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Show OfAlLY AMERICANS ARE INTOXICATED Havana. Oct. 2B. (Correspondence.) (Correspond-ence.) About the only persons seen 00 tin- streets of Havana who show symptoms of over-Indulgence in jmor-I jmor-I cants are Americans. This does no'. ' moan however, that all the Americans who come here drink to excess. Beer and lluht wines are so much B part of tho Latin life that it has no intoxicating effect. They drini- j moderately. Bui some visitors from tho dry land seem to drink constantly, once they find a har. To Americans, however, the most i disagreeable and sickening picture IS the hoho from home a hopeless. I w ret. bed figure that Infests hotel lob- bis His panhandling Is brazen.1 They pick out people speaking their own tongue. ..nd w ithout shame boldly announce that they wunt money for drinks. They long nco discarded the I appeal for help to get the other shirt i from the laundry. Most of these unfortunates did not follow the flag: they followed the ) w hiskey trail, generally as stowaways or In ship crews they deserted, once ' within sw imming distance of the I docks. But for passport rogulatlon.i. I Havana polios mthorltles say: there would he hundreds here from the I states with a thirst and no visible ' means of support. Cuba happens to be the nearest "foreign country" to the states, and government officials here declare thut ' much of the growing travel Is due to the fact that the Island Isn't dry. It is a big Item of revenue, and has helped to put up prices for everything. |