The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1913-06-10

foreign capital and immigration and
maintain friendly relations with all ma
tons, especially with the United States,
to which Cuba is so closely linked by
bonds of mutual affection and interest.
Educated in This City.
General Menocal was born in 1866 at
Jaguey Grande, Matanzas province.
His family soon removed to the United
States and he was educated in the mill
tary college of Washington and then at
Cornell University. He graduated from
Cornell as a civil engineer. Upon leav-
ing Ithaca he went with his uncle, Ami
ceto G.. Menocal, chief of the engineer
ing staff which made the survey of the
Nicaraguan canal, and worked with
him. He returned to Cuba as an engi.
neer for a French company.
AT Santa Cruz he joined the revolu
tiOharv forces as private and rose
rapidly until he became general of
division.
Brilliant Military Record.
His military record was brilliant; he
rendered great service to the Americans
at tho time of the Spanish evacuation,
and General Ludlow, civil governor of
Havana province, appointed him chief
OF police of Havana, a position requir-
ing at that time great tact and ability.
He later managed the Chappara sugar
estate up to few weeks before his
Inauguration.
Vice President Varona was born in
Camaguey, April -, 1910, was gradua-
ted from the University of Havana and
is professor of philosophy and ethics in
that institution. He was deputy to the
Spanish cortes from Camaguey province
shortly after the ten years war 1S6S-
7S). Under General Wood S admins.
tration he was secretary of public in.
struction. He is an author and newspa-
per man and president of the conser-
vative party, which won the recent cleo
tions.
Members of Cabinet. y
Cosme de la Torriente, secretary of
state. is the vice president of the con.
sentative party. At the time of the
second American Intervention he was
Cuban minister to Spain, position he
resigned.
CristObal de la Guarda, secretary of
Justice, is tho only member of the cabi.
net who has no war record. In 1898 he
made an unsuccessful effort to organize
Il lahorfparty, As senator he made a
strong fight against the lottery, chicken
fighting and Jai-alai. His selection for
the portfolio of justice is considered an
excellent one.
| Col. Aurelio Pevia, secretary of the
interior, was one of Gen. Caixto Gar.
Ella s expedition which embarked on
the Hawkins for Cuba, and when that
vessel sank off tho Jersey coast he mar.
rowly escaped with his life. During
the first Intervention he was assistant
secretary of state. Since 1906 he has
Fracticed as lawyer. !
Leopoldo Cancio, secretary of the
treasury, has been cabinet minister
several times. He assisted in the prep.
aration of the reciprocity treaty with
the United States in 1908,
Built First Dynamite Gun. '''
Jose Ramon Villalon, secretary of
public works, was graduated in 1889
from Lehigh University, where he oh.
tanned his degree of civil engineer
While in the United States prior to
Joining General Maceo he built the
first dynamite gun ever used in the
world, and employed it in the opera.
lions in Cuba. He is a professor of
mathematics in the University of Ha-
vana and member of the American
Society of Engineers and the American
Institute of Mining Engineers.
Gen. Emilio Nunez, secretary OF agri-
culture, commerce and labor. has been
president of the National Council of
Veterans for two terms. After the
treaty of Zanjon-ls7s-he went to the
United States, residing in Philadelphia
for years. Five of his six children were
born in the States.
Ezequiel Garcia, the secretary of pub.
lie instruction, is professor OF literature
in the University of Havana.
Enrique Nunez, secretary of public
health, was graduated from the Uni.
versity of Havana in 1856, and as q
surgeon in 1898.