Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-09-23

The best way 60 live IN cuba Ia 10
rent a room either nj a hotel or lods.
Ing house and take your meals at the
restaurants There are cafes and res
tauranta YoryWhere, and some are
rood There are always enough dishes
on the bills OF fare 10 furnish am APP
petl8lng and dlgestlble meal and one
rays for what he orders All meats
ere eaten the same day they are killed,
and they are not SO good as those kept
for a time IN cold storage, The fowls
are cooked ns soon as their heads are
chopped on, and for this reason are
tougher than The American variety
Poultry dealers bring the chickens alive
nv from the country, and a common
sight Is n chicken ped!,r with his
fowls hung from his shoulders. Tur-
keys are driven through the streets,
and one buys them M Il were, on the
hcof 1.-Two pigs arc carried on the
shoulders or In carts,
CuBA'S SOFT DRINKS,
THIS Is a great place for soft drinks,
Tho cafes have them by the score. and
some arc good, A popular one is panal,
made from mixture Of sugar ana
white OF egg dried IN rolls six inches
long, These rolls are served with \
glass o. water You drip IN your panal
and Il dissolyeS ana you have sweet
ish drink which makes the Cuban's
mouth water,
Pineapple juice Is not bad, and naran-
iada, or the juice Of oranges, IL cooled
with a bit Of tee is delicious, Another
drink IS tmnerind fruit crushed I'm
water and a third la the milk Of tho
green COCoanut poured out In a glass
and iced. Green ocoanut milk looks
Ike water. i has slightly sweetlsh
taste with mild favor OF COcoanut
n is not 90 be compared to the mix
of the ripe nut which IS coarse and
heavy, There Is a drink here made Of
the skins and cores Of pineapples
which have baen placed I'm a stone jar
with water and allowed to ferment
and there are others made Of other
fruits the names OF which l do not
know. The Cubans have but few in
toNicating liquors and, 30 far, | have
seen almost no drunkenness, The most
common wines are spanish. II being the
custom TO drink wine with ones meals.
Coffee may be had anywhere In cuba.
1t Is always serN ed with milk, and as
the coffee beans ore burnt to a cinder
It is rather bitter 20 the American
taste. Most OF the milk for coffee Is
boiled and sailed. IT used TO be the
custom 10 drive the cows through the
streets from house to house and milk
them before the doors, but the milk Ia
now delivered from panniers on the
backs OF horses or mules.
CABS ARE CHEAP.
/ came from my ship to the hotel for
so cents IN silver This included three
passengers, The fare for the ordinary
cab ride is about IL cents and the SER
vice is quite as good az that OF New
Tha II "a "a g nd thn
drivers as a rule, are not eXtOrtlontsts.
In shopping one can get hack by the
hour for so cents gold. and II he makes
his bargains away from the hotels,
other kinds Of transportation are cheap
The street car rates are five cents
American, and there is a set Of common
vehicles known as gua-guas, which COM
meet Havana with an suburban towns,
the fares OF which are remarkably low
The gua-guaa, pronounced wah-Wahs,
are the property OF the street car COM
pauies. They are omnibuses, each
drawn by four mules, the animals be.
ing driven on the gallop UP hill and
down, | have ridden I'm them here
and there over the island, but ] doubt
whether they are NJ vehicles for our
representative American ladies, who may
object to the smoking among the men
and women passengers
The cabs of cuba are yictorias, with
tops which come down so as 60 shade
the eyes, They are well-made We
hicles, imported from Europe. Indeed,
/ am told that the American cab will
not stand the wear and tear Of the lia-
yana street. The most Of the city
thoroughfares are narrow, and not a
few are paved with cobbles. In some
Of them II is hardly possible TO pass,
and the drivers have to be careful at the
crossings or when turning corner
Every cab has a bell under IT, which
Is rung by the foot Of the driver These
bells are OF the door gong variety, so
that there Is q continual changing and
ringing as the carriages go through tho
streets Indeed, IL was some time be-
fore l could find where the dug-dong
noise came from, until 7 saw that they
were from my own cab and made by
my driver.
4 great deal Of the transportation ~
cuba "a moved by mules This Ia 80
with the heavy traffic Of Havana. The
mules are fine animals fat, strong and
we'll kept. Each cart mule has a gay
saddle and a bride with red tassel
az big as ny brush at each ear and
also under the chin. Many OF the mules
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