Show YA V ANA NOW NO BUSY r COUNTING ITS PROFITS Thousands ds of Dollars Left by Opulent Americ Amer Americans cans s During Winter I HAVA HAVANA A eB By a Staff Start Correspondent July 3 Havana ana Is happy and carefree 1 these days dis It IL ou ought ht to be bo It Il never ne w wasso was s I BO so prosperous And while thousands upon ulon thousands of dollars dolLus were left Idt In Cuba b by American and European tourists last winter winter dollars business men treel freely spent pent by opulent and sportsmen sportsmen the the Island republic has not been bun satisfied to pocket that amount and bask balk In Its tropical sunshine In Idle Idle- ness neilS It has hu been at work It Is working work work- In thE ing hard today Hardly does a a. visitor to beautiful Ha- Ha so ana ana so Spanish to th the tha core In tradition tradition tradition tion and appearance pass appearance pass old Morro Ca cas castle tle tie and ent enter cater r tho the harbor ho he gets ets th the lastIng last last- In Ing Impression that Cuba Is J prosperous but but busy buy Tugs Tup launches lighters lighten and ferries BIO are constantly scurrying across Silo ho water ater from pier to ship and ship hip to pier Cranes Crane are busy loading and unloading un un- un- un lowIng loading tho the big vessels els cro crowded ded Into tIle the heretofore ample h harbor Ashore It t Is the same Rame The city's city real rul population of ot about appears double double double dou dou- ble that number as people through the narrow streets that form tonn the oldtown old oldtown oldtOwn town section Neatly uniformed anti and po polite polite po- po lite lit traffic officers direct dUrot the steady teady stream of ot pedestrians and automobiles and streetcars up ono one street and nd down another In a fashion that Hut puts put New York and Chicago In the piker class Shops banks banka restaurant saloons are ara crowded There Is the same ame tat rat of ot the I electric ele rivet rhet drivers on steel skeletons that Jat later r will Ul be bc modem modern business houses Old churches stores and residences residences- relics of or an ancient Spanish period nh ar or coming coming- down New and roomier structures tures are taking their places But with withe all the commercial spell 1 that has hao come over e the Pearl of tl tho Antilles I e It lt still rm clings appearance customs and md manner of life Ure It would take a D. dozen generations o ot americana to tr change Cuba The They will til trade with I us U Invite us its to drink Ink their salvisa and h h them and will sit with us ua around t dr roul roulette tte wheels wheel But Jut they Insist on remaining Cuban with Cuban with al Ithe trIm trIm- min's mins of or Latin culture and habits habit t Toda Today more than of ot Cubas Cuba's foreign commerce Is with the tha United States In n 1918 Cubas Cuba's total foreign for tor- or- or eign trade was or Of tnt amount was vaa with the tho United States The Tho balance balanca of or trade la ts In favor of ot Cuba CuM In Its Us dealings dealing with the world The Islands Island's total imports In the tho same name year car car amount amounted d to while Us Its exports totaled 0 In comparison with Ith twenty 3 years ears ago ao Cubas Cuba's foreign trade trado has haft Increased d about oo 00 per cent while In the last JAt ten years yearn it has hU tripled In value In 1900 IDOl the of Imports and exports was In 1910 ItlO It was 88 |