The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-11-27
FLIP |NOS
COMING HERE
On Their Way to the
St. Louis
Fair.

DR.. G. Neiderlein of the PHILADELPHIA
Museum, and the special commissioner
of the Philippines Cor the st. Louis
Exposition. was passenger on the
China en- route to st. Louis. During
his stay in port DIR. Neiderlein was
the guest of F. w. Macfarlane, COM
missioner for Hawaii to the Exsosi-
ton, and he also had a conference with
| Governor Carter.
| DR.. Neiderlein interested Governor
Carter in the coming of the special
representatives of the Filipino race
who will pass through here next April
en- route to the Exposition. At that
time a reception will be accorded them,
| following the course of the Chambers
of Commerce and other public bodies
of Nagasaki and Yokohama. If the
suggestion of DR.. Neiderlein is carried
out these representatives will be given
every opportunity to visit the sugar
| plantations on Oahu, and they will also
be greeted officially by Governor Car
| ter.
i 1t is proposed that they will be chos-
en- from among the mayors, ma.is-
trates, merchants and leading Fili2i-
nos from all the islands, and will num-
/ Der about one hundred.
| About that time there will also pass
through Honolulu a hundred Filipino
musicians, to be known as the Con-
stabulary band, besides three or four
hundred Filipinos picked from the
| flower of the Filipino constabulary
| fnroa yuhS,N r,a 70 or J.
ST. Louis EXPOSITION.
| In the same company there will also
/ be types of every tribe in the Phillip
pine Archipelago, from the Negritos
and Moros, who are among the most
savage and uncivilized tribes in the
southern portion, to the warlike Ygor-
rites of the north who will appear at
the Exposition in as nearly their
aboriginal state as possible. They will
be accompanied by their families and
their domestic life will be shown. The
families of the Ygorrites Will give
demonstration of the crude manner in
which they produce copper and fash
ion the metal into instruments of war
and manufactures for domestic pur-
poses. DR.. Neiderlein has been amongst
nearly all these tribes and his arrange
mentS We're practically completed when
he sailed, for all his plans TO be car
ried out.
DR.. Neiderlein stated last evening to
an Advertiser man aboard the China.
that he has between $1,000 and 10000
lay specimens to be displayed. These
include works of art, among which are
some very rare paintings, manufac-
lures of myriad kinds in which the
Filipinos are adept, although utilizing
crude methods, and there will also be
models of types of the tribes. The
Doctor has large, varied and complete
collection of woods, including the flora
and fauna of the archipelago, and the
methods of carrying on agricultural
pursuits will be faithfully shown.
DR.. Neiderlein stated that the ex-
hibit from the Philippines would be
one of the most attractive and instruc-
tive at the Exposition, and every effort
is being made that it should draw the
attention of every one visiting ST.
Louis in fair time. He is accompanied
on the China by several assistants and
all have been busy since leaving
Hongkong in classifying and catalogu-
ing the collections.
ANOTHER MANILA OFFICIAL.
w. Morgan Shuster, Collector of
Customs at Manila, is through pas
senger in the steamer China, going
home on a six months furlough. He
was taken good care of, during the
| steamers stay in port, by Roy H.
| Chamberlain, Collector of Internal
Revenue. Messrs. Shuster and Cham
berlain were comrades in the service
OF the U. S. Sanitary Commission in
Cuba. An Advertiser reporter sat
facing both gentlemen for short trip
in an electric car yesterday.
Everything is peaceable,'' was Mr..
! Shuster's answer to a question about
the Philippine situation. When the
Jolo trouble was mentioned he said all
/ they knew about that in Manila was
| what appeared in the newspapers.
'The Moros are fanatics" Mr.. Shus-
| ter said. '"They are the aborigines.
Nothing can be done with them but to