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Title: Industrial Cuba : being a study of present commercial and industrial conditions with suggestions as to the opportunities presented in the island for American capital, enterprise and labour
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Porter, Robert P. (Robert Percival), 1852-1917
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Publisher: New York : Putnam
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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in this school. Itis to be regretted that, like so many others who work forthe public good, the results should not correspond to thelabour. He conceived the idea of creating this school a fewyears after graduating from the University of Havana. Afterseveral unsuccessful attempts he managed to start his enter-prise, and since then the improvement of the instruction andthe general welfare of its scholars have been the main objectof his life. The acquisition of a lot of ground and thebuilding of a suitable house for the shops for mechanicaltraining have been the most important steps taken since thefoundation. The new building is outside the city and ishigh and airy. Part of the ground purchased will have abuilding erected for an agricultural and industrial museum. It is to be regretted that this school, which is the onlyone of its class in Cuba, should furnish accommodation foronly the limited number of 491 pupils. A city of 250,000inhabitants, like Havana, should be able to provide more
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Havana 15x for this object. It is to be remarked that, out of the num-ber mentioned, as many as 316 take night courses. There is perhaps no branch of instruction that may leadto such important developments in Cuba as the training ofher youths in the mechanical trades; the want has been feltfor a long time, and with the only exception of this schoolno efforts have been made to alleviate it. The Cuban,being naturally quick, makes a good mechanic, but unlesshe is trained to his work and has some knowledge of tech-nicalities he can never reach the degree of skill which themodern mechanic requires to master his trade. Howeverbright a man may be he can never acquire perfection in anybranch of industry if he confines himself to the results ofindividual practice and personal observation. In a placelike Cuba, where the wealth and prosperity of the countrydepend materially on one industry like the sugar industry,which is worked with huge machinery, there is no excusefor bringing over every year

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