. The Cuba review. THE CUBA REVIEW, The senate refused to Work grant the apphcation made by of the Havana's Mayor, Julio de Senate. Cardenas, and Commander Julio Morales Coello to re- ceive from the government of Spain the decoration of the naval order of the second class with the white distinctive, granted them for their courtesies to the sailors of the Spanish schoolship Nautilus. The application of Ricardo Herrera, Cuban consul at Malaga, Spain, whom the Tunis government offered the title of officer in the Order of Nichan Itikar, was like- wise denied. Senator Perez's bill providing for an
. The Cuba review. THE CUBA REVIEW, The senate refused to Work grant the apphcation made by of the Havana's Mayor, Julio de Senate. Cardenas, and Commander Julio Morales Coello to re- ceive from the government of Spain the decoration of the naval order of the second class with the white distinctive, granted them for their courtesies to the sailors of the Spanish schoolship Nautilus. The application of Ricardo Herrera, Cuban consul at Malaga, Spain, whom the Tunis government offered the title of officer in the Order of Nichan Itikar, was like- wise denied. Senator Perez's bill providing for an aqueduct for Santa Clara was favorably re- ported by both the public works and finance committee, the former making the appro- priation $450,000, and the latter $350,000. The Senator said the work was a public necessity, physicians attributing the high percentage of diseases now affecting Santa Clara to the contamination of the water from the cemetery, as the city derived its water from old wells. The larger sum was approved by the Senate, one-third of the sum appropriated to be included in each budget for the next three years. Eighty per cent, of the workmen employed must be Cubans. An appropriation of $100,000 for a bronze statue of General Maceo was like- wise approved. distance above the floor the walls curve over in an arch. This is of concrete con- struction. Havana's Sewer System. It is now over a year since the first step was taken to provide Havana with a first class up-to-date sewer system. Since then the Cuban Engi- neering Company has been hard at work, beginning with the laying of a pipe line in the suburban districts. The largest part of the work has been naturally the construction of the main drains in the city proper. The work has not been like digging through dirt to lay a new line in a new street, for it has been necessary to hew the way through the spongy rock which forms the foundation of the city in many parts, says the Havana Post. The old sewers were all
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