| Show amra W ar f naw city la Is being built on tile shores of manila bay A where admiral deweys deleys guns shattered centuries of calm on that memorable may day lu in 1898 A city beautiful Is steadily heing being slin shaped p ed by tile the american exiles in that far away land with the same fervor that animates the civic worker at nt homo bome they tako take no nought of the fact that what they are doing today IU not even benefit their children childr dr on when they have finished their heir tropical task and returned to live again among their own kind today manila is the most modern city in the far east A generation hence it will be ba one of tho the most beautiful in ill the world writes frederic J in the chicago dally daily news when lie ho americans first went to manila there were few evidences of 0 that delightful latin culture of which the story books delight to prate thousands washed their clothes in the streams and otherwise defiled the sources of public drinking water swamps dotted the city stink holes and cesspools ces spools in the densely populated districts of and san nicholas offended the tha noses of the very angels angela on high A vile moat a burgil putro putre dying mass of slime from five to twenty feet deep and from twenty to one hundred yards wide surrounded old walled city and enjoyed 0 T Z I 1 P M A the doubtful honor of at causing tar far more than tto ita share of the thousands of deaths annually fro from plague cholera malaria and dysentery dysentery horse cars care ambled wearily up and down the poor old escolta escolita the towns one main street A telephone service attributed tri buted by legend to the great don quixote wheezed and groaned through h the days alleged work an electric tight light system which thomas A edison would have sued for libel had he be known the halt of 0 its shortcomings and outgoings was permitted to io doun der through a nightly attempt to keep tho the citizens from total darkness there were no docks no sewers no sanitation n no 6 pretty homes the spirit of manana had bad the town drugged and the only active force was death dealing disease now all Is changed now all Is changed five alve steel docks offer ample berth to the biggest steamships that ply the pacific or traverse the suez canal A reen re en eu forced steel and concrete million dollar hotel five high modern in every respect from the garage depot to the roof garden takes care of the fastidious tourists who once shunned the place the new luneta lies alongside the famous old buenta on tho the filled ailed ln in land which has replaced the waste water that used to wash against it and the malecot drive on this same filled ln in land one mile long and one half a ratio mile wide massive con arete warehouses garages the aforementioned now new manila hotel the elks club and the army and navy club groet greet the eye the botanical gardens and other beauty broad winding drives andern telephones electric light and street cars serve the city the ld ild moat Is a grass grown play jr round A new water and sewer power system capable of supplying a city twice it size elze serves the citizens plato plate glass windows in most of the shops make the old store fronts blush modern office buildings hero and there ta are e elbowing the moldy old spanish buildings off the business streets more than a thousand automobiles motor trucks and motorcycles keep the people on the jump by daylia day and a score of moving picture shows entertain them by night substantial bungalows and up to date churches testify to the presence of home loving Ameri americans cang A death rate lower than many american cities tells the story of healtha healt hs successful fight A thriving trade growing annually by lea leaps p a and bounds hums where manana once eat and nodded city has population of I 1 manila Is now a city of people which handled an 00 export and import trade of over last year its geographical location backed up by the new dock and ware warehouse hoase area make it the commercial distributing point of the united states in the far east cast just as it Is pow our political base in that part of the world fifty hours across the china sea bea to the north is china and her of people who soon are going to demand shoes oboes of modern make sowing sewing machines coaloa clothes cloth cB farming implements mora mom and more of philippine sugar construction st supplies machinery to foi public works factories etc to the abo bouth civo days daya away llos lies tho the federated malay states at her back la Is india with restless inhabitants A bay thirty miles wide will cradle Amer americas leas imme oriental mercantile marine some day where ton german british japanese Japa neso and other foreign ships enter tier her gates now a hundred will pass corregidor in the future manila has the only harbor of the name in the far east only yokohama offers d dock 0 ck 8 space pace and that la Is limited to the french mall mail tint and a handful of other ships at every other port even mighty hong kong passengers and freight are transported trana ported ashore in launches and lighters A purely philippine trade tit IM menso volume Is already be beginning Sinning to pour through matilla manila without the least retarding the growth of cebu iloilo hollo albay and Zam boang tropical products equal in volume to the total population of at tile the Ila hawaiian wallan lalands islands cuba and porto rico will in the readers lifetime be shipped chipped out of manila to the united states and ana other countries last year the united states took tropical product il worth M so that philippine goods are assured of a ready market and the result will be the development of manila into and one of the worlds great seaports |
