| Show SPICY vm i OF LIFE iru IN MANILA li 1 and Color of Gay Gny CitY n a Medley Declared Ugliest on Ar Are Women of Govern Governing Ing UtterlY From a Former Interesting and nn Firing Lino NoW on the t u U UI OW u written b by CAP lett letter f I f f troll yol known phY to a an Fred Ohio le Is 1 n f soldier and n 1 k keen n t f 1 a vow and not surroundings ids inner wt of or n a dreamer cap capI of all an of Is I Fred nd States solum olun de r r stationed In Manila and ands nd r Interesting ns as welt well s attoa Is U II on tM the theet Doctor lay It pear Dear I went on et J f to the ht 1st of January Janu r tat M regiment of bantling of the tho I baggage ot wagons for the t mounted I 1 ter fr the Maraca hOu a u lines are from rom I 4 to 10 miles of Manlin and are lire tho American tomes are on the tiring line with outposts well III established rat patrols 1011 and movIng c Every few dae some battalion ur or regiment Is sent on nil an expedition or n a hike as we 0 cell IL and WO we Ret get about a halt half hour to gt gH ready In and move out About tour four bull carte oro aro equal to nn an escort wagon non toad oal and the tho allowance ot of trans for lor each ench company compan la Is ono one bull cartOn curtOn curt cart On these n a soldier c car carlies r lies from to 10 1110 10 rounds of tion n a handkerchief II a pair ot of maybe maYbO an extra and halt half of ofa n a Ringle blanket No elaborate allow once of baggage goes goe it If you ou dont take enough h rations In your our haversack you OU must meat rustle for tor grub A great deal kInd d J e quartermasters ster department YI cry hUTt on transportation and nf b tt tar trouble I Ie secured 14 11 army ant macs C CI and an the necess r horses hOrles f for our own not yet ho ha hai i 1 l i 1 then took II a look at ti tir the then r n Is and Ind darted alerted at t the old walled w town tow the h walls wails the houses are nil all ot and h desIgn very ver o oaf ani t and from an n exterior at an poInt of view very hind ham rave lIce u a rule Wo We would not calI ca tb ale interiors very cr nice or rude the waits lire are a number of at pal palt pa pat t tJ a and Ind s arsenals at for soldiers built for tor Span but occupied by American America AmericaS S for lor barracks and nd ad ar building The pare per la occupied d us ac corps con b by Major Maor General Olt tad and is II a b beautiful building Inaldo nna an apt l The Spaniard la I artistic oven even If le 11 II h not much on the fiGht The wall y are arc thick stone atone Inside of c I IrA are and prisons wit I et They are grIm and eon som bar costs mur vered and black with ng able In their time but no nott n nf f tt whatever D modern ar a HD moats oats The mils numerous numerous ro surrounded porn ports by and port OAT OAY A AD D There lire are hta of Spanish soldier an sad the streets always present a Pr and picturesque sIght with the vcr Ir eb ebat ot at the natle f oled native calie women the Chinese In at all fora Ih b baket the lh ter little cabs ab with the little ponie eat OM oae can hire tM for 25 cents cent per hour tU meandering along water wale ho mut be let Into the water to rm dall It the weather Is warm th day native nathe policemen ten o of aid be easy euy money for lor one of o e r bUlky J s a lit at home bome and the occa Etna native fireman with his hie white whit Is h end black helmet TIle The city cip rap full of tr ll R some In barracks here Oil rUses passes There are also oldie Me sod ifill a 11 heavy helvy guard of as the bra tUt Rae are err tor an out f onty Ii sho of foree tt a It I want ant to say right here ten the lii S of after the of men ti ho ha 0 here t f or r more than 11 yen r that e 1 are of 01 1 and that absolutely n nc rap lin be drawn dmn between th clr I alel ea surrounding this t the e ot of the tho American col colIt colI 0 Ate It a I I as ae some of out our old uld Ilk to have it Il appear tT t J J ht purpose b Inns Aa lath neld field against u ue seem tD ho We tl uP filth lIh trod food and other t b br el a great gent deal of oC whIch lr out on the heads ot of naUvo NILY SI P II contact with lIb the s s In a 0 aI aIO lay shand un and O D a tn un a tI IOU down The rf r f cur ft country Is t Ill of S lt and It ot United Unite I dab 7 Ih motley money hating II a value of is fir ar Tho Insurgent t r I Iwar I of attention t n I to s paid I to TI This war Is a line fine thinS thing for the merchants of I Manila large larte and small I have hea It sold that thal every mothers son of them the contribute to to k keep ell the t thing going I hue have n a nice big pa arl arlot ot of the Quartet de late a barrack of the Spanish Infantry It Is dry and room roomy and Is located In Ma Manila Dt nits nila near the Bridge ot of SpaIn It Is 1 vary cr comfortable and we have n bIG b bathhouse adjoining the building and n a tine line park