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whose shrine is an object of many pious pilgrimages. The Tomas Terry 
Iheatre facing the plaza was built at a cost of $115,000, by the heirs of 
Tomas lerry, the millionaire sugar planter, of whom it contains a statue. 
I he ceiling was decorated by the celebrated Spanish artist Salaya. The 
receipts of the theatre go to the support of schools. The Terry sugar 
plantations are among the very largest on the island. 
Numerous water excursions may be made about the city. Steamers 
run daily to the Constancia sugar estate on the Darnuji River; on the 
same river are the Manulita, Dos Hermanos and Caroline plantations. On 
the Caunao River at the plantation of Soledad is the Harvard University 
experiment station for investigation and development of vegetable life. 
1 he bay is noted for the wonderful transparency of the water and the 
white sand bottom. The water is so clear that the porpoises which play 
about the bow of the ship are distinctly seen, to the minutest detail, as 
if they were in the air. The islands and shores of the harbor are of 
great natural beauty, and there are on the islands many most attractive 
suburban places with bright colored houses looking out from masses of 
foliage. Perhaps the brightest and most highly colored and fascinating 
marine view in Cuba is the little cluster of houses nestling under old 
fort Castillo de Jagua on Point Sabanilla at the entrance of the harbor. 
It is one of those pictures like a painting in a gilt frame that everywhere 
delight us in Cuba. The signal station on the hill, a quarter mile from 
the fort, gives a grand view north and south along the coast, and across 
the bay to the town. Ships sighted from here are signaled to the city. 
In the northwest rise the two isolated hills Tetas Tomasa, and on the 
southeast is the San Juan mountain range. Opposite Point Sabanilla is 
Point Colorados, where the troops of the United States were stationed 
in Rowell Barracks. The cable landing is on this point; and it was off 
this shore that, on May 11, 1898, while men in launches from the 
Windom were cutting the cables in a rain of lead from Spanish Mausers, 
Americans were first under a fire that drew blood. And it was from 
Cienfuegos that on February 6, 1899, General Castellanos with the residue 
of the Spanish Army, having come hither by rail from Havana, sailed for 
home in the Catalina, and thus completed the Spanish evacuation of Cuba 
The Reciprocity Treaty with Cuba as ratified by the United States 
Senate, March 19, 1903, provides that all Cuban products (not on the free 
list) shall be admitted into the United States at a reduction of 20 per cent, 
from the rate of duty imposed by the United States on such articles of 
merchandise. All imports into Cuba from the United States (not on the 
free list) shall be entitled to a reduction of 20 per cent., except as to 
certain specified articles on which the reduction is more than 20 per cent. 
