June 24, 2025
MAKE ROADS OF CORAL.
Gen. Garcia, Cuban Minister, Tells
of Island's Excellent Highways.
General Carlos Garcia-Velez, minister from Cuba to the United States, who is in Kansas City to promote a reciprocity sentiment in the West, said last night that Cuba boasted of more than 1,300 miles of the most excellent macadam roads in the world.
"We use crushed coral in our roads in Cuba," said he, "and there is no better medium for road building known. It is practically impervious to water, and when rolled smooth preserves for many years its continuity. Our government has expended $15,000,000 in the past three years in this kind of improvement, and will continue until we have a perfect system of roads.
General Garcia and Colonel Charles Hernandez, who is also in the Cuban government service, will go to Fort Leavenworth today, as guests of Brigadier General Frederick Funston. General Funston was in the Cuban service before he entered the army of the United States.
Labels: Leavenworth, visitors
