The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-06-15

and crudely speaking lue E1HSiISH iaA-
guage. / have even witnessed the re-
citaI of a Mother Goose" rhyme from
one of the little Filipinos at play.
These are little things, but they indi-
cate the general trend of things, and
they are corroborated in every way by
other things. The F'ilipinos will make
good citizens when educated and AM
erieanized, and that Will not be long
time
Major Wholley Of the Forty first,
whose rank in the regular army is that
of captain. has been with Colonel
Richmond during the year III the Phil
ippines, also spoke OF the educational
progress of the Filipinos.
During the year we have spent
there. said he, the progress was very
noticeable The Filipino children are
apt, and are quick to adopt the Am
erican ways. The English Language Is
spoken TO a much greater extent than
| it was when we first went to Pam
panga, and the schools that our regi-
! ment have established have done much
towards this through their English
printed textbooks, etc. The authorities
| are assisting in every way possible the
education in English of the Filipinos.
and [ do not think more rapid progress
could possibly have been made, con-
sidering all the conditions, than has
been made in the Philippines during
the past year. American teachers are
now pretty generously distributed
throughout the quieted portions of the
group. and more are. arriving; 1 be-
lieve forty or fifty passed through here
on the Sheridan.
LAS to the effect of the capture of
Aguinaldo on the situation, it certainly
had a great moral effect / believe that
it has been said that his capture meant
very little My opinion is that the
news of his capture had a certain
moral effect on those insurgents who
had not yet surrendered, inasmucn as
they regarded him as representative Of
the insurrection, even though he was
no longer active. On the outside 1T
represented the surrender of the head
of the insurgent forces, and even
though Aguinaldo did not represent
any active. organized force. 1 think the
moral effect was not at all insignia
tcant. The war is now practically end
ed, and as l have said, the Filipinos
are rapidly becoming Americanized.
The prospects are frightening, and the
conditions are favorable to the estab-
, Iishment of peaceful and crafty Ing
government.
In regard to Honolulu, Major Who'll
Hey paid graceful compliment TO the
beauties of the city and it's scenic sur
roundings, and said that though he
had travelled a great deal. Hawaii was
the only place he had ever been WHARF
he found the geography pictures Of his
schoolboy days verified in their illus
trations of tropical growth. The
charms of climate and scenic beauty,
he said, also verify the descriptions OF
the lessons which accompanied the IL
Illustrations, and he is very much pleas
ed with the entirety.
/ Lieutenant Allen Smith, who was
With the famous Ninth Infantry on its
| march to Pekng' is also returning to
the Mainland via the Buror't, and was
interviewed at the Hawaiian Hotel
He went to China in command of the
! horse transport Port Albert. and upon
arriving, became one of General Chat
fees staff. In speaking of the Chinese
situation he said:
The situation is now about as it
will be for some time to come. Our
own troops have all left. with the ex-
ception of the legation guard OF $50.
and the Russians withdrew sometime
ago, but the Germans, French and
/ English are still there, and 1t Is likely
that they mean to stay there for some
time. Especially is this evident with
the Germans. There are about 10000
of them at Peking now. and they are
apparently there to stay until the EN-
press comes back. The French have
about 1,400.
LAS to the march to Picking, the sto-
ry has been told so many times that
l could neither improve upon it or
/ vary it, so will not relate my own per-
sonal experiences there. An incident
showing the condition of things, now
ever, came under my observation at
Tong Chow, which was the last place
where we made a stop before we went
: into\ Picking. AS we entered the city
bn h Had in ,ayts, In.
ularly terrified We're the Chinese wom-
en-. Foreign troops have created such
! depredationS and outrages that the
women We're creating suicide by the
hundreds; they jumped into wells.
threw themselves from the walls of the
city. and killed themselves with
knives. Ny attention was called to a
we'll wherein were five of these poor
creatures, and on the brink were two
more, a Chinese woman and her
daughter comedy girl of perhaps
seventeen; they were both preparing to
leap into the well. We drove them
away and assured them of their safety,
but subsequently found them on top
of the city's wall, from which they
leaped, They lifted their blouses over
their heads and dived off head first
from the wall. which was about thirty
feet high. We expected to see them
instantly killed, but both or them
turned in the air and fell feet first,
so that their injuries were not fatal.
They probably killed themselves later,
however. as their terror was so great
that in their determination 10 90 so
, they We're really frenzied The incl
dent will give some idea OF the situa-
ton at the time At present every
thing is quiet and perfectly safe
around the legations; this, however, Is
only a very small portion of China,
as the strip of country taken by the
allied powers embraces only about
eighty by ten miles I regard the
trouble as being practically over, and
l think this is the general opinion;
that is, so far as the foreigners are
concerned. The Boxers will not enter
that strip of country again.
Noble H Creager, major and quar-
termaster, who was aboard the Buford
when the transport passed through
here in April, and who gave an inter-
esting interview to this paper at the
time, was also seen at the Hawaiian
Hotel
f II have enjoyed my trip very much"
said he, and am glad to have a rev
days again in Honolulu l am very
much pleased with your beautiful city,