THE CUBA REVIEW 



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A bill framed for presentation to the 

 next Congress provides that members of 

 the cabinet "may be called by either body 

 of Congress to appear at their public ses- 

 sions and be questioned as to the affairs 

 of their departments. 



Alberto von Bullen, a German subject, 

 was arrested by order of the Department 

 of Government September ISth on com- 

 plaint to the government that von Bullen 

 had been visiting the laboring elements in 

 the bay, exhorting them to strike and dis- 

 tributing circulars to the sailors in the 

 ships in the harbor. 



Cuban grapes grown in the hills of 

 Santiago Province were on exhibition late 

 in September in Havana. The variety 

 is not named, but the fruit was well 

 formed, and the branches large. 



i\Ir. George Harrison, for the last twelve 

 years auditor of the Havana Tobacco 

 Company, has been appointed secretary and 

 treasurer of The Havana Post. He began 

 his new duties on October 1st. 



Half of the new two-story cement struc- 

 ture of the Cuban Distilling Company's 

 plant at ^latanzas collapsed September 21st, 

 carrying down with it $8,000 worth of ma- 

 chinery which had just been imported. 



The loss may approximate $10,000. There 

 was no insurance. It is believed the acci- 

 dent was caused by the weight of the water 

 tanks built on the roof. 



Captain Ramon Font, in charge of the 

 fencing school of the Cuban army, is now 

 a major, having been promoted by Presi- 

 dent Gomez recently. 



Advices received in Havana September 

 14th stated that J. E. Barlow, formerly of 

 Columbia, an American colony on the 

 north coast near La Gloria, had died in 

 Chicago, where he went recently for sur- 

 gical treatment. Mr. Barlow ran a hotel 

 in Columbia, and was the first person to 

 introduce the growing of broom corn in 

 the island. 



The first anti-lockjaw serum ever manu- 

 factured in Cuba was delivered to Dr. 

 Varona Suarez, secretary of sanitation, 

 recently by the National Laboratory, where 

 it was made. It will be distributed through- 

 out the island to the municipal doctors for 

 free use among the poor. 



There has been a heavy mortality from 

 lockjaw in Cuba for many years, most 

 cases terminating fatally because of the 

 lack of serum. 



A base ball club has been organized in 

 Matanzas and will make a hid for entrance 

 in the Cuban National Baseball League. 

 The 'club has a capital of $7,500. 



A strike at the Tropical Brewery at 

 Puentes Grandes recently was for higher 



The Spanish game of basket I)all, knr.un 

 as jai-alai, will be played in Havana dur- 

 ing the months of January, February and 

 JMarch when the carnival season will be 

 in full blast. President Gomez will ask 

 Congress for a special appropriation to 

 be expended for the festivities. 



Recently the American residents of 

 Marianao, near Havana, presented to Gen- 

 eral Machado a petition for more police 

 protection over their homes. They threaten 

 to call the American minister's attention 

 to the matter and to request through diplo- 

 matic channels the same protection given 

 by the American government to the Cubans 

 at Tampa and Key West. 



xA brewery company has been organized 

 in Santiago, which will erect a factory 

 near the city. The company has been 

 incorporated with a capital of $300,000. 

 Jose Fleury and Sr. Eduardo L. Chibas 

 are at the head of the enterprise. 



A campaign has now been started in 

 Havana by sporting writers to have boxing 

 allowed in Cuba. 



There is no law barring boxing contests 

 in the republic, but by express orders of 

 President Gomez no contests of this kind 

 are allowed by the police. 



xAntonio Villalobos of the Azul Club on 

 September 2d in a bicycle race from Ha- 

 vana to Batabano, made the trip, a distance 

 of 100 kilometers, in 3 hours, 50 minutes 

 and 26 seconds, and won, leading the sec- 

 ond man by eight minutes. 



Villalobos made an average of a kilo- 

 meter in a fraction over two minutes, and 

 considering the heat of the day and the 

 condition of the roads, his feat is con- 

 sidered by sporting men as establishing 

 something like a record, for there has 

 been no such time made in Cuba before. 



At a meeting in Toronto recenth* in op- 

 position to the passage of the reciprocity 

 treaty, one of the speakers said that the 

 United States had annexed both the Ha- 

 waiian Island and Cuba, and that a like 

 fate would befall Canada if the reciprocity 

 pact went through. 



H. D. Brown, well known in horse rac- 

 ing circles, is hurrying work on the new 

 racetrack in Havana. It will cost $300,000, 

 it is said, and Brown has laid plans to hang 

 up big money for a meeting that will open 

 in November or December. He has re- 

 ceived assurance of support and protec- 

 tion from the Cuban government and says 

 he will induce many of the leading stables 

 to race there. 



The Spanish Club of Havana has ac- 

 cepted plans for the construction of their 

 new club house. It is to cost $118,000. 



Four American bloodhounds have been 

 added to Havana's police force. 



