New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1904-08-24
MANILA. P. T.. JUNE 81.

MANILA. p. J., JUNE 81.
just arrived safe and we'll. / am
well satisfied with my first impressions
of the place.
MANILA, p. T., JUNE 26.
A few days wrote you card telling
you that on the next day we set sail on
the "Churruce" for Laoag
After three postponements We are
still here. We were scheduled to leave
on June % at 10 a. NJ; first postponed
until June "a, a. M second, June "a at
p. NJ, and third until further notice,
so here we are and have no idea when
we will get out. The cause of our delay
was the announcement from the weather
bureau predicting typhoon.
A typhoon is kind of storm very
common to the China sea at this time of
the year; they rise in the warm waters
between Borneo and Siam and take
northeasterly course through the China
sea into the Pacific Ocean. They are
dreaded by all seamen and formed a
topic of much discussion On the "China''
but we were fortunate TO escape all
kinds of bad weather.
Yesterday morning the storm reached
Manila as predicted and you may be
sure we thanked our stars that we were
on firm foundation and not at sea. The
wind blew, RAIN fell-Oregon isn't in it
it came down in bucketsfull. A
young lad from Nebraska and | went
down to the sea little ways off to see
how the harbor looked. We were
soaked LITERALLY this time. I shall ex-
plain the metaphorical significance later)
in less than five minutes, bat proceeded
onward and what spectacle the sea
was!
Breakers rolled in, dashed against the
stone wall built out in the sea to break
the force of the waves, and the spray
flew twenty-five feet high in the air; the
mighty vessels anchored in the harbor
rocked as if they were mere cradles.
We had felt bit of disappointment
that we couldn't get out as scheduled,
but we were now very we'll pleased that
we were where we were.
From the morning papers l see that
one ship foundered right in the harbor
and eleven lives were lost.
Another vessel, the "Tren," was ex-
pected in from Hong Kong yesterday.
1t has five teachers on board. Those
five got left in Hong Kong. How glad
am that We are not amchg them; they
will get rocking that will make them
think of the China sea long time; l
sincerely hope their lives are spared.
have not yet received any mail since
| left San Francisco. I hope we are de-
layed until Tuesday for On Monday the
"Sheridan" arrives with $50 sacks of
mail and I am looking eagerly for nv
share of it.
l want to write about the Filipinos,
but as yet / know very little about
them. They are very quick in learning,
especially in learning how to cheat.
The Spaniards treated them as slaves.
The Spaniards made them haul them
around all day for zoe (10c o. s.) The
Americans passed a law forbldding them
to charge moe than zoe an hour for
theil services. You would think such a
raise would satisfy them, but they have
Learned that the Americans are liberal
people and as result they will ask you
dollar for any favor, however small.
They all go barefoot, except a few
who have positions with Americans and
have learned from them to wear shoes.
Men, women, children six years ola.
everyone, in fact, smokes. You see old
bony women all over, with horrid black
cigars in their mouths. Some chew
beadle nuts which make their teeth
black as ebony and their expectations
red as blood. They are lazy but good
natured aud appear hospitable. It
takes thee to 60 fishing-one to dip the
net, one to take the fish out of the net.
and third one to carry the fish. They