The sun., 1903-04-30

Havana hotsls are put On upside down. In
many Gases they are on The outside cf ne
doors. To unlock them one must hold the
key upside down. and this requires practice.
Door. are looked oniy. 70 keep them from blow
Ing about In the wind, and not st all for pro-
lection against thisvSs.. One looks his door.
funbling with the ley for q while. and then
walks across the broad hall and hangs the key
up under It's number twsnty feet away from
the room and In full SIGHT Of II. Quests. hotel
maids and boys. any one who has ambition
enough to climb the long. but easy. flights OF
stairs are at liberty TO take the key. unlock
the doors and enter the room. After day
is less secure than some other methods. and
then he rests easy.
II isn't serious neon vsnisncs to any one
II guest runs of With room key. The hall
man gives the door a sharp tug. Tho bolt
that holds II snsps up from its socket. and
the door swings open. At night when there
is .. breeze the doors must be stuffed With
papers TO keep them from rafting.
Americans here declare that the week Of April
~ 10 81 was cooler than any Of the weeks last
winter. It has been the temperature Of .
have suffered from the heat. and. though
there was rain one evening. the wet season
has not begun.
Minister squiers has q white automobile.
built on the lines OF q surrey. with q picnic
basket hitched on behind.
Havana's police are q smart-lookins intel
hsent-sppearins body Of men. They are
stationed on shorter posts than New York
policemen. They are about the only men =
visitor notices who don't smoke when they
are on duty. The few other men who do not
smoke all the time may safely be put down
a. sick. except the street railway employees.
In Gen. Ludlow's time he forbade. or got the
electric road officials to forbid. smoking on
the cars. Why there was not revolution no
one knows. The Cubans arc long-suherins.
and smoking In not allowed on the cars to this
day. The police begin to smoke AZ soon as
they are of duty. So do the car employees.
The police are polite They are small mon.
like all Cubans. Each has q club like New
York polioeman's niehtstick and a heavy
army revolver. which he wears outside his
black-braided jacket OF blue. The police
keep their clubs In their belts except when
they are In use. and do not swing them as they
walk. Ia New York Il IL an honor TO be q
member Of the police force. Some Of the men,
bsrs are sons Of onos wealthy families i'm
poverished by one or another Of the political
and warike troubles which have vexed the
island. Nov there 10 talk Of general strike
throughout the island on Mayi. In Havana.
with the police allowed to do a. they wfah.
II 10 prophssied that there will be no disorder
Of long duration.
Havana b a. clean as intelligent sanitary
supervision can make II. The prominent
streets are clean. the oourtyards are clean,
and the walks are clean. bad smell Ii prac-
tically unknown In the streets. The street
cleaners. most OF them h white. are at work
day and night. They wake one up cleaning.
and they lull him to sleep cleaning. Havana
was not cleaner under the American military
government than II 10 to-day. Brooke's
work. Ludlow's work. continued by Wood and
carried on by the Few government. has trans
formed the city. The street cleaning costs
more than any other department Of the city
government. but - Havana has not had Q
case Of yellow Jack originating In the city In
eighteen months. this and the mosquito cam
paien are good invsstmsnts.
Tho toilet arrangements IN the hotels are
unusual. The wash basins on the once and
cafe floors are the most conspicuous things
In the dining rooms. One eating his break
fast hears running water. looks about. and
finds . man washins faoe and hands at his
elbow. The only bath IL In the toilet compart-
ment marked -LAdies-ssnoras- Mere man
hesitates about invading the room. but the
mailman bows him there. full Of smiling oon-
hdsnce. The water supply is sufficient and
pure. There are no rooms with baths IN the
hotels. In fact. no running water Is IN the
rooms.
A Cuban room less than forty feet square 10
a mean affair. A Cuban who onoe lived IN
New York now occupies q house In which the
dining room. one Of the twenty mammoth
rooms, is twice ~ largo as his whole apart
ment on West eixty-fourth street was He
confesses that sometimes he feels like screen
ing on corner ten feet square. and recalling
IL . hA Aax x-rha ~ In thn
Jai Alsi possesses Havana. II 10 q court
game. splendid to watch. splendid To play. and
MAGNIFICENT to bet on. II II more talked about
here than baseball In Pittsburg. and more bet
on than horse races In New York. Your bar
ber your room servant. your cochero. the
clerk who waits on you. the bootblack-each
has his favorite player. and each IL part pro-
prietor at leaet twioe a week in q ticket on the
man or team he has picked to win. Once
watching the game one understands why. for
II 10 M graceful and as full OF demands on the
players skill and resourcefulness as any
game that II played II resembles handball
and 10 crosse. and several other games. Tho
betting may be bad, but the game is q splen-
did one.
When q Cuban audience wants to give Q
player or an orator an adverse opinion, IL
whistles. The demonstration that the gallery
OF the hero's triumph and the villains down.
fall with fingers on tongue. means here that
what has been said or done was bad-the very
limit-el eolmo de Ia sinrerouensorio.
The Havana trades unions are strongly
annexationist. or at least a powerful faction
10, 20 far ~ labor organizations 60. They
want TO afhliate with the Gompers organiza-
ton In Chicago. They are not territorial
snnexationlsts. or political annexstionists
but they think the org sanlzations hero would
be more powerful II they, had an American
continental connection There are . lot OF
Anarchists. Of all shades. kinds and condi.
tiens In the city. and they incte the work
insmen whenever the opportunity Offers
The labor organ ls Tierro. and II has contained
many nery articles. The worklnemen,
particularly the tobacco workers. are re-
msrkably well informed on public questions
Each room full OF tobacco workers employs Q
reader. who sts psrched above the heads Of
the workers. and reads aloud the news
papers. Not q paragraph or . sentence
escapes him. and the workers take II all In.
The soldier who shows one through Principe
Castle points out tunnel nve feet high and
two feet vide. and says that no one knows
where the other end Of " 10. No one seems
IN csrc either The soldier only shruRs his