The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-08-03

3fauil5.-The American circumnavgatOr
Of the globe-and twO-thirds Of the mod
ern circumnavigatOTs Of the first cabin
passerSsr variety are Americans-feels
Quickening Of the heart when his ship
drops anchor in Manila bay and he sees
floating from a score OF flagstaffs the
st1r-suangled banner. If he is Of d GER
tain class of American he will communi-
cate his joy in a loud voice to the entire
ships company. If he is of another Ger
tain type Of American ne VIII not say
anything, perhaps, but he knows that it
is good to be under the old flag But
OF whatever type OF class he may be, he
VII be surprised when he steps ashore
| TO find how thoroughly Americanized Ma
Mia has become
Eleven years ago the United States
! knew only that Manila was the place the
hemp came from. bat where it was or
what IL amounted to not one American
in a thousand could tell There was the
accident of war. Dewey's May day party,
and Manila became American in name.
/ How it has become American in fact is
| the story.
Stepping off the ship one experiences
that thrill of patriotic Joy which always
comes to the Homecoming American when
the United States customs officer goes
through his baggage, not in the perfume
tory manner of the polite BritiSher, but
in a thorough and businesslike fashion, s
| if he actually suspected the presence Of
smugglers.
Having finished with the custom house.
one walks out on well paved street
and waits for a street car. Once on the
car the traveller again is sensitive Of Iiv-
ing under the star-snangled banner 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 RRngOon. in Singapore. in Hong Hong.
in dozens Of cities where there is cheap
oriental labor TO run the cars. He has
paid as much as liz or cents, or even
cents in American money If the distance
was very long. But now in Manila be
| ing under the flag of the free, he is per
mitted the gracious privilege of paying o
cents gold money of the United states
| for a ride, long or short. The American
ability to charge crossed the Pacific in
/ the wake of Deweys fleet.
/ If the American traveller is not exact
| ly bubbling over with patriotism after the
| custom house and the street car ride, It
will not be long until he viii be ready to
I buy a bunch of fireCTaCkeTs and launch
| an individual Fourth of July celebTa ton.
/ The hotel he goes to is not prepossessing,
{ but all unbidden 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 wa
| ter to him who has almost if not quite
| forgotten the appearance of ice in a
/ classic such a traveller the Manila dis
| titled water and its ice is a godsand-
| Then, too, the breakfast begins with fruit,
/ is served as early in the morning one
/ cares to have il, and has no resemblance
| whatever to the meat breakfast of the
! English colonies, that 10 O'ClOck dinner of
| a dozen kinds of flesh.
/ At the Army and Navy club an Ameri-
/ can. late from india and China, asked for
/ a lemon squash He knew that re-
/ quest for lemonade" in the orient Usu-
ally brings forth a bottle of vile, sweet
/ soda pop" and ne wanted real lemon
/ juice squeezed 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
Escota. What does one find there? The
really. truly sign manual of Uncle Sam
"a soda fountain. Not one, but many OF
them. Drug stores have them, restau-
/ rants have them, and one realizes at last
that Manila. despite its ancient Spanish
monuments and its peculiar Filipino arch
itecture, is an American city.
| The other nations do not understand.
Why one should eat an ice between meals
In chemist shop is beyond the power Of
any son of John Bull to divine. But the
red headed doctor from Belleville, H.. who
had been travelling in China and Japan
did not ask the reason why. He went
direct from the landing place :" VA.
to Clarke's soda fountain, where he or
dered and consumed seven successive and
/ consecutive chocolate nut sundaes at the
first sitting. and then, in a slightly trapped
/ voice, burst into the street singing My
Country It's of Thee
Also, there are American shoes. Shoes
we're not popular in the Philippines be-