The daily sentinel., 1912-03-21

perhaps, will take him up. Settle
ment is made when one birds runs
or is killed. When the roosters are
of the same color, the owner of
one removes his hat, and the bets
are placed on the man with or with
out a hat as the case may be. Dave
Hanna says that the estimate is l.
100000 chickens killed every year
in the cockpits of Manila. and !
guess that's right-we have chicken
every meal at the hotel. As soon as
a fight is finished the ring is swept
of feathers, blood and intestines, and
another fight is on and kept up all
day. The supply of roosters seems
unlimited.
| think | wrote you something
of the hotel and its service. Milk
and cream, jams and jellies are
served in the original cans. The but
ter is also canned, of Swiss product.
Syrup is served from bottle. There
is a little red ant hee, that gets into
everything. II is so infinhesimal
that it is hardly detected even in
white sugar | suppose we eat lots
of them.
American style of brooms are un-
known. I've seen but one and that
in Dawes livery stable. They use a
handful of bamboo splints or bunch
or grass fiber tied to a bamboo stick.
The floors. stairs, sidewalks and
streets are swept with these. The
street sweepers carry a dustpan ar
angement that will hold aboutp 4
gallons. With their bamboo splints
they sweep everything into the dust
pan.
No vehicle may travel on the
streets after dark without carrying
lights. The cabs have carriage
lamps on either side-white, front
and sides. red TO the rear-and the
carebou carts have a beer bottle of
cocoanut oil with a wick in ii for a
torch. There are over $500 regis
tered cabs tcarmisitasl in the city
and the view down any street looks
like a torchilght procession.
This hotel is on the bank of Pasis
river at the Santa Cruz bridge.
About GO rods west Is the old Bridge
of Spain" The river is the Seine
of Manila. It's fine to sit at the
window at night and see the reflec-
tion of the lights from the bridge,
passing Carmisitas and street cars,
and watch the ripping lights as the
come up the river no further than
the Bridge of Spain; below that the
river Is filled with crafts of all
kinds and lights of all colors.
February LIVE left Manila at
Z a. m. on the S. D. Panay for Iloilo.
We're in sight of LuZon and Mindora
all day and the north and east coast
of Panay all the next day. There
are numerous islands in the Visayan
Sea and the scenery is not unlike
the Inland Sea of Japan. 1t has
been a dry wet" season, and now,
at the beginning of the dry season
the hills are brown with dead grass
and there are many fires. The ISL
ands are larger than those of the
Inland sea and not so abrupt, but If
they Were green, as they should be,
they would be Just as beautiful.
There is scarcely any cultivation on
them. Wherever there is a little
strip of beach, there are a few
shacks and a bunch of Cocoanut
palms, with little corn patch.
1t is much cooler at Iloilo which
is within a few miles of the open
straits and gets a sea breeze, denied
to Manila, which is in a pocket of
hills at the end of a 2S-mile bay. The
town is much smaller than Manila,
having but $4,000 inhabitants, of
which 275 are Americans. Manila
has 275, 900 noses.
The streets are wide, comparative
ly, and well cared for. The business
buildings are of concrete and mod
ern construction. There is no water
works system.
We arrived there the evening of
the 18th and | left the morning of
the 14th. arriving here the evening
of the 18th. The dining service on
the interisland boats is the same as
that in the hotels-a stack of plates
as high as ones chin-and when the
boat is a little wobbly it keeps one
busy to close herd them, especially
if the meat is a little tough, and
sometimes one gets away. There are
no Caribou in 1loilio. They require
lots of water and of that the town
is shy. Instead they have the vaca
cattle similar to ours, but with a
shoulder lump, Lovingly,
EArLJER