Show I America in the Philippines III EVERYDAY LIFE IN MANILA BY FREDERIC J HASKIN Manila The of oC Manila has haa resulted In la radical changes c in the everyday life ure of the people of the Phil Philippine metropolis yet the Americans who live here have hive in turn yielded much muc to the Spanish and Filipino customs as aa well wel wella as a to the exactions of the climate The Tb American population of Manila MI is only About 5 out of or a total of or more than thana a quarter of a million milIton but their ence is Ia manifested everywhere In the days daya of the Spanish regime the city reached a point where it was wall almost as great in population and commerce as asit a aIt asIt it is b now but the conditions of or life were very different There Thre were no sewers no gas pa and but few electric lights I Until the streets were lighted with ol oil lamps lams There Thre was one snort short horse hone car carline carline line Une and th the various sections of the city were almost out of communication with each other The Am Amna l ace ans have bave constructed sewers have haye lighted all the streets streeta hare bare built bull miles of good street car lines linea and have knitted the various sections of the city It into one of Manila City is ib I enclosed in the ancient wall walla ye yet yeto yetto to the Spaniard md nd the Filipino only the th walled wailed wall city Intra muros is Manila ManUa Other sections an ar designated by other names In the Span Spanish ish days the th moat meat around the wall wali was wu filled with water and at night the draw bridges were hauled up and the gates shut but The Spanish families preferred to live within the wan walls as they still do but other Europeans and the wealthier Filipinos sought homes outside Five years yea before the w war r the total American population of Manila lanila was waa four toura foura a loite loe quartet of Amer Ion ican business men There was a larg large American business bu lne s house there but its Ita clerks were nearly ill English The Eng lish colony colon was wu comparatively large larae and Influential as i it Is 18 now and the English club was the center of that portion of social c l life fe which was not purely Spanish h Th Tho Manila club sometimes sometime called the Ut English club continues to be the center of the commercial and business life Ufe of the city After the fashion of the Orient much uc business b Is It transacted at the the clubs club ai al me lOt hour flour and the English club has retained its Ita ascendancy from Irom the theold theold theold old days daYI Club life lite means much more In the Orient than It does at home The Amer ican lean In the United States is la of all mei mel the least dependent upon club life If he belongs to a club it is for pleasure only and it is II usually looked upon as a thing apart from his serious rous Interests In the Orient clubs are aroe the centers in ID which men of European Eur and ad American birth gather apart trim tr 11 the A among amoni whom they live The club furnishes no not only amusement amu ement and social but it is fa also the engine through th h which the pressure pressur of the opinions of the white colony is la Impressed upon the ruling pow Ora cra Coming tp to t Manila na the Americans readily fell fU Into the club dub life habit The Army and NaY Navy l club wa was w th the tint first American club to be d It soon lost Jolt all resemblance to the tb ordinary arm ann rm post club and became an important feature in Manila life Including officers of oC the civil clU government government as aa well as u of the military in its ita makeup Nowadays the civil government Is more numerously represented at tile the University Si club where y r 8 thera for the cocktail hour which Immediately precedes dinner Dinner is usually uy served at g S so 80 that the late afternoon gather In Lags take place after people SOp have bad had their drive the ride the walk or the game came of polo which comes as soon oon as t the heat beat of or the day declines Younger Americans Americana find th their r tion and aDel social life at the Columbia club an Institution fathered by Bishop Bre Brent T of Lk the Episcopal church There is la no cocktail n hour at t the Columbia club for It I is a teetotal Institution but thereto th there Is Ie a beautiful club house hoWle a tine fine nn gymnasium tum a swimming pp pool f and other of the Lt same lP order As AM a rule the cu club habit in the Orient is not calculated to mane make for temperance The combination of goo hip Ie tom fp horned home and the chit i i system m h has haa been known wn to be the we undoing of many a Ii young wan man To Ta T guard a against that evil and ami at the am Ym same time to furnish the features of a club which bleh are ne eary ry Bishop Brent or wj i the Columbia Columb club The BIb Iks rhe he O Germans German the Spanish aad the Filipinos inos also have clubs of their own Th Elks are P building W r a new home bom homill which will ill il n be tha th handsomest club Hi in Manila A new club to be made up of Americana Americans and Filipinos is being belna organ orwan b d now It U probably will wUl bar ban a aThe great influence upon th the rH of attaIn affairs in the tho islands u as It will Ill bring Americana and educated Filipinos together In a relation which is now Unknown The American colony coony In I Manila baa has adopted many Oriental and Spanish rUB ens toms Every Inan has Ita a a personal P naJ boy bov who loots out for fer h hi his comfort contort The Then boy Is pad a salary or of ten pesos dol Ian a month n and in there of he Ic Is valet t messenger body servant and general factotum Everybody take takes a siesta esta and aDd just Juat after the midday midda lunch practically I all ail of Manila is asleep Only American stores lo and shops keep open Opell all day y all the th others are closed front from U 1 i to 1 J At U the lunch hour bour when beD the streets tf of American cities elU are always busy 8 the Manila thoroughfares are as quiet and aDd deserted aa as if it were mid night The theatre t amount to much In n Manila because It Is so 80 far away A I I I I II I I the guest peat of the W P on their way waIr home front from the coast 11 Mr and aDd Mrs Ire