabited by the poor. These 

 buildings are a series of rooms around an 

 open court yard where in a room are piled 

 all the members of one family and whose 

 members have but one bath room, the 

 famiHes being compelled to use portable 

 kitchens in the yard. The speaker said 

 these were the worst abuses in the life 

 of the capital of the republic. 



Congressman Audivert has asked Presi- 

 dent Gomez to issue a decree that in the 

 police court and civil registers in describ- 

 ing people the words white and black be 

 discontinued. The congressman would 

 substitute simply the word "citizen." 



Havana is to have a new slaughter house 

 to cost $960,220. The city council recently 

 voted the concession to Alfredo Betan- 

 court for a term of thirty years. 



Sr. Fuentes, the municipal architect, has 

 submitted a plan for making advertising 

 signs uniform throughout the city and 

 suburbs of Havana. Several attempts 

 have been made heretofore in the city 

 council to restrain the use of bill board 

 advertising or to make it uniform. Such 

 attempts have up to the present always 

 failed. 



It is proposed to close Colon Cemetery 

 on the ground that it has become too 

 crowded and to build a new cemetery in 

 Marianao. 



Colonel Orencio Nodarse, recently re- 

 signed as chief of the National Lottery, 

 will tour Europe, accompanied by his 

 famil}-. 



Charles D. White, the first secretary of 

 the American legation in Havana, under 

 Minister Jackson, has been appointed 

 minister to Honduras, and has left Cuba 

 to assume his South American post. 



There is no warrant for statements re- 

 cently appearing in some American papers 

 that many wards of Havana are infected 

 with typhoid and that some cases of 

 yellow fever have been discovered. 



Dr. Pedro Mendoza Guerra, has been 

 commissioned by President Gomez to go 

 to the United States and Canada to make 

 a study of reform schools. 



The principal reform school in Cuba is 

 at Guanajay, Pinar del Rio Province. 



