Arizona republican., 1906-12-12

are of the oriental bazar type and are
 not patronized extensively by the bet
 ter classes. The Chinese are the shoe makers, cabinetmakers and smiths of
 the community, besides following many other occupations, and always with
 success.
 The principal manufacturing indus try is cigarmaking, which has; how ever. suffered something of a setback since the American occupation, owing
 to the contraction of the Spanish mar
 ket without any compensating opening in the United States. There are 20000
 or more cigarmakers in Manila, most
 of whom are women and girls, and a
 large proportion of these Chinese
 mestizOs. Some of the factories are very large and employ as many as
 20OO hands each.
 The native suburb of Tondo is one of the plague spots with which the Amer ican authorities have had 10 deal viz orously. Formerly this section was oc- cupied by closely packed ramshackle shanties. in which the natives herded
 under disease provoking conditions. Open ditches, crisscrossing amongst the huts, served for gutter and sewer alike. In the rains several inches of
 water stood beneath these dwellings for weeks at a time. And in these Atty surroundings a great deal of the washing of the Europeans was done.
 Sanitary tenement-houses are fast dis
 placing these disease spots, d good wa
 ter and sewer system is installed, and
 the streets are properly graded and drained.
 In fact. Manila is rapidly undergoing a complete transformation. It is doubt
 ful if much can be done to improve the
 crowded state of the city within the
 walls. but it has already been rendered Tairly healthful. and since the installa-
 ton of the electric railroad there is lit-
 tie need for anyone to live in it. But
 the visitor to the Philippines today sees
 signs of the reformative measures be-
 fore he clears the custom house and evidences of them present themselves at every turn in the streets. It is the design of the present administration to make the capital of the Philippines the
 model city Of the Orient. and to that end Mir. D. H. Burnham and Mir. Peirce Anderson were employed by the com
 
 not only internal improvements, but the entire encouragement of the water
 front. Their designs contemplate d re- adjustment Of the streets. which will entail the desi- able destruction of many narrow and tortuOus thoroughfares and the establishment of system of fine. broad boulevards. An ample macada- miZed driveway will extend all the way along the sea front from the Pasig to Cavite Point and rival the famous Apollo Bunder of Bombay or the Ma rina of Madras. The plan includes commodious and handsome public buildings and makes ample provision for parks and playgrOunds. A number of model schoolhouses, the first of the kind to be erected in the East. are in Course of construction.
 Instead of dredging the shallow wa ter front. it is the intention to fill it in and on the made ground to put, new docks and warehouses and number of handsome buildings. Government Of- fees will occupy the present Luneta and the pleasance will be carried west ward on to the made ground. One Of the finest hotels in the East will stand on the edge of the New Luneta. Half a mile farther south the residence of the governor and a row of clubhOuses will face the bay. When these alter atiOns are completed. Manila will. un- dOubtedly. Je one of the most beautiful cities in the world.
 But the first efforts of the commis- sion have with marked success. been directed towards tkc improved sanita tion of the city. An extensive system of sewerage sufficient for q population of half a million-that is. double that of the present-is now being laid at an expense of $3,OOO0OO The water supply has been increased and improv- ed and crematories for the consump- ton of garbage have been installed | The accumulated filth of centuries has | been removed and the streets are now cleaned with daily regularity. The re- ! suit of these measures is already in evidence in the recorded bill of health | of Manila, which compares f1-rrably i with that of large cities the world over. ! and is better than that of large centers ! Dn the continent of Asia.
 The hospital, police and fire services are in marked contrast with those by the Spanish govern nent, which was so thoroughly per heated with graft" that only small of the funds designed fof public Improvements ever filtered trough the fingers of greedy officials.
 Whilst enerEetically pushing these Il measures for the general benefit of the the administration has en- ;aged in important works looking to he enchantment of the commerce nf he country. Under Spain the trade of he islands was never fostered. Re movable physical obstacles were allow d to continue. mOnopOlies were per nitted and unnecessary legal restIic- ions were imposed With one of the inest harbOrs in the world. Manila was flowed to remain one of the least in iting ports in the orient. If vessel ecded repairs cntailing docking. it wa. ccesSary to take it tO Hongkong. Port Ucs were excessive and subject to ar itrary discrimination. The Bay of ianila IS so expansive it affords little aTbOrage in severe storms Vessels ave frequently been torn from their nchorage and blown ashore During he course of many years tbo pnrt o,,