Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-02-03

in the morning, and passed Carlgodon
before daylight, as Dewey did about
ten years ago. We were met ut early
dawn by steam tenders, with bands
playing. They escorted US to the
shore amid, cheering and waving of
flags. We Immediately tied up. at the
wharf and proceeded to land. We
found the place packed with whites
and natives to give us a grand well
! come. Each State had presented a post
and nailed up flag with the name of
the State written upon it as q rallying
place and badge to pin on all the
coats of all representing the different
States. The knights Templars had
telegraphed out to sea that they would
entertain all the Knights Templars and
their ladies, which numbered about
two hundred. We found autos wait
ing for us in which we went TO see
Manila, returning in time or.lunch at
the hotel ard we were well enter
tanned. After lunch we spent the
afternoon walking around, getting
mail auG shopping, with dinner at the
hotel at six o'clock p. M. Wo spent
the goth in looking around the city and
visited the largest cigarette factory in
the world, all run by native capital
and native people. In the afternoon
the Knights Tempiars' ladies' took our
Knights Temp!ar3 ladies out il autos
up the river as far as Fort Mckinley,
and served refreshments at tho end OF
the drive, so you see the ladies are
alive TOO. At two p. M, the men took
! boats up the Paul river, distance Of
seven miles, to Fort Mckinley and at
tended The Governors reception. In
the evening we attended the Knights
Templars reception and ball, and cer-
tainly fine affair it was too. We tar
ried until twelve O'Clock, after which
we partook of lunch and their good
things, and then retired to our home
to rest. We are up again early, on the
morning of the 21st, for one moro and
last lock at Manila and from what
they tell us and what we see now, our
people have made wonderful improve
mepte both in the city and the peo-
pie. The city is very clean with fine
streets, and the people are sleek look
ing, we'll dressed and appear happy
and contented with their lot The
only ones we found complaining were
the Spaniards. They seemed very
| n1t ho
! tives with so much consideration and
said the only wayto get along with them
was to keep them down, and to kick
and cuff them. They do not believe
in education and said we were trying
to do more in a short time than others
had done in three or four hundred
years. After a very pleasant three
days visit, we return to the ship, as
we sail at three p. m. AS the time ar
rives and our folks are Fastening to
get aboard 30 are the natives and citi-
zens coming to see us off. The great
band, the second largest in the world,
over fifty members and natives, led
by native, began to play and kept it
up amid the cheers of the multitude,
until we were we'll started. Then they
got aboard large launch and followed
US two or three miles out to sea and as
long as we could see back the crowd
were on the wharf. Several other
launches were along. AT last amid
the screeching of whistles and both
bands playing with all the vim they
could possibly make, they leave us to
go our way and they turn back to their
homes, and it would be hard to say
who were the happiest-the visitor or
the visited. So we leave Manila, the
Pearl of the Orient, destined to be the
finest, cleanest and happiest of all
places. About ten O'Clock on the
night of the 21st, we ran into heavy
seas which lasted all the next day and
sent many passengers below TO con-
template the casting up of accounts,
of which the writer was not one; the
other half of this concern was below all
day, not sick but fearful she would be.
On the 22nd we ran smooth again and
the weather getting colder and all on
deck again. Heavy clothing was in
demand as we were nearing Hong
Kong. We passed a number of small
islands and at about 1890 a. m. enter
the harbor and cast anchor at Victoria.
We land in tenders at 1890 and take
the trolley cars for % mile ride about
the city, which is built on the side of
very rocky mountain, 1000 or 1909
feet high. The hotels and houses are
clear up to the top. We rode in val
ley with a cemetery on one side and
race track on the other. 1t was a very
interesting ride but not much interest