IN AND ABOUT THE CITY. 
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LUYANO NEAR HAVANA. 
country. On the outskirts of the city, and in the suburbs, are extensive 
Chinese truck farms; the market garden industry is largely in their 
hands. The Chinese quarter is in Zanja and Aguila streets. The Chinese 
theatre is on Zanja street. The Chinese in Cuba are reminders of the 
coolie trade which brought here hundreds of thousands to virtual slavery. 
They were imported under a contract to serve eight years at $4 a month, 
and the planters paid $400 for them. They were not altogether satis¬ 
factory as human chattels, being much given to suicide. 
Baseball is played on the grounds of the Almendares Club on the 
Paseo de Tacon, opposite the Botanical Garden. Principe cars pass the 
gate. The grounds of the Havana Baseball Club are at Vedado. The 
most important games are played on Sunday afternoons, and are an¬ 
nounced in the Havana Post. 
Bull fighting has been suppressed by law. 
Havana cigars of the best grades are made of tobacco raised in the 
Vuelta Abajo district, which comprises the Province of Pinar del Rio 
and the western portion of the Province of Havana. The cigar industry 
is prodigious; its statistics are expressed in millions. A visit to a large 
tobacco factory will give much to interest and instruct, and one may 
well devote an hour to this phase of Havana industry, as shown at the 
establishment of Messrs. H. Upmann & Co., Paseo de Tacon, 159-169. 
(Permits may be had at Mr. Foster’s office.) Here may be followed the 
successive steps of manipulation by which the raw leaf is converted 
