Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-03-03
Copyrighted. 1900, by Frank @. carpen-
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Manila, January %. 1900.

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Manila, January p, 1900.
have Travelled in the neIghborhood Of
1000 miles In coming from Washington
20 the Philippine Islands. have gone
almost half way around the world, and
n l could bore an auger hole through
this great, round ball on which we live
ana fasten my eye to II might feast II
on rays Of light which are now washing
Che United states II has been a long
trip. In actual travel. not including the
short stay | made IN Japan, II took me
thlrty.seyen days 20 get here. Six days
were spent In crossing the United
States. and seven days more in coming
TO Honolulu. We had twelve days OF
smooth sea between the Hawaiian ISL
ands and Japan. and about ten days
including our stops.a the ports between
Yokohama and Hongkong. From Hong
kong TO Manila we steamed over $50
miles OF stormy sea, our little TUG boat
OF a steamer, the Dismante, bouncing
up and down like a cork on the waves,
rolling and pitching and twisting its tail
abont In corkscrew curves during the
whole Of the voyage. Tho trip Is al
ways rough II is one Of sixty hours,
during which few escape sea sickness.
As TO cost the trip from Washington
10 San Francisco. with sleeper and meals
requires about 500, and the fare from
there to Manila Is $685. Add s45 for ex-
tras and stay az the ports, and you viii
see that the expense OF frst-class
passage to the Philippines is just about
800 In gold. A scc0ndclass passage,
with the lncidentals cut down. might re-
duce the total to $3.50 or perhaps $500,
but the loss in comfort would be great
At present all OF the steamers are
crowded 30 their utmost. / found the
hotels at the ports Of China and Japan
full at prices ranging from six 20 eight
silver dollars day and at Hongkong
half OF those Of our ship passengers.
who applied for rooms at the leading
hotel, were turned away. Here az Ma
Mia am In the Oriente the biggest and
supposedly the best hotel In the Philip
pines but none too good for all that.
The first night had room with three
other guests and ! now have 20 fight
daily 20 keep from having an extra bed
put In my apartments for the night.
TRAVEL TO THE PHILIPPINES.
The number Of people coming here
steadily increases. and now that the war
is practically over Americans Will soon
be found IN all OF the islands A large
part OF those with whom Travelled
were the wives and children, sisters,
cousins and aunts Of our soldiers, and
especially OF the officers On the China,
the steamer In which | came from San
Francisco 60 Japan, we bad ffty-slx
women, and children OF all ages. from
ten-day-old baby, whose mother
was on her way from Atlanta 60 Join
her husband, Lieutenant supposed 90
be on the firing line, 20 an Oregon girl
az nineteen, who was going out 10 marry
her soldier sweetheart. on the DOrlc,
which took me 20 Hongkong. there were
more army women, and on the Dia-
mantle We had, among others, a young
wife, Who was taking her little baby to
give II its first introduction 10 It's papa,
a captain in the ranks, who had left
America before his baby was born.
We had number Of commercial and
business men who We're going TO the
Islands to look up the prospects for in
yestment and trade, q dentist who had
left Japan 20 accept partnership with
one OF the American dentists here, and
lot OF young men who were coming
out second class and Storage, hoping
20 make their fortunes In one way or
another.
A queer couple IN the second class
was a German OF sixty and his eighteen
year-old daughter, who had sold out
their farm In Southern California for
5000, and expected to invest the money
In hemp raising ranch IN one OF the
Islands. The girl was nearly six feet
in height, and her father told me she
weighed 205 pounds and that che could
pillow with a four-horse team as well
as any man.
At Hongkong saw the first evidence
OF the rigid martial law which Is now
exercised over the Islands. When /
bought my ticket there was required
~ sign a sheet OF paper as big as two
pages OF this Journal and insert there
on answers TO all varieties OF ques-
lions. | had TO give my age, sex, ma
tionality, last residence, profession and
10 state whether / was married or sim
Gle. ! was made 10 state whether I
had money upward or $50, whether !
had paid my own passage and whether
] was going out TO Join relative and.
II so, whom. ] put In writing the fact
that was not a polygairist; that had
never been In prison or an almshouse,
and that / was neither deformed nor
crippled. / wrote also where ex-
pected TO 20 and what TO do. and
number OF other things about myself,