Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-07-28

trade, but since then 1t has become I'M
profitable on account of the excessive duty
and the opium merchants have returned to
China, or undertaken other things, out
wardly at least.
During the troublesome times of the re-
bellion against the American forces in the
Islands, the Chinese might be said to have
been Ion the fence" Those within our
lines were apparently friendly. The wealth.
Ter class said and did nothing. The petty
merchants opened their shops cautiously
whenever the streets We're clear and the
peddlers and coolies made what money they
could out of the army. There were crowds
of followers, too, who looted houses and
stole everything not guarded by gun.
After a time it was discovered that these
Chinese followers had been picking up
empty shells and selling them to the in
surgents. Following that discovery neither
natives nor Cinnamon were allowed to APP
proach within a certain distance of the
rear Of our army unless they were work
men in the charge of a guard.
The insurgents also made extensive use
of coolie labor. The trenches which they oc-
cupied were dug by Cinnamon some of the
petty officers in the insurgents army We're
Of the Chinese persuasion and Agulnaldos
adviser-an able one, too-was a Chinaman
Obedient to his mastering passions the
Chino serves where he can gain the most.
He is rarely troubled by conscientious scru-
pies either in these islands or In his own
country.
Not Confined to Manila.
The Chinese have not confined themselves
to residence in Manila, but have spread
both north and south and east and west
throughout the Philippines. To be sure, the
natives In the country districts have
promptly dispensed with them, but around
the towns they have been tolerated because
they will work. and a certain amount of
labor IS necessary in spite of the indiffer-
ence of the native. In the northern portion
Of 7 IN hardening
gulf with Dagapore as its largest city,
the population is more than one-half Chi
nese. The people are nearer the Chinese
physical proportions and their language-or
dialect-differs from the Tagal This Is eX-
planned by old residents in the island, who
say that some years ago there was an up
rising against the Chinese in and about
Manila. and that a few Chinese escaped,
and landing from a small boat on the coast.
finally intermarried with the native women
and founded the city which is now the
terminus of the Manila-Dagupan railway.
But these fellows were the strongest In
most eager to fight. Moreover. they held
out well. for they have only surrendered in
the last month or so.
The Chinese coolies live about well
the lower class of natives. A dozen sleep in
one room or twenty II the room is large
enough. They are not clean. once In a
while you will see them wetting their feet
because the sun and hot stones have Bills
ter how intense the suns rays are. They
live on pork and rice and stale fish and
are more or less diseased ia body on ac-
count OF their food and their ways of living.
The Chinese cemetery. a very short dis
lance from the famous La Lonea Church,
was used by the insurgents on February >,
1899. in an attempt to drive back the Penn
sylvania and Montana regiments. 1t stands
on a hillside Long white mounds are made
of whitewashed clay and cement and the
dead body in it's box is put in, head down
ward and the end of the mound sealed
tightly These mounds made excellent bar
ricades against the troops advancing up the
hill.
The merchant class Is far inferior in num-
bers to the coolie class and besides mer-
chants and coolies there are in Mania
numbers of hotel servants and body serv-
ants whose pigeon or duty keeps them in
good surroundings and more cleanly than
the average. When the table boys arrived
at the Hotel de Oriente from Hong Kong,
however, they were unmanageabe 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 weirdly disastrous. but the Anives
were dull as usual Only one Filipino
died the next day from his 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
Chinaman. and the two rolled comfortably
to the bottom the Chino biting, scratching
and yelling like fieHd.
Some Are well-to-Do.
And again, besides these classes there
are some very wealthy and influential men,
married comfortably to Filipino women.
living with their families in as great lux
ury as the islands affords, law-abiding and
respectable individuals. who boast as good
social position any one in the coun-
try, and who are mentally the equals and
morally the superiors of many in the COM
munities in which they live. Some Of them
have sent their children abroad to be edu-
Gated. They are Roman Catholics In re-
ligion and are sale. to be very strict in their
the country is Osarios Of Cavtte, whose son
was shot by the Spaniards as example
to the Filipinos. Osarios Is worth several
millions. which he made In the ownership
of cockpits. He is ambitious. He offered
a million dollars as dowry to any Amerf-
can officer Of good standing who would
marry one Of daughters. Down to the
beginning of the year the offer had not
been taken, although one of the girls was
an accomplished musician and the other
decorated the whole house with paintings
of most alarming birds. beasts and bios
SONS. Tuason. who owns race horses, both
Australian and native, second to none in
the islands, was formerly Cantonese and
there are many others who, in spite of
preJudces, have made their place and
hold 1t.
AS a usual thing the Chinese mestizo
men, of the wealthy class, wear the civil
lied dress of the European, and the daugh-
tiers follow the style of their mothers. but
some of them-the women folk of Senior
Tuason, chief among others-follow as
closely as they can the fashions that Paris
sets.
1t is strange to watch them all In the
hours for driving on the Luneta in the
evening: the Chinese consul with his pranc-
ing black ponies and his pretty victoria, his
ting at the proper angle the Chinese of
position with their wives and daughters
the petty merchants in a guiez or calesa
with one horse. and passing through it all
a drove Of coolies urged and herded by an
-oVerSeer. MTRIEI RATIE,V
The Shrewd Enumerafnr