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Title: Standard guide to Cuba : a new and complete guide to the island of Cuba, with maps, illustrations, routes of travel, history, and an English-Spanish phrase book
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Reynolds, Charles B. (Charles Bingham), 1856-1940
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Publisher: Havana : New York : Foster & Reynolds
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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LACES. THE STANDARD GUIDE.
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COMMERCE. and its prisons, where in the seventeenth century were held autos da feor burnings of heretics. The Municipal Police was organized in 1S98 by John McCullagh, ex-chief of police of New York city. The personnel was carefully selectedfrom the beginning, many of those enrolled in the force having served inthe Cuban Army, and the Havana organization enjoys a creditable prestige.In physique, the Havana policeman presents a marked contrast with hisbrother of the New York Broadway Squad. He is decidedly slight offigure, and the close-fitting blue linen uniform accentuates this characteristic. Havana is by no means a quiet town at night, and we may be thank-ful that the reign of the Serenos has passed. These were night watchmenprovided with dark lantern, pistol, pike, whistle and rope, who throughthe night patrolled the streets, calling out the hours, and every thirtyminutes announcing the state of the weather; as the Havana night isusually serene, their iteration of the cry Sereno g

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