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THE CUBA REVIEW 



ALL AROUND CUBA 



INTERESTING NEWS NOTES REGARDING VARIOUS MATTERS PERTAINING 



TO THE ISLAND 



The Passenger Agents' Association of 

 Texas will hold a meeting at Jacksonville, 

 Fla., December 29th and will make a side 

 trip to Havana. 



On November 20th the American Bank- 

 ers' Association hold their annual conven- 

 tion at New Orleans and will also visit 

 Havana. 



Sagua la Grande officials are reported to 

 have caught a pseudo faster in the act of 

 smuggling a bountiful supply of edibles 

 into the box where he had advertised he 

 would remain without food or drink for 

 eight days. 



He was arrested on a charge of 

 swindling. 



J\Ir. Herbert Goldsmith Squiers, one time 

 American Minister to Cuba, from 1902 to 

 1905, and, until his health broke down two 

 years ago, minister to the Republic of 

 Panama, died October 19th at the Hotel 

 Strafford in London, aged 53 years. 



The huge sewer tunnel under Havana 

 harbor, which is being dug from Casa 

 Blanca to the Caballeria Wharf in Havana, 

 has been finished to a distance of 160 metres, 

 or more than half the length it is to be built. 

 The work began on the Casa Blanca side 

 and will be completed in the latter part of 

 the year. 



The new provisions market to be built 

 in Havana will cost about $180,000. Bids 

 were opened November 8th, and the build- 

 ing must be completed in fourteen months 

 from the letting of the contract. 



Secretary of Sanitation and Charities 

 Varona Suarez is compiling a list of Ha- 

 vana physicians for taxation purposes 

 asked for by the city authorities. 



Under the municipal tax laws the city 

 council may freely impose a tax to be paid 

 by physicians and other professions, and 

 this is now their determination. 



The total number of workingmen's 

 houses already constructed near Havana 

 amounts to 395. 



These are sold to the vvorkingmen on 

 small annual payments. 



An American yacht has been bought 

 from a New York millionaire for General 

 Mario Menocal, manager of the Chaparra 

 sugar estate and leader of the Conservative 

 Party. The vessel is reported to be larger 

 than the Cuban gunboat "Hatuey," which 

 President Gomez has reserved for * his 

 private use. 



A Cuban longitude party, composed of a 

 number of government men, under the di- 

 rection of Lieut. G. A. Beall, U. S. N., 

 has arived at Havana to begin a Cuban 

 coast survey work in order to key up the 

 present map of the island. This has long 

 laeen needed, but has never been made, for 

 the reason that all men sufficiently ac- 

 quainted with work of this character have 

 been on duty in other lines and could not 

 be spared. Lieut. Beall anticipates that it 

 will require about two years to complete 

 the work. 



Havana's first safety island to protect 

 the pedestrians when crossing wide open 

 spaces, is being built in front of the Luz 

 wharf. 



The brewery about to be built in San- 

 tiago by New York and Cuban capitalists 

 will be ready early next year. 



President Gomez has approved the plans 

 for the monument to be erected to Domingo 

 Goicurria, the Cuban patriot, who was 

 garroted by the Spaniards because of his 

 political ideas. The monument will cost 

 $19,000. 



Goicurria, it is said, was a brother of 

 the grandfather of the present Mrs. Oliver 

 P. Belmont of New York. 



Mr. John B. Jackson, for the past two 

 years American minister to Cuba, left Ha- 

 vana October 28th for the United States, 

 from whence he sailed for his new post 

 in the Balkan states. 



Hon. M. Rocafort, consul general of 

 Cuba, 96 Wall Street, New York, advises 

 that catalogs with prices, discounts, etc., 

 are wanted in Cuba covering automobiles 

 and accessories, furniture, pianos and 

 machinerv in general. 



Leading Men in Culja's Government— Hon. Mantiel 

 Varona Suarez. Secretary of Sanitation 



