| Show GRANT ON tf PHILIPPINES ES ESTe The Te Major Hajor Gives Another Interesting Lecture Major F A A Grant gave an interesting lecture leture on the Che te Philippines at the Iliff Hf Methodist church last lat night The lee lec lecture le ture tur was illustrated by over a hundred handsome stereopticon views The Te pic plc pictures picture tures ture started In with wih the leaving leving of the he battery bater boys from Salt Sal Lake City The next scenes were at the Presidio San Francisco Fran o oThen Then Them came the embarkation n a the transport After this this came many scenes in Honolulu The next pictures picture shown were of various arots parts of Manila Mania Major Grant told old of many Iny interesting domes domestic dome tic tc features with wit regard to ways of liv living lv lvIn jag ing In of the Filipinos He described d the palace at Manila Manla a handsome structure in which Is the supreme court of Luzon with wih a life size se ze picture of the queen of Spain suspended over o r the judges bench benchA bech A singular feature of the palace Is I that It I has carpets carpet on on the floors It I is a very ve rare thing to see se as much muchas as a rug on the floors of the houses of even the upper classes of ot Filipinos The mOt most peculiar feature of the houses house is that you drive fight into them the lower floor foor being entirely occupied as asa asa asa a stable From this a grand stairway generally of marble leads to the living rooms roms above The windows are of a clear substance resembling mica mic Glass Glans Gla s would not withstand the frequent freuen earthquake shocks shock For the same reason the walls wals of the houses hous are covered with wih canvas In place of plaster The Te houses house of the th poorer classes are built buit on poles poles and have interstices in the floors The ground floors are generally devoted devote to chickens and the te scraps from the meals mels swept through these cracks and are fall fal tp tl tt the chickens chicken below belo beloTe Tile Te casos or native boats said the major are built buit of mahogany mabo ny and roseS rose rosewood roe wood and are very ery fast Many other features of Interest were de do described scribed scribe and finally the return voyage to the United States St te by way of Naga Nagasaki said saki in Japan in which harbor arbor at the time the troop ship was aa coaling there were warships warship representing most mos of the theor or of the world |
