. The Cuba review. THE CUBA review- Id ISLE OF PINES NOTES. The English public schools at ^Ic- Kinley, Caleta Grande, Nueva Gerona and Columbia, in the Isle of Pines, which were discontinued, are to be re- stored. When these schools were done away with this year, the Americans re- siding in the Isle of Pines petitioned the government, and their petition was favorably acted upon by the cabinet. Col. C. S. Brown, president of the Canada Land & Fruit Company, which owns the Los Indios tract, has recentl}' opened a 48-mile roadway for automo- biles, from the Nueva Gerona through the McKinley,
. The Cuba review. THE CUBA review- Id ISLE OF PINES NOTES. The English public schools at ^Ic- Kinley, Caleta Grande, Nueva Gerona and Columbia, in the Isle of Pines, which were discontinued, are to be re- stored. When these schools were done away with this year, the Americans re- siding in the Isle of Pines petitioned the government, and their petition was favorably acted upon by the cabinet. Col. C. S. Brown, president of the Canada Land & Fruit Company, which owns the Los Indios tract, has recentl}' opened a 48-mile roadway for automo- biles, from the Nueva Gerona through the McKinley, San Jose and Esperanzo tracts to the town site of Los Indios. When thoroughly completed there will be no better road on th.; island. British subjects in the Isle of Pines are agitating for schools. According to the Isle of Pines Appeal there are at present 97 houses built in West ]McKinley, 33 in East IMcKinley, and 66 in Central McKinley, a total of 196 houses with 167 heads of families. Andrew S. Kinnum, of Schenectady, X. Y., was accidently killed in March in the saw mill at ^McKinley. The Havana Post notes that Edward Collins, U. S. Commissioner for the Southern District of New York; Alex- ander Goldberg, proprietor of a depart- ment store, and F. W. Wilson, owner of the Daily News, all of Newburg, N. Y., have made land purchases in the Isle of Pines, and will establish a citrus fruit farm. Mr. Thomas I. Keenan, of Pittsburg, Pa., intends to form a company to take marble from a rich quarry on that Work on the aqueduct to supply Cienfuegos with water now being constructed at Salto de Saba- nilla. The municipality of Cienfuegos has approved a loan of $3,080,000 for improving the city aqueduct and providing a modern sewerage system. The loan will be made in denominations of the Lnited States currency and will have a maximum of five per cent Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readabi
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