The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-05-26
MANILA AND ITS PEOPLE.

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s,,po Of pewey,s Victory aud Its Sit
%.,lou-The "A pproaeh by Nynier--scsnss
an, poeGs-tvhat the City Really
,.,t, Liks-Th. Question Of It's Health.
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Nav York Post: When I started for
Manila, people kindly said that no one
.v,r went there and came homo again.
II they did not die OF smallpox they
.,.edlly luccumbed't TO sinstroke. The
.,n,uln OF the Peklp from San Francis
az ne crossed the lSoth meridian ana
S,,opod Sunday out OF the week to
ho,bsr the missionaries and get rid OF
me- day lost by, going west promised to
s,rry me back next voyage In box
arm Old stagers In Japan and Hong
Yang said the same thing, and by the
.Ire was passenger on the cairo,
snw our naval transport, bound for
Vanilla Itself. l left like a predestlned
victim. 40 hn-.' VI
,outhwest monsoon that surged up from
ROrneo along the China coast did not
change that feeling. But at sunrise on
he third dag out from Hong Kong the
yahro slid along under the coast moun-
toIns OF Luzon, the most northern Is
,"nd Of the Philippine group. then turn
ID sharply to the left, and bucked
sr,Inst the strong current, that ebbed
o'n through the Boca Chlca or small
mouth to Manila bay,through q passage
that may have been two miles wide.
The coast mountains sloped straight up
rom the shore 1000 feet tothe left, and
IN the right the barren island OF Core
rdor. with It's five or six hundred feet
81 rocky altitude set almost In the GEN.
ire OF the entrance. switched off to ell
fher side the volume Of water making
out towards the China Sea. On the Is
land rose the Corregidor Light, first
sighted by steamers coming UP from the
Nalacca Straits, while beyond lay the
Boca Grande, OF, big mouth, some six or
seven miles wide. used by vessels going
eouth down the coast. Still further be-.
yond rose the abrupt hills OF the lower.
shore line. First appearances certainly
were not so black as painted, ard some
OF our passengers hoped that otter all
We should one day pass through ihe
goca ChIca on a steamer making homes
ward. -
From the entrance the bay makes a
huge sweep to the right and left and al
most loses itself In the haze, before dis
,ant mountains make for 1t a low blue
frame. Close In shore to the left Is the
quarantine station, where steamers
coming from the black plague ports
have TO tie up for fifteen days and give
their passengers chance to observe
the movements OF Philippine ants-by
making bets rs to which one Of q num-
Der will drop his grain of sand at the
goal first. In times Of plague steamers
from China have stayed here as long as
three weeks. while the sheep destined
for Manila's markets have died on the
deck and the potatoes have rotted in
the hold. For all the mutton and pota-.
toes that Manila gets come from China,
and few endorsements OF quarantine
soon deprive the city OF two important
articles OF food.
1t Is almost thirty miles from the Cor
regidor Light to the anchorage, and the
Zafro sailed due east for two hours be-
fore Manila rose out OF the water at the
opposite side OF the bay. Even then the
front row OF low buildings struggling
along the shore failed to reveal any
depth to the city; that could only be
roted By distant dome or two that
stood out white against the mountains
five leagues inland.
The shore sweeps away right and left
from Manila In the regular lines OF
great hoop whose rim Is sandy beach
and low palms. To the left there Is
nothing OF present interest, but fifteen
miles along the beach to the right the
hoop breaks, and q low sand-spit max
Ing out into the bay on a bias holds
Cavlte with Its docks, marine railway,
arsenal and low Qualifications. The little
arm formed by the hook makes good
shelter for vessels when Nthe fierce
winds OF the southwest monsoon, that
blow straight In across the bay, kick up
100 much OF a sea for them to load and
discharge at the main anchorage. and
the big mail-boats always lie there in
the bad weather Of the wet season.
The cairo stopped among the deep
water ships anchored three miles of the
oFeakwater, and wheezy launch took
her 1--WE passengers up the river to the
custom-house-oa the right. old Manila
Itself, surrounded by walls and bas-
tons; on the left. the mlle-and-a-half
stone quay, the light shipping and the
business houses all sizzling under iron
roofs made In Germany, All around
taeFe was great activity, lighters dis
charging hemp. briggs unloading sugar,
steamers holsting out rice, coolies; car
Tying tobacco bales, old women cooking
heaven knows what IN greasy pots,
Young girls selling lottery tickets. small
ooys playing about In under-shirts, and
naive clerks In, white suits and flying
aait1-tails tallying weights or counting
cocoanuts, -, & p -
Inc land In and around Manila for ten
miles Is almost as fiat as the bay itself,
ana scarcely lifts its surface q yard
soove It. In the rainy season the River
tas'g. which flows down through the
eh!. dividing It In two, pushes with its
s"olien volume In vain against the tide
Aeaped IN by the southwest wind, and,
ho' hnding free outlet by keeping with
bounds, overflows its banks and
makes makes Manila practically what It has
zen zen often called-the Venice OF the Far
East. !! Is then that the narrow road
Ways, In the suburbs, that run between
ne iee-helds, become dangerous, and
we whole turnout-horse. wagon, and
sn-siunps of into eight feet OF woter
Club. -'-e>s.'HA'' -"'' . $50 49,
by this time everybody ought to
nhoW that Mani!a's streets arc narrow,
~ houses low. Its people short, Its car
snIases without number, and its horses
OIL stallion ponies: that every one
.n'okes, men cigarettes and women cI-
e eats. mat all wear white cloth suits,
.au no one walks II he has the money
S iiaei that the city. though low, Is,
s muaaIy Speaking, healthy except for
~, ,sna'ipox. which flourishes unnoticed In
we crowded houses OF the lower, half
,ss sie natives and Chinese. and malarIal
s' which chooses the careless for