INDEX

A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z

Acana wood, 341 Adams, Charles Francis, 43 Agricultural products, imports of, from United States, 330 Agriculture and stock, 329-337 Aguacate, population, 124 Aguacates, 345 Aguado y Rico, Fernando, School of Arts and Trades, 150, 151; Industrial School. 381-388 Alameda of Havana, 153 Albarran, Dr., 97 Albear, Colonel, 168 Albertini, 97 Alcala, José Anton, statement in regard to taxes other than customs duties, 249 Alexandria Line of steamers, 366 Alfonsino, Spanish, value of, 23 Alfonso XII., population, 123 Alger, Hon. R. A., letter to Maj.-Gen. John R. Brooke, 390, 391 Alianza Bank, 198 Almendares River, 178 Alonso Rojos, population, 124 Alquizar, population, 123 Alto Songo, population, 124 Amaro, population, 124 Amended Cuban tariff, official, 221-247. Americans in Santiago, 62-72 American Mall S.S. Co., 47 Amusements, 100 Annexation, 32-36 Anon fruit, 347 Annual deaths in Havana, table, 165 Antomarchi, physician of Napoleon, 129 Apezteguia, Marquis de, on future of Cuba, 37-42; 43, 47, 60, 115 Ariza and Herrara, 167, 168, 171 Arroba, 83 Arroyo Navanijo, population, 123 Artemisa, population, 123; description, 132 Asphaltum, 327, 328 Atkins, E. F., statement in regard to sugar, 287 Atkins & Co., Messrs. E., 284 Atkinson, Edward. 43 Autonomist party, 8 Auxiliary vessels N. V. and Cuba Mail S. S. Co., 368 Average production of tobacco of world (table), 316 Bagasse, 286, 287, 297 Bahia Honda, population, 123; description, 132 Bainoa, population, 124 Baker, Capt. L. D., 47, 53 Bananas, production of Santiago province, 67, 344; shipments of, 345 “Banco Hispano-Colonial,” of Barcelona, 257 Banes, description, 136; exports of fruit, 136; shipments of bananas, 345; exports of pineapples, 348 Bank of Commerce, 198 Banking, history of, 199, 200 Banks and Currency, 190-203 Banks of Havana, list of, 198 Banyan tree, 342 Baracoa, population, 123; capital removed from, 129; description, 136; shipments of bananas, 345; production of cocoanuts, 345 Barbadoes, cost of Muscovado sugars at, 286 Barbour, Maj. George M., 62, 119 Baria wood, 341 Barracones, 80 Barrios, 173 Batabano, sanitary condition, 120; population, 123; description, 133, 140 Bates, General, 405 Batey, 82 Bayamitas iron mines, 322 Bayamo, population, 123; description, 137 Beal, P. M., statement in regard to sugar farms, 284, 285 Beal & Co., 284 Beans, 331 Beaulieu, Paul Leroy, on Cuban debt, 258, 261 Bees, 337 Beet-sugar competition, 76; production of, 283; comparative value, 288; imports from Europe into United States, 289 Bejucal, population, 123; description, 134 Belen Church of Havana, 152 Bemba (see Jovellanos) Berracoe iron mines, 322 Betancourt, Gen. Pedro, 405 Bock, Gustavo, on production, manufacture, and necessities of tobacco in Cuba, 307-316 Bolondron, population, 123 Boniato manganese mines, 324 Bonnet, Wm., statement in regard to sugar, 291-294 Boston Fruit Company, 53; manganese mines, 324 Botanical Gardens of Havana, 146 Brazil Line of steamers, 367 British Colonial Government, article on, by Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, 48, 50, 51 British Consul-General at Havana on reciprocity, 273, 274 Brooke, Maj.-Gen. John R., 69; letter from Secretary Alger to, 390, 391, 399; letter and cable from General Gomez, 403 Brooks, Mr. (of Brooks & Co.), 193 Bueycito manganese mines, 324 Building stone, 328 Butler, Maj.-Gen. M. C., 44; on future of Cuba, 45, 46 Caballeria, 83, 310 Cabañas, fort of Havana, 141 Cabañas, population, 124; description, 133 Cabonico, shipments of bananas, 345 Cabrera, 329 Caibarien, population, 123; description, 131 Caibarien Railway, 355 Caiguaran wood, 341 Caimitillo wood, 342 Caja de Ahorros, 198 Cajobaba iron mines, 322 Calabazar, population, 124 Calaboya, population, 124; description, 135; River, 135 Calzada, 352 Camaguey (Puerto Principe), 126 Camarones, population, 124 Camino Central (Central Road), 351 Campbell, Capt. J. A., 392, 401 Campo de Marte of Havana, 146 Canada, sugar exported from Cuba to, 1893-1897, 294 Canary Islanders, value as labourers, 78-80 Canasi, population, 124 Candelaria, population, 124 Cane, yield of, per