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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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112,723. The race divisions were: Native whites, 115,432;foreign whites, 52,901; negroes, 28,750; mixed, 36,004; Chinese, 2,794. Thereport of the United States Board of Health in 1879 showed that three-fourths of the people in Havana lived in the most densely populatedlocalities in the world. The typical tenement house is a one-story oblong,with a court in the center and rooms opening upon it from two sides;here families of five to ten people living in one or two small, dark roomsare not at all uncommon. The city is not only overcrowded in the houses,but there is an overcrowding of the houses themselves; the city covers asmaller area than any other city of its population in Europe or America. John Chinaman is ubiquitous in Havana. The census of 1899 showsa Chinese population of 2,751, and here, as elsewhere, they are indus-trious members of the community. Chinamen are seen carrying bur-dens swung from balanced shoulder poles, after the manner of their native IN AND ABOUT THE CITY. 99
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LUYANO NEAR HAVANA. country. On the outskirts of the city, and in the suburbs, are extensiveChinese truck farms; the market garden industry is largely in theirhands. The Chinese quarter is in Zanja and Aguila streets. TheChinese theatre is on Zanja street. The Chinese in Cuba are remindersof the coolie trade which brought here hundreds of thousands to virtualslavery. They were imported under a contract to serve eight years at$4 a month, and the planters paid $400 for them. They were notaltogether satisfactory as human chattels, being much given to suicide. Baseball is played on the grounds of the Almendares Club on the Paseode Tacon, opposite the Botanical Garden. Principe cars pass the gate.The grounds of the Havana Baseball Club are at Vedado. The mostimportant games are played on Sunday afternoons, and are announced inthe Havana Post. Bull fighting and cock fighting have been suppressed by law. Havana cigars of the best grades are made of tobacco raised in theVuelta Abajo district,

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