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“...PORTO RICO
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the only really first-class hotel in Porto Rico. All its rooms
have private baths. Board and lodging from $8.oo per day.
The Palace Hotel and the Hotels Inglaterra, Eureka, Roma, Caribe,
apd Central. Rooms, $1.50 to $3.00 per day. Ponce. Hotels
FranfaisaniMelia. Rooms, $1.50 to $5.00 per day. Mayagiiez.
Hotels Palmer and Paris. Board and lodging, $1.50 to $2.50
per day.
SPORTS. Since American occupation, baseball has been
played ; but opportunities for visitors with athletic tastes are
fewe.r than in most other West Indian islands. The Condado
Vanderbilt Hotel has good golflinks on which visitors can play
for a reasonable fee. Dancing is popular. Masquerade balls
are held every year during the Carnival at the municipal theatres.
CLUBS. The principal club in San Juan is the Casino de
Puerto Rico. There are also the Spanish Club ; the Ateneo de
Puerto Rico (the Athenaeum) in the Plaza Principal, and a
Country Club near the Park, and the Union Club pleasantly
situated at a short...”
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