. The Cuba review. qiisiisi. fiUBifr Home of Mr. Walter Stanton, Havana Province. of the interior with each other as well as the capital with the principal cities of other sections of Cuba. Along these highways every three or four miles are found road repair stations supported by the department of public works in which laborers, to whom the keeping up of the road is assigned, live, and shelter the necessary rollers and road builders under their direction. These stations are well built, well kept and sometimes rather picturesque in appearance. Their presence should be a guarantee to the permane
. The Cuba review. qiisiisi. fiUBifr Home of Mr. Walter Stanton, Havana Province. of the interior with each other as well as the capital with the principal cities of other sections of Cuba. Along these highways every three or four miles are found road repair stations supported by the department of public works in which laborers, to whom the keeping up of the road is assigned, live, and shelter the necessary rollers and road builders under their direction. These stations are well built, well kept and sometimes rather picturesque in appearance. Their presence should be a guarantee to the permanence and extension of good road building in Cuba. It is most unfortunate that the majority of our winter visitors from the North spend a few hurried days in "doing Havana" and then return home or to the East Coast of Florida with absolutely no knowledge of the wonderful wealth of foliage and flowers, of shaded drives between miles of royal palms, poncianas or flambeauyans and hundreds of other trees peculiar to this latitude. With all deference to the quiet and orderly charm of English country roads, to the quaint and colorful highways of France (if it does not happen to rain) and to the truly wonderful drives of California, I believe I am safe in asserting that in no other country in the world can one find auto drives, that for continuous shade, constant change of scene, wealth of mountains, foothills, valleys, plateau and plains, can compare with those of Cuba. Where within a hundred miles of any great capital city like Havana, can one meet with scenes of such fairy-land beauty as those of the Valley of Vinales, of the Yumuri and of the road from Guana jay to Bahia Honda? Jamaica, too, is very lovely, with fine roads, but in size or scope, scene and country it is only a pocket edition of Cuba. The old military roads with their substantial stone bridges and laurel-shaded drives were the nuclei of the present system of macadamized "carreteras" that radiate in
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