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Show Osman Temple Journeys From Far Oasis of St. Paul to Behold Wonders of Old City Then on to Panama on Magnificent Turrialba! From the far oases of distant Minnesota, Min-nesota, Osman Temple of St. Paul, ancient order of the mystic shrine, joined by nobles and their ladies from the Southland have stolen in upon Havana, the wondrous, the new, the mystic, the wonderful, a city rebuilt re-built by American enterprise, and guided on its way by Uncle Sam, and have passed onward to view that greatest engineering work of all the ages, the Panama Canal. They came, these nobles and their ladies, on the magnificent and palatial pala-tial steamship Turrialba of the United Fruit Company, which, as had been announced in. official decree, would be especially chartered for the momentouH cruise. Their arrival was on the second day of the third month Safar 1335, a date that if interpreted as the Turrialba slipped by the lighthouse light-house on Morro Castle, would indicate indi-cate that the year 1910 was fast drawing toward its close. Havana opened its h.art to the visitors. Local Shriners put on a ceremonial in the Havana "5c M, C A in which fifty candidates of Havana trod the sands of the desert in the playground of the nations. Thi s was the second time dispensation dispensa-tion was ever Ranted by the Im perial potentate ofthe order for the shrine ceremonial on foreign soil. The first being at the citv of Mexico when former President Diaz was inaugurated. in-augurated. This is, too. the second time that Osman Temple has journeyed jour-neyed to the Panama Canal xone. Shades of PerHia! Havana and its thousands of Americans, Nas well as ' its native population rejoiced that ' tho visitors from the far north should behold what amazing wonders won-ders Americ'an constructive genius has wrought in this old and ancient capital. Though its quaint buildings point to the grandeur and glory of Spain three hundred years ago, yet, ' here in Havana, that glorv has not i fled. Not so many years ago a joumev to Havana would have been regarded regard-ed as a pilgrimage to a far city. Today To-day it's easy and when they come visitors behold one of the most mod- 1 cm cities of lte size in the world There are 185 miles of city streets paved with granite blocks or surfaced sur-faced with concrete in Havana. This work wa3 only completed during the last two or three years. There are more than 160 new steel and concrete con-crete business structures, some of them with the land on which they stand being valued at more than $3,- 1500,000. There are 6,600 automo- y bilea in Havana; 1600 autos carry single passengers from one point to another in the main buBineas and residential section of the city for a fare of twenty cents. There are thousands of new homes in the su- burbs reached by street car lines 1 which gridiron the city. Millions ! have been spent on concrete wharves and piers which line the entire water front. For twenty cents jou can make the round trip on the street cars to a new bathing beach 9V 1 i milea out of the city. The Olympic ' games will be held in Havana in j 1921 and arrangements are already under way to build a superb stadium for the event, 1 I The nobles and their ladies from the north were surprised at what 1 they saw. Havana has all the mys-tic mys-tic fascination of an old city, which j it is. But its improvements make it ! bright, spic, apan, and new. It is dustless. odorless, and healthy. It is crowded with tourists from the States and Central and South America. Ameri-ca. The wonderful Prado, a boulevard enclosing in its center a tree shaded lawn with asphalt walks, leads from the center of the city to the Malecon or sea drive which skirts the deep blue Caribbean Sea, The Prado wai improved and reconstructed by General Gen-eral Leonard Wood. Along the Male-COD Male-COD Drive passes a constant nrorea. sion of autos. The boulevard is surfaced sur-faced with concrete and the side toward to-ward the ocean lined with a huge escapement. es-capement. This is one of the show places on this side of the world, and toward tho sea and this mighty boulevard face the mansions of the new Havana. The old Havana with its croaint nar-row nar-row streets, its many churches its I buildings with their overhanging I balustrades is as fascinating as always. al-ways. Portions of the city remind one of Seville or Madrid. Here are lofty-ceilinged lofty-ceilinged homes that fifty years ago cost great fortunes. Some of them with their marble and hardwood fur-1 nishings cost $500,000. Today the street cars often pass them so close-1 ly that one can almost reach out and touch tho ornamental iron lattices! that mark their glassless windowsl Havana is at high tide. Cuba is : doing a foreign trade which its ex- ' ory H now in the neighborhood ' Mr A a ear- President lrTlrA- MnocaLd his cabinet are progressive, hardworking men fni a? re forward the development devel-opment of Cuba. President Menocal l.nHa-Ua?-f C0rneU- Great at Ojl eduction TV? to PPu,ar liftteom fif3t U- WhV!!.? 8ome of the reason ny 116 American popu ation of t?tdeh ha3 a lading SfS.?1. constructive development T T B!5r ana or the is and were re- iewdtcat 9 Shriners -the new town and can carry back tho message of what they, themseh?s tHVVSe t0 the Unit StSS As the big Turrialba slipped out of the harbor, past Cubana fortress Vast Morro Castle. Havana said: 'Tome again. Shriners, and see how Unde Sam s big work in this lucky, happy island is coming out!" pp AhlnmeaKain- Ptentate Ashley J W,C,me ?gain' deP"ty potentate poten-tate Charles J. Ovenshire: Coma Tst npanurfn0sman TempK L |