The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-02-15
FLIP mos
DEVELOPING
Bicycle, Camera
and Baseball as
Agents.
IS THE
ONLY FIGHTER
All Other Chiefs Succumbed'
Trade in the Islands is
Booming.

Captain ]. K. Cogswell, on his way
home after a years service in the
Philippines, is one of the passengers in
the Solace. which came in from Manila
and Guam yesterday, and will stay in
| port for a couple of days taking on
| coal. Captain Cogswell is in poor
health, owing to the recurrence of fe-
vers, and found that it was impossible
for him to complete the usual tour of
service in the East.
THE bicycle, the kodak and baseball
will do much to make the rising gener-
alton of Filipinos American in sympa-
thy. 1t will take many years perhaps
to thoroughly bring the populat ton into
sympathy with our institutions, but the
young people are growing up with a
better idea of what our rule means. The
school teachers and other Americans
there will do much to create good feel
ing toward our country 1t is very
amusing to see how the young Filipinos
take to the novelties mentioned. 1 saw
in one of the southern cities a number |
of young ladies, on feast day, dressed |
in light dresses, riding along on wheels.
This would not have been tolerated
during Spanish days. Then the kodak
craze has caught the islands, and ev-
eryone who can afford it wants a cam
era, and wants it badly too. Nothing
but the very best will do, and l saw a
great number of the machines being
used wherever 1 went. The lads are (
learning to play baseball just as they g
see the soldiers do it, and really they :
take to the game very fast. They have
all the motions of the pitchers down
fine and they have learned the trick of
the crowds in the States to cry play :
pail" when they want the game to go =
On. .
II was last stationed on the gunboat
Lsla de Luzon, one of those sunk in
Manila bay, and which is very serv- :
ceable boat. She is of 1000 tons and =
las a protective deck, good guns and 9
IN ice plant, so that she is a fine ship =
or her business. All that she needs is
boilers, which would make her as good
Is any light craft. Our last service :
vas on blockade and assisting the sol e
Iiers in the reduction of the insurrec- =
os on the island of Samar. In the =
iorthern part of that rocky island is :
4ukban, who is one of the most force
vi men yet outside the American lines. 8
lie has some administrative ability and =
as a system of taxes and collections =
hitch he leVies upon commerce. -
The fight for the pacifica ton of this =.
'land is being carried forward by Gen
raj J. II. Smith. and hard struggle is =
ding on all the time When this ISL -
nd is subdued there should be. will be- -
eally no resistance to our arms except :,
nat of the bands of marauders, who {
i'll their own people more readily than :.
ley do Americans. In fact. there e
Gems to be little organized resistance =
Xcept that of Iukban e
The trade of the islands is simply g
There is something doingI &
verywhere and in Manila there is a /.
INSTANT stream of people and wagons. .
blockade an hour is usual on the
reefs of Manila and there are so many n
hips in the harbor that they are lying "
the quayS three deep almost all the
me. The Pasig river is full of boats
nd barges all the time and there is a
rye demand for goods of all kinds.
here is an abundance of hemp and to-
lcco. hard woods and minerals ac- q
riding to reports, and the trade in the
rmer give the shipping all that it can
, to handle the business.
1T seems to be the general opinion
the men there that the trade of Ma
la alone is worth the price paid for
e islands. and while one hears often
remark that there seems no reason in
by the United States should hold the in
lands, and keep large army there. AL
l the men who say this are in the mi III
'rity. The people seem to be learning -
at the rule Of the Americans is not -
Re that of the Spanish and the change II
mot help but make a difference in ire
cir feeling. do
Everything seems to be in good dis
ape in Guam and Governor Schroeder I
ems to be we'll liked" c1u