caballeria, 83; theoretical sugar contents of one hundred pounds of, 286; theoretical pure sugar contents of one hundred pounds, 287 Caney, population, 124 Cannau River, 114 Canovas, Prime Minister, invented name “realidad nacional,” 12 Capdevilla, 149 Capital, American and English, enterprises for, 414, 415 Capital, inducement to, and revival of credit, necessary to reconstruction of tobacco industry, 309 Cardenas, sanitary condition, 117; population, 123; description, 130; exports and imports, 130; minerals, 130; deposits of asphaltum, 327, 328 Cardenas and Jucaro Railway, 354 Carnegie, Andrew, 43 Carpintero iron mines, 322 Cartagena, population, 124 Casa Blanco, suburb of Havana, 152 Casilda, seaport of Trinidad, 127 Casilda and Fernandez Railway, 355 Castillo, General, 399, 406 Catalina, population, 124 Catana, 339 Cattle, 332, 334; cost of importing, 333; export possibilities, 334 Causes of unfortunate situation of sugar industry, 299 Cauto River, 131, 360 Caves, of Bellamar, 126; of Arcos de Carguanabo, 133 Cayajabos, population, 124 Cayo Romano, 138 Cedar, 341, shipments, 341 “Cedula” or head tax, 27 Ceiba del Agua, population, 124 Ceiba wood, 342 Celador, 173 Century Magazine, series of articles on slave trade in, 74 Cereals, 330 Cerro of Havana, 152; salubrity, 167 Cervantes, population, 123 Chadwick, Edwin, 159 Chaffee, General, 405, 406-410 Chamber of Commerce of Santiago, memorial to President, 192 Chamberlain, E. T., on navigation, 31 Chamberlain, Hon. Joseph, article on British Colonial Government, 48, 50, 51 Characteristics of people, 97-100 Chavez Creek, 162 Chinamen, comparative value of, as labourers, 83 Chinese coolie labour, 77 Chinese immigration prohibited, 84 Chorreta Vedado of Havana, 152; salubrity, 167 Church of the Merced, of Havana, 152 Cidra, population, 124 Ciego de Avila, population, 124 Cienfuegos, sanitary condition, 113; population, 123; description, 127; harbour, 358 Cienfuegos and Santa Clara Railway, 354 Cigarettes, value of manufacture of, per annum, 313 Cigars, exports from Havana, 306 Cigars, cigarettes, and packages of smoking tobacco for home consumption, 312 Cigars, exportation of, decrease from 1889 to 1897 (table), 314 Cigars, number manufactured in 1889 for exportation and local consumption, 313 Cimarrones, population, 124 Cities and towns, 122-138 City of Alexandria, 366 City of Washington, 366 City property, face value of tax receipts on, 1886-1898, 252; actual amount of taxes collected on, 253 Civil Guards, 261 Clark, William J., 285, 286 Coal, 326; analysis of, 327 Coasting trade, regulation of, 362 Coast line, 358 Cobre, description, 137, 318, 325 Cobre manganese mines, 324 Cocoa shipments, 345 Cocoanuts, 345 Cocoanut-oil shipments, 345 Coffee, 349, 350 Coins, gold, value of, 23, 190-192 Cojimar, description, 134 Collection of taxes other than customs duties by Spanish Bank, 252, 254 Colón, population, 123; description,135; market, 162 Colonia, 284 Colonia Guabairo, 284 Colonial government, Jamaica, 48 Columbus, Christopher, place of burial, 142; discovery of tobacco, 302 Commerce, 267-280; value of, 267 Commercial Cuba, quotation from, 285 “Commercial relations between Cuba and the United States,” by E. Sherman Gould, 274-280 Commission of Cuban officers on payment of insurgent soldiers, 204 Compania del Ferro Carril de Cienfuegos a Santa Clara, traffic and fiscal statement (table), 359 Compania del Ferro Carril de Matanzas, traffic and fiscal statement (table), 359 Compania del Ferro Carril de Sagua la Grande, traffic and fiscal statement, 359 Compania Transatlantica, 261 Compania Transatlantica Español, 369, 370 Compania Unida de los Ferro Carril de Caibarien, traffic and fiscal statement (table), 359 Comparative value of cane sugar as against beet sugar, 288 Concha (see La Isabela) Conclusion—a look ahead, 408-415 Conditions which confront us, 14-31 Consolacion del Sur, population, 123; description, 133 Constancia mine, 328 Construction of roads necessary to reconstruction of tobacco industry, 309 “Consumption Tax,” 26 Coolie labour, 76; imported from China, 77 Copper, 325 Cornill, Lieutenant, 404 Corral Nuevo, population, 123 Cortes, district