The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-08
CUBA PROVES IDEAL SPOT
FOR WINTER VACA ZIONIST
Prominent Men of Island Engaged in Building and
Beautifying Resorts Making Ready for Host
of American Tourists

pavilions and a new Havana Yacht Club
home. AN but the yacht club are being
built for the benefit OF the general pub
lie but particularly for tourists who
flee from our winters. Along the drive
way and adjoining avenues near the sea
individual residences of varying sises
arc being erected.
My friend, the business man, asked
me I: What can do there besides enjoy
the climate?" II was a fair question
not easily answered, for visitor finds
every facility for sport and recreation.
Near the city of Havana are the re-
quirements for every aquatic sport. A
famous class OF rs footers lies anchored
inside the crescent of Marlanao bay,
and at least once a week their sails I'LL
with the trade winds in open sea races,
Numerous speed boats follow the course.
while persons who prefer quieter waters
JOHN the pageant OF small boats in the
bay. Spectators on land find piano.
rama of interest, the gay throngs of
senoritas at the dances either afternoons
or night. at the bridge games and teas.
and always in the evening there. comes
a multicolored glow on the waters with
changing glories known only to Cuban
sunset.
On the higher ground a short mile
from the beach lies the world renowned
Country Club of Havana with its sweep
OF rolling green broken by tie same
royal palms which stamp every Cuban
landscape. Still further distant is the
polo field and the racetrack.
Yet the tired business man may wish
merely to rest while enjoying the eli
mate, and to remain by himself. II so,
he should rent one OF those small houses
near the beach or In the vedado, one OF
tho best residential sections of the city,
It Is something aktn to the joys OF old
Omar to have your own private yard
with it's hammock and hg tree ana
cluster of giant bamboo spreading its
Uncomfortable shade. 1t Is something also
to walk iuto your single story nome,
bIilt of plaster and mosaic tile, barred
windows without and patio within
where, perhaps, one sentinel PAIN IL
growing beside your fountain. No one
who has entered the American Legation
can fail to remember the four royal
palms bordering the fountain in the
patio.
Many sights Await Visitor.
A few weeks of rest in such surround
ings will make the most tired of busi-
ness men ready to see Cuba, the island.
The railroad Is waiting. There are
stops to be made at Matanzas, at Cana
guey. which was built by Cuba's first
Governor. Velasquez, in 1915, In the
heart of the island to avoid the maraud-
ing coast pirates. There are many fair
cities, marvellous forests of hard wood
and fields OF sugar cane 70 pass in the
two nights and a day of continuous
travel from Havana before awakening In
the bowl of mountains which mark San.
tiago.
Yes. Cuba has mountains. From the
veranda OF Santiago's Casa Granda you
see them rising against blue depths OF
sky. To see them is to long to be
among them, and there follows a motor
ride which must necessarily be taken in
a high powered car up the precipitous
roadway known as General Woods
Folly" for when Leonard Wood began
1t to keep American troopers out of
mischief during the occupation, no one
said he could finish 1t. Finish 1t he did.
and It would be folly TO leave Cuba
without first making its ascent. From
the summit, league upon league of
falling valleys stretch to the red roofs
OF Santiago.
The myriad eighty foot palms look
like matches on end; the bottle necked
harbor in which Hobson placed the
Merrlmac for a cork, is a pool made
fer toy boats; and always the Caribbean
beyond lies unperturbed, as 1t did In
The days when Columbus went sailing.