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CUBA DELIGHTS AMERICAN TURFMEN Surf "Bathing a Popular Diversion Food Plentiful and of Diversified Variety. HAVANA, Culm, January 5. As in previous seasons, the Americans who are in Cuba in connection with the racing are enjoying and appreciating to the full tins many delights of a sojourn in this winter paradise. Ocean surf bathing in the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico is a favorite diversion of not a few of the racing colony. And there is no more enthusiastic devotee of this form of recreation than Christopher J. Fitz Gerald, presiding steward it Oriental Park. Judge Fitz Gerald has not missed his daily dip at the Playa de Marianao, some two miles from the track, more than once or twice since his arrival here, and there are some others who are quite as regular iu their plunges. Food conditions are much lietter here this year than during the trying times of a year ago, when the United States embargo against the exportation of certain foodstuffs caused some shortage. Nowadays, with the wartime restrictions no longer In force, there is an abundance of all the essential foodstuffs to which American visitors are accustomed, and living, conditions are as satisfactory is tliev were before, the war, no far as the variety of food of all kinds is concerned. Numerous varieties of toothsome fish from the near-by waters of the gulf, as well as the Caribbean, delicious tropical fruits and excellent vegetables peculiar to this latitude, and those so widely used in the United States, givp a wide range to the daily menus of the American visitors. There is an abundance of local poultry principally chickens, turkeys and guinea fowl and American meats, of which there was some shortage last year, are coming in freely nowadays. . , , . So, with summerish weather, featured by an abundance of genial sunshine and -refreshing breezes that temper tlte tropical heat, "prevailing day after lay, an abundance of the" good things of life to subsist upon and liberal purses to race for under ideal conditions, the lot of-the racing man who ias brought his stable here to race this winter is really to be envied hy those: less fortunately situated elsewhere. It is not to be wondered at that many of the horsemen who are making their first visit here are highly enthusiastic over the conditions under which they are following their chosen vocation iu tills, favored land, where summer and winter differ so little that there really is no distincthB between the seasons. W