of, 307 Cortez, F., 128 Cost, average, of production of German raw sugar, 288 Cost of farming, 83 Cost of production of sugar in Cuba, 289 Cotton, 331, 332 Cramp & Sons, 367 Cuban debt, statement of (table), 259-261 Cuba Submarine Telegraph Company, 361 Cuen wood, 342 Cuero iron mines, 123 Cuevitas, population, 123 Cuia wood, 342 Currency question, 21-26 Custom-House receipts, 213; 1886 to 1897, inclusive, by custom-house districts (table), 218; during 1895-96, specifying taxes (table), 220 Customs of living, 98-100 Daiquiri, 322 Daiquiri Bay, 320 Davis, Captain, 110 Davis, General, 405 Davis, Surgeon, 162, 163 Death-rate of Havana, 145, 154 Deaths in Havana, first eleven months 1898, 110; rate in Havana compared with other cities, 111; table, 165 Debt of Cuba, 259-261 Debt of the city of Havana, 180-183; compared with United States cities, 182 Decline of Cuban tobacco industry, cause of, 314 De la Plata iron mines, 322 Delinquent taxes, total and percentage, 1886-98, 253; percentage of each year, 253 Demajobo iron mines, 322 Density of population of Havana, 169, 171 De Soto, 140 Destruction of tobacco industry, causes of, 307, 308 Diana Key, 328 Disbanding of army, discussion with General Gomez, 395, 398 Diseases, principal, 111 Distances, table of, 375 Distribution of fund for relief of army, memorandum between General Gomez and Robert P. Potter, 398, 399 Donaldson, W. A., 69, 71 Dorothea and Recrio iron mines, 322 Dos Bocas manganese mines, 324 Drainage of Havana, 168 Ducasse, General, 106 Dudley, D. E., report on Cienfuegos, 113-115 Duelling, 99 Dumois family in banana business, 67 Ebony, 341 Economic condition at time of signing of protocol, Aug. 12, 1898, 1-13 Economiste Français, article by Paul Leroy Beaulieu on Cuban debt, 258 Economia iron mines, 322 Education, public money for, 388 Education and religion, 376-389 Education under Spanish rule, 28 “Emancipados,” 74 Empresa Unida de los C. de H. de Cardenas y Jucaro, traffic and fiscal statement (table), 359 Encrucijada Railway, 355 Engineering Magazine, article by E. Sherman Gould on “Commercial relations between Cuba and the United States,” 274 England, sugar exported from Cuba to, 1893-97, 294 English in Jamaica, 47, 61 Enterprises for American and English capital, 414, 415 Equipment of railroads, 357 “Evangelist Island” (see Isle of Pines), 138 Expenditure, annual, of sugar estates, 297, 298 Expenditures of Cuba, analysis of, 256-263; methods suggested, 265, 266 Expenditures of Jamaica, 57 Expense of producing one hundred bales of tobacco, 310 Expenses, sovereignty (table), 256 Expenses of Havana, 184-186; for salaries of police department, 174, 175 Exportation of tobacco to United States, 1889-97, 315 Export duty on leaf tobacco to be maintained, 315 Export price of German sugar, 288 Exports, from Cuba to the United States, 1893 (table), 268; from United Stales to Cuba, 1893 (table), 268; from United States to Cuba in 1889 and 1893, value of (table), 275, 276; of sugar to United States, Canada, Spain, and England. 294 Exports and reshipments, 1885-96, values of (table), 217 Face value of tax receipts handed to Spanish Bank for collection, 1886-98 (table), 252 Farm labour on colonia, 79-85 Fibre plants, 332 Figueras, Fran, on annexation, 33, 264 Fire department of Havana, organisation, 179; expense, 180 Firmeza, iron mines in, 320 Fiscal statement of railways of Western Cuba, 359 Foreign population, 100 Foreign tonnage of Havana, 371 Fortifications of Havana, 141 Free importation of cattle necessary to reconstruction of tobacco industry, 308, 309 French lines of steamships, 371 French Submarine Cable Company, 361 Fruit-bearing trees, 344-349 Fruit trees and timber, 338-350 Gage, Hon. Lyman J., order in relation to currency, 195; report in relation to visit to General Gomez, 390-407 Garcia, Dr., invented “cold box” in yellow fever, 118 Garcia, General, 204, 401, 408 Genuineness of Cuban tobacco, protection and guarantee of, 310 Geological formation of Havana, 167 German sugar, average cost of production of, 288; export price, 288 Gibara, population, 123; description, 137; shipments of bananas, 345 Gibara-Holguin Railway, 355 Gibara