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on wheels are made of glass and so ar- 

 ranged as to give them the appearance of 

 a shop window. Perfumery is one of 

 the leading articles sold in this way, for, 

 however poor the natives may be, they 

 always have money enough to purchase 

 colognes, and generally the most expensive 

 varieties. 



During carnival season a plentiful supply 

 of masks, caps and grotesque suits is 

 added to the stock. Men with pushcarts 

 laden with linens and laces or cooking 

 utensils go about the streets of Havana 

 offering their goods to the women who 

 cautiously peer out from behind barred 

 windows. These carts have the appear- 

 ance of a street organ and are pushed 

 along the splendid, smooth avenues of the 

 city with ease. Often men will carry their 

 stock, displaying it on a pole to which 

 crosswise sticks have been fastened, like 

 the old-fashioned clothes horse. Toys 

 also form a part of the stock of these 

 human delivery wagons. 



THE COUNTRY S CREDIT FIRM 



Michael J. Dadj% the Brooklyn con- 

 tractor, W'ho through the Cuban Ports Co., 

 the American concessionaires, has under- 

 taken to effect improvements in Cuban 

 harbors and ports which are to cost up- 

 ward of $7,000,000, has started work in 

 Havana with four great dredges. He says 

 Cuba's credit is so high that it has been 

 easy to obtain in Wall Street the money 

 to carry out the desires of Congress here, 

 though European bankers were equally 

 anxious to supply it at the lowest rate. 



Mr. Dady predicts a great inflow of 

 investors in sugar and other enterprises 

 in the autumn to Cuba. Havana bankers 

 and brokers are advertising money on 

 realty liens, any sum, at 6 per cent. 



A TRAVELING COMMERCIAL EXPOSITION 



An interesting project has been under- 

 taken by a travel bureau of New England. 

 It is proposed to charter a steamship and 

 to arrange suitable accommodations on 

 one of the main decks of the vessel for 

 about 100 commercial exhibits of recog- 

 nized standing, making it a representative 

 display of the best products of the United 

 States. 



This commercial-exposition ship, with a 

 party of about 300, it is proposed, will 

 leave New York early in November next 

 and visit the various ports of Cuba, Porto 

 Rico, Jamaica, etc., for the promotion of 

 the export trade of the United States. 

 Banquets will be given to leading citizens 

 of the cities visited and a campaign of ad- 

 vance publicity is to be inaugurated. 



MINING PROPERTY IN DISPUTE 



On complaint of stockholders of the 

 Oriente Mining Company, a corporation 

 organized under the laws of Elorida, Judge 

 R. M. Call, of the Circuit Court, recently 

 granted an injunction restraining Joseh S. 

 Black and Ely Dorsey from selling or en- 

 cumbering certain mining property located 

 in Cuba. 



According to the story in the Jackson- 

 ville (Fla) Times-Union of August 15th 

 last, the bill of complaint, filed by D. H. 

 McMillan, H. L. Anderson and J. A. Cran- 

 ford, on behalf of the mining company, 

 stipulates that Mr. Black, representing 

 himself to be an experienced mining man, 

 thoroughly conversant with the values of 

 such property, made a trip to Jacksonville 

 during 1910 and that he suggested the 

 formation of a company to acquire valu- 

 able mines in the district of Oriente. in 

 the republic of Cuba. It is alleged that 

 he agreed, provided that the incorporators 

 would furnish him the sum of $10,000. to 

 acquire in the name of the company, min- 

 ing properties known as the Mobile ^line 

 and the Hello Mine. 



The incorporators stipulate that the 

 money in question was advanced and that 

 they entered into a contract with Black 

 for the purchase of these mines. They 

 further allege that Black, prior and sub- 

 sequent to the execution of the contract 

 in question, was whollj: without means for 

 raising money. They allege that he used 

 the $10,000 advanced for the purpose of 

 acquiring the properties recommended by 

 him, for the purchase of mining equipment 

 and the acquisition of other properties 

 and that, instead of devoting his time and 

 attention to the interests of the company, 

 he has purchased and taken title, in his 

 own name, to the following mines which 

 are registered in the office of the minister 

 of mines of the republic of Cuba : The 

 Santiago mine, Mollie mine. Hello mine, 

 American mine, Relampago mine, La 

 Casualidad mine, Jacksonville mine. La 

 Katherine mine and La Elisa mine, be- 

 sides a copper mine, the name of which 

 is unknown. That, in addition to th^ 

 properties scheduled he has also acquired, 

 since September 1, 1910, other properties 

 which the incorporators allege that he has 

 taken titles to, in his own name. They 

 further allege , that these mines were ac- 

 quired with money furnished by them, in 

 all about $30,000, which he has secured at 

 various times. 



The stockholders in the company ask, 

 in addition to the restraining order pre- 

 venting the sale or encumbrance of the 

 properties, that the court order that Black 

 and Dorsey hold possession of the mines 

 as agents of the Oriente Mining Company, 



