. The Cuba review. THE CUBA REVI E W verse," which had been in his father's house as long as he could remember and said that in many of the most prominent homes in Cuba pictures of Lincoln had been conspicuous since the emancipation. The Cuban State Department an- nounced on Jan. 24 the resignation of General Carlos Garcia Velez, Minister at Washington. Senor Carera Justiz, late member of the advisory commission, has been named to succeed him. Senor Justiz, who comes to Washing- ton, probably will be succeeded at Madrid by Senor Quesada, now Minister at Berlin. The latter post will be oc-


. The Cuba review. THE CUBA REVI E W verse," which had been in his father's house as long as he could remember and said that in many of the most prominent homes in Cuba pictures of Lincoln had been conspicuous since the emancipation. The Cuban State Department an- nounced on Jan. 24 the resignation of General Carlos Garcia Velez, Minister at Washington. Senor Carera Justiz, late member of the advisory commission, has been named to succeed him. Senor Justiz, who comes to Washing- ton, probably will be succeeded at Madrid by Senor Quesada, now Minister at Berlin. The latter post will be oc- cupied by Jose Garcia \ elez, former Sec- retary of State. General ^^lario Menocal, In Aid of manager of the Chaparra Immigrants. Sugar Company, plans to bring to Cuba about lOO Norwegian families to work at the Chap- arra and San Manuel mills. They will be given free transportation, home's and work. General Menocal asked the gov- ernment to furnish transportation to tnese families from Havana to Chaparra, and Secretary of Agricultur-i Ortelio Foyo, through whom the request was made, promised that aid should be given as congress intended to appropriate $300,- 000 for the purpose of encouraging im- migration. Automatic Fire Alarm. The President recently signed a decree ordering the installation in business houses, offices. hotels, boarding houses, etc., but excluding private houses, of an au- tomatic fire alarm comparatively little known. The apparatus had been tested but the results were not absolutely con- vincing as to its efficiency. Narciso Ge- lats, tne president of the Havana Cham- ber of Commerce, wrote a long letter to the President, protesting against the carrying out of the decree as calculated to work great hardships on merchants everywhere who, according to the de- cree are compelled to install the device at their own The Governor's Palace in Santa Clara, now in course of construction and will be ready for occupancy about January, 1911. It is built of cem


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