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ALL AROUND CUBA 



INTERESTING NEWS NOTES REGARDING VARIOUS MATTERS PERTAINING 



TO THE ISLAND 



Dr. JNIario Garcia, secretary o\ public 

 instruction, has sent a communication to 

 all of the provincial superintendents of 

 schools recommending that they take steps 

 to see that school boards under their su- 

 pervision provide breakfast for poor 

 school children. 



An effort to oust all holders of public 

 offces in Cuba who are known to have 

 sided with the Spanish government during 

 the Cuban war of independence, is to be 

 made by the veterans of that war. 



Havana milkmen paid in the year of 

 1910 the sum of $37,401 and from January 

 1st to June 30th the sum of $11,931 has 

 been paid by them in fines for selling 

 impure milk. 



Cuba has no special pure food and drug 

 act, but the National Sanitation ordinances 

 are even stronger than the American law 

 of that name, and local health offices 

 through the island have full authority to 

 enforce them when necessarj-. 



A monument to the memory of the late 

 Tomas Estrada Palma, the first president 

 of the republic is projected for Havana. 

 The cost to be defraj-ed by popular sub- 

 scription, $2,785, has already been secured. 



A quarantine was placed against the 

 ports of Yucatan, [Mexico, on August 14th. 

 Passengers arriving from Progreso will 

 be quarantined six days, while those com- 

 ing from ports outside the infected zone 

 will onh^ suft'er the usual examination by 

 the health authorities. 



A general strike of 3,400 Havana 

 teamsters called on September 1st was 

 settled two days later with a victorv^ for 

 the men, who demanded an increase of 

 wages. 



Havana stevedores and lightermen have 

 again brought up the question of the mili- 

 tary order regarding prices for unloading 

 vessels. They also threaten to strike. 



There is talk of much smuggling in 

 Havana harbor, by means of small boats 

 securing a load of merchandise and land- 

 ing it at secluded portions of the bay. 

 The customs officers will exercise greater 

 vigilance. 



In two and a half years Havana has 

 issued 3,2S5 building permits, from January 

 1, 1909, to June 30, 1911. The buildings 

 erected represent a cost of over $21,000,000. 

 Previous records are all exceeded. 



After the new Spanish minister, Sr. 

 Cristobal Fernandez \'allin, l;ad presented 

 his credentials to President Gomez on Juiy 

 12th, the three companies of artillery at- 

 tending the function were marched back 

 to their quarters. As is customary the 

 soldiers, headed by the band, marched up 

 O'Reilly Street, and Americans were re- 

 galed with the sight of the Cuban regular 

 army band, heading a battalion of Cuban 

 troops, returning from the palace reception 

 of the Spanish minister, with the bands 

 playing lustily "The Stars and Stripes 

 Forever." There was a smile on the face 

 of every American who recognized the 

 familiar strains of the Sousa march. 



A much better class of men will be re- 

 quired in the future for enlistment in 

 Cuba's armed forces. Every effort will be 

 made to avoid recruits with penal rec- 

 ords, says General Monteagudo. chief of 

 the armed forces of Cuba. 



Recruiting captains are ordered to re- 

 fuse to consider any candidate with penal 

 antecedents and to endeavor as far as pos- 

 sible to enlist only men of good character. 



Secretary of the Treasury Martinez 

 Ortiz has submitted a decree to the presi- 

 dent providing that there shall not be ac- 

 cepted by any government office a coin 

 having an advertisement pasted on one of 

 its faces. This action was taken by the 

 Treasurv Department at the request of the 

 National Bank of Cuba. INIost of these 

 pasters on the coins are of a political 

 nature. 



A very fine gold and enamelled badge 

 was sent a few weeks ago to Chief Charles 

 AI. xAguirre of the Havana police by a 

 small group of prominent New Yorkers 

 in appreciation for the courtesies he ex- 

 tended to them recently while they were 

 visiting Cuba. 



The badge is presented by Cornelius \ . 

 Collins, former state superintendent of 

 prisons, W. J. Beardsley and C. P. Boland. 



A windstorm on August 15th caused 

 damages in Cienfuegos amounting to 

 $70,000. Roofs of 86 houses were torn 

 off and houses of weak construction were 

 knocked down as if they had been made 

 of pasteboard. People fled from it as it 

 approached but nevertheless many were 

 caught and a score were injured. 



An auto omnibus service is projected for 

 Havana to be formed along the lines of 

 similar enterprises in European cities. 



