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 . for the reforms hewrought and the public benefits he secured to them. Tacon laid it out asthe Campo de Marte (Field of Mars) for a drill ground for the Spanishsoldiery; inclosed it with a great iron fence, the one which is now in frontof the Botanical Gardens and the President Summer Palace, on the Paseo del Carlos HI., and asso-ciated his own name withthose of the great Spanishexplorers by calling thefour gates Colon, Cortes,Pizarro
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 . for the reforms hewrought and the public benefits he secured to them. Tacon laid it out asthe Campo de Marte (Field of Mars) for a drill ground for the Spanishsoldiery; inclosed it with a great iron fence, the one which is now in frontof the Botanical Gardens and the President Summer Palace, on the Paseo del Carlos HI., and asso-ciated his own name withthose of the great Spanishexplorers by calling thefour gates Colon, Cortes,Pizarro and Tacon. Thebitter fruits of a Statepolicy which necessitateda drill ground for its sol-diery were grimly illus-trated in the 90s, whenthe Campo de Marte wasfilled with a multitudeof wretched, starving re-concentrados. A year ortwo later the field waswhitened with the crowd-ing tents of the Americansoldiers. When the Amer-icans came into possessionof Havana and institutedthat series of public workswhich regeiierated the city,they cleaned up the parks,renovated and improvedthem, and planted grasslawns, which were the firstHABAXA. ever seen in Havana. The. PARKS AND PRADO. 47
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