or Mayari tobacco, 305 Gold and silver, 325, 326 Gold coins, value of, 23 Gollan, British Consul-General at Havana, estimate of factory cost of sugar, 285 Gomez, General José Miguel, 204 Gomez, General Maximo, sympathy with United States, 16; letter from, 17; visit to, 390-407; letter from General Brooke, 392; memorandum regarding distribution of funds for relief of army, 398; cable from Secretary Hay, 406; personality of, 407, 408 Gomez de Avellanda, Dona Gertrudis, birthplace of, 129 Gould, Hon. Charles W., 249 Gould, E. Sherman, article on “Commercial relations between Cuba and the United States,” 274-280 Granadillo wood, 341 Grasses, 332 Greene, General F. R., report on condition of Havana, 160-163, 172-175, 177, 182, 186 Grifa, district of, 307 Guama iron mines, 322 Guana, population, 123 Guanabacoa, sanitary condition, 120; population, 123; description, 134, 152; high death-rates, 166 Guanabana, 347 Guanajay, population, 123; description, 133 Guanajayabo, population, 123 Guane, district of, 307 Guane, town of, population, 124 Guano palm, 339 Guantanamo, sanitary condition, 119; population, 123; description, 137 Guantanamo Railway, 355 Guarda Civil, 173 Guaurabo River, 127 Guido, steamer, 367 Güines, sanitary condition, 120; population, 123; description, 134 Guira, population, 123 Guira de Melena, population, 123 Hanabanilla River, 114 Hanna, Lieutenant, 393 Harbour of Havana, cleansing of, 168 Harbours of Cuba, 358 Hard woods, varieties, 341 Hatillo manganese mines, 324 Havana, possibilities of, 3; sanitary condition, 109-113; population, 123; chapter on, 139-153; commercial importance, 140; history, 140; harbour, 141; churches, 142; parks, 143; street railways, 143; sewerage, 144; water supply, 144; telephone system, 144; fire department, 145; death-rate, 145, 154; commerce, 145; education, 146-151; hotels, 151; theatres, 152; suburbs, 152; weather observations, 152; municipal problems, 172-189 Havana Commercial Company, 306 Havana province, area and population, 122; tobacco production of, 304 Havana, steamer, 367 Hay, Hon. John, cable to General Gomez, 406 Hecker, Colonel, 343 Henequin, 332 Henry Clay and Bock Company Limited, 306, 307 Heredia, José Maria, birthplace of, 129 Hill, Mr. G. Everett, report on sanitary condition of Havana, 154-158, 160 Hill, Robert T., on population, 101-105 Hogs, 337 Holguin, population, 123; description, 137 Home consumption of tobacco, 312 Horses, 336 Hospitality, 98 Immigration, promotion of, necessary to reconstruction of tobacco industry, 309 Imports and exports, 1886-97, receipts from, by custom-house districts, average, 219 Imports from United States, agricultural products, 330 Imports of merchandise, value of in 1895, 214; value of by tariff classes, for 1895-96, 217 Indigo plant, 332 Industrial Bank, 198 Industrial School, 381-388 Ingleterra Hotel of Havana, 152 Insurgent troops, disposal of, 89; payment of, 204-210; 390-407 Internal revenue, receipts from taxes (table), 254 Internal revenue taxes, collection of, 203 Internal taxes, 248-255 International Ocean Telegraph Company, 361 Iron ore, production of in Santiago, 321 Iron-ore mining, when begun, 318; history, 318-321; mining properties, 322 Islands of Cuba, 138 Isle of Pines, description, 138; gold and silver, 325; production of pineapples, 348 Izquierdo, Colonel Luis Ramos, 285 Izquierdo, José M., in regard to street-sweeping contracts, 112, 113 Jagua, bay of, 127 Jaguey wood, 342 Jamaica, English in, 47, 61 Jamaica, revenue, 55, 56; expenditures, 57; roads, 58, 59; tariff, 59, 60 Jamaica negro, value as labourer, 84 Jaruco, population, 123; description, 134 “Jerked beef,” 335, 336 Jesus del Monte, 152; salubrity and altitude, 167 Jibacoa, population, 124 Jicota River, 114 Jiguani, population, 124; description, 137 Jique wood, 341 Johnston, Dr. James, 47 Jovellanos, population, 123; description, 135 Jover, Dr. Antonio, 194, 195 Jucaro Morón Railway, 355 Juragua Group iron mines, 322 Juragua Iron Company, 319-322, 356 Keys, 138 La Boca (See La Isabela), population, 124 La Cienaga of Havana, 152 La Cruces, population, 123; description, 135 La Esperanza, population, 123 La Estrella of Santiago, 