Show TROPICAL LANGUOR IN HAVANA how workmen take their own goop time a St stranger just at present the building occupied by the times of cuba has been undergoing a series of repairs these repairs have been going on for a week and at the present rate they are apt to go on for some months to come the repairs are much needed but they the Y are entirely under control of a spanish landlord who has haa been in the islands so long he know how old he is the workmen are cubans and there are two gangs of them one directed by a master mason and the other by a master carpenter their methods form an interesting and unique study to one who has no interest in the welfare of the times of cuba for example the master mason who is black comes strolling into the building about 8 in the morning followed by three or tour four little blacks they stir up mortar and the black master lays three bricks and then goes off to breakfast which lasts laau about two hours he then returns smoking a cigarette and lays two more bricks when he is called away to see a sick cousin he may return again or ho he may not but his total days work with the assistance 0 of his little negroes averages the laying of five bricks the carpenter who is a white man keeps apace with the mason in the amount of work he does he drives a nail then rolls a cigarette ind and then he strolls off to a neighboring cafe leaving his two helpers roost ing on a plank it is no wonder that rents are high in havana the wonder is that any such houses as are seen here today were eve ever r built at all times of cuba i |