W J 4 Browning Bro are now no Victoria In for a stay of a few lew weeks after visiting v the Seattle exposition Mr f and Mrs JIIn C H B Lawson IA who hay have beet been visiting vl friends frieada In Salt Satt Lake L for tor a month tb past PMt have gone e to Oregon to tour tent the tile state stat on horseback horsebackS S Mr and aad Mrs Mn J L c Ron have haft gone to North Takimi to make JD taK their home borne Mr and Mrs lira B T Cannon ea left Salt Lake lAIra Monday for foe an automobile De trip to be lie absent four tour or five days dan Mr and Mrs J 1 W Curtis and baby bIr left Monday 01 for an extend visit vt to In the be Coeur dAlene of Idaho Mrs In K Z B CrItchlow leaves lean on Satur easy day next Dat for tor Yellowstone Tello National putt park for los an aa outing of a few fow weeks w ww I w Or lb and aad Mrs Mra r F S eoIn Ba will wID leave today for Brighton where w they will occupy the cottage for the rest rt of at the summer Mrs Ida So S and her bel son eon and daughter leave lave tomorrow t tot for f Ocean Park Putt to spend the rust rest of fill the tile summer rammer there Mrs JilIn L 1 K Kable last Iut st night t after a three weeks week camping ta Ja Big Cottonwood Mr Mahle Mahi Ma and aad Mr fr Gil Gilmore mote more win 10 remain maIn until cold weather pM Reeves Reeve has as his guest Mor Mo Morris Morria Mona ris ria Hayes Bane of Bowling Bow sty Ky styMies KID Mies A Bancroft at a luncheon h n ehe nS for fee Mra teases James 3 S H K of CC PIt Fremont Neb Nob arrI ar na rI rIed ian evening to visit the B H E EJ Zerbe Me If arn am J SI Sl ai WhO be i t T d fr f fri n New sw hf hor he iest At nt h hI i to l con sins nn Charles Chance a 8 White WhIto WId ea and u a brother C E Steward of HL Ie Iem I f m Tl rh of f this city Mrs L 1 R R Weis Ia and ana fam iv bawa t 1 1 y arl aryL n hr wy 7 V Vr r i 1 r n ng tf P J j Kg g gI 0 Hans a l j 1 t r rand grand nd opera company campan cornea conies out from Spain or Italy every winter just as it has das b been doing for a half a century and for a season ason the city takes on its Old ld appearance and the Spanish element nt is In Inthe Inthe inthe the ascendancy The majority of C the people the Fili Flit Filipinos Filipinos pinos depend for amusement upon their own 00 cock fights fichu their religious fiestas the ubiquitous moving mOina picture machine and the amusement park At park the American has set et himself up upa as a entertainer of the multitudes It is Just juet t like Uke the Luna park or White City at attractions attractions tractions of any aDY other American city The Tile the slides aUdes the games and shows ho the fortune teller and the dancing pavilion pavillion are all there And the barker engaged for the sake of his boiler fac factory factory factory tory voice to tell the merits of the great areat greatest est eat show on earth in three languages English Spanish and aDd it a fea feature feature feature ture of the fun Despite the ef forte efforts of the park to Interest the Europeans and aDd FlU Fill Filipinos pines pinos pin the best beat t patrons patrona are the amuse amusement amusement ment loving Chinese ChI who like to play and aDd sport aport and dont care bow how they the spend their money The Filipinos take their pleasure quite quit seriously and in the dancing pavilion at atthe atthe the park the couples coup move about to the music with as much solemnity as If It wee were a wedding or a funeral The whole dance presents an appearance of even evea greater dignity than a son season hop bop in Cairo Jairo where every ewry man is a prince and every woman a duchess In the interchange between the Amen Ameri Americana cans cana and their predecessors here bere the Americana Americans have accepted much of the pleasure and leisure of the old regime and give dve up far more daylight to JI purely rely social enjoyment than they 0 at home On the other band hand they the have hare taught older Manila to insist on rapid transit and anel upon municipal cleanliness caU caUThe The American has baa cut hIs bis business hours hour to the short abort schedule of the old regime but he be has baa Introduced new systems team ems and methods metho a which have greatly ex expedited e the transaction of business Kor bor or instance It requires something like Uke eight I to ten minutes to get Ft a check cashed in inan Inan inan an English bank In m the Orient and it used to take the Spanish beak bank in Manila at least leut twenty minutes minus to perform a like Uke Unction function The American bank buak here consumes con consumes about two to seconds In such a trans transaction transaction action The Tb system baa has been adopted by iab Spanish bank but not by the Eng En I The banks suffered greatly when the American government gave pw the Philippines Philip pin pines a staple currency In ID the old days daya be the Ui only money mone in the islands was waa w the Mexican dollar which was waa heavy bea un us unwieldy unwieldy wieldy and worst wont of all subject to violent fluctuations in value Today one might have bave enough money to a big hi debt across the tue water such debts d were always paid In hi gold CO and tomorrow the he same eam amount of dollars t go 80 half aa as far The same sanu thing still goes coes goeson goeson on Iri In China and aad the banks banke wax fat tat on be the mysterious ou and baffling exchangeS exchange business The TIle Manila Ia bankers rs said aid it t would be impossible for the States Stat s sto to o establish a staple currency T for tt ti tte Philippines But ut it was wu done 1 1 noss n ne oss 0 e peso is worth fifty coats cents gold ad and the silver allver certificates sad aDd other othe r P Ui t pine line currency is just as good as gid But iut the banks hank mourn American business methods are t b mg introduced extensively In the retail trade tade but not BO so rapidly into larger commer commercial cial del e American merican habits ard and customs ae afe e being reflected in the streets str U and among all an classes of people The Americans here have haft adopted some strange customs but for lor all aU that they are the controlling factor In the actual j everyday life of ot the city cr no matter what the census or the M P sheets may ma I I ay say I |