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Title: The Cuba review and bulletin
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Munson Steamship Line
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Publisher: New York : Munson Steamship Line
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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ta (twenty cents a package) and we were bombarded withconfetti and flowers on every side by frfend and stranger alike before we reached theAmerican Club where we stood for three solid hours watching the merry war beneathas the occupants of various carriages and automobiles, pelted each other with accurateand sometimes deadly aim. By five oclock the carriages were four deep on either sideof Central Park and they all trailed long streamers of serpentina after them. Theamount of these carnival missiles you have thrown at you attests your popularity, thecarriages containing the prettiest girls always having more than others. One won-ders at the fascination of driving around and around a circle not more than a mile incircumference hour after hour for three consecutive afternoons, but the spectacle iscertainly amusing to onlookers. To begin with, the horses which ordinarily are harnessed double, on carnival daysare driven tandem for no seeming reason other than the gallant display it makes.
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THE PARADE ON THE MALECON, HAVANAS FAMOUS DRIVEWAY A FLOAT OF CUBAS WELL-KNOWN SOCIETY BEAUTIES. 24 THE CUBA REVI E W. Their hoofs are often silvered or gilded and rosettes of flowers or ribbons gayly adorntheir ears and the various parts of their harness. On the spokes of the carriagewheels are wound garlands of flowers or ribbons, and the body of the carriage itselfis often embedded in palms and ferns. Vehicles there are of every class—open vic-torias predominating, from the old-fashioned volante, relic of the days of Spanishgrandeur, to the most modern of four-in-hands, swagger tea carts, and high powerautomobiles. Everybody is out in his bravest attire and handsome uniformed officersvie with duck-clad cavaliers on horseback in pelting the languishing senoritas or sprightlyAmerican girls as they drive past. Throwing serpentinas so that they hit the desiredvictoria is a fine art and your arm will ache with the eflfort long before youve mas-tered it. By dusk the ground is inches de

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