Standard Guide to Cuba: A New and Complete Guide to the Island of CubaFoster & Reynolds, 1906 - 250 pages |
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... PLAN T. H. HARRIS , President C. M. JOHNSON , General Manager CAPITAL , $ 440,000.00 HERRADURA LAND COMPANY Owners of the new All American Town in the Province of Pinar del Rio , Cuba . Owners of five hundred 40 acre farms surrounding ...
... PLAN T. H. HARRIS , President C. M. JOHNSON , General Manager CAPITAL , $ 440,000.00 HERRADURA LAND COMPANY Owners of the new All American Town in the Province of Pinar del Rio , Cuba . Owners of five hundred 40 acre farms surrounding ...
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... Decision 23,190 , any passenger , whether American or foreign , is entitled , free of duty , to either 50 cigars or 300 cigarettes . Any excess is dutiable . " HOTELS IN HAVANA . A - American Plan . E 16 THE STANDARD GUIDE .
... Decision 23,190 , any passenger , whether American or foreign , is entitled , free of duty , to either 50 cigars or 300 cigarettes . Any excess is dutiable . " HOTELS IN HAVANA . A - American Plan . E 16 THE STANDARD GUIDE .
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... Plan . E - European Plan . For particulars sce advertisement on page designated . Alcazar . - Prado and Dragones St. A. Page 40 . C. Bohm .-- Guanabacoa , 20 minutes from Havana . Page 43 . Brooklyn . - Prado 97. E. and A. Page 35 ...
... Plan . E - European Plan . For particulars sce advertisement on page designated . Alcazar . - Prado and Dragones St. A. Page 40 . C. Bohm .-- Guanabacoa , 20 minutes from Havana . Page 43 . Brooklyn . - Prado 97. E. and A. Page 35 ...
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... plan of 1762 , which is reproduced on another page . The work is a quadrilateral fortress , having a bastion at each of the corners . It is 25 yards in height ; the walls are double , and the terrepleins are supported on arches . It was ...
... plan of 1762 , which is reproduced on another page . The work is a quadrilateral fortress , having a bastion at each of the corners . It is 25 yards in height ; the walls are double , and the terrepleins are supported on arches . It was ...
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... plan to utilize the magnificent site for a hotel . The Carcel was listed in a city schedule in 1900 at $ 464,000 . ( For changed conditions see " Carcel " in index . ) Just beyond the northern end of the Carcel , where an armed guard ...
... plan to utilize the magnificent site for a hotel . The Carcel was listed in a city schedule in 1900 at $ 464,000 . ( For changed conditions see " Carcel " in index . ) Just beyond the northern end of the Carcel , where an armed guard ...
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Page 118 - Cuban independence, the maintenance of a government adequate for the protection of life, property, and individual liberty, and for discharging the obligations with respect to Cuba imposed by the treaty of Paris on the United States, now to be assumed and undertaken by the government of Cuba. IV That all Acts of the United States in Cuba during its military occupation thereof are ratified and validated, and all lawful rights acquired thereunder shall be maintained and protected.
Page 182 - Spain cedes to the United States the island of Porto Rico and other islands now under Spanish sovereignty in the West Indies, and the island of Guam in the Marianas or Ladrones.
Page 161 - All the above are the Admiral's words. He ascended the river for some distance, examined some branches of it, and, returning to the mouth, he found some pleasant groves of trees, like a delightful orchard. Here he came upon a canoe, dug out of one tree, as big as a galley of twelve benches, fastened under a...
Page 128 - Lazear also experimented on himself at the same time, but was not infected. Some days later, while in the yellow-fever ward, he was bitten by a mosquito and noted the fact carefully. He acquired the disease in its most terrible form and died a martyr to science and a true hero. No other fatality occurred among the brave men who, in the course of the experiments, willingly exposed themselves to the infection of the dreaded disease. A camp was especially constructed for the experiments about 4 miles...
Page 94 - ... extending the whole width of the island, and having about an equal sea front on the north and south borders. Matanzas touches the Caribbean Sea only at its southwest corner, being separated from it elsewhere by a narrow peninsula of Santa Clara Province. The provinces are named, beginning at the west, Pinar del Rio, Havana, Matanzas, Santa Clara, Puerto Principe and Santiago de Cuba, My observations were confined to the four western provinces, which constitute about one-half the island. The two...
Page 128 - Lazear, and A. Agramonte. At this time the American authorities in Cuba had for a year and a half endeavored to diminish the disease and mortality of the Cuban towns, by general sanitary work, but while the health of the population showed distinct improvement and the mortality had greatly diminished, yellow fever apparently had been entirely unaffected by these measures. In fact, owing to the large number of...
Page 182 - ... the cities of the island, to the end that a recurrence of epidemic and infectious diseases may be prevented, thereby assuring protection to the people and commerce of Cuba, as well as to the commerce of the Southern ports of the United States and the people residing therein. ARTICLE VI The Island of Pines shall be omitted from the boundaries of Cuba specified in the Constitution, the title thereto being left to future adjustment by treaty.
Page 184 - Swamp, an almost impenetrable region 75 miles in length in an east and west direction by 30 miles in breadth. Off the south coast are many low, marshy mangrove-covered islets. Most of the harbors of both the north and south coasts are of peculiar shape, with narrow, crooked entrances, opening within into basins of considerable extent, which are thus completely sheltered. This is the character of the harbors of Havana, Santiago, Cienfuegos, Guantanamo, and many others. The...
Page 129 - A completely mosquito-proof building was divided into two compartments by a wire-screen partition; infected insects were liberated on one side only. A brave nonimmune entered and remained long enough to allow himself to be bitten several times. He was attacked by yellow fever, while two susceptible men in the other compartment did not acquire the disease, although sleeping there 13 nights.
Page 130 - Army, instituted measures to eradicate the disease, based entirely on the conclusions of the commission. Cases of yellow fever were required to be reported as promptly as possible, the patient was at first rigidly isolated, and immediately upon the report a force of men from the sanitary department visited the house. All the rooms of the building and of the neighboring houses were sealed and fumigated to destroy the mosquitoes present. Window and door screens were put up, and after the death or recovery...