| Show BOYS FROM UTAH IN PHILIPPINES ES Major Taggart of Manila anila Tells Tell What Wh They Are Doing A r A BURTS EXCELLENT WORK WORKS 4 HAS As S CRIMINAL ELEMENT OF OP ISLAND UNDER CONTROL 4 E EF F TAGGART T on oneo the MAJ heroes of the Philippines and for formerly formerly formerly merly stationed at Fort Douglas D uglas arrived In the city yesterday on his w wy y to the east eaSL Major Taggart will be the guest for a few days of his brother Dave Taggart T chief clerk in the freight department of ot the Oregon Short Line Major Taggart has s a host of friends in Salt Lake When he was stationed ned at atthe atthe atthe the fort some years ago he was a sec see second second ond lieutenant Rut but promotions have come whenever Major Taggart has been given an Opportunity to distinguish himself Major Taggart was prominently Iden Men tided ln in n the policing of Manila ManUa He says the Salt Lake ake boys are doing splendidly Carl Hard a former news newspaper newspaper newspaper paper man here Is making a reputation on the detective force there and Andy Burt he says zay is bound to be chief of at the police force He is one of the cap of the department and he has es established established established excellent systems there for forthe forthe forthe the prevention of vice and the i hension of crime When Burt was first placed In charge he was waS wa sent to the I Sam Pollock district his or of canvassing and controlling the th hab of o that section won instant at Has Crime in Hand Every move of men and women was shadowed and they could not take up other quarters without reporting to Jo him ln im Jn In this way crime rIme was held well ell in hand in that quarter He has made inada himself hims l familiar with the criminal ele elC elements el ments meats of the entire city both native and foreign and has established a de department equal almost to the Russian service The Sam Pollock dis Is perhaps worst in the city and jt t is comprised of characters every part of the habitable globe In spite of the cosmopolitan character of the the lawlessness which h prevailed when Burt was appointed lIe he was equal to the occasion and he be has made himself feared by the criminal element Major Taggart says that the military conditions of the city are of the best There has been some cholera but tv where here this comes from and the causes for It are still sUlI but little understood It breaks out runs its course and dies out not to return again ofen oten of en in years Living expenses are high Owing to the th flue fluctuations tua of the money market business is uncertain Mexican money is up one day and down the next and a man w who ho hohas o has money in the bank cannot tell from one day to the next n exactly what he heis Is IsA A worth orth Better Classes of Business Americans are floating into the place in numbers and money is being Invest Invested ed there A A better class of business places is being introduced Just after the war the tendency was toward drinking places The character of the speculators has h changed American capital Is finding its way into every form farm of commercial enterprises Banks Banies are being established s and things are re reS getting S down doaa t o a fine tine financial basis Ith the exception of ot the money mar ket This he believes will eventually be regulated When asked about the climate Major Taggart said Its hot Its always hot there They claim to have a hot and a cool season there but I never could see any differ difference difference difference ence One season is about as uncomfortable uncomfortable as the other oth r If you are pro from the sun sur you ou are comfort comfortable comfortable able The houses there have thick walls wails to withstand the heat of the sun and E these are comfortable In the evening it Itis Is s delightful and gets quite q ite cool The town Is orderly and the police pollee who number numb r have everything well vv ell under control Major Taggart said the Utah boys boyr I left their trail trall in the country co Wherever Wherever Wherever ever the fighting regiments of Utah put p puti t tin in i their appearance they the made them themselves themSelves selves seles felt and some of their work is not erased yet Whether the men had work or fighting to do Utah was al always always always ways conspicuous and the result of the work of the Utah men Is 15 still in evi dence This ambition to be always at atthe atthe atthe the top said Major Taggart is charac characteristic characteristic characteristic of all the boys of whom he has happened to hear or whom he has had the pleasure to meet itee in Manila lIanna |
