Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-11-01
TRANSFORMING MANILA.

Writing from Manila. the leading
capital of the Philippines, and its
most interesting city, correspondent
of the New York Tribune indicates
how new methods and new scenes
are supplanting the old. He says In
part:
The old order OF things is rapidly
passing away and in the place OF that
life which seemed like a long drawn
out siesta, rudely Interrupted now ana
then by the arrival of mail steamer,
the departure of friend or the runlb-
lings of an earthquake, there has come
the hustling activity of a government
on wheels, which actually insists upon
trampling under foot the old Spanish
traditions of never doing today what
can possibly be done tomorrow. The
measured gait of the Archbishop's dim
inutive white horses on the Malecon
drive has given way to the business
like trot of the huge Kentucky mule
pulling regulation army wagon. Inc
benches on the I.uneta facing the bay
are no longer occupied by little salioW
faced men, dressed In white and wear
ing the irrepressible black pot nat
their places have been taken by men In
khaki, sturdy in figure and bearing,
and with you be d expression
in their faces. On the Escolta the
Americana formerly scarcely known,
good naturally jostles at every corner
the heterogeneous mass of Asiatic hu-
mainly that throngs the busy thorough
fare all day, noon hours excepted. from
early morning until late at night. on
the porch OF the Orinte the scent OF
garlic and onion soup no longer greets
the visitor, but instead the aroma OF
cocktails and of Scotch" made In Ma
Mia peryades the atmosphere. The
patient carabao in the street seems to
view with alarm" the rapidly with
which the new tangled drays are NOV
ing about, while the motive power in
front of these archaic wonders OF
streetcar rchitecture--wonders which
could be duplicated in New York only
looks with confidence to the day that
will end this misery and stay forever
the arm which so cruelty Yields the
butt end of the throng. In the side
streets the old oil lamps blink brighter
in the consciousness that before long
they. too, will enter into we'll earned
rsst and their burden be taken up by
lights as bright as those on the Puente
de E,spana, along the river front and
on the way out to Ermita and Malate.
The poor old stunted and moth-eaten
nalms on the Malecon shore drive seem
10 shake their heads in grave disap-
proyal of the activity in the quarter
masters corral opposite. where there Is
a constant going and coming, and
where thousands of horses and mules
1 accentuate the sternly practical SIDE OF
| the military character which converted
! q sandy beach into a place of sheds
! and stables. The old stone walls OF
| the fortified city, which for more imam
| n hundred years have unconlplainingiy
horne the indignity of moss and mould,
the rotting drawbridges whose slumbers
have not been disturbed for many Il
generation, and the mephitic stenches
| of the moat which for ages ganboled
above the accumulated muck and NTH
| of decades, have rudely been awakened
nv the unpoetic contractor, who VIII
| utilize part of the walls for govern
ment ..go down." and by sanitary en-
| eineer who insists upon sacrificing
fever beds to considerations of health
| Yes. the old order of things is rapidly
passing away; but if you will hurry
Won may still be in time to see many
| an interesting sight.