Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-09

the Strcets are even WORSE suon NssuufB .
thoroughfares these sinewey little mules
pull their tremendously big.wheeled carts
along and are Iashed all the while most un-
mercifully by their brutal drivers. Truly
barbarism in this respect is In full sway in
Cuba.
A Paradise Of Smells.
For a diversified variety of smells, Havana
is the worlds paradise. The hotels are bad
and charges high without exception, and no.
where Is there better opening for good
American hotel. that will have plenty Of
American patronage assured at high prices.
than in the Cuban capital. Personally the
Spaniard is the most Latin Of all people, and
the Spanish American Is even more 30 than
his forefathers. In fact, the Italian is not
nearly 80 much like an original Latin as he.
Theyhave always expelled or repelled the for.
eigner and their attempted Innovations, ana
from the present indications they Will al
ways do so.
They expelled the ruling Moore from
Spain, while 1t is true they retained the
Moore's style of architecture and architec-
tural coloring, as being really wel.suited to
q tropical climate. When the Cuban builds
new house he EMPLOYS no architect or
contractor; he simply gets man who thinks
he understands building, and he is told that
a house costing $1,000, $1o, 900 or $2o, 900
is wanted to look like Don Casa
Neuya's house across the way, and he
pays for the work by the day,
and often before the new house
is finished the money is exhausted, and II
not, 1t il sure to cost by means OF peculation
twice 90 much as expected; and four times
as much as it ought to. But II the model
house has crooked corner, or stands out on
the street farther than is legally justified.
he also tries to get his new house out as far,
being determined his neighbor across the
way shall enjoy no advantage bis money
and cunning cannot also enjoy.
These houses are nearly always one or two
stories, with windows without glass, but
with iron bars reaching to height OF IL TO
10 feet, and everything enters the house BY
these doors. as high and wide as the ordi-
nary barn door, and In this hallway the Wis
itor comes; the horses and carriage come;
the butcher, the baker come, and all the re-
fuse and the dead are carried forth through
this high portal. In this hallway always
stands the carriage, il one is owned,
and the horses are kept along
side of the kitchen in the rear.
All carriages are heavily taxed while in
use, and are only exempt when not in use,
and this evidence is only taken by an in
spector, who comes along at intervals and
finds the handsome carriage. which Is held
onto by decayed family, covered up with
a white muslin cloth down to the very floor
in the hallway beside the parlor concealing
to ali others than the inspector that one
wheel has been removed, and this one axle
has been allowed to become rusty from nom
use.
The Inspectors Easily Satisfied.
This alone satisfies the inspector, yet he.
in Withholding an imposition of assessment,
he f0 world
that he still keeps his carriage in his front
hallway. There is, strictly speaking, no de-
sirabie neighborhood to the Spanish-Cuban.
Here you see the palace, with its solid mar.
BILE staircase fianked habitually by the howell
of the negro, Chinaman or Cuban OF the low
est class. The welLdressed family of the
millionaire may be seen sitting on his YER
anda in rocking-chairs in the cool OF the
evening, and on each side and across the
street are in full view wretchedness
that has never known anything but poverty,
and the children of poverty. both male and
female, up to 6 or years Of age in naked
ness that has never been covered by even
single garment since their birth; SO that
Cuba is at once the most expensive and the
cheapest place in the world to live in, as the
poor do not clothe their children, and If they
should, in a ft of prodigality, buy SUIT Of
clothes for child, they carefully lay 1t
away and let the child 60 naked.
Here the family lives from hand to mouth.
There are stores where you can buy the leg
of cooked chicken, or all Of it if you wish.
The government taxes citizen for
killing bullock S6, that is scarcely
worth more than the tax and 81 30
Tor sheep that is dear at 70 cents,
and that there may be no doubt about
getting this tax, everywhere annually the
privilege of collecting this tax is sold at
auction. and with the sale goes q guarantee
that the purchaser will be upheld by the
Government in his collections, and at once
the tax fiend takes an inventory Of every
bullock and sheep in his district, and woe
betide the culprit who has clandestinely
endeavored to evade the tax-gatherer.
A Favorite Word in Cuba.
OF all the oddities in Havana the milk
man is to us the oldest. He drives his lean
COWS and their ostensiDle calves, all muzzled,
from door to door during the entire day and
ON the horn of one cow may be hung can
of water for the purpose of washing
his fingers, or the cows teats, but some
times if the honest milkman il not
watched he finds, like our own
mllkman, that the water can is his
best COW. When he arrives at the door of
customer he makes noise either with the
door knocker or gives an unearthly yell,
wild enough to put an ordinary COW dry.
and out comes the maid and all the children
to see the COW MIXED.
The average Cuban is a leisurely fellow
in business-much given to a needless lot Of
preliminary and empty politeness, and
never does to-day what he thinks he may
possibly do tomorrow. and mauana-to-
morrow-is the one word in the Spanish
language which is ever on the Cuban's
tongue. Without it he would be without
comfort or hope in life. The pushing,
hustling business American might profit
by some little of this practice and get more
needed rest. But the average Cuban is like
poor Artemus Ward, who said he could
stand great deal of rest with convenience.
w. II. DALY