. The Cuba review. 30 THE CUBA REVIEW ISLE OF PINES NOTES Schools Demanded Tlie American school question in the Isle of Pines is still The Isle of Pines Ahf^cal thus summarizes the situatic^n : "There are 2~6 Cuban children cnrnlled on the records of the Isle of Pines public schools. It costs the Department about $8,000 annually to maintain these schools. There are at present, during the season when the American population here is at its minimum, 178 American children of school age. Of this sum of $8,000 of public monies furnished for public instruction on the Isle of Pin
. The Cuba review. 30 THE CUBA REVIEW ISLE OF PINES NOTES Schools Demanded Tlie American school question in the Isle of Pines is still The Isle of Pines Ahf^cal thus summarizes the situatic^n : "There are 2~6 Cuban children cnrnlled on the records of the Isle of Pines public schools. It costs the Department about $8,000 annually to maintain these schools. There are at present, during the season when the American population here is at its minimum, 178 American children of school age. Of this sum of $8,000 of public monies furnished for public instruction on the Isle of Pines, none is destined to be expended for the education of these 178 American children, although a conservative estimate will show that at least 75 per cent of the school funds, as well as all other public monies expended on the Isle of Pines, is contributed by American property owners in the form of municipal and in- dustrial taxes and custom house collec- tions. This means that during the present year about $6,000 of school monies are provided by the Isle of Pines Americans and yet no benefit accrues to them from the expenditure of this ; A fine eucalyptus tree in Santa Fe, only 7 months old from seed, now measures 11 feet, 6 inches—Isle of Pines Nezvs (August 7th). A post-office has been established at San Pedro, Isle of Pines. The l.^le of Pines Railroad Co. was re- cently incorporated in Delaware. Capital, $2,000,000. Incorporators : E. O. Cook, R. S. Rodney, and G. L. Townsend, Jr., Wil- mington. \'. P. Sutherland, of Xueva Gerona, is the accredited representative of the United States Government in the Isle of Pines, having been recently appointed. Mr. Sutherland's appointment was in re- sponse to the request of a number of the Pincros, but is now declared by many of them to have been a tactical mistake, says the Apl^eal, inasmuch as it involved a quasi recognition by the American state depart- ment of the "foreign" condition of the Isle of Pines. With
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