The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-11-03
BRIGHT YOUNG
FILlPINOS HERE

Ninety-SiX Filipino students between
the ages of sixteen and twenty-five
years form an interesting colony on the
steamer Korea, en- route from Manila
to the United States to enter various
colleges. The United States govern
ment will educate all of them, and has
allotted $500 gold per annum to each
student. Upon arrival at San Fran
cisco the entire party will go to Los
Angeles and remain there until June,
1904, in charge of William A. Suther-
land, who was appointed by the In
sular government as their superin-
tendent. In the meantime, the stu
dents will receive a preparatory i'll
struction to enable them to enter the
colleges on an even footing with Amer
lean students.
All the young men speak English,
many of them fuently. They hail
from all six provinces of the Philip
pines, one coming from the little island
of Paraqua below the possessions of
the Sultan of Sulu. The dialects are
almost as numerous as the students,
and were it not for the fact that they
all speak English and Spanish they
would be unable to carry on a general
conversation. The islands of Luzon,
Panay, Mindanao, Palawan, Leyte, Sa-
mar, Negros and Zebu, are all repre-
scented, the Filipinos from Luzon nat
urally predominating, as Manila is on
that island.
There are young men who are sons
of distinguished fathers, many of the
I,A IiS-T1r,r o. n n
army under Aguinaldo, and even a
few of the students, mere boys, know
what the ping of the Krag bullets and
the scream of American shells is like,
for they served under the deposed
chieftain. A number were interested
| in knowing that Lieut.. Newton of
Camp Mckinley, who assisted General
Funston in the capture of Aguinaldo,
was in town, two or three having per-
sonal acquaintance with him.
| Senior Delgado, who was formerly
Spanish stenographer of the Court OF
/ Land Registration, when but a mere
boy, was attache on the staff OF the
rebel general Luna, the most powerful
opponent of Aguinaldo. A relative OF
young Delgado's was, one of Aguinal'
dos ministers. Senior Valdas, the old
est member of the student corps, was
until recently, a confidential clerk il
the Office of Governor Taft. He viii
take up the study of law. Senior Ra
mos was one of the deputies of thu
Governor of Talbac. Senior Niewa i;
the nephew of the present Governor o
lTayabas, Luzon. Senior Veyra was ;
teacher in the San Palo school, ant
Senior Ocha was in charge of the Higl
School at the same place.
The students are under a semi-mili
} tary rule with Superintendent Suther
} land as commander-in-chief. The old
err students are delegated as captain
and the corps is divided into compan
les. Every morning the companies ar
: marshalled on deck and are put throug
"setting-up exercises.
( The young men are a very intelli
gent body, and all are anxious to re
} ceive the education so generously offer
ed by the United States. 1t is tn
intention to fit them for public servic
in the Philippines so that they will b
able to instruct their countrymen.
The boys are self-reliant, courteous
we'll behaved, and are now enjoyin
: their first glimpse of America as see
in its outpost in Hawaii.
A number of them took advantag
of the long stay of the Korea in pol
to witness the Republican rally la:
J night this also being in the nature
their first introduction to active Amer
lean politics.