Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-05-24
WHEN SUN SETS AT MANILA
Rutherford q. Corbin Describes the Scene
at the Lunetta.
MingIfng Of the Old and New Life in
the Philippine Capital-A
Beautiful Picture.

Adjutant General Corbin has received q
| private letter from his son, Mr.. Rutherford
| H. Corbin, dated Manila, Easter evening"
| 1890, giving Interesting details of life in the
| Philippines. The following are extracts
| from the letter:
80 The last three days have been
| holidays and, as always in holidays. there
| is no news. The army is up beyond Malo-
| los looking for the remains of the insur-
gents, who are broken and, We hope scat
! tered for good. Aguinaldo and Montene-
| gros have fled, and where they will turn up
| hext, Of if they will, is a matter OF little
moment.
THE commission is preparing to issue a
proclamation. 1t will be out Wednesday of
next week.
My friend, Mr.. Creelman, came in from
the line on the north today and reports
that Gen. Macarthur today established his
headquarters in Malolos. His troops chose
of the I'd Division) are to be northward of
| that point and are hoping to catch up with
the insurgents between there and Dagupan-
If they have fled in that direction they will
be sadly surprised, for the Baltimore sailed
| for there last week. The other chance is
| that they have fled into Laguna province
and will turn up in Cavite or Batangas
| and transfer their base to the southern
| half of the island. If they should accom-
| plsh this successfully We should have the
struggle to fight all over again.
Gen. Macarthur is winning great COM
mendation from all those who have had
chance to judge of his abilities during the
last week. Gen. Otis has shown great pow
erS in addition to his carefulneSS and orig
inality of purpose.
Cen Lawton has had but little to do
during the past week, his tha firsD
division has been holding the north and
east part of the lire, which has not been
| engaged.
at is becoming biisteringiy hot here.
Sunset From the Lunettn.
yesterday evening there was the most
glorious sunset here that | have ever seen.
As ways. the band played on the Lun etta,
and, as usual, was there. Every one rides
on the Lunetta of an afternoon between b
and q, and it is ally the most enjoyable
thing that we have. There 5 a band stand
between two parallel drives, the outer side
OF one of which IS on the breakwater and
OF the other on Il must admit rather
shabby park. Every one in town, with
their brother and sister, turns out in the
afternoon and either drives around in this
small ellipse always in the same direc
tom or csc walks around on the small
open space around the band stand. The
bay is in front. fading into the ocean, with
Corregldor and the mountains of the coast
range in the distance. Cavte sticks out
on long hook to the left, and away in the
right you can see the smoke hanging over
Bulacan and Ma 'olos and the valleys which
the insurgents have fired in their retreat
"A few dozen yards inland run the walls
OF the walled city parallel to the beach.
Nice old brown and gray walls, with port
GUMS gates covered with blue and brown
sentrtes and a moat. Put the spires of the
palaces In the city peeping over the walls
the fantastic tropical palms climbing I'D
the moats edge and lining the drive and
perfuning the air. and realize that it has
all been there since MagelIan's successors
four centuries ago.
The foreground is the drive with ever
changing panorama of the procession of
gay carriages. with charming senoritas
gaudiiy dressed Filipinos. dusty troopers on
native ponies, officers of the new and old
(the Spanish and Americana regimes, in
neat little dog carts, and with their wives
and daughters, half-naked natives and Chi
nese. in chattering groups-all listening to-
Sousa or the "Cavaleria" or the Hot
Time A wonderful picture, Is 1t not?
ANA then you have to gid the BAY and
harbor and sharpen the outlines of Core
eldoF, ana let the coast mountains stiffen
INTO slIhouettes against the golden and pur-
pie or the sunset with the warships glis-
ten1ng like FURNISHED steel, and the hook of
CaVlte cutting back Of them like a black
Arabian scimitar.
And in the glory of it all IT is over: the
pand plays the Star Spangled Banner at
Whlcn every one salutes or uncovers-Amer-
lean or Spanish. Malay and Filipino: and
the sunset guns of the flagship boom out
ana 'OId Glory drops on the mastheads
and We all hurry home in the dusk"