The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-06-12

wish you'd come over to Caveet and
give us a chanst to see your Show"
said the tars.
Them FrawIeys sure could make
pile over here" said the marines.
Tim Frawley said he could spare Sun
day for the delighting of the sailor men
at Cavite. He gave them a weeks no
tice, and informed the members of the
''Neill-Frawley Company on Oriental
tour that on the following Sunday
they would go from Manila to Cavite
and paIy "All the Comforts of Home
at the Grand Opera-house'' in that
town.
Cavite is a half-dozen miles across
the bay, and a ferry company carries
people and freight to and from Manila
in a lazy, manana way. The stage man
ager and the property man went over
early on the afternoon of the day set,
and I went with them to see how they
fixed things for the American drama
in the Philippines. The company had
been playing in Manila for weeks, and
everything ran along without a hitch,
but the property man said 'jumpin'
into the provinces" was a departure,
and he expected there would be good
deal to do.
The ferry-boat was crOwding up when
we boarded it, As the sun was baking
the decks, we sat in the dirty, stuffy
cabin where were the only seats on
the steamer. Several hundred F'ilipinos
stood or lay about in the heat out
side. smoking their endless cigarettes
and chatting in Spanish or Tagalog.
Those who were not in bare feet wore
plush slippers without heels. Some of
these We're crimson. some pale blue,
and many merely of a dirt color. On
their wearers' unsocked feet they NOV
ed forward and backward as they
walked, giving peculiar aspect of I'M
and a sound in accord with
their appearance.
a half-hour or so after the schedule
line the ferry pulled away from the
wharf and struck out for the opposite
shore The noise of the whistle was
helped out by a score of game cocks
,arrfed by their owners. They were to
light in the chicken lists at San Rogue
There were none but Americans in
he cabin. Besides the actors and my
elf there we're two or three ladies'
wives of officers of the fleet at Cavite-
md five or six soldiers. A sergeant of
.avalry. whose hiking under hori-
.ontaI sun had burned him brown as
cocoanut, was telling his fellows of
IN experience in Samar, and was
listening intently, when fat Fliiplno
4 middle age entered and in Spanish
demanded of me ten cents for sitting in
he cabin. 1 paid it. and in turn he
The ladies' !
we're across the cabin, and were be-
inning TO open their purses. when the
ergeant in khaki interposed.
at amt goin' a-pay you nutthin'. he
aid TO the questing Filipino. Dye
rink I'm loco? I paid my fare on this
,n,eback1y craft. and that's all you
AZ don't stand fur no hold-up I
anne" z ?
rrba FiIipino rushed into gestures and l
-ira+ed spanish. He said the COM
80 a1vyavs charged extra for occupy
=, he cabin. He pointed out the fact
III his countrymen were in the sun, ,
"a Re called heaven to witness that
- rod ever had a seat or rode under
,1aI+ar except for ten cents extra:
..Iyau then. I'll teach you bran
-. +-icl, >, said the swarthy sergeant.
Tbis amt no Chicago streeI-car.
;,7,,,+ come on board to stanu up :.
The Filipino persisted ana Fo"eu :.
,a+ all who did not pay woula nave ~ :,
eek the sun. Other officials OF the oodt ;,
acked him up, and then the SCI 49,
,osened some choice Uhlleu ~
,i,-ed with the native brand. ., -
~ Ne l,a-na7 100000. you're nuthln' G
hoI ,.drana If YOU wuz in my town q
-. q hang We fur boss stealin'.' Y
leS INDEED farrvnen turned yer L
-, ! - o+ the word '1adrone.' and Win .
wv at LIN ime gestures neared the ser c
a lre1 TT The latter charged them like P