New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-11-12
THE PASSING THRONG.

ROBERT Alcroft OF Des Moines, was In Manila
with the 5lst Iowa. and in speaking OF conditions
existing there said at the Hotel
MANILA Imperial yesterday: 80 much has
LAUNDRY been written OF Manila that II Is
CHANGES. difficult 10 find anything TO tell you
that has not been told before. II
the old saw that there is nothing new under the
sun holds true new saw. that there is nothing
may be permitted There is one thing l don't re-
member to have seen anything about, and that is
which which Is unique They charge you So Mexican
out any regard as to what the pece may consist
OF. IL may be sock-for a pair OF socks count as
wrapper or uniform coat. but each piece counts
as one, without regard 10 size / don't see how
to Be perfectly saisfed' and really really do it very well
uive heard II said that there were no pretty
with that statement, although 1t holds true as
general rule. One day. having nothing to do l
OF Paco There is convent just beyond the village.
and as came along the nuns were taking the girls
ingly nice to look at II is rule among them that
girl girl at convent must not look az man and II
is SAID that she IS not even supposed to know more
OF them than that such creatures exist but In this
they stared so at me that the line nearly came to
a halt and II required some vigorous alocution on
they didn't want van q aIr S It was my Size am six
feet tall and the average native about hve) and my
that attracted their attention"
L. y. Cowles. OF San Francisco. who enlisted In
the recruit battalion of the 18th Infantry. and was
later invaded home. who was with
TALL Mr.. Acroft said we had
OFFICER rather interesting experience when
FRIGHTENED we first got to Manila. The 18th
SPANIARDS. stationed Maate. and the
regiment occupied the Spanish bar
racks in that town just the Gale Real from
the Nepa huts that held the Aston Battery. There
place in our barracks for our officers who
about quarter OF mile down the road leading 10
Pace bridge. AT that time Aguinaldo had as many
men within our brigade lines had. If not
more. and one OF his regiments had its headquarters
near an old market that lay across the road rom
the convent wherein officers were quartered'
while back Of the convent lay another regiment.
and between II and our barracks was stu anouner
Of The Filipino army our gaaTdS Tsfs
paIo!hg one size OF tne stee, wniie a. SaIinS
were patrolling the Other, and there was lsehne
OF unrest among the men that any moment might
great relief 10 our regiment when AguinaiGo
withdrew his men from the city at Genera! GUS
might have i gone hard With ofcers Of the i4th
surrounded as they were by the Filipino army
an amusing story rSI heard concerring General Mer
hits capture OF Manila. Lieutenant Colonel Potter
is some six feet seven inches in height and when
the General and his staff landed from the launch
alone some hundreds OF yards in advance of his
companions. 1t was a courageous thing to do. and
result turned out to be only iaushabie for the
Spanish soidery, never having seen the America ans
Cooneis height was simply that of the rest Of the
Army. and the gigantic Potter marcned ,, un-
until ne finally reached and turned into the Pa
accio in the walled city.
F.W. Hutchinson, who is engaged in business
in Philadelphia said, in speaking Of affairs In the
Quaker City at the Fifth Avenue
A GOOD Hotel yesterday: Il know we are
WORD FOR accounted slow, and for these
PHILADEL- many years past cartoonist' man.
PHIA ufacturer OF jokes and negro ihih-
strel have found my home butt
at which to launch their quips and jibes and If they
only did so in New-York they were sure OF an APP
preciative audience. We may be slow when judged
by METROPOLITAN standards but we are sure, as the
balances in our banks and general prosperity OF
our people will bear testimony. and we are not
easily eulIed. and what We have we keep. Bust
ness is going on extremely well with US, put p tOs
perty Is all over the country now ana the sIViS
81 av'rg o her fair share and possibly little more
One thing we have that is unique. and thai Is
Cirard College which founded by tne gIea'
American merchant in the early years OF the cen
turv and which takes charge or ooy, SIV 49,
feeds and gives him practical nar s'I In his
nsoclet with which to start in life; The original
farm well without the city Is now become rrn1ndeS by
bISh stone walls broken here and there by gates,
through which glimpses or the 20 = have
oaver heen over it-one never goes 10 see t ,t
which lies TO hand you know. But one hlsht ia9,
sPa SPY me- nv IT'S walls and coming TO one or the
gates / looked through at most encna GS Psr
tace building on the lines OF h .ne and soft
ened by the moonlight, the DARK paehst oei ddne
foliage and flower beds ana wa dnk XII IL in with
NV ewes until HI there on broke into my
dream and warned me that gIarG,'n and 3t possibly
thinking that ! had been imblolng 100 tiee'' -
things that are not spiritual.