Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-03-12
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lent in Cuban paper purchases in stores are In gold
paper, the Information being announced with
the price Cab fares tickets to theatres and places
OF amusement are paid In paper; also cigars and
liquid Refreshments have paper value. The paper
currency is very much depreciAted; q IS green
back buys twelve dollars and sixty cents Of Cuban
currency, and q Eve dollar greenback buys i've dol
lars and forty cents Of Spanish gold. Any Ameri-
can should feel proud of his CO lntry when pa
per currency commands preminm over their gold.
All business men in ahana very anxious TO get
American money; they call it Gods country and
good money.
ship not sailing under the Spanish flag can not
enter theport Of HAVANA between the hours Of sun
set and sun rise-a custom long enforced by the
government, which, If it was intended for the tour
ists' pleasure, could have not suited him better,
because the ships schedules are 40 arranged that
the arrival is made at SUNRISE and when she sails
under the guns of M Morro Castle with the brighten
ing daylight tinging the eastern sky and showing
the frowning walls OF MORO and Cabana, and be-
hind them the distant hills through whose crowning
palm trees the earliest sunshine is streaming the
picture is wonderfully beautiful, and look to the
starboard shows the city just awakening and ready
to give you the warmest welcome.
At the entrance of the harbor on the east side is
MORO Castle, completed in 1910, and taken by the
English in 1914; just back of which is Cabana
Castle which has never been taken by any country
aud recaptured Moro Castle from the English,
date -. On the other side, opposite to MORO
is La Punta the principal forts constituting the de-
fences of the city from attacks by sea- Sailing past
these forts the ship comes to anchor in mdstream.
the time there have come out to meet the ship
what seems to be q hundred country wagons atiOat
with their wheels under the water; these are the
boats that take passengers and freight ashore. At
ter your baggage has passed through the custom
house, 1t is delivered to the hotel designated.
Our party is stopping at the Gran Hotel Ingla-
terra, which is kept in first class stye cohee rolls
and oranges are served In the morning in your room
or at the table, breakfast 10 to II O'Clock; dinner
to 10 o'clock all meats and vegetables must be
fresh fish is elegant-being taken direct from the
water to the frying pant being against the law TO
sell dead fish. They must be taken alive and kept
in floating coops until sold; eggs must be new-laid
or no sale. Milkmen don't drives wagons like in
this country to deliver milk but drive his heard of
COWS around the city and milk them atthe door Of
his customers There is very stringent law against
adulterartion in any kind of foods, stale meats or
vegetables and is punishable with very heavy fines
and imprisonment and in some cases death, and the
law is strictly enforced.
Nearly everybody rides In the city in cabs which
are four wheeled and victoria shaped, equipped
with one horse and driver, and will carry four be-
sides the driver. There are thousands of them and
the best way to call them is to whistle, and when
you attract the drivers attention. motion with your
hand for him to go away and he will drive rite up
They do many things upside down in Cuba, even
the keyholes In doors are wrong side up. The main
business and principal streets are so narrow that
city ordinance requires vehicles to 60 down certain
streets and back on others. Many business streets
are only 2 to l6 feet wide from building to building
with sidewalks varying from 10 inches to feet on
each side with no alley Most all business streets
covered with canvass at the first story and look
very odd.
Concluded next week.)