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have private baths. Board and lodging from $8.00 Ui 13s. 4d.)
Hotel accommodation can also be obtained at Ponce
and Mayaguez and Coamo Springs.
k *Since American occupation, BasebaU has been
played but opportunities for visitors with athletic tastes are
fewer than in most other West Indian islands. Lawn tennis is
E?PMnarrnaadh* «Ü* tw0cGolf courses, one in the grounds of
El Morro, and the other in Sabana Liana on the Carolina Road
about 30 minutes by motor-car from San Juan. Dancing is
popular Masquerade balls are held every year during the Car-
nival at the municipal theatres.
PnertoP^„Th^principal,clu5 SaD Juan is the Casino de
Puerto Rico. There are also the Spanish Club ; the Athenaeum
°r Ateneo de Puerto Rico in the Plaza Principal, and a Countr“
Club near the Park, and the Union Club pleasantly situated at
YMC-A- °CCUpieS a
SIGHTS. Porto Rico, the Borinquen of the Arawaks
was once known as San Juan Bautista, while its capital
was called Puerto Rico, the rich port...”
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and in marked contrast to those in the suburb of Santurce
where, on a spit of land which separates Condado Bay
from the Atlantic, the palatial Condado-Vanderbilt
Hotel is situated. f
The city, which is clean and well cared for, has several
spacious plazas, in the principal of which are the muni-
cipal buildings. In the Plaza Colon there is a well-
executed statue of Columbus, who stands on a column
grasping the banner of Ferdinand and Isabella, as
he did on setting foot for the first time on the New
World. The old Intendencia is now used by the
Government departments.
On the main carretera, or street leading out of the
Plaza Colon, are the Porto Rico Casino, the Y.M.C.A.,
the Ateneo, the Carnegie Library, the Capitol, and the
School of Tropical Medicine, all of which can be visited.
A favourite whole-day excursion from San Juan is the
drive by motor-car to Coamo Springs, via Comerio and
Barranquitas, returning by the famous...”
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