130 La Isabela, population, 123; seaport of Sagua, 131; description, 135 La Plaza of Batabano, 133 La Socapa of Santiago, 130 La Vija, 127 Labour, outlook for, 73-89; increased demand for, 86; for mining, 323; opportunities for, 412, 413 Lagunillas, population, 124 Lakes, 360 Lampton. W. J., 139 Land and professional taxes, 248 Lane, Ralph, discovery of tobacco, 302 Lanuza, Dr. José Gonzales, 204 Las Casas, 140 Las Tunas Railway, 355 Lastres, Dr. Joaquin, on University of Havana, 378-381 Lead, 326 Lee, General, 405 Lemons, 346 Lengua de vaca, 332 Lighthouses, 360 Lignum vitæ, 341 Limonar, population, 124 Llave del Nuevo Mundo, 140 Logan, Major John A., 394 Los Tres Reyes of Havana, 141 Louvre Hotel of Havana, 152 Ludlow, General, 144, 172, 174 McCullough, ex-chief of police of New York, 174 McKinley, President, 43; order in regard to currency, 196; cable from General Gomez, 402, 403 McKinley Tariff law, reciprocity of, 273 Macagua, population, 123; description, 135 Maceo, General, inaugurated revolution, 137, 408 Macio manganese mines, 324 Macurijes, population, 123 Madalena iron mines, 322 Madruga, population, 124; description, 134 Mahogany, 339, 341; shipments to United States, 340 Majagua wood, 341 Mamey, 346 Managua, population, 124 Manganese, 323, 324; mines, list of, 324 Mangar, population, 124 Manicaragua district, silver in, 326 Mantua, population, 124 Manufacture of tobacco; importance and prospects, 313; number of workmen employed in Havana, 313; decrease, 314 Manufactures under Spanish rule, 29 Manufacturing establishments of tobacco owned by English, French, and German companies, 306 Manzanillo, sanitary condition, 119; population, 123; description, 131; exports of lumber, 132; petroleum in, 328 Marble, 328 Margarita manganese mines, 324 Marianao, sanitary condition, 120; population, 124; description, 134, 152 Marianao Railway, 355 Mariel, population, 123 Maritime Security Bank, 198 Marti, 408 Mascotte, steamer, 371 Matanzas, sanitary condition, 116, 117; population, 123; description, 125 Matanzas, steamer, 367 Matanzas Province, area and population, 122 Matanzas Railway, 354 Mayari y Gibara tobacco, 305; production of, estimate, 311 Melena del Sur, population of, 124 Menocal, General, 176, 405 Mexico, steamer, 367 Milanes, birthplace of, 129 Mineral Springs of Madruga, 134; of San Antonio de los Banos, 135 Mines and mining, 318-328 Mining properties in Santiago, list of, 322 Moboa wood, 342 Monteagudo, General, 405 Montoro, Marquis Rafael, 91, 211, 212, 214 Moret law, 76, 77 Morion, population, 123 Morro, of Santiago, 130; of Havana, 141 Mules, 336, 337 Municipal problems in Havana, 172-189 Muñoz del Monte, Adolfo, 36; article in Revista de Agriculture, 295-299 Munson Steamship Line, 370 Muscovado sugars, cost of, 286, 295 Ñañigos, 101 Napoleon, French, value of, 23 Nassau, sugar exported from Cuba to, 1897, 294 Natural gas, 328 Navigation, 362-375 Navajas-Jaguey Railway, 354 Navigation policy of United States, 364, 365 Negro, Cuban, characteristics of, 101 Newport, steamer, 366 New York and Cuba Mail Steamship Company, 365; list of steamers, 366, 368; routes, 368; rates, 369 Niagara, steamer, 367 Nickel, 328 Nueva Gerona, 138 Nueva Paz, population, 123 Nuevitas, population, 123; description, 136; exports, 136 Oath for police force, 176 Obstacle to Cuban commerce, 269 Officers and soldiers of the Cuban army, number of, 208 Old Dominion Steamship Company, 366 Olivette, steamer, 371 Oranges, 345, 346 Orden Publico, 173 Orizaba, steamer, 366 Pacific Mail Steamship Company, 366 Palma Real, 338 Palmillas, population, 124 Palmira, population, 123 Panupo Iron Company, 324 Parque Central of Havana, 143 Parque de Isabela of Havana, 153 Partagos Company, 306 Partidos leaf, 303, 304 Partido tobacco, production of, estimate, 311 Pasaje Hotel of Havana, 152 Paseo de Carlos III. of Havana, 146 Paseo de Tacon of Havana, 143 Patti, Adelina, first appearance, 129 Payment of insurgent soldiers, 204, 210; suggestions in relation to, 391, 392 Peace Commission, 258 Pelaez, Philip, 264 Pepper, Charles M., on negroes of Cuba, 105-107; in regard to timber and lumber in Cuba, 343; on education, 377, 378 Perez