Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-09-17


D ace. Great numbers of japanese haV
: come into the islands. but Filipinos
{ who told the teachers they are afraiI
] Japan viii invade the islands as Ger
} many did Austria, shlIn them and re
5 fuse to trade in their shops.
Next came an inter-isiand cruis
which brought the teachers to densel.
populated Cebu, where Miss Lynch me
] q former college clasSmate and schoo
teacher from Butte high school. Mrs
Robert r. Landon, the former Mis-
Teresa Reichle. after whose mother thl
Montana town Of that name wa.
christened
\ Mrs. Landon and Miss Lynch were
well acquainted for a number Of years
and both taught at Butte high schoo
until Mrs. Landon left Butte about
eight years ago to go to the Philippines
4 1t was there that she met and married
the late Robert r. Landon, who, the
returning teachers report, was regarded
almost with hero worship in the
/ islands.
Visible from Landon Heights, q
! popular mountain resort named for the
/ late Mr. Landon, where the former
Butte woman makes her home, is the
tiny island Of Mactan, where Magellan,
whose ships we're the first to circle the
globe, lies buried. He was killed there
In 1851.
Primitive Moro
From the Philippines the teachers
sailed to the primitive Moro country
and there viewed the civilization Of q
tropical fairyland, where the tribal
members are famed for their work in
silver and brass. There the primitive
Moro culture impinges on that Of the
Filipinos, Chinese, Japanese, Malay
and many other peoples.
There-hugging the equator-were
chattering monkeys. vast groves Of Co
coanut trees, nipa huts OF straw perched
high on piles above the water, tobacco
plantations and cocoanut oil refineries-
While there Miss Lynch and Miss
Deeney went to see Mount Mayor, an
active volcano, now In state Of erup-
ton. Crowds gathered there day after
day, brought by curiosity and hoping
to witness an eruption.
1t was there, too, while the Butte
teachers visited, that a comet, streak
ing from the heavens, struck the earth
and shattered into fragments which
we're sought by natives for sale to in
vestigating astronomers.
People sitting on the decks saw an
object In the sea-" Miss Lynch said |
Some speculated as to what it might !
be: others paid little attention at first, |
but as the boat drew closer we could |
see that it was an old Chinese man
on a raft.
THE ship was stopped, boat low
cred and sailors went out to rescue /
him. The next day we learned he was
a 62-year-old Chinese fisherman who
had given up active fishing eight years
before because Of illness and his adj
vanced age. Then his son died and he
was compelled to go back to fishing to
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His fishing boat had been lost in
a typhoon and for four days and nights
he had chung to the raft until our
ship, the Empress of Russia, arrived"
The teachers, after sailing from VIC
5oria in rough sea which delayed the
departure four hours, went
first to Honolulu, which impressed
them as one of the most beautiful cities
visited. They next stopped at Yoko-
hama, where they had their first view
of Mount Fujiyama, the sacred noun
tain which marks the entrance to the
Far East
which was swept by disastrous floods
The week after their departure, kill
ng many and causing great damage.
Japan they described as a beautiful
country with everything In miniature"
One Of the unique sights was Gina
treet in Kamakura where costumed
Japanese come at night to buy any
hing from peanuts to pianos" 1t also
vas there that they saw Daibutsu, the
reat bronze Buddha which was erected
a 1852.
On the return trip to Japan, Miss
iynch, with several other teachers, got
If the boat at Kobe and made an In
and journey by train, visiting such
AIMED beauty spots as Nara, Kyoto,
Iikko and others.
She rejoined the ship at Yokohama
nd they sailed across the Pacific to |
'ictoria. Miss Deeney came 10 Butte
nd Miss Lynch then went to Seattle
, visit relatives for few days before
stunning. She was accompanied from
cattle to Butte by her sister, Mrs.
rank Keefe, who Is making a brief
Isit there II