Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-08
MANILA MONEY MAKING
CHANCES THERE FOR MEN WITH
MONEY AND WITHOUT.
LabOrers Would Have to Compete
With Men Who Work for 30 Cents
q Day-Dinerent Castles
Burial Customs.

MANILA. ISLE DE LUZoN. Nov. q.
1851 have received several letters ask
ing about chances for Investments and
wages for labor in the Philippines. and
VIII try to tell you what I know about
chances for each. The man with money
and honest business integrity can do well
mere In most any line. Skilled labor can
make big wages ard work every DAY in
the year. Common labor and labor unions
would have to fight men who work for 80
TO 80 cents per day.
Ihere are several castles here. and some
OF the marks of distinction are very pecu-
mar A person who by virtue of wealth
or social position is placed above common
iapor wears his thumb nails one inch long
anu snarpened to a point. / am not very
sI raar, rom the truth when l say that nearly
every man here with goods to sell. from
me rich merchant on the Escolta. to the
man VINO catches monkeys down IN the
Drush and sells them for Sl.1 each. is a
some one.
A visit to the Semeterio Espanol reveal
barous than the lowest form Of civilization
would believe possible. The church ard
state are equally guilty of this inhuman
cruelty and general cussedness OF the
Spaniards. When a person died here il
was necessary to pay a considerable sum
Of money to the priest for funeral priv
ileges. This money had to be paid in adj
vance. and IL the relatives of the deceased
We're unable to pay 1t. they had to leave
and beg until they raised the sum required.
Sometimes 1t would take them six or eight
DAYS. and by that time the dead body
rlbie condition. Their troubles were then
Just commencing. for an nnual tax had
70 pc paid for five years for the vault in
pay this tax after a certain number of
days of grace the body was taken up
ana rudely thrown into the bone pile at
the rear of the cemetery, where the rain and
hot sun would soon destroy the softer
bones of the skeleton and the insects ard
vermin would make homes in the harder
about sxO feet wide and II feet high.
In some places the long hair of the females
which is entangied among the bones is in
good condition. and shows that this work
mas been carried on up to a recent date.
AS | was examining this interesting ana
tomical collection. which is covered only
that those grinning skeletons were crying
out to their Creator for revenge upon the
people who are responsible for this brutal
terry is the finest I ever visited in every
other respect. The solid masonry walls.
WHICH are eight. feet thick. run in three
circles. one inside the other with q walk
and small court between. and the vaults
large enough for one body are three Sec
tons high and the name plates are as
close together as the squares on a checker
board. At one side the circle is completed
by the front of the chapel, where all burial
i permits are issued. funeral services con-
Quoted and annual vault taxes. collected.
One. of the most frequently visited places
here Is the "Luneta." a fashionable kite
shaped driveway extending from Malate
around the bay front and along the west
wall Of old Manila to the Pasig river.
Hundreds OF garages pass along there
every night. while their occupants enjoy
the cool saltwater breeze.
There are enough Americans here to keep
one from getting lonesome. and the ma
tional airs played by our regiment bands
sound sweeter to us than ever before and
the emblem of liberty as 1t floats from the
that we are still protecting the honor Of
the grandest country In the world.
SOLON C. WINERY.