The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-05-05
Z IFE IN THE
~ PHILIPPINES
A Salt Leker's Impressions of Life in
the Orient


omnibus automobiles, now here, as web
as many private bubbles, and many
others are said to be on the way from the
states
This is the second week Of the school
vacation which is from March q to june
Is. and of course all the American teach
ers In the islands. some 500 in number, are
all after transportation. THOSE IN Manila
want to visit the provinces and vice versa.
Just now, owing TO Moro uprlSlngS, the
transports south are crowded, and 1t IS
hard TO get boats. Some OF the Mania
teachers have gone TO the Bergnet noun
tain region. where they VIII Ilnd cold
weather. I was lucky enough TO get
passage night before last for ZambOanga
on the chartered transport Legazpi,
Spanish boat of some 800 tons, command
ed by Spaniaros and manned by natives
came aboard with four teachers who
were returning to their stations in
Mindanao. We together with four ofh-
GERS OF the Nineteenth who go 10 Lam-
bOanga IOrservice against the MOrOs. were
the only cabin passengers We found,
aiIer clambering over the cascoes tnaI
surrounded the Legabni, that the rre-
men had struck because, on account OF
the quarantine, none of the crew had
been permitted to land Last night we
ali slept on deck while the Legazpl float
ed at anchor I'm the bay. Candles re-
placed the electric lights, for there was
no steam. and the engines and dynamcs
were useless During the night the gugu
stokers sneaked over the side ana de-
serted. probably assisted by their friends
i'm bancas and we awoke this morning
TO find the ship as idle as COleridge 3
painted ship upon q painted ocean.
And so we have been idling al day IN
the bay while our quartermaster mas Deeh
''busCaring'' some stOkeTs to replace the
missing members III he brings them
from land it viii mean that we lie mere
five more DAYS in quarantine but 1t may
#. be possible to borrow enough hombres
Halr a. afn.rtr
near US in the bav and If we get away
in week we shall really be in very. good
luck Que impOrte? Manana-Thats the
principle laid down and lived up to by
most residents of Manila after a snort
exposure to Filipinitis-a complaint chris
tened by Secretary Ferguson
The desire of Americans to leave Manila
has little relation to the epidemic OF
cholera, as they have little rear OF u
In Canton, China. a few white people
have died. but the mortality in Manila is
wholly among natives and chlnos. Inc
/ health department has been and is max
/ ing strenuous efforts to control the dis
ease and check its distribution, and al
I every turn they are opposed by the tgnO-
rance and Obstinacy of the people they
I are trying to protect
I Quarantine detention camps are main
/ tanned IN the suburbs of Manila, TO when
/ all exposed persons are taken. Water Is
] sterilized and supplied freely TO the pub
! lie and all infected and dangerous food
material. such as fresh vegetables from
| China. is condemned and destroyed. Yet
/ the natives do their best to conceal cases
| OF cholera They smuEgle In food tnaL
they are told TO let alone, and on every
street YOU can see natives watching a
/ chance to drink the water from the mains
/ that carry the germs of diseases. 80 IL
1 may be seen that Major Maus and Major
/ Meacham will deserve all credit If they
| succeed in combating the disease and
! preventing a repetition of the fearful days
! of 81 when the streets were filled with
/ the dead and DYING. An instance OF the
l characteristic attitude OF the natives
/ came to my attention yesterday. A
! uuchachO in a native family was taken
] with cholera and his master. not caring
to be sent to a detention camp, drove him
/ into the street The poor fellow wandered
Z about the dark alleys Of BinOndO until a
/ metropolitan policeman discovered nm
[ and took him TO camp, where he cleo
early IN the morning Fortunately ne
disclosed his place Of residence before
dying. and the family was sent TO me
San Lazarus camp
I last week. lsas one Of a party Of SIX
[ who went 20 Laguna de Bal, visiting some
I Of the insurrecto- country around santa
/ Cruz and Las BdnaS. where the lnSurreclO
Z NaIvar is still at large. playing hide-and-
] seek with General Bells command. ~
/ was a delightful trip. but it did not add
/ to oUr Measure to learn that shortly after
our return a member of the crew mac
displayed symptoms Of cholera. The
launch was run into quarantine and Jusl
I before leaving yesterday ] learned thai
the man was dead. That end is very
nearly a fOregone conclusion IN cholerd
eases. a large majority being fatal.
There is excitement on deck Iht
I Guarternasters launch has returned viii
enough Of the little brown brothers C
complete the crew. and we may leave this
/ evening-Only one day late SlAIO.
] CThis lette- was written before MaJol
Meacham-s death-Ed. Herald)