Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1901 — Types of Havana “Buses.” [ARTICLE]

Types of Havana “Buses.”

The “buses” of Havana are oddlooking wagonettes, painted most incongruously, some of them showing admixtures of green, blue, white, brown and yellow, with now and then a striping of red. The Cubans seem partial to a pea-green and bright blue, often associating these colors and yellow. There are buses which accommodate but four passengers and others carrying six, eight and twelve. The smaller ones are drawn by a single mule, the larger by two or three ponies, some of them by four, depending upon their routes and distances. The buses are old, dingy and dilapidated. The drivers are an uncleanlooking lot, the occupants usually of the commoner classes. A lady or welldressed man Is rarely seen in one of them. In one hundred years, while the population of the world has doubled, the population of the United L.atos has Increased fourteen-fold. Ths wealth has Increased fifty-fold