Title: The Cuba review
Identifier: cubareview07muns (find matches)
Year: 1907-1931 (1900s)
Authors: Munson Steamship Line
Subjects: Cuba -- Periodicals
Publisher: New York : Munson Steamship Line
Contributing Library: New York Botanical Garden, LuEsther T. Mertz Library
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THE CUBA REV1I<:W 19
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Homes in Havana's vSuburbs. Mr. Adolf B. Horn's villa, "Bella Mar," near Camp Columbia. It is a fine specimen of modern architecture in Cuba and the house is built in accordance to hygienic requirements, and is supplied with all the modern improvements. tured Cubans have homes very similar to those of people in their class in any land, but the above is the average, and is seen daily as one passes open doors and windows. In the suburb of Jesus del ISTonte, an American comoany bought 10 years ago the deserted farm of Cubans too poor to hold them, and of Spaniards who were leaving the island. This district has now become one of the most beautiful of the resident sections. One property secured for $16,000 has been cut up into lots, of which a third only had been sold when the investor had trebled the price paid for the farm. A small building lot sells here for $300. One house just built in the so-called Ameri- can style, as above described, cost, with the lot, $20,000. Some of the finest old Cuban homes are at Jesus del Monte. The Yznaga place, the childhood home of Consuelo, duchess of Manchester, and the residence still of her relatives, is here. Laundry Workers Out. The women ironers' strike, which did not seem far-reaching in its consequences when it first began some weeks ago, has developed into quite a serious affair, threatening to drag along indefinitely. Both the workers and the laundry owners are holding fast to their position, and the Secretary of Agriculture's efforts to bring about an understanding thus far have been fruitless. The Rev. Dr. Charles L. Thomson, of New York, secretary of the Board of Home Missions, in an address at the Presbyterian General Assembly on May 25 at Denver, Colo., praised the United States government's work in Cuba dur- ing the intervention, and said that the Stars and Stripes had no sooner vanished out of Havana Harbor than Cuba started backward, gambling and bull fighting having new sway. The President on May 14 ordered the payment of $26,000 to private citizens whose lands were appropriated to establish the United States naval and coaling station at Bahia Honda.

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