Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1924-02-14


Philippine Islands written by Miss
Algie Werner former Belington
girl, who left last July for the Orient
accompanied by Miss Kathleen Black
hart, whose father they are visiting
in the little town called Kalambrigan
near Manila:
Kalambrigan, Prov. Lanao
Mindanao, Philippine Islands
Nov. Id, 1923
"We Hut on the Hill"
My Dear Carol:
Since you have known my where
abouts in the years gone by, / feel it
my duty to send you christmas
Cheer" in the good opway, even .ho',
we are ten thousand miles apart.
You know the good old saying: "Ab-
sence makes the heart grow fonder,"
is quite true to me as ! am in an
entirely different part of the world, -
'(things are sure amazing as well as
amusing,-) but can't forget dear OIL
friends and wishing them the Best Of
Health, Prosperity and Happiness.
Carol, you can bet that Kathleen
and / have had and are still having
the "time of our life."
After leaving Morgantown, July
9Th 1928 (Long to be remembered)
to Pittsburgh, shopped one day to
complete our wardrobes, then via
Chicago to San Francisco, sightsee-
ing there, we sailed July 18th on s.
s. president Cleveland" This best
of Luck, both proved to be good sail
ors and we now believe "13" to be
our lucky number, as it was the
thirteenth trip Of "Pres. Cleveland"
our life boat was number thirteen
and the first day out sight of land
was Friday thirteenth.
Our first stop was Honolulu, where
we stayed twelve hours. The first
attraction is the native divers, they
swim out to meet the ships and pas
sengers throw coins in the water
and watch them dive for them. The
native women also meet the boats
selling "lei" Of course we bought one
luck. We then took machine drive
to Paei, Ga mountain view Of the
city, sugar plantations and pineapple
fields), to Waikiki beach where surf
riding Of the natives Is the main at
traction and to say little Of Honolulu
it is gorgeous as every house stands
in garden Of tropical flowers.
Second stop was Yokohama, in the
a. m. July 9th, where everyone went
ashore to have "rickshaw" ride, to
see the Siosha girls, to have a squirt
at Tujiyama and trip by rail to
Tokyo. AS we visited these places
you can imagine how we began to
call on our geographical knowledge
and wake up to the fact that we were
in Asiatic land. The two cities men
toned were both destroyed in the
"quake" which we are sure thankful
we were not victims. While there
we made few acquaintarces and see
on the causalty list three met death.
After passing thru the finland
Sea of Japan" we stopped at Shang-
hal which is up the Yangtze River a.
bout fourteen miles and here is
where wanted to chang my hat"
Even since seeing Manila / must say
that Shanghai is my pick of Oriental
cities.
Then to Hong Kong, (the Granite
city, where we had slight typhoon,
and our steamer left the dock floated
out few miles and dropped anchor
for sixteen hours. Therefore we
viewed Hongkong from the harbor
which is very easely done as 1t is
built against the side of hill.
Found Manila just as pictured an
tramuros", meaning city within a
city All Spanish buildings in side
the wall with American buildings on
the outside. We spent three days
here before coming south to Min
danao. But going back soon.
You will probably wonder what we
did twenty eight days on water. We
had the best Accommodations as our
room had twin beds, two dressers,
private shower, davenport, electric
reading lamps and fans and thermos
bottle.
We had the pleasure of being seat
ed at the Pursers table in the dining
room and our meals like this, Break
fast $40, Bullion on Promenade
Deck at 1000 a. m, Lunch at LOO
200 p. M, Tea in tea room at 400
p. M, Dinner at TOO p. m. in the
grand salon which was the formal
function of the day, then dances on
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