Show CUBAS UP AND DOWNS OF prosperity to understand the present economic conditions in cuba complicated by the recent presidential election ono roust must take into account the prosperity wave of a year ago william joseph showalter mho visited the island at that time wrote the national geographic society us 03 follows almost every person who visits cuba on pleasure bent lands in IL havana and comparatively few get more than twenty miles away front fron that cl cites tys central park it if new york chicago philadelphia ph 11 adel p hia boston and washington were consolidated the resulting metropolis would bear about the same relation to the united states that havana benn bears to cuba the capital city Is the home of more people than tire are embraced in the combined populations of all tile other cities and of the republic that have more than inhabitants its closest rival Is santiago but that city has only otle one tenth as many people As half the count rys urban population Is centered in havana so also Is halt half of its shipping the city normally liand handles les a greater foreign tonnage thin than tiny any other port in the vat ern era ilami hemisphere sphere except new york most of cubas wealthy families li have ave havana illiana homos homes during the lie past fur four i years tile the net profits of the alio sugar business have probably exceeded the gross returns of ary any other four year rear I 1 period lit in the history of tile the island the result Is that no other city in the whole world lias has proportionately tiona tely as large it 11 weal wealthy tily population as Ilav havana nna out of these aliese conditions grew a situation where dollars were nvere even cl cheaper ical than they were nvere in the united states tons tells of thousands of acres of land were vere laid out in rezi residence denge steg sites and the vedado district tile riverside drive and the sheridan road of havana ire extended inell it ronold farther fart lier front from the hnidj rado it hin an riverside drive front from new yorks city dilall square or 5 sheridan herldan road fron from clil cirigos loop there are no advertising nd verti ang signs on these lots nut but ns As one motors aon a ons one sees nestling close cloae to the ground inconspicuous little boards boar ils about i foot fool long and half a I 1 toot foot wide vide bearing the legend in spanish sold to to mr so and sn P arid and mr air so and so Is usually cuban nhi made a fortune out of sugar kiml in ill OK like provinces bild canle came up tip to the he capital for llio tlc alc social al season if not ali diat lt ho li la is probably rol ably an all annei american acau who likes to lie ho ie ason 1111 ably v near ill alic P country Clil lq aind prefers to llop vi lien ilia 1110 cOck cocktail tall ins not lost IN hersil status st hillS allo price ofilio ofell luts lots from one to three delill si 1 square foot or from ut to i oooo pur per acre |