The Savannah morning news., 1900-07-29

that a few Chinese escaped and, landing
from a small boat on the coast, finally
intermarried with the native women ana
founded the city which is now the term
linus of the Manila Dagupan Railway. But
these fellows We're the strongest in their
denunciation of Americans. and the most
eager to fight, moreover they held out
well, for they have only surrendered III
the last month or so.
The Chinese coolies live about as well
as the lower class of natives. A dozen
sleep in one room or twenty if the room
is large enough. They are not clean. once
in a while you will see them wettlng thelr
feet because the sun and hot stones have
blistered them. Their heads are bare, no
matter how intense the suns rays are.
They live en- pork and rice and stale nsh
and are more or less diseased in body on
account of their food and their ways of
living.
The Chinese cemetery, a very short
distance from the famous La Lonea
Church, was used by the insurgents on
Feb. s. 1899 in an attempt to drive back
the PENNSYLVANIA and Montana regiments.
1t stands on hillside. Long white
mounds are made Of white washed clay
and cement and the dead body in its box
is put in, head downward, and the end
of the mound sealed tightly. These
mounds made excellent barbados against
the troops advancing up the hill.
The merchant class is far inferior in
numbers to the coolie class, and besides
merchants and coolies there are in Manila
numbers Of hotel servants and body SER
wants whose pigeon" or duty keeps them
in good surroundings and more clearly
than the average. When the table boys
arrived at the Hotel de Oriente from Hong
Kong however they were unmanageable
to such an extent that a battle occurred
in the dining room one night after dinner
with table knives for weapons, and the
Chinese table boys and the Filipino bed
room boys as opposing armies. Results
might have been wierdly disastrous, but
the knives were dull, as usual. Only one
Filipino died the next day from HE
wounds and no Chinaman was killed.
The next night when the manager of the
hotel tried to discuss affairs with the
Chinese steward the latter pushed him
down the stairs. The manager could not
save himself, but grabbed the Chinaman
and the two rolled comfortably to the
bottom, the Chino biting, scratching and
yelling like tiend.
WeII-tO-DO Filipino Cinnamon.
And again. besides these classes there
! are some very wealthy ana influential
| men, married comfortably to Filipino Wo-
men. living with their families in as great
| ing and respectable individuals, who boast
| as good a social position as anyone in the
| country, and who are mentally the equals
and morally the superors of many in the
| communities in which they live. Some of
| them have sent their children abroad TO Re
| educated They are Roman Catholics in
| religion and are said to be very strict in
| their observances. One of the Wealthiest
| men in the country Is Osarior of Cavite,
| AS
| an example to the Filiplnos. Osarios is
worth several millions which he made in
| the ownership of cockpits. He is ambi-
| tious He offered a million dollars as a
| dowry to any American officer of good
| standing who would marry one of his
| daughters. Down to the beginning of
| the wear the offer had not been taken AL
| though one of the girls was an accomplish
! ed musician and the other decorated the
whole house with paintings of most
| alarming birds, beasts and blossoms.
| Tuason, who owns race horses, both Aus
| traian and native, second to none in the
| islands, was formerly a Cantonese and
| there are many others who, in spite of
prejudices, have made their place and hold
| it.
As a usual thing the Chinese mestizo
men, of the wealthy class, wear the civil
| Hzed dress of the European and the
| daughters follow the style of their moth
| ers, but some of them-the woman folk OF
| Senior Tuason, chief among others-follow
as closely as they can, the fashions that
| Paris sets.
It is strange to watch them all in the
| hours for driving on the Luneta in the
evening; the Chinese consul with his
| prancing black ponies and his pretty Vic
| toria. his coachman and footman in iiv-
| cry and sitting at the proper angle. the
Chinese Of position with their wives and
daughters, the petty merchants in guilez
or calesa with one horse, and passing
through it all a drove of coolies urged and
herded by an overseer. Muriel Bailey.