Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-03-17
Daily kennebec Journal.
MANILA DAILY newspapers.
Bits Of News Cleaned from the Freedom and
the Times.

received at the Journal office. Both
papers show excellent workmanship
and are attractive in their makeup
and newsy.
The Times is an SPACE paper almost
exactly the size of the Journal. The
one received is dated Feb. g. Its bust
ness Office is at No. is Escolta street.
A subscription costs $50 Mexican
money per year and single copies are
l0 cents or one nickel.
Two columns on the first page are
devoted to the Sunday liquor law and
to Sunday racing. The liquor law
went into effect Feb. l, and the Times
states that there is no provision in 1t
for the restaurants. The only places
outside of the saloons where liquor
may be sold on Sunday are the bona
fide hotels" The saloons must be
closed between the hours of $50 p. NJ.
and 6 A. NJ. on Sundays.
The restaurants do a good business
it being quite the fashion to take
meals there especially with the
Spanish residents, concerning whom
the Times states that "a dinner is no
dinner to a Spaniard without wine"
When they went to their favorite
places Sunday, Feb. 3. when the law
first went into effect, and found that
no wine would be served to them
they were very indignant and many of
them left. This was severe blow to
the restaurant keepers and they object
vigorously. The government position,
according to the Times, is that the
law aims to prevent the people from
making saloons Of the restaurants but
that there was no discrimination or
1rr.
Keepers claim that they should be al
lowed to sell liquor as many of them
always have and have kept respect
able places. They want the restau-
rants classified and that a distinction
be made between the places where
cheap lunches are sold in order to take
the name of restaurant and the first
class places.
In regard to the Sunday horse trots
the Times states that it has been def
nitely arranged that there shall be
races on Sundays. This was the GUS
tom before the American occupation
but after that the laws were changed
and the races held on week days. This
was objected to because every one was
too busy to attend them. 1t was
finally discovered that the race track
was outside the limits Of the city and
in the district of Passay. which has
been given a local civil government
and intends to allow Sunday racing
There is a movement in consequence to
extend the street car line about a mile
SO as to connect with the track. The
movement of furnishing amusement on
the one day in the week when there is
no business seems to be popular
The inside pages of the Times are
filled with advertisements that sound
much like those appearing in the
American daily papers. There is an
American tone in every department of
the paper, in fact, and the progress Of
Yankee enterprise in the islands IS
evident.
On the editorial page there is long
article entitled american as She Is
Spoke The general efficiency of the
native police is commended and their
propensity for learning the 'cuss'
words of the English language is COM
mented on in a sarcastic vein. This
faculty. the Times states, seems to be
possessed by all the natives and re-
lates an instance where little toll
bridge boy declared to an American
You no Americana; YOU Spanish. You
say Go to hell, son Of a fish. 1t Is
rather difficult to infer from this
whether the Americans or the Spanish
are the teachers of the natives in pro-
family
On this page there are also some
communications from readers. One
correspondent seems to doubt the ar
tistic taste of the American when he
whiteWashed the walls of the city ana
then striped them with a dead lead
cole hot b.r, -
something wrong in the effect" The
writer then suggests that the next
thing that may be expected is that the
American will realize the splendid
chance for advertising on the walls
and they will be adorned with sugges-
tions "as to which brew to drink and
what soap to wash our winter tlannels
with" The writer could probably find
ready sympathy in some of the village
Improvement leagues here in Maine.
Another correspondent. Rev. &. r.
Carlisle. secretary Of the Y. NJ. c. A.
writes a long article commencing the
character Of the natives in glowing
terms. He says for Dne thing: IF we
Judge these people as we ought to
judge them not byour American stand
ards. but by their own time. place and
condition we must feel that they are
of. much higher character as people
than most of US have been led to sup
pose and in all ways entitled to the
very best government that we can
shape for them
The local market quotations are in
tcrcsting. Irish and sweet potatoes
are quoted al five cents per pound:
onions, 20 cents cucumbers. 10 cents
each: tomatoes lists, 40 cents per
dozen. ends Is cents; cabbage. lists.
% cents each. ends, 10 cents each;
beans - cents per pound. In the fruit
list bananas are quoted at u cents per
dozen: oranges, Naranjitas. lists. 40
cents per dozen, ends. - cents. Fish
run from the mud fish at 10 cents per
pound to the crab at 80 cents per
dozen. Meats are rather high accord
ing to our prices. Mutton is quoted at
80 cents per pound; beef. native. from
SO to - cents; loin. Gu cents; pork, 20
cents. Poultry runs from ducks at
$1.60 each to third-class hens at 80
cents each. Hens eggs are IS cents
per dozen and ducks eggs at % cents
The Freedom is a smaller paper than