El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-23
''ADAY In MANlLA''
Is the Caption Under Which
A Kansas Soldier
Writes Home.
A MAMA COUNTY BOY
Of the Twentieth Infantry Writes
AS Follows of Oriental Sights And
Sounds.

Our way leads up San Fer
nsndo street, past several Span
ish salons where one can
get a cool bottle of Pabst or Schlitz II
he has the price and is so disposed, for
it seems no land is so emote but what
YOU will find that balm for all the
soldier's Ills Everywhere one sees
Milwaukee famous" Near the end OF
San Fernando street is long row OF
native dry goods stores or stalls where
one can buy silk and fine linen very
Cheap. While passing one OF these
stalls "a few days ago where MRS. Cap
tain Schleman wos shopping, just as
she was READY to leave, the proprleEress
tried co refuse but her friend
insisted. so with q "thsnk you" she
started down The street, but before she
had gone very far she let it fall, at the
Same Time looking around to see II any
one was looking.
Az the eud of the street there
are quite number OF chi
nese stores, where One can Duy almosC
anythiug found IN department store,
but unless ore knows how TO deal WIN
these celestials he had better pass tnem
by. From here to the end of the Es-
Gotta there is a constant rattle OF Bur
falo carts, karmahettas, train cars ana
Chinese shoes; to say nothing OF the
chatter, among the Chinese and natives
which MAKES it periecs
babel" Should you try
to cross the str ees here you w0uiu
hear from every quarter "ging-aby"
Ioane-way). but we seldom pay any
Attention. On the Escolta there Is
even a worse tumble, at times 1t Is
almost impossible to get along 'tor dur
ing the evening 1t is always Jammeu'
and were it not for the soldier ponce
travel would be almost an imposslolllty.
On every side one hears the sweet
strains of the native orchestra. On
every corner someone stops you 10 sell
you a mahogany, ebony, bamboo or
cocoanu5cens. a ring made from the
tin of tn. buffalo horn, daily paper or
a haudful of peanuts. Crowds OF SOL
diers stand in front of every show WIN
dow looking wistfully at some OF the me
souvenirs they would:like to purchase to
send home TO some friend or relative.
Spanish officers with their gaudy
.badpes and wide shoulder straps GAIN
er here and there talking ABOUT nouns
and friends. At the end OF the rs,
Gotta we turn to our right, go up anu
listen to a native orchestra, drink
glass of soda water and absorb as much
music as our system will take In. "A
little farther mp is the electric plant,
and San Sebastian cathedral, one OF
the finest in the city. 1t Is mace OF
steel and was shipped here in sections
at the cost of about So. 900, 600. TO our
left is the Filipino theater, q large
square building Of with abous $500 800
persons. The stage is very good one,
the curtains are very fine, representing
some of the finest scenery one ever
saw. The amusement consists chlehy
of music. dancing and tumbling, at Gil
of which the Filipino is second to none.
Here one sees the flower girls, Manila
beauties, who have very gooo trsoe:
am TO d that very frequently q 'star
buvs O basket of flowers and gives them
to some ardent admirer VINO losses
them at his feet when the house Is Wild
with excitement sitter he mas perform
ed some wonderful feat.
n,tives spo Chinese dod-
ginp in and out of their joints with
Scarcely enough clothing on to wad a
shotcun: the Chinese bookkeeper Is
busy figuring up bis cash account; 10
nelp him IN his work he uses an ap-
paratus very much like the abacus u.s.
ed in lone OF the primary grades IN
our pu bile schools. After call to quar-
tiers has sounded the streets are nearly
deserted, for the soldier MES TO MS
cot 10 lie down and dream pleasant
dreams of home and friends in Goods
country. where we all hope to meet
onr frieods and loved ones. to tell OF
the strange 81 2 hts in this Pearl OF the
Orient where time hangs heavily for
one who has left home and friends and
q ocod position. TO work for fifteen
sixty per month";. c. Journal.
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