The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-10-01
AMERICAN SUCCESS
IN THE PHILIPPINES
Continued from Page So

| and color printing. They turn out
many of the local magazines and peri
| odicals in manner quite in keeping
with the high standard set in the
United States.
Although the difficulty of securing
competent labor has heretofore made
the East dreaded locality for con-
tracing firms, two American concerns
who invaded the field since the occupa-
ton of the Philippines have "made
good. - The Atlantic, Gulf & Pacific
Co., of New York, San Francisco and
Seattle, has made brilliant success of
its enormous contract to improve the
harbor of Manila. j. G. White & Co.,
construction contractors of New York,
were equally successful in putting
through the contract for building the
Manila electric street railway. Both of
these companies encountered many of
the most difficult problems in con-
structive engineering, yet they fully
sustained the good reputation Ameri-
can engineers have made in all parts
of the world.
LOVING, NEGRO BANDMASTER.
One of the pronounced American
successes in the Philippines is that of
Lieutenant Walter Fl. Loving, the
negro bandmaster who captured the
crowd at the st. Louis Exposition with
his constabulary band of eighty pieces.
The best bands in the world partici-
pated in the musical contest at ST.
Louis and Loving was awarded second
prize, defeating famous organizations
like Sousa s, the Mexican National
band and the English Royal band. The
first prize was won by the French must
clans, but there We're many authorities
who claimed that the F'iIipinos were
equally as good. The splendid show
ing made by the dusky islanders was
genuine surprise.
Lieut.. Loving is native of ST. Paul,
Minnesota, and was brought up by
Judge Flambrau, neighbor of J. J.
Hill. The colored youth graduated
from the ST. Paul high school in the
same class with the son of his en-
ployer. His benefactor then sent him
to the New England Conservatory of
Music, in Boston, from where he grad
uated with high honors. He organized
two army bands before coming to the
Philippines. Loving is a fend for
work. During the six years of his stay
here he has mastered the Spanish,
IdgdiOS ana IiOcdnO languages IN ORDER
to make himself understood by his
men. He rehearsed eight hours a day
on the ship which took his band to
America, and continued the daily drill
up to the time of the opening of the
Exposition, so that his men were thor
oughly familiar with over thousand
selections.
During the Exposition the band was
taken on tour for a short time, and
in the different cities where it ap-
peared it proved a big drawing card,
attracting a greater number of people
than usually attend the big circuses.
1t proved a great advertisement for the
Philippines. Several amusement pro-
motors are now negotiating with a view
to taking the band on tour in America,
and if this is done it will surely break
all attendance records. Loving is only
SO years old. He is modest and we'll
and is not at all spoiled by
his great success.
THE SPIRIT OF SUCCESS.
The various crusades against cpl
denies have shown that this is indeed
the land of the white mans trial
Meaehham and Nudge were two men
whose names should live in the hall