The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-21
THE HEREPuBLFc or CUBA
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!, have winter skonses ana grow fruit as ] side line. The great majority are men iof moderate means- who have come here Tor health, toAescape the northern win. ters, and whosmust make their living out Of the soil. The wealthy men will establish steamer Tine to take the produce of the island directly to the United States as soon as there is 3enough to 5ustify the @enture, This line win carry the fruit raised by the small farmers as well.
 development companies at work in the
 island. One ot them is now buifdinx . handsoine hotel at Mckinley. which will be equipped with water and gas and ali copyeniences. 1t is desierled lpefeiy to accommodate settlers who tceme hefe to put out orchards and who Ido not for any,reason. wish to build
 houses for sthemselves- @
 Not far away Is San RosArio spF7ugs, I medicinal value A tourist hotel and a ,sanitariuna are to be built here by the Amerieans who own the property, iThe waters ana baths at 6ante Fe. in itifDe. will attract more tourists-
 lx During the pre6ent American inter- iyenfionAfn Cuba. nearly $20o,oo0 has bean spent in building roads. These lhfghways are as good as can be found anywhere, and they connect ell of the principal points of the island. A sight seeing automobile makes the circuit Iof aa the places every day. assuring good passenger trapsportation facili. | The settlers have come from all parts Of the United States but most of them are from western New York, oilio, Michigan and Wisconsin. Handsome homes have been built and there ifs
 no lack of the comforts cf life for those who will take the trouble to pro- vide means of obtaining them. Twen- ty business men of Cleveland, Ohio,
 have gone into syndiSate and have purchased . large tract of lana' near Nueva Gerona. Each reserves two acres upon which he wfsi erect { bnn- E&Alow and lay out q winter home. The IreBt of tho land win be pnt into citrus fruit and pIneapbIes, to be cultivated and managed for the syndicate.
 Like every other Afnrican pioneer colony the settlers have brought with them the church and the printing press. There are all kinda of lodges and societies, and the social life fs Ameri- can. in . every respect The native lpopulation Is absolutely nil. 90 far as the aArnericans, are es concerned
 | One of the best institutione connect cd with the tsis Of Pines Is the steamer Cristobai Colon which plys between Batabano, Cuba. and the two Pinero ports. of EueVa Gerona and . Jucero. Not only is 1t comfortabIe boat, but t carries Felix pfimavesa. the purser. The captain of the ship Ia Cuban, of course, but theN purser fs everything eise. sFellxr is an American of Ger man birth. and Italian ancestry. He speaks almost any ylangpage. and he is always in a sOod hum6r He is the agent of severybody in Havana to do errands in the Isle of Pines, and every
 body in the Isle of Pines burdens him with their chores to be done in
 Havana. He never forgeta. m reality he is the whole thing on the Cristobal
 Colon. ana although not icannibal.i he |1niBht well sing: ss~
 .'oh. am the cook and the captain
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 And the mate of the Nancy brig,
 The mfdshipniite and the bo,en light,
 Ana the crew of the captains kie1
 And jack ashore--weii, let K be
 known, that Felix leads the sfnging at
 church on. EundayR and none but he
 passes the eontssbution plato rake q
 trip to the Isle of Pines YUu7F find a Whole fut Df hustle &ad bnstle and bsAufy. Ana Feiix vii ferry you over.
 t(scpyrightI 1903, by Frederic J. Has kin.
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