The evening times., 1899-02-06
PHILIPPINE JOURNALISM.
Life as Cleaned From the Contents,
of a Manila Newspaper.

(From the New York SUM-
That considerable part of the population
of Manila consisting of the American army
and navy now situated in and around that
place has been reveling in local newspe
per, printed particularly for its own con-
sumption and in its own language. 1t
revels no longer. for the American,
Haunting under a very spreading eagle its
double bareled motto. Equal Rights for
All. Ten Cents Mex. per Copy" has been
suppressed by the authorities on complaint
of the German consul. Some time before
its suppression the editor announced that,
owing to the unsettled condition of public
sentiment and out of Difference to the
views of General Otis, the space usually
given up TO editorial comments would be
otherwise employed until such time AS il
might be deemed wise TO print expressions
of political opinion. Evidently he antic-
! pated by too great a margin the coed
| time coming, and the four pages of the
| American" are at present in condition
| of innocuous desuetude. From the copies
received in the New York Sun office it
| would appear that while il lasted the
| American typfied a rather lively and
| extremely variegated form of existence in
| the tropics.
| What first strikes the reader OF the
! American is the large proportion of ad
vertisements and the alluring words of
many of them. The entire fourth page of
t the publication is given up 10 extolling
! the merits of well-known American beer.
| the cooling effects of which are set forth
with nice art. large proportion of the
advertisements deal with liquid forms of
refreshment. Consider the effect in a tenn
| perature of 100 degrees of the following
| appeal to trained American thrsts made
| b,- "a tr;o calI ho
| Olympia:
We mix the most elegant American cocktails
and fancy drinks TO be found in the tropics
Whisky Sours Cocktails,
| Golden Fizz, Manhattan
| Silver Fizz, Martini.
| Whisky Punch, ANYTHING you
| Roman Punch call foT you
| speciality will get
| Here is another along the same lines
| he has Just opened the long-felt want First
! Glass Genuine American Bar and Restaurant. and
supplies the very best the Market affords. / have
| employed Gilt Edged Mixer, and am able te
| supply Aey.ipi Manhattan & fancy American
| whisky Cocktails etc.
| 1t was probably unconscious cerebration
| which led the editor to place on one side
| of these two announcements Senior Pedro
! Alario's tempting advertisement of "Styl-
ish Funerals and on the other side the
| following legend:
NOTICE:
| ] have a fresh and large stock OF
| MEDICINES
| Which yours al popular prices am
| perienced c0mpounder.
j. Garrido
| Botca de San Gabriel,
| Rosario Street.-No. l.
The following paragraphs. from issues OF
various dates, may serve TO give an ink
ling of everyday life in Manila:
There appears to be several mean men in this
| CITY, but the police are gradually getting them
corralled One of the meanest OF the mean men
| was up in the police court yesterday charged
with assault He caught his little brother il
| childish mischief and tied the boys hands ant
feet together, then belabored the lad with clul
| until he black and blue. The judge gave
him $50 or 100 days.
Spolito Manabot, another mean man, ar
| rested by the police in the Bnondo district FOL
| assaulting blind man. The usual $40 ion
DAYS awarded him.
A Spanish lady who went bathing on the beaeI
| YESTERDAY had a quantity of money stolen from
her clothing by sixto Cristal, native. He wa
caught and will have a trial later.
Corneho de la Cruz bold pckpocket, wa
charged $50 Ii is peculiar fact that major
ty of the thugs of the city, when arrested. Civ,
| the alias De la Cruz instead of their correct
| names.
J. E. Harney. saloon man. had 'rougi
house. on the Escolta Tuesday evening, and Judg'
iamer yesterday fined him $40.
| man named Wickham, formerly in the en-
| poy of the American Commercial Company, wen
| to a saloon on the Escolta Thursday evening anc
| bought quantity of champagne for himself ant
| friends valued at S94 1t charged Now ht
is charged, and the police looking for him.
Twelve native and Mongolian gamblers wer,
awarded the usual $40.
| Two natives were found guilty of reckless driv
ing and fined So each Esteban Papa arrested
| Tuesday upon two charges, one for the attempted
larceny OF pair of slippers and the other charg,
for asssaulting the Chinaman, who objected t
| being robbed. For assaultDg the Chino, Paps
was fined $50, and for the attempted robbery wa
| charged s..
Thomas Aceno beat his wife about the heat
and shoulders, not only with his hands but with
club The action of Aceno was, TO say the least
ungallant, and did not show that chivalrous spiri
for which the Spanish are said to be noted. Hi
dscourtesy will cost him 90 pesos or 100 days a
hard labor.
Some notion of the various nationalities
represented in business at Manila may bs
gained from the following names of adver.
tisers, all taken from single issue of the
American Pohoomul Brothers, Vein
garten, Whaley, Lafuente, Wo Lee, Mac
lOndray, Duka, and Haggins.
The Americas dramatic critic fell fou
of this performance in free terms:
'The Philippine Theatre was crowded
Friday night to see the exhibition of the
.Raron's Revenge The revenge was aw,
ful, Children should not witness it. Tht
effect upon immature minds will be life
lasting. The Red Cross was represented
u e..