Standard guide to Cuba : a new and complete guide to the island of Cuba, with maps, illustrations, routes of travel, history, and an English-Spanish phrase book . ance Plan of Havana in 1762. A, Morro Castle. B, La Punta ^vas by drawbridgesCastle. E, La Fuerza. G, La Punta Gate. N, Land Gate. over the moat, and then through nar-row arched gateways, which v/ere closely guarded by soldiers, andwere shut at 11 oclock at night, except when there was an operaticor dramatic performance at the Tacon, on which occasions the Puertade Monserrate, which was opposite the theatre, was kept open untilthe pl
Standard guide to Cuba : a new and complete guide to the island of Cuba, with maps, illustrations, routes of travel, history, and an English-Spanish phrase book . ance Plan of Havana in 1762. A, Morro Castle. B, La Punta ^vas by drawbridgesCastle. E, La Fuerza. G, La Punta Gate. N, Land Gate. over the moat, and then through nar-row arched gateways, which v/ere closely guarded by soldiers, andwere shut at 11 oclock at night, except when there was an operaticor dramatic performance at the Tacon, on which occasions the Puertade Monserrate, which was opposite the theatre, was kept open untilthe play was over. Early morning saw outside the gates a daily con-course of thousands of horses and mules laden with panniers of inarketprovisions, pressing and crowding and jostling for place to get into thecity when the gates should be opened. The plan here reproduced fromthe Gentlemans Magazine, London, August, 1762, shows the wall as itwas then and as it remained until it was demolished in 1880. At Belasccain and San Lazaro is the Casa de Beneficencia y Materni-DAD, Charity and IMaternity Asylum, for the aged poor and for destitute IN AND ABOUT THE CITY. 97. PALM-LINED AVENUES EXTEND FOR MILES. children. It was founded in 1794 by Governor-General Luis de las Casas,whose administration was one of the bright spots in the history of is managed by the Little Sisters of the Poor, and is one of the mostbeneficent institutions of the city. As an illustration of how things weredone in the old days, it may be recalled that at one time when the Benefi-cencia was in danger of falling into decay for want of funds, the Junta de g8 THE STANDARD GUIDE. Tabacos, the concern which farmed the Spanish royal monopoly of cigarmanufacture, purchased loo slaves for the express purpose of devotingthe profit of their labor as cigarmakers to the support of the institution. The San Lazaro Hospital for lepers, facing the Gulf on San Lazaro andOquendo streets, is one of the two leper hospitals in Cu
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