de Montes de Oca, Dona Luisa, birthplace of, 129 Perna, Dr. Luis, on tuberculosis, 115, 116 Petroleum, 328 Philip I., 281 Pinar del Rio, sanitary condition, 119; population, 123; description, 132 Pinar del Rio Province, area and population, 122; tobacco production, 304, 307; grasses of, 332 Pinar del Rio (River of Pines), 338 Pineapple, export of, 348 Placido, 129 Plant Line, 371 Playa de Marianao of Havana, 152 Plaza de Armas of Havana, 153 Policy of United States toward Cuba, 15 Political condition at time of signing of protocol, August 12, 1898, 1-13 Political future of Cuba, 32-46 Ponupo Mining and Transportation Company, 356 Population, 90-107; 1774-1899 (table), 92; estimated, 93; total census, 1887, 94; by colour, 94; density of, 94; by sex, 95, 96; census, 1877, 96; of cities and towns (table), 123 Portillo manganese mines, 324 Port regulations, amended 371-374 Potatoes, 330 Poultry, 337 Prado of Havana, 143, 153 Price of sugar, average, 298 Proctor, Hon. R., 405 Production of iron ore in province of Santiago (table), 321 Prohibition of importing and reimporting all tobacco should be maintained, 316 Providencia iron mines, 322 Provinces, population and area, 122, 123 Public money for education, 388 Public works needed in Havana, 176 Puerto Principe, sanitary condition, 117; population, 123; description, 126 Puerto Principe, street railways in, 353 Puerto Principe and Nuevitas Railway, 355 Puerto Principe Province, area and population, 122; tobacco production of, 305; iron ore in, 322; silver in, 326 Puertos Grandes, suburb of Havana, 152 Quemado manganese mines, 324 Quemados de Guines, population, 123 Quesada, Señor Gonzalo de, 204, 393, 408 Quicksilver, 328 Quivican, population, 123 Railroads, steam, 354-358 Railways of Western Cuba, traffic and fiscal statement, 359 Railway supplies, obtained from United States, 280 Railway system, under Spanish rule, 30 Rainfall of Havana, 164 Raleigh, Sir Walter, 302 Ramas manganese mines, 324 Ramsden, Frederick W., on coal, 326 Rancho Velez, population, 124 Ranchuelo, population, 123 Rates, New York and Cuba Mail Steamship Company, 369 Rations, farm labourers’, 81 Rebellion of 1895-98, effect of, on sugar industry, 282 Receipts and expenditures of the Budget of the Island of Cuba for 1898-99 (table), 211 Reciprocity, British Consul-General at Havana on, 273, 274 Reconstruction of tobacco industry, what is necessary for, 308-310 Red Telefonica de la Habana, 144, 361 Regla, population, 123; description, 134, 141, 152 Regla and Guanabacoa Railway, 355 Regulations for labourers, 81, 82 Relative importance of sugar-producing countries of the world, 301 Religion, 388, 389 Religion and education, 376-389 Remates, district of, 307 Remedios, population, 123; description, 135 Remedios leaf, 305 Remedios tobacco, production of, estimate, 311 Revenue, customs tariff, 211-220 Revenue, how spent, 256-266 Revenue of Cuba, internal taxes, 248-255 Revenue of Havana, 183, 184 Revenue of Jamaica, 55, 56 Revista de Agriculture, article by Adolfo Muñoz del Monte, 295-299 Rivers, 360 Roads, waggon, 351-353 Roads in Jamaica, 58, 59 Roble amarillo wood, 341 Roble blanco wood, 341 Rodriguez, General, sympathy with United States, 16 Roque, population, 124 Rosewood, 342 Routes of New York and Cuba Mail Steamship Company, 368 Royal Commission, report on condition of West Indies, 52, 53 Rubens, Horatio S., 204 Rural police, establishment of corps of, necessary to reconstruction of tobacco industry, 309, 310 Rural real estate, face value of tax receipts on, 1886-98, 252; actual amount collected, 253 Sabalo, district of, 307 Sabanilla and Maroto Railway, 356 Sabanilla del Encomendador, population, 123 Sagua de Tanamo, population, 124 Sagua la Grande, population, 123; description, 131 Sagua la Grande Railway, 354 Salaries paid Cuban and United States armies per month, 209 Salud, population, 124 Sampson, Admiral, 149 Sancti Spiritu, population, 123; description, 135 San Andres manganese mines, 324 San Antonio de Cabezas, population, 124 San Antonio de las Vegas, population, 124 San Antonio de los Banos, population 123; description, 135 San Antonio de Rio Blanco del Norte, population, 