Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-02

N navigator of the globe-and
4NA two-thirds of the modern cir
cumnavigators of the first cabin pas
senger variety are Americans-ieelS d
ouickening OF the heart when MS snip
drops anchor in Manila bay ana nc
sees floating from score OF nag
staffs the star-spangled banner. IL
he is of q. certain class of American
he will communicate his JOY in louu
voice to the entire ships company. IL
he is of another certain type OF Amer
lean he will not say anything, per
haps, but he knows that 1t is good TO
be under the old flag. But OF WHAT
eN er type or class he may be- ne VIII
be surprised when he steps ashore TO
find how thoroughly Americanized
Manila has become.
Eleven years ago the United states
knew only that Manila was the place
the hemp came FROM but where II
was OF what it amounted to not one
American in a thousand could tell.
There was the accident OF war
Dewey's May day party, and Mania
became American in name. HOW II
has become American in fact is the
story.
Stepping off the ship. one expert
ences that thrill of patriotic JOY Whlch
always comes to the Homecoming
American when the United states Gus
gage, not in the perfunctory manner
of the polite Britisher, but in a thor
Cugh and business-like fashion as II
lie actually suspected the presence OF
smueglers.
Having finished with the custom
house, one walks out on well-paNed
street and waits for a street car. once
on the car the traveller again is SEN
sibie of living under the star-spangled
canner which waves over the land of
the free and the home of the brave.
He has been paying car fare In CAIRO
in Calcutta, in Bombay, in Rangoon,
in Singapore. in Hong Kong, in dozens
of cities where there is cheap oriental
labor to run the cars. He has paid as
much as one and one-half cents. or
two cents, or even four cents In Amer
lean money If the distance was very
long, But now in Manila, being under
the flag of the free, he is permitted
the gracious privilege of paying six
cents gold money of the United states
for ride, long or short. The Amer
| lean ability to charge crossed the IA
ci1c in the wake of Dewey's fleet.
If the American traveller is not ex-
| actly bubbling over with patriotism
| after the custom house and the street
car ride, 1t will not be long until he
" Ill be ready to buy a bunch of fire
I
Fourth of July celebration The hotel
he goes to Is not prepossessing, but
all unbldden and without any appar-
ent scorn on his face the waiter brings
glass of distilled water with actual
ice in It,
To him who has not known the taste
of plain water for months, to him who
has choked down impossible hygienic
soda, vile bottled lemonade and bitter
tonic water" to him who has almost
if not quite forgotten the appearance
of ice in a classic such traveller
tha Manila distilled water and its ice
is a Godsend. Then. too, the break
fsst begins with fruit Is served as as
early in the morning as one cares to
have it and has no resemblance what
ever to the meat breakfast" of the
English colonies, that 10 o'clock din
ner of dozen kinds Of fiesh'
At the Army and Navy club, an
| American, late from India and China,
asked for a 'lemon squash" He
knew that a request for lemonade
| in the Orient usually brings forth
| bottle of vile, sweet "soda-pop,' and
he wanted real lemon juice squeeZe1
into a glass and there compounded
with water and sugar. The Chinese
boy behind the bar looked upon that
American coldly and said: You mean
lemonade. We are Americans here"
Take a walk down the street. In
the busy retail part of the city along
the Fscolita. What does one tnd
there? The really, truly sign manual
of Uncle Sam-a soda fountain. NOT
one, but many of them. Drug stores
have them, restaurants have them
and one realizes at last that Manila,
despite it's ancient Spanish monuments
| and its peculiar Filipino architecture,
! is an American city.
| The other nations do not understand
| Why one should eat an Ice between
meals in a chemist shop Is beyond the
power of any son of John Bull to di-
! vine. But the red-headed doctor from
| Belleville, Ill, who had been travelling
| in China and Japan did not ask the
reason why. He went direct from the
| landing place in Manila to Clarke's $
| soda fountain, where he ordered ana
| consumed seven successive and con-
| secutiye chocolate nut sundaes at the
| first sitting, and then, in a slightly
| frapped voice burst into the street
! singing my Country, 'Tis Of Thee
| Also there are American shoes
Shoes were not popular in the Phil
| inpines before the Americans came, as
! nobodv but the Spanish and very
| few rich natives wore them. The Span
ish-made shoe is long, pointed and
| fat. a very instrument of torture
European shoes of any make are bllss-