The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1907-10-31
OLD AND new MANILA.
esta Davis Higgins Writes of Scenes
and Life in the Philippines.

often had occasion to pinch herself
exclaim wonderingly, as did the
woman in the nursery jingle-'Tf l
as l suppose l be-" 1t is hard to
re sometimes, among such sur
ldings, that WE Americans-natives
he old Pine Tree State,-are still
Fl our own flag, more than half the
DIS width away from home, daily
ciating among these ''little brown
1le," defendants of the Malay race,
Sc future is bound up in our own.
" have written of Manila and the
pinos during the past nine years,
apparently looking at them from
fferent standpoint and forming
rent ideas, SO | will endeavor to
my impressions and describe what
We seen here.
mia is situated on the island of
n. This island alone of the 1,40O
rising the Philippine group con-
about 80, 600 square miles. Manila
lecome a city of considerable i'm
nee in the world of commerce and
e. Next to Hong Kong | believe
,he principal port of the Orient.
ny time one may stroll down to
-hipping and look upon tourists
all parts of the known world. On
scotia, the Malecon, the Tuneta
aShionahle drives one may hear
IA at various times all the princi.
anguageS of the civilized world,
cry often some of the strange dia-
II the tribes from other islands:
ere are often visitors from Moro
ud the southern islands, many of
in full regalia, Others clad only in
cloth and a sunny smile-or a
scowl according to the nature of
GRAND. The dattos or chiefs of
tribes often visit Manila as our
ia chieftains do Washington, to lay
the great American Sultan"
of wrongs and prosecutions
ID or real-on the part of the Pro
a and District governors. These
~esque personages are a never
? source of interest.
mia is a city within a city. Old
a, surrounded by an immense
loneycombed with cells and dun
with roofs, domes and spires ris,
hind the ramparts, is encircled by
-ction of barrios or villages, com
Ilg what is now known as New
Ia. The Walled City" as the
r is called, or "Intramuros"
a the wallis is a network of mar
reefs, bordered on either hand by
We stone buildings; palaces, pub
lildlngs, churches, converts, and
sidences of the old Spanish aristo-
The very walls of these old and
eSque buildings seem peTmeated
Loom from brooding over the de-
Z Splendor of former days. En-
through anyone of the ancient
ieaying outside most of the sun
is well as hustle and activity of
.neteenth Century, it seems like
g back into the regions of an
and losing oneself among the
Of former ages In the days of
mpire-(s sometimes called the
aIlum days, i. e., before 1899 the
tity was the home of the nobili-
aristocracy and the clergy. The
IN people were considered out
pale and could gain no foot
i-hin the gates. Most of the res
OF the upper classes are severe
u on the outside, of two OF three
and all windows are iron bar
he interiors are often furnished
wish scale, with all the brilliant
~ and lack of harmony that de-
the Spanish eye. These magnifi-
tSidences, churches, and monu-
a gates are many of them badly
-i with the marks of war: shatter-
many places by fragments of
from DeWey's fleet in the harbor.
Walled City" is perhaps mile
talf long by three quarters of a
Tide, and contains among other
Of interest the famous Cathedral
Lila, built i'll 1894, the Episcopal
.@s. numerous converts, orphan
ms, Army and Navy Club, and
litary headquarters of the Phil
D. Division. The churches are
Use structures of stone, and law
decorated, many of them with
-ngs and tapestries by the immor-
elasquez and others. The Arch
p's Palace covers six street blocks,
garlous parts connecting one with
ct by covered passageWays over
treets. The Archbishop and his
can visit most of the church
Jugs in the city without leaving
letter of the episcopal roof, many
IN being connected by subterrane-
rassages, protection against hos
uatlves in time of Instruction.
majority of the old aristocratic
nsh families, in their intense pride,
srorn of we American pigs, and
lsW dispensation, have returned to
md of their fathers, abandoning,
wing to the church, their cherished
-~ssions in their lost colonies, pre-
Ing i'll their fanatical pride to begin
over again in their "homeland' to
submission to the yoke of their
zee conquerors.
.r river Pasig runs through Manila,
ing the walls beneath the bastions
l Fort Santiago. In the business
ret at the back of the warehouse,
..leds of half-naked coolies are al
ousily engaged in Loading and IN
"ug cargoes of merchandise, but
'Wo and three-quarters miles of
is that surround the old capital is
NoSt conspicuous object of inter-
and claims much of the attention
NE tourist. This wall was built for
-ection against the Chinese and
ay pirates who up to sixty years
Ufested the Filipino waters, and
I'D tribute on land as well as sea.
uput these walls the city would
% oeen at the mercy of the blood
s'y buccaneers; with them, life and
prty were safe, as it would have
a doughty band of invaders to
70 called the smooth slippery preci-
: If twenty-five feet from the
,yuerous bottom Of the wide moat
them, to the fortified
e. Since the American occupation
'uoat has been filled in for sanitary
,aos reducing the apparent height