Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1908 — Gambling In Cuba. [ARTICLE]

Gambling In Cuba.

American influence has brought about some important changes in Cuban customs and notably in the abolition of the bull ring and the cockpit, which used to be the chief Sunday attractions of the populace. Not a few of the better class of Havanese desire the same fate for Jai Alai and would rejoice to see the Fronton closed forever. High and low wager immoderately on this game, and many stories of rutned reputations and wrecked businesses are connected with it. Every race has its prevailing vice and its comparative freedom from others. The Cubans are Incurable gamblers, but drunkenness is virtually unknown among them. Both sexes in Havana, spend a great deal of time in the numerous open air cases, but they drink for the most part nonalsoholic, fruity beverages, of which there is an extensive variety peculiar to the country. —C. H. Forbes-Lindsay in World Today.