Title: The Cuba review
Identifier: cubareview07muns (find matches)
Year: 1907-1931 (1900s)
Authors: Munson Steamship Line
Subjects: Cuba -- Periodicals
Publisher: New York : Munson Steamship Line
Contributing Library: New York Botanical Garden, LuEsther T. Mertz Library
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24 THE CUBA REVIEW
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ISLE OF PINES SCENERY—LAMA PARK, BIBIJAJUA. Isle of Pines Status Not Settled. By and by the war with Spain came along. The Isle of Pines became Ameri- can territory—so Mr. McKinley and John Hay thought. Then Mr. Roosevelt and Elihu Root changed the executive Am- erican mind, and said the Isle of Pines was Cuban territory. The Piatt amend- ment had declared that the question of the title was to be kept open for future ad- justment. That adjustment was attempt- ed by the negotiaion of a treaty giving Cuba a quit-claim deed to the island in consideration of sundry sites for naval stations, and such on the island of Cuba. For several years the Senate of the United States has refused to confirm that treaty, and it likewise has neglected to reject it. There was an American revolution on the Isle of Pines, and great excitement, but the status was not changed nor the issue settled.—Frederic J. Haskin. T. J. Keenan, of Pittsburg, president of the American Association of the Isle of Pines, who has just returned from Cuba, said to the Philadelphia Press on Feb. 5, that he had an interview with President Gomez, who assured him that the administration would do all in its power to protect property throughout the island and would take all measures to encourage foreign capital. He also said that Gomez was a more able man than Palma. Mr. Keenan has extensive interests in the Isle of Pines, and was one of the prime movers in or- ganizing the opposition to the treaty which would turn over the island to the Cuban government. He says he is still of the opinion that the United States should own the Isle of Pines, although he admits that the Cubans have given it good government. They have built roads costing $30,000, he said, and erected a court of justice. The Isle of Pines, Keenan said, was the only purely Anglo- Saxon colony in the tropics. At the present time it has between five thousand and six thousand Americans owning property. The Fruit Exhibits. The Isle of Pines display of fruits at the exhibition of the Cuban Horticultural Society in Havana, Jan. 20, attracted great attention, says La Lucha. Exhibitors sent beautiful specimens of oranges, grape-fruit, tangerines, lem- ons, all kinds of vegetaoles and canned fruits, preserves and jellies. A mammoth king-orange attracted much attention, and some very large smooth Cayenne pineapples were like- wise admired.

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