124 San Cayetano and Vinales Railway, 355 San Cristobal, population, 123; description, 133 San Cristobal de la Habana (see Havana) San Diego de los Banos, description, 133 San Diego del Valle, population, 124 San Felipe, population, 123 San Jose Bank, 198 San Jose de las Lajas, population, 123 San Jose de los Remos, population, 124 San Juan de las Yeras, population, 123 San Juan manganese mines, 324 San Juan y Martinez, population, 123 San Luis, population, 123 San Maestro range, 323, 324 San Matias de Rio Blanco, population, 124 San Miguel, population, 124 San Nicolas, population, 124 San Vincente mineral springs, 133 Sanguily, Colonel Manuel, 204 Sanitary conditions, rural, 121 Sanitary report of Colonel Waring, 154-171 Sanitary work in Cuba, 108-121 Santa Ana, population, 124 Santa Clara, sanitary condition, 120; population, 123; description, 128 Santa Clara Province, area and population, 122; tobacco production of, 304, 305; iron ore in, 322; silver in, 326; asphaltum, 327 Santa Cruz, population, 123 Santa Cruz del Sur, population, 124 Santa Domingo, population, 123 Santa Fe, 138 Santa Filomena manganese mines, 324 Santa Isabel, population, 123; description, 136 Santa Maria del Rosario, population, 124 Santiago, Americans in, 62-72; Custom-House receipts, estimate of, 71 Santiago, Chamber of Commerce, memorial to President, 192 Santiago, iron mines near, 319 Santiago, sanitary condition, 117; population, 123; description, 128; fortifications, 130 Santiago de las Vegas, population, 123 Santiago Province, area, 122; population, 123; tobacco production of, 305; manganese in, 323; copper in, 325; silver in, 326; lead in, 326 Santo Domingo, Church of, Havana, 152 Santo Espiritu (see Sancti Spiritu) Sapotilla, 347 Sapotes, 345 Savings banks in Cuba, 199 School of Arts and Trades, 382 Schuman, Mr., 192 Scribner’s Magazine, article Hon. Jos. Chamberlain, 48 Seguranca, steamer, 366 Semilleros (planting beds), 305 Seneca, steamer, 366 Sevilla iron mines, 322 Sheep, 337 Siboney, 322 Sierra Maestre range, iron mines in, 319, 323, 324 Sigua Bay, 320 Sigua Iron Company, 319-322 Silver, Spanish, value of, 24 Slave-trade, horrors of, 74 Smith Key of Santiago, 130 Sores, Jacob, 141 South-eastern Calzada, 352 Southern Calzada, 352 South-western Calzada, 352 Spain, sugar exported from Cuba to, 1893-97, 294 Spain’s policy toward Cuba in relation to commerce, 272 Spanish-American Iron Company, 319-322 Spanish army, mortality, 1897 (table), 165 Spanish Bank of the Island of Cuba, 198, 199; branches of, 251 Spanish imports into Cuba, 1896 (table), 270, 271 Spanish peasants, value as labourers, 78 Steam railroads, 354-358 Steamers of Compania Transatlantica Español, 369, 370 Steamers of New York and Cuba Mail Steamship Company, list of, 366 S. S. Admiral Sampson, 47 Sternberg, Surgeon-General, 111 Stock, 329-337 Strawberry, 348 Street railways, 353 Streets of Havana, paving of, 169 Street-sweeping contracts, J. M. Yzquierdo in regard to, 112, 113 Sugar, production of, 1869-98 (table), 292; 1879-98 (table), 293; prices of, 293; local consumption, 1893-97, 294; distribution of crops, 1893-97, 294; classes made during thirty years before 1884, 295; left in store December 1, 1897, 295; history and future outlook, 281-301; total production of the world (table), 300; producing countries of the world, relative importance of, 301; beet, competition of, 293 Sugar, beet and cane, total production in 1893-94, 283 Surgirdero of Batabano, 133 Tacon market, 162 Tacon Theatre of Havana, 152 Tapaste, population, 124 Tariff, amended, how framed, 216; amended official rates, 221-247 Tariff of Jamaica, 59, 60 Tariff, Spanish, actuating principle of, 18 Tariff, Spanish, 215 Tax receipts delivered for collection to the Spanish Bank of the Island of Cuba (tables), 201, 202 Tax receipts handed to Spanish Bank for collection, 1886-98, face value of (table), 252 Taxes in Cuba, classification, 212 Taxes collected during 1894-95, by provinces, per cent., 250 Taxes collected by the Spanish Bank, 1886-93, actual amount of (table), 253 Taxes and Imposts (table), 248 Taxes, minor, face value of receipts, 252; actual amount collected 1886-98, 