Industrial Cuba : being a study of present commercial and industrial conditions with suggestions as to the opportunities presented in the island for American capital, enterprise and labour . road cars and from the station about nine miles from here,and there I do some business with it; that is, I make a kind offertilizer. I employ 230 men. We have no furnace to burn upthe garbage. I am now going to make a proposition to the citycouncil to clean the cities for the same price and use crematories,doing it on the American plan. For cleaning the city I am to bepaid $ weekly, but I do not get
Industrial Cuba : being a study of present commercial and industrial conditions with suggestions as to the opportunities presented in the island for American capital, enterprise and labour . road cars and from the station about nine miles from here,and there I do some business with it; that is, I make a kind offertilizer. I employ 230 men. We have no furnace to burn upthe garbage. I am now going to make a proposition to the citycouncil to clean the cities for the same price and use crematories,doing it on the American plan. For cleaning the city I am to bepaid $ weekly, but I do not get the money; they owe me$180,000. A year or two ago, by giving ten per cent, to thecity mayors, etc., I collected $20,000 in one week. Immediatelyafter I got the contract the aldermen called upon me and directedmy attention to certain articles in it, so that I finally had to takethese aldermen into partnership in order to collect the money. I have also had the slaughter-house privilege. I paid thecity council $800,000 per year for the privilege of collecting theslaughter-house taxes, and one year I collected nearly $880,000,out of which, of course, I had to pay my men. This has fallen. Sanitary Work in Cuba 113 off a great deal. To slaughter cattle, you have to pay 4-^- centsper kilo, $1 per head for the corral, $ to kill and dress it,and then 50 cents to take it to the market. The present slaughter-house is a new one, and not very efficient at present, but it couldbe made into a good one. All the refuse from the slaughter-house now goes into the bay. What is true of Havana is true in lesser degree of theother cities and towns of the Island, the degree being gov-erned chiefly by the difference in size; the larger the town,the nastier it is. Cienfuegos, which, by the way, is the most promisingtown in the Island, in the commercial sense, is notoriouslyill policed, and is a sprouting-ground for all manner of dis-eases. A report dated November 21, 1898, made by D. , Sani
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