. The Cuba review. Cuba -- Periodicals. 18 THE CUBA REVI E W,. Drawing-room in Mr. Edmund G. Vaughan's handsome residence on the Malecon. It is a two-story building of stone, facing the sea, with a fine view of the entrance to Havana Harbor and of the Morro. The Malecon, with its pleasant drive along the sea, is one of the most picturesque and attractive places in the Cuban capital. SUBURBS OF HAVANA—VEDADO AND JESUS DEL MONTE. The suburbs of Havana have both the old and the new world air, says the New York Evening Post. Reviewed in order of importance and development the first to notice is Ve
. The Cuba review. Cuba -- Periodicals. 18 THE CUBA REVI E W,. Drawing-room in Mr. Edmund G. Vaughan's handsome residence on the Malecon. It is a two-story building of stone, facing the sea, with a fine view of the entrance to Havana Harbor and of the Morro. The Malecon, with its pleasant drive along the sea, is one of the most picturesque and attractive places in the Cuban capital. SUBURBS OF HAVANA—VEDADO AND JESUS DEL MONTE. The suburbs of Havana have both the old and the new world air, says the New York Evening Post. Reviewed in order of importance and development the first to notice is Vedado, meaning reserva- tion, probably named from having been held as a pleasure place, a deer park or restricted district in the old days. It lies to the west of the city along the gulf of which an extended view may be had by residents on the cazada as the Spanish highways are called, while houses built on the hill back of the turnpike have a fine view of the shore as well as the sea and of the bay to the eastward, with the walls of Morro castle for a background. This section has within eight years seen a phenomenal rise in value; a lot that, during the first intervention, was offered to an American here for $400, sold this season for $50,000, it being in what is now the most fashionable district where very beautiful homes are being erected. The "Americanization" that has been said to have been made in architecture, consists in having put verandas along the fronts or sides of the houses where an unscreened en- trance or corridor of Spanish fashion or the Italian pergola style was for- merly followed. The interiors of these new houses have also a few American conveniences, such as sanitary plumb- ing, hallways to connect rooms that formerly opened out upon the inner courts or patios, gas stoves, or coal ranges in place of the native fugon (charcoal brazier) and more windows to the outside than are usual in the Latin's idea of a house. In other re- spects the customs
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