253 Taxes other than customs duties, statement of José Anton Alcala, chief of tax bureau of Spanish Bank, 24 Taxes on professions, trades, etc., 1886-98, face value of receipts on, 252; actual amount collected, 1886-98, 253 Taylor, A. H., 169 Telegraph lines, 360, 361 Telephones, 361 Temperature of Havana, 164 Theoretical sugar contents of 100 pounds cane, 286 Timber and fruit trees, 338-350 Tobacco, 302-316 Tobacco, exports of, percentage shipped by Havana, 306; decrease in shipments to United States in 1897, 307 Tobacco, United States imports, from Cuba, 312 Tobacco, history of cultivation, 302, 303 Tobacco, leaf, exportation of, increase, 314 Tobacco manufacturing companies, list of, 306 Tobacco manufactories of Havana, 145 Tobacco production, report by provinces, grade, amount consumed, and amount exported, 304, 305; in eastern provinces, estimate, 311; in Havana Province, estimate, 311; in Pinar del Rio, estimate, 311; in Las Villas Sta. Clara, estimate, 311; in normal times, by provinces, estimate, 311; of the world, average (table), 316 Tobacco raising, methods of, 305, 306 Tobacco, yield per acre, 306; number of persons engaged in cultivating, 306 Todd, J. White, on labour, 413 Tonnage of Havana, foreign, 371 Tonnage of Havana and other ports, 358 Total delinquent taxes, 202 Trade of Cuban ports, 218 Traffic of railways of Western Cuba, 359 Tramways of Havana, 176, 177 Transportation, 351, 361 Treaty of Vienna, 73 Trelles, Modesto, statement in regard to “jerked beef,” 335, 336 Trinidad, cost of Muscovado sugars at, 286 Trinidad, population, 123; description, 127; exports, 128 Tunas de Zaza, population, 124; description, 136; exports, 136 Union Bridge Company of New York, 276 United Railways Company, 354 United Railways of Havana and Regla Warehouse, Ld., traffic and fiscal statement (table), 359 United States, sugar exported from Cuba to, 1893-97, 294 University of Havana, 148, 378, 381 Uplands, climate of, 121 Upmann & Company, H., 306 Uvera and Jaqueca iron mines, 322 Values of sugar in Cuba, on what dependent, 289 Van Leer, Major, 343 Vegetables, 331 Velasquez, Diego, 127, 129, 140 Vereda Nueva, population, 124 Vienna, treaty of, 73 Vigilancia, steamer, 366 Villalon, Colonel José Ramon, 204, 206; regarding payment of army, 391, 392 Vinales, population, 124; description, 133 Volante, 353 Vuelta Abajo, tobacco district, 132 Vuelta Abajo tobacco, production of, e stimate, 303, 304, 308, 310-313, 315 Wages, farm labourers’, 80, 81, 85 Waggon roads, 351-353 War, causes of, 7, 8 War debt, 257, 259 Ward, James E., 365, 366 “Ward Line,” 365 Waring, Colonel George E., 144; sanitary report, 154-171 Water supply of Havana, 156, 177-179 Western Calzada, 352 Western Railway, 354 Western Railways of Havana, Ld., 276; traffic and fiscal statement (table), 359 West India and Panama Telegraph Company, 361 Willet & Gray, Messrs., total sugar production of the world (year 1895), (table), 299, 300 Wood, Major-General Leonard, 63-66, 68, 69, 392, 399, 408 Wyman, Dr., 111 Ximeno, Mr. Albert de, 393 Yaba wood, 342 Yagua, 338 Yarey palm, 339 Yellow fever commission, Havana, extracts from report of, 164-171 Yuca, 331 Yucatan, steamer, 366 Yumuri River, 125; cañon of, 126 Yumuri, steamer, 366, 367 Yzquierdo, José M., on street-sweeping contracts, 112 Zanjon, peace of, 8, 76 Zapote, 348 Zaza Railway, 355

Typographical errors corrected by the etext transcriber:

Banco Espanol de la Isla de Cuba=> Banco Español de la Isla de Cuba {pg 22}

deadly miasms=> deadly miasmas {pg 121}

neither chiselled, carved, inalid=> neither chiselled, carved, inlaid {pg 239}

better know abroad=> better known abroad {pg 339}

for fancy varietes=> for fancy varieties {pg 339}

Wisconsin or Pennyslvania=> Wisconsin or Pennsylvania {pg 343}

Compania Transatlantica Español=> Companía Transatlántica Español {pg 369}

(f) The tonnage tax on entries=> (e) The tonnage tax on entries {pg 373}

Yumuri River, 125; canon of, 126=> Yumuri River, 125; cañon of, 126 {index}

Yzquierdo, Jose M., on street-sweeping contracts, 112=> Yzquierdo, José M., on street-sweeping contracts, 112 {index}

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