The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-03

gators Of the nrst cabin passenger
variety are Amercans-feels QUICK
sning of the heart when hts ship drops
anchor In Manila Bay and ne sees
boating from a SCORE OF naestans TINS
Star 6pangled Banner. II he 10 OF
certain class of American he Will com
municate his JOY In loud voice TO the
entire ships company. II he 10 OF an
other type Of American he Will not saS
anything, perhaps. but he knows thai
Il il good to be under the old nag
But Of whatever type or class he may
be. he will be surprised when he steps
ashore to find how thoroughly Ameri-
canized Manila has become.
Eleven years ago the United States
knew only that Manila was the place
the hemp came from, but where II
was or what II amounted 10 not one
American In q thousand could tell
There was the accident OF war. Deweys
May-day party. and Manila became
American in name. How It has become
American In fact 10 the story.
Stepping OF the ship one experiences
that thrill Of patriotic Joy which al
ways comes to the homecoming Amer
lean when the United States custom
officer goes through his baggage. not
In the perfunctory manner Of the polite
Britisher, but in thorough and busi-
ness like ashton as IL he actually sus-
pected the presence of smugglers.
Having finished with the custom
house, one walks out on a well-paved
street and waits for street car. Once
on the car, the traveller again is sensi-
BILE OF living under the star spangled
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 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
ican money IL 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 a ride, long or short. The Anert-
can ability to charge crossed the Pac-
ifcc in the wake Of Dewey's feet.
II the American traveller Is cot
exactly bubbling over with patriotism
after the custom house and the street.
car ride, It will not be long until he
will be ready to buy bunch Of fire.
crackers and launch an individual
Fourth of July celebration. The hotel
he goes to is not prepossessing, but
all unbidden and without any apparent
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 lemonade
hyEenic soda. vile bottled lemonade
and bitter "tonic water" to him who
has almost IL not quite forgotten the
appearance of ice in a classic such
a traveller the Manila distilled water
and it's ice Is a God-send. Then, too.
the breakfast begins with fruit. is
served as early In the morning as one
cares to have 1t, and has no resem-
blance whatever to the meat break
fast" of the English colonies. that
ten o'clock dinner of q dozen kinds OF
flesh.
At the Army and Navy Club an AM
erican, late from India and China,
asked for q lemon squash. He knew
that a request for lemonade" in the
Orient usually brings forth a bottle OF
vile, sweet soda pop" and he wanted
real lemon juice squeezed into 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
Escoita. What does one find theref
Sam-a soda fountain. Not one. but
many of them. Drug stores have them,
restaurants have them. and one reali-
zes at last that Manila, despite its
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 IL beyond the
power of any son of John Bull to die
vine. But the red-headed doctor from
Belleville, Illinois, 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 order
ed 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 were not popular in the Phili-
ppines before the Americans came. as
nobody but the Spanish and a very few
rich natives wore them. The Spanish
made shoe is long, pointed and fiat,
very instrument OF torture. Euro
pean shoes of any make are biissfully
innocent Of an architectural design
difference between right foot and left
foot. Shoes will wear out. and all
around the mail boat circles of the
Orient one hears suffering Americans
saying: 81 had to get these blamed
shoes because my good ones wore out
But just wait until / get to Manila,
then won't I throw these things away
and get some sure-enough shoes!" OF
course. there are American shoes on
80 IN nthar oriental citiaa h1tt fba,y
have been made for export trade on
English lasts and no American can
wear them with comfort
The newspapers have their news on
the first page. have headlines. have
Jokes. and look exactly like any other
American newspaper that can't afford
big telegraph service. 1t costs
thirty-six cents word, press-rate. to
cable from San Francisco to Manila,
SO the newspapers worry along with
scantv bulletins But they are con-
Quoted with characteristic American
energy and one of them has paid two
dividends since January l. 1909.
Manila, being Q weIl-regulated
American city. has a carnival each
year. 1t IS held in February. when
the weather here Is ideal. and this year
the people came from all over the
Philippine Islands and from Australia
and from all up and down the China
coast Representatives of all the En-
glish newspapers OF the Chinese cities
were invited as guests Of the city.
They came and had a royal time and
left a characteristic souvenir. They
were astounded that Governor Gen.
eral Smith met them and treated them
as If they were real human beings.
even though they were only editors.
No British encouragement would so