all around it Il filled I with wl tropIcal plants and fruit such lIuch I bananas cocoanuts guavas and l lother other kind of fruit the names at nd characters of which I am not nol yet farm lac with The River Pa lJ flows near nearby ne neby by I have hae n a very ery pleasant o alike In th Ihl building My corral at tamp camp coattail nine American h luea besides those b I longing to tile tiro personally r s sl native horses horBell thirtyfour water buffal two mules and ninetysix Chinos Chit Chin nose nello coolies These latter are litter beaters beuers end laborers and bull cart ere ell Talk about your our Oriental circus R J have also six l employed In I Ithe the ambles 1 HAS ILAS A MONKEY Monkeys ate are plentiful and ever body who can enn arrange to keep one olle has lit litone one aile or more mOrt I 1 have two that I nm of training for lor my boys Doth Both monkey tree tu young and full ot of fun and One ot of the mon men left hI his watch In rear reach he other day and Jako the smaller emalie oils gut ul It Ind was It with wit are great t of when tred They ore very cry Moths and ants are all awful on and we the are obliged to keell kee tutu hinge In chests which fortunately dont COlt coat a area lent deal here and are aro made 11 by the Chines On the 2nd nd of January we were or orlend lend Dud and sent out to the north Inc which we now occupy rum 1 n halt tulle mile northwest of C 10 o the north line all of Manila haying t trout a rout of about two miles Our head are nt at Lammas church ThIs le 18 the church which was ns II In n a mu magazine come romo time lime 11 ag agis f fIhe is the one where a telegraph WIS as said to have been placed d before the th alt liar r and u great grent howl was f made about abou about It t nt at the time lime It Is 1 a mortuary ry church In but n a trine marred train the marks ot of the fine numer DUff ue bullets and a halt half dos doz cn n hells that have hac torn theIr w y its Ita massive masonry Our Ow leeping room Is the vestry e try and the see ire lit the body hody of oC the church The he Is com of Italians all and luey did nut not tike like the Iden dea of sleeping on en the marble floor liltS ver oer the ot of the burlei here thele Alt 11 around the church is a great reat wAil roll the church or of ty It oem acres wall faU la III twenty feet feel thIck hick but filled filed with for lor the tho or of the dead Several of our have hao been fired upon and Ibe hr other her day dat they fired on our erg The shots nn nil struck high tip up on tho he walls as af they Quid could not reach us ur on account of the lt bIg Garden call QUEEn There Is a Queer Chinese cemetery r 1 v J stuck to their heir carts carla and killed one Fill pino and they thin think they hit hll severe The boys boy others but they Jut gut away got one bolo bole knife and an old Spring held rifle rille that was wal to tn the rust ruah One of the bulls was Ml hit hut but not se It erel fate he Filipinos usually shoot shoo from the hip and when Bring over on In hold the gun over oer and out ou loose Ul aim so 10 few hit from rom them In of the amount of 01 fir log They The light JI II well enough In the open so BO long Ions na as our troops do not advance hut but when our troops 1 come fur for then them It Is all off ott and they scoot I OOt like n a n how w wory err ory boy from n a I amAT COUNTRY FOR FOn s This Is II a great grent country for tor churches I most moat of It them of great ns and usually I line fine The lions ore the tho poorest lit of the pour and ande we e cannot understand how bow such RUch hes can be supported by puck pea JWo pIe plc All AU are Bre Catholics You Tou call CAli go out lut Into the country and into where there l is not a brie or n a stone In Ina Ina a where II the home Me are at straw and bamboo and one OM would not think to find In the whole and you will find the frest church you youcan cnn can wish to tee The great for nOP their their priests but are arc not on good t terms rm the who ore are raid to be beer bevery very er exacting with them In many ways financial On and It If dab Annot pay ones onel church In money tl 11 Mn can be paid ald In rice dried flab sUI sugar r and wood The women omen seem to tn do most of t the work fork here the men Idling about chiefly or driving the little pony eabe t l 11 Rv f m to hll have tI a pony The or of the better beUer Blem element nt are real nl nice end the ponies are fine TM The education of the masses le 1 a that Is In Ite hero rl till 1111 sent by the clergy to tbt not notwithstanding withstanding All religious tell loJ EIre are except those thol of children Nv The grave was a dug flush with the earth and the n placed In anI and covered wIth oarth riled plied above aho only Candies and burning JOM joee duke wet were then stuck Into the mound and lighted and several burled b on near u us where the