Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1907-04-15
SHOOT|NGAND OTHER SPORTS
THE CUBAN CLUBS, HOMES AND
SANITARIUMS.
The American Clubs. Schools And Col.
Ieges The Havana uniyersity-An
Old Monastery Of Centuries Ago.
CATHEDRAL SCHOOL OF THE
GOOD BISHOP KNIGHT.

Annapolis has the Redemptorist
Order OF Priests, Cuba has the Fran
| ciscan. Dominicans and others. In
l12S the Dominicans established the
University OF Havana in their con-
vent OF Santon Domingo. The build
| ing. which is more than three hun
dred years old, is a good specimen of
monastic architecture.
The walls are six feet thick and the
court is surrounded with arcades and
galleries. The exterior walls, once
of stlcco work, but which has long
since fallen away, are darkened by the
centuries, and the monastery is one
of the most venerable buildings in
the city of Havana. The university
once located here has been removed
to an elevation near Principe, formerly
occupied by Spanish troops and
known as the Pirotecnia Militar, which
has been remodcled ana fitted for use
of the university, offering more
conmodious and certainly more
modern quarters than the old monas-
terry on Ohispo street in the rear of
the Palace.
The Havana University possesses
interesting collections of botany, geol-
ogy. zoology and ethnology. II Is
numbered two thousand. The United
States has lone everything to extend
and promote the cause of education in
Cuba. During the term of the govern
ment of Intervention the United
States expended ten millions of dollars
for the building and equipment of
schoolhouses and for the purchase of
text books. The public school system
here was modelled after that in Ohio
and primary instruction was compul-
sorry. All buildings available that
had once been used for the mainten-
anee of the Spanish army we're con-
varted into schools. A large hospital
near the harbor that had once been
used for a pest house for yellow fever
patients, which had gained the awful
record of GO per cent of deaths among
its patients, was cleared up bv th'
American Sanitary Corps, had the
lower floor converted into warehouses,
while the upper story was transform
ed into thirty-three school rooms, and
two thousand children was the aver
age daily attendance.
There are English speaking schools
as well as those where Spanish alone
is spoken. The Cathedral school, un
der the supervision of the l't. Rev.
Bishop knight, has eighty pupils.
both Cubans and Americans. ihe
school is well taught and ably man
aged. IL was our privilege, with the
guidance of the Bishop TO be conduct
ed through this school. The children
are neat and appear to be studious,
they certainly are well trained and
well-behaved. The school is conduct
ed pretty much the same as our own
school i'm the States, and the children
range from all ages from the kinder
garten to the higher grades. The prin
cipal said the difficulty is in obtain
ing good teachers who speak both Eng
lish and Spanish. The Bishop visits
the school frequently and takes great
interest and pride in its success.
To the Bishop the Cathedral school
owes its inception, for the little germ
the good Bishop planted few years
ago in foreign soil, has taken root,
until now it is hardy vine sending
forth its branches in Cuban parish to
bear fruit for the Masters vineyard.