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THE CUBA REVIEW 



ALL AROUND CUBA 



INTERESTING NEWS NOTES REGARDING VARIOUS MATTERS PERTAINING 



TO THE ISLAND 



A registered package containing $10,000 

 in United States notes was taken from a 

 mail bag on the train between the stations 

 ■of Alto Cedro and Antilla about September 

 22d. It was addressed to the Nipe Bay 

 Company, and when the package failed to 

 arrive, an investigation was made, which 

 showed that the mail bags had been 

 tampered with. The person working the 

 locks evidently knew ttie combination, and 

 after extracting the package he had closed 

 the locks again, but not with the right 

 combination. 



Paetzoid & Eppinger, local agents for an 

 insurance company, which takes risks on 

 the forwarding of money through the 

 mails for the National Bank of Cuba, are 

 responsible for the loss. 



The Department of Sanitation has given 

 the City of Cienfuegos six months' time in 

 which to construct a new market and to 

 demolish the old one, which has been 

 condemned as entirely unsanitary. The 

 market at Santiago de Cuba is likewise un- 

 der condemnation, and for the same reason, 

 but is given time to . carry out suggested 

 reforms. 



Councilman Manduley of Santiago de 

 Cuba has petitioned for an appropriation 

 of $1,000 for the establishment of public 

 libraries in Holguin, Manzanillo and 

 Guantanamo, all in Oriente Province. 



Secretary Varona Suarez, of the De- 

 partment of Sanitation, has ordered the 

 municipality of Baj^amo, Oriente Province, 

 to provide a separate coffin in the future 

 for its pauper dead, because he learned 

 that the custom in Bayamo was to use 

 one coffin for all its poor dead. Whenever 

 a person died in a hospital and was unable 

 to pay he was placed in the stock coffin 

 and taken to the cemetery and then re- 

 moved and the coffin returned to the hospi- 

 tal ready for its next occupant. 



Ernesto Mendoza, editor of EI Combate 

 (the combat) shot and killed Rudolfe Fer- 

 nandez, the editor of a contemporary, on 

 September 10th. Both papers are weekly 

 and published at Guines, about forty miles 

 from Havana. The trouble arose over 

 a newspaper controversy. 



Another duel was fought with rapiers 

 September 20th, between Arturo de Carri- 

 carte, editor of El Debate, of Havana, and 

 Ramon S. Varona, editor of El Couimerc'io, 

 of Cienfuegos. Verona was wounded in 

 the arm, but not seriously. This ^ duel 

 was likewise the result of a newspaper 

 controversy. 



The Cuban government will spend 

 ^400,000 in building new roads in Pinar del 

 Rio Province. 



The government decree authorizing the 

 proposals was signed in September. 



The employment thus provided will 

 materially benefit the inhabitants of the 

 province who have suffered serious losses 

 through cyclones and drought. 



The Havana Electric Company has re- 

 ceived a permit from the government to 

 sell electric current. The company must 

 first obtain the permission of the city gov- 

 ernment, however, something which they 

 have hitherto been unable to do. 



Eighty out of the 102 bakeries in Ha- 

 vana have acceded to the strikers' de- 

 mands for a ten-hour day. The twenty- 

 two that hold out, declare they will close 

 their shops rather than yield. 



Havana bakers, whose men are on 

 strike, on September 15th determined to 

 order a general lockout and to increase the 

 price of bread. But there is an old law 

 on Cuba's statute books, which provides 

 jail sentence for those who "combine 

 among themselves to increase the price of 

 the necessities of life." The police, learn- 

 ing of the action of the bakery owners, 

 promptly preferred charges against them, 

 l3ased on their violation of the old law. 



The Treasur}' Department made a 

 payment of $200"000 September 27th on the 

 sewers. The money was paid over to the 

 Cuban Engineering Company. 



The construction of a road between 

 Guamajay and Jobo. Pinar del Rio Prov- 

 ince, is projected. 



Work began in Cardenas September 26th 

 to extend the water supply to the outer 

 boroughs of the city by the company, o,.!ng 

 to the city aqueduct. 



Fourteen firemen were hurt and a loss 

 of more than $100,000 was incurred at a 

 fire at Santiago de Cuba on September 9th. 



The police arrested five thieves who 

 began to plunder the merchandise which 

 had been saved by the firemen. 



Preparations are being made to provide 

 the school children of Havana with break- 

 fasts. The city has appropriated $5,000 

 for this purpose. 



The open season for deer in Cuba_ is 

 now open and local hunters are preparing 

 to enjoy the sport. There are many deer 

 in the mountains within two hours ride of 

 Havana and in other parts of Cuba. 