dead are re top lOll of the ground and the graves cemented ce I I mentel over oer so fO that tile the bOnAS can I easily be removed for shIpment to I China when the time lime comes 1 Native I funerals are odd too are no family lots and tam death no are rustle dl but the open nf hearse and mourners with wHit music If the they CAn afford alord It go to the ter pick out a 11 place which suits them and proceed to du do their own digging ettes ellus are Around and Items It ems froh our point of view tew ilS as It If e ev everybody was Wil enjoying themselves hUll huge I q Tile The Health ot of our men Is III good as we have hae no cleft In the nt at this time I Every n bull cart Is sent any anywhere where hert an man must aCcompany it II as tt It Is un unsafe ate to let It to go other othera r 1 a ise iM Two ago ngo four of my 11 carte returning from water tt e emust I must haul our water were attacked by bya a dozen One or of our lOon teas wo hot bot Ih the n fleshy hy part or the moulder by a Hauser tAu r but did not knut t until he got back to camp The Tho bays bos V T T Tand and these are nt mite mt cute and i interesting Nobody la III ed on the streets street here slur arter g 5 In Ute evening native or soldier or foreigner except OUT ON Th The native women Tomen pro fire the ugliest to e melee ot of the human humin kInd J I ever Ver sawAll saw fOW All smoke tM the biggest and cl ci gare but C the they lir ant very ery clean In their apparel rel and of deport deportment deportment ment Th Their lr dress Is III would be sensational ht Cincinnati but Is uniform unI unIform form and II roper proper here It strikes one me than Ihan any American who could acquire any particular liking for R a Filipino w WOo o oman man mUtt must be R a person of very If depraved taste One of tile the peculiar things about native funerals is III the gaudy decorations of collin coffins They are arc usually black with lIh colored knots of rIbbon In the case ot of adults and the collins of children are aN with ot of blue pink green white red or yellow eutra trimmed with boas of ribbon 11 out lane riding out to our camp C mp Otte afternoon I witnessed the burIal of a Chinaman thousand prayers printed on red rare paper In gold Chinese characters were ret on an Ire fire and the and smoke wu teas allowed to 10 blow oVer several 1 dishes filled with cooked rice and Th Then n the mourners left lett The streets here are narrow and so O Oar are ar the sidewalk when there lire are any an from the In the front of the stores on the business streets you OU consee con conee see ee very er little gnus In the windows here The houses are plentifully UP sup paled with all right but Instead In stead stend of glue ground oyster shells are put In as II lights They let in tight light Jut but butare are arc not transparent They The Ill are three Inches square As 1 e each ch window con tame 62 2 of these little panes of shell and over every house houe Is liberally supplied I II with wIndows you OU can a f the he Infinite I I amount of labor It to supplY i ith I th the lights alone Hut But labor is IA very crY i who ID do common la labor In InI I bor about t the docks and wharves and anI t streets tre l being all hIred out b by contract contrat are paId 20 cents per day Of OC thIs sum slim bout about half goes to the orf i Mechanics and tradesmen are paid n a little more morl of course but not hot a great t I Ideal deal The streets here are paved with a kind of If granite block on the principal ones and ore are macadamized macadamised elsewhere Almost all the houses houles not used for stores are supplied with large fiat lIal tiles on the first or ground floor loor I SAn GARY The services III at one of the big that I witnessed n a few tew do days ego 10 vas U something so utter utterly sus ou from corn our poInt or of view that I do donot not f feel el that i 1 OUght to even describe fur tor of beIng charged h with er atlon allon and with attempting to ridicule the terms forma of worship which these thee people pursue I can however readilY under understand stand tand that Just such uch forms may lOllY be necessary to impress them It Is necessary I to go about constantly constant ly armed as the city is III full tull ot of FilipIno soldiers and tan fanatics lies who olio If they co could ld It et about abolt t t nn an unarmed American n In ref uC numbers number would halo bolo him frith out mercy merc Many soldiers have gone gOllo under In tills way WA As n a rule on one Amerlean Amer Amerl l lean armed le III equal to a dozen of these fellow It hI he Is watching his 1118 jot Job At night however a single soldier is 18 hard hardly ly Iy rata OIl ns you never know If the lie Inno natives approaching ue are hll hostile lie or not but the fear n a man on nn 11 American home like the very fry devil deI nd wont hl him at short singe I |
