. Book of the Royal blue . MALECON promenade and harbor entrance, HAVANA THROUGH FLORIDA TO CUBA to add her heroes of the Maine to thelong list of atrocities that the hand of ret-rihution broke the shackles of crime anddisease, and lo a new Cuba blossomed forthto crown the Antilles with the coming ofthe twentieth century. America cleaned theisland, not only with guns, but brooms,sweeping crime and dirt alike into the today is the cleanest and best-policed city of its size in the world, but inits rehabilitation it retained its charming in- tropolis at p. m. Sunday over theRoyal
. Book of the Royal blue . MALECON promenade and harbor entrance, HAVANA THROUGH FLORIDA TO CUBA to add her heroes of the Maine to thelong list of atrocities that the hand of ret-rihution broke the shackles of crime anddisease, and lo a new Cuba blossomed forthto crown the Antilles with the coming ofthe twentieth century. America cleaned theisland, not only with guns, but brooms,sweeping crime and dirt alike into the today is the cleanest and best-policed city of its size in the world, but inits rehabilitation it retained its charming in- tropolis at p. m. Sunday over theRoyal Blue Line of the Baltimore &Ohio Railroad, reaching Washington p. m., while the Pittsburg party leftthat city at a. m. on the ChicagoLimited of the B. & O., reaching Wash-ington at p. m. The splendid newUnion Station was then in its final stageof completion, and its value as a connectinglink between the North and South wasfullv ,-ENUK OF P dividuality in tropical beaut\ and OKi-World picturesqueness. Some idea of the nearness of this won-derful island can best be obtained from anaccount of an actual journey of a party fromNew York and Pittsburg last February,who desired to see how quickly the journeycould be made immediately after the com-pletion of the extension of the Florida EastCoast Railway from Miami, Florida, outto sea over the Florida Keys to KnightsKey, and from thence by steamer toHavana. The New York contingent left the me- lt was the 23d of February, and a small-sized blizzard had blanketed the MiddleNorth with a coating of snow and ice, andthe bitter cold with its weight of humidit>-cut to the marrow. There was a feeling of relief, as thouglithe cold of the North had already beenvanquished, when the Florida Limited ofthe Seaboard Air Line pulled out of Wash-ington at p. m. It may seem prosaicto mention names and schedules in thismanner, but they are certainly very im-portant items to be
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