The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1901-06-05


houses are the only buildings that
were not delno1i shed One Of the
gentlemen who aecompa panied Us on
the drive yrs a Mr.. Tayl Tor, who is
working up a big sugar antatlon
on the island Of Mindanao He has
Travelled extensively and IS wonder
fully enter tanning For many years
be was erintende the schools
of San Francisco. He has been
down ii tht Philippine islands for
over two years and has seen all thel
fighting around Manila. He point
led out the place where the battle OF |
Feb 4th began, and all along thet
way for over eight miles he des-
crlbed the different intrench ments,
buildings, bridges, etc, that figured
|so prominently on that first day OF
the rebellion The rayages Of war,
are still very plainly to- be seen.
Our drive took US very near GER
tain ditch about four miles from the
lcity, where Mr. Taylor, on the
morning Of Feb. 9Th, 1899, said be
counted 125 dead Filipinos. He
/ said that no one who was not here to
see the fighting can imagine what
AN enormous slaughter there was
on the day of the opening OF the IN IN
isurrection. He says that he be-
llieves conservative estimate OF
the number Of Filipinos killed the
first day would be 100000 You
| will remember that Aguinaldo had
AN. army of#over 10000 men around
/ the city for several weeks before
There were open hostilities. It aap-
pears that the American soldiers
had been angered into a frenzy by
1.-THE insulting conduct and vile epl-
lthets Of the Filipinos. The rice
fields out this way have not been
worked since 1896. N.
On April l4th we went up. to.
Angeles, and after we arrived there
we folloWeda lot Of Macabebe scouts.
| to the town Of Mabacalat, eight
miles distant. The country we
passed through has seen little fight
5Iingfor some months and is supposed
to be Quoted down. One thing that
we particularly noticed was that all
i the houses were IeW. We inquired
Into this and were told that the old
houses had all been burned. 1t APP
pears that when the natives commit
la depreciation like destroying tele-
graph lines or tearing up the rail-
road tracks the scouts go out and
j Literally wipe out everything within
1 a radius Of three or four miles OF
4 where the trouble occurred. The
Macabebes are particularly feared
\ by the F'ilipinos. They have al
1 ways been friendly to the United
i States, but they are absolutely law
i less, and the Manila papers are de-
|nouncing them in the strongest
4 terms.
a NE bamboo IN these islands has
la far greater importance than IN
i Guam. The houses are all built8of
/ it and it's put to a thousand other
d uses that i fancy have never oc-
q Toured to the natives Of Guam. The
!. Filipino native architec ture isreally
]. very neat and attractive. Almost
d all the houses are raised four or five
] feet from the ground the sides are
made Of plated bamboo and the
II roofs are matched with nipa, a leaf
resembling that Of the cocoanut.
q Most of the houses have doors hung
4 on hinges and sliding windows.
Steps for ascending to the main floor
d of the house are a feature Of the
d filipino houses that one never sees
!; ii Guam, except in the better huts
1 of that island, and they are not com
q mon 35a 85
The natives Of this island are
4 similar to the Chamorros, but physii-
cally inferior. They are small
I! race. The average heighth Of the
q men IS not over five feet, four or five
4 inches. Those who have come I'M
i der the influence Of Spanish civil
lzation are intelligent. The Mesri-
4 EOS, half ca ste Spanish and Filipino,
I ARE fine looking and are probably
], the aristocracy Of Manila gu
commonly see these half caste Fill
pinos- riding about the city il their
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