The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-03-02

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of the men who had been III tho first
one. / subsequently learned that the
proprietor nf the first had seen me enter
the second, aud that he had sent one Of
his runners along all these shops, stat
ing the price he was charging for that
particular hammer. Usually you found
about these shops three men-the tout
on the outside, who drums up trude;
the clerk OH the inside, who soils, and
the man who runs the abacus or frame
that has the beads OF that does the
counting up. In this section OF the
city you discover the ravages OF the
fire fiand, for while the walls them.
selves seenld to be stone cement, the
skeleton is made Of BAN boo. aud the
space between thu bamboo and the
heavy logs, that are upright, is filled
in only with stone and mud, SO that
when a fire starts III one Of these build
ings it usually goes through the whole
settlement. We saw the naked walls
If at least eight buildings of this kind
in the bamboo settlement alone, but
Immediately American occupancy dem.
onstrated the feasibility of rebuilding,
shrewd contractors among the Chinese
themselves obtained all thses old sites,
and wherever it was practicable would
place pieces Of oanvas or galvanized
iron across the top, and let the spaces
within to anyone who desired to sell
his wares. Usually these would be
natives, who would have white pants or
white coats or shawls. or canes, or
something that would appeal to the eye
al American, and he or she would
"a good trade, making considerable
"Of all the crazy people, commend
me to the American when he gets in a
country. Men would 20 down
Dn this street and possess themselves of
absolutely worthless to them,
for the sake of buying some.
hing with the little amount of money
mat had been obtained for service will,
Uncle Sam. You would find almost
anything, from a shawl to a razor,
bought by these men, being sent
trough the mail to their admiring
friends in the United States as one of
he ourios bought on the Rosario or on
he Escolta.
Passing across one Of the bridges at
he south end Of Binondo, we came to
he Tondo district, an intolerable,
ilthy aud low locality. Here the day
abOrels, the fishermen and the canoe
hen live, and Of all the filth and squal-
+ that can possibly be found in the
onfines Of any community, commend
to Tondo. The houses are the or
inary nepa huts, built up only ii few
eet from 1.-THE ground, and in these
are to be found two and
hree generations, and occasionally SO
lany as five generations in II of these
ONES. No sanitary conditions are to
o found, and when the rainy season |
egins this is the one locality from {
hitch originates pretty much all the
estilences that are to DO found in |
laila. Typhoid fever, smallpox and t
ven this bubonic plague, that has been
'und at Manila, originated in Tondo.
he Kansas regiment was CHARTERED
ere when first they went into the city, 6
ut SO foul were the surroundings and +,
many the cases Of sickness and small ~
Ok, that they were compelled to re. r
owe them to a safer locality. In Ton. +
}, also, is to DO found the matador, or T
lblio slaughter house. 1t may be said I
the credit Of the butcher fraternity =
lat this was about the c~leanest place s
'at might he found in the whole of
ondo. The floors were Of stone. The
were likewise paved, aud the
srious parts Of the animal that could
1t be utilized were carefully removed .
one part Of the building and regular
, each night, were removed and sent 4
It with n dump to be enlptied into the
~.
"Along this part of the bay, also, L
are long stretches Of perfectly level q
ound where the natives were in the -,
bit Of making their Manila rope" =
(To be continued next Friday.) s.
1t Is very hard to stand idly by and
0 our dear ones suffer while awaiting
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