New-York tribune., 1920-01-25
400 Businessmen
Act as Stevedores
In Havana Strike
Members of Chamber of
Commerce and Rotary
Club Don Overalls and
Clear Piers of Freight
Speciat Correspondence

Special Correspondence
HAVANA. Jan. 24.-New Workers ar
rving in Havana this week were at
tracted byan unusual spectacle. Along
the harbor docks they witnessed 400
business men OF the Cuban capital. .
clad in overalls or khaki trousers,
playing the part OF stevedores and F
clearing the wharfs of accumulated +
stocks OF pcrishablc products EX +
asperated by the two weeks harbor
tie-up, the Havana Chamber of Com I
merce and Rotary Club combined TO /
settle this problem in more forceful
manner than by conferences. Led by (
pr. Aizugaray. president of the Russians,
manned drays and automobile trucks
and removed 10000 pieces of freight
the first day. 1t is said that this sur
passes d days handling for seasoned |
sievedorcs The result has been to re
leve Havana from possible famine.
4 majority of members attended the |
weekly meeting of the Rotary Club !
Thursday attired in their working /
clothes AS the city is rallyng to the |
continue this method until the striking
dockmcn resumed work.
John Hanley, who. until prohibition I
days arrived, managed cafe a.
Ninety second Street and Broadway,
New York, soon will open saloon on
the Prado, Havanas fashionable boule- !
ward.
Louis T. Stoddard, son Of +. g. Stod
dard and his wife are at the Sevila.
ha IA
last American polo team that com
peted for the international trophy in
England His sister, Mr.. Frank But
terworth, is with them.
Fhe Roosevelt memorial campaign in
Cuba will be launched early in Febru-
ary. The Cuban Congress- h appro-
priated $4,000 and like sum will be
raised by subscription. This amount
Will be given to the New York com
mittee, which will purchase Colonel
Roosevelt's birthplace. The Havana
Rotary Club has designated February
8 as d date to canvass for subscrip-
tons.
Mr.. and Mrs Malcolm F.. Grey and
Miss Melba Grey, OF Rochester, are WIS.,
itng friends in Havana.
Mr. and Mrs. William jor and
d ughter, Miss Ivey Major, of New
lorkare in Havana Mr.. Major is in
torested in several Cuban engineering
enterprises.
Rear Admiral Victor Blue, T. S. N,
retired, has returned to Key West after
being guest OF friends in Havana
a performance of "La Boheme'' was
given recently at the National Theater
in honor of Commander Jolivet Of the
French cruiser Jeanne dare.
Mrs. Charles NJ. Echevarria has ar
rived from Short Hills, N. j., to join
her husband. Her two sons accom-
panied her.
Earle Nelson, a civil engineer, and
Mrs. Virginia Nelson, of New York. are
soiourning in Havanan before continu
ing to Trinidad.
At toe Inglaterra are George R.
Morle, Van W. Loomis, Mr. and Mrs.
Sidney Aronstein, Commander N. r.
Mclean, u. S. NJ; George Berendt, Dr.
and Mrs. 4. l.. Cousins, Lorenzo NJ. Gill
lot. Hugh Corby Fox. Mr.. and Mrs. B.
Rene La Montague, of New York, and
". C. Douglass, Of Pittsburgh. At the
Lafayette are Captain r. F. Powers, of
Brooklyn; ". Forbes Morgan, Luis r.
Rios, MIR. and Mrs. II. C. Rounthwaite,
Miss Marjorie Rounthwaite, Mr.. and
Mrs. F; +. Craig. Edwin Phillips. and
leen Donnel.y and her mother, of East
Orange, and F. Otis, of Rye, N. Y.
Late registrations at the Telegraph
include K P. Galvan, R. H. Gregory, P
Aaro.d Banks, Albert Refkin, Mr.. and
Mrs. O. c. Schneider, of New York;
Charles Turville, Of Boston; R. B. Null
len, of Baltimore, and II. H. Bacon, Of
Savannah.
American arrivals at the Sevilla are
/. NJ. Stefano, Mrs. B. Clapp, L. l..
Winkelman, Leo j. Bondy, Mr.. and Mrs.
a. A. Osgood, Mr. and Mrs. l.. E. Stod-
dard. Mrs. Rainey, Mrs. +. S. Butter
worth. and NJ. FRANKIE, of New York;
Charles B. Hubner. Of Philadelphia;
Mr. and Mrs. w. A. Ingraham, of Bris-
tot Coma, and Mr.. and Mrs. G. W.
Beckers, Miss Elsa Beckers and Kurt A.
Beckers, of Bolton, n. Y.