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ACCOMMODATIONS ARE AMPLE j Visitors to Cuba Need Fear No Shortage of Hotels and Suitable Quarters to Live In. HAVANA, Cuba, November 4. Elaborate preparations are being made here for the entertainment of the thousands of visitors, from the United States who are expected to visit Cuba during the winter, j The influx is due to commence about a week prior to the inauguration of the racing season at Oriental Park, November 25, .when horsemen and others interested in the meeting will begin flocking to these shores. In anticipation of a greatly increased demand for hotel accommodations, several new hotels are being contructed, while the old ones being given a thorough overhauling and refitting. It is confidently believed that the hotels will be ample to accommodate the visitors. The completion of the palatial Almadares Hotel, situated not far from the Jockey Clubs track, and containing 105 rooms and each room with a bath, will be a distinct addition to Havanas list of hostelrics, and will be welcomed by those preferring to live amid quiet surroundings rather than in the busy city. The Almadares will have its formal opening Thanksgiving Day and already reservations have been made for almost its capacity. The hotel will be under American management. In order to set aside all reports regarding the alleged shortage of hotel accommodations in Havana, general manager Frank J. Bruen of the Cuba-American Jockey Club recently had a census taken of the rooms available for visitors and found their number amply sufficient to supply any demand. While the unmatched climate of Cuba will be the means of attracting many visitors to the island, the great majority that are coming will be here to take in the race meeting. Horse racing has most emphatically "caught on" in Cuba and the native population, including many wealthy citizen?, have entered it with avidity and become owners of thoroughbreds. 1 The strong hold the sport of racing has taken on the Cubans is strikingly emphasized by the endowment of the Cuban government of two" of the stakes .to heVrnn during, tlieinterv-rriwtotol-jsumj .iisriBteitf "brother government IsjSStOOOr fnnand 0,-000 of this atnpunt is to be donated for the stake for horses foaled on the island. . Horses intended for the racing are now arriving daily from the United States and Canada, while the stream will continue until the opening of the season, when, it is believed, between six and eight hundred thoroughbreds will be "quartered at the track. The biggest shipment will leave Louisville November 14 and will comprise twenty cars of horses that are racing in Kentucky.
