The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-10-26
CONSTABULARY OF
THE PHILIPPINES
Letter From Lieutenant
Ralph R. Faison
TAR HEELS IN THE SERVICE

Details of Their Work in the Philip
pine Constab uIary-Manila Cleaner
Must Go Through the Constabulary
School Before Assigned to Regular
Duties.
Many North Carolinians have en-
tered the Philippine Constabulary ser
vice, among them being three A. and
M. College graduates, who left for
h Islands last June Lieutenant
John E. S. Young, commandant A. and
M. College, has received a letter from
one Of these, Lieutenant Ralph r.
Faison, who was accompanied by
Lieutenants James E. Latham and II.
A. Shope.
The following are excerts from
lieutenant Faison's interesting letter,
giving a graphic picture Of what he
and other North C~arolinians have seen
and experienced in the Philippines.
"Just two months ago yesterday,
Latham, Shope and I left Seattle for
Manila, and one month ago yesterday
we landed in the last anne place.
l ills liz We hdNO Gel ~
many new and interesting things that
we have decided to write you
about different parts of the trip. n
I am to take it up from our landing
In the islands
1--WE came ashore from the steam
ship Minnesota at Manila IN July %,
and I was not long in making up my
mind that it was the best city I had
seen since I left Seattle. Neither
Yokahoma, Toxic, Kobe, Kyoto, or
Nagasaki, Japan, nor Shanghai, China,
could compare with it in either beauty
or cleanliness.
"Our life in the Islands, as civilians,
was short, as we were aiken almost
Immediately to Constabulary Head
quarters and assigned temporarily to
the Santa Lucia barracks in the city.
These barracks were at one time uSeo
by the Spanish cavalry. For the next
week we were kept quite busy getting
fitted out in uniforms and other nee
essary supplies, and in reading up on
time however. to TAKE in the In
teresting sights of the city, which we
did. Stationed in the barracks with
US were about a dozen more newly ap-
pointed third lieutenants, who, like
ourselves, were just over from the
States. Among them were three 'os
graduates from V. P. T., an old Glenn
son graduate, three 'O9 men from
University of Missouri, one from Uni
versity of Tennessee. a graduate from
Culver, Indiana, one from Oregon Ag-
ricultural College, n others. Be
sides these, there were six or seven
more on duty in the several stations
In the provinces and who were await
ting the opening Of the Constabu'ary
school.
ION August first we were ordered,
in twos, 10 the provinces, to spend che
two weeks between then and the open
ing Of the officers school on Angus
18th. Luckily for us. Slope and ray
self we've sent to the same station,
about fifty miles north of Manila and
In the Pampangan Province. This was
the headquarters OF the Senior In
spector of the Constabulary in that
province. Most of our time here was
spent IN getting familiar with Con-
Stabulary office work, Though we We're
twice sent out with a squad OF sol
diers or a hike" My trip was from
San Fernando. our station, to the top
Of Mount Arayat, a distance Of twenty
one miles one way. We arrived at the
small town at its base abou one
O'Clock at night, spent the rest of
tain next day. There was no regu-
lar trail SO 1t took up practically the
whole day to go up and down. tn
men were rationed for three days with
rice n fish and our dinner was
cooked and eaten On top of the noun
tain. We spent that night in the viii
fage, returning to San Fernando next
morning.
1--WE left San Fernando on theft
teenth, making the trip to Baguio in
a day. The train took us only as
far ~ Camp Overton, the trip from,
there On being in an automobile owe,
the famous Benkuet road. This road
which 10 h1i1f nf ynnly ,L.z3
rises almost from the sea level Ia ar
Of i've thousand feet. ha.
recently been completed by the gov.
at cost of over two millipr
ooiiars. At one time we could sc,
o@cK OF US eight bridges. one OF whict