Evening Star Newspaper, April 7, 1900, Page 11

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1900-24 PAGES, 11 HOTELS. ‘This List Appears Every Saturday. HOTELS. Winter Resorts. For rates, routes, ete., call or address (send stamp) Hotel Tariff Bureau, 68 Firth Ave., New York. NEW YORK VISITOR 5 CENTS. (AP., American Plan; E.P., European; Op., Open.) N¥.N.¥.The Ten Eyek,E.P..$2 up; A.P..$4 up Hotel Kenmore, A-P.. $3 up J.The Rudolf, A.P..$3.50 to $5 --Hotel Dennis, A.P., $3 to $5 -Hotel Pierrepont, A-P.. $2.50 up ‘The Wiltshire, A-P., §3 to $5 ‘The Carrollton, A.P., $2.50 up Mase. -Hotel Vendome, A... $5 do..(Harry L. Brown) The Westminster, E.P., $2 0. Copley Sq. Hotel.,E.P..$1.60 up; A-P.,$3.50 up BROOKLYN, N.¥.Hotel St.George, E.P..$1; A-P..$3 CINCINNATI, O.Grand Hotel.E.P.,$1.50; A-P.,$3up COLUMBIA, 8. O.......The Columbia, A-P., $3 up Mit. Park Hotel,A-P.,$4 up; bklt. KANSAS CITY, Mo. TheMidland.£. P.,$1up;A_P..33up LAKEWOUD, N. J . Laurel House . High-claxs. Kes tel. Unexcelled for cuisine, comfort. Mod. tarift. NEW YORK......Fifth Avenue Hotel, A-P., $5 up do. Herald Sq.(new,fireproof),34th, W.B'y,1.P.,31.50 do. (Chumbers&W-B'way) Cosmopolitan.E.P..$1 up do-(C.E.Leland) Hotel Kensingtoa, E.P., $1.50 up NEW ORLEANS, La. .New St. Charles, A-P., $3 up OLD PT. COMFORT, Va. Htl.Chamberlin, A-P..$4 ap PHILADELPHIA. Aldine,E.P.,$1.50up;A.P.,$3.500p -Arlington Hotel, A-P., $5 ‘The Raleigh, BP., $1.50 up THE GAIRO HOTEL, WASHINGTON, D. 0. Fourteen-atory stcel-frame fireproof building. Lospox.st.Bemia'e{ idential Private dining rooms ard banquet hall. fe8-10tf OUT-OF-TOWN. Hotel Earlington Absolutely Fireproof. FORMERLY THE GERLACH. 27TH ST., WEST, NEAR BROADWAY. Centrally located in amusement and shopping dis- trict, New York city. European Plan. Completely remodeled and refurnished at an ex- penditure of $150,000. Restaurants and Palm Room open until 1 a.m. Table d’Hote Dinner, 6 to 8. Music in Palm Room daily and evenings. Tariff of Rates. Single rooms, $1.50 and $2, detached bath. Dor rooms, $3. detached bath. Double rooms, pri- bath—one person, $3; two, $4. Suites of parlor, bed room and bath, $4. $5. $6, $8. Parlor, two bed rooms and bath, $7, $8 and $10. E. M. Earle & Son, 30 years connected with Earle's Hotel, New York. o RICHFIELD SPRIN S, NEW YORK, The American Cure and Pleasure Resort, Hotel Earlington and St. James Hotel Open June to October. NOTICES. 9OURT OF THR DISTRICT patter of Virgil D. Stock No. 1 LEGAL IX THR SUPREME OF COLUMBIA. In tt igi D. Stockbridge was and that the first meet- held at my office, Room ue, Washington, D. WO, at B o'clock tors may attend, tee, examine the < business as may i S. MeCALMONT, Referee tn Bankruptey. THE DISTRICT cial term for Orphans’ te of Thomas Buckle} ation docket 26. : ‘Supreme tof Columbia. bold Court business, fu n sald estate by William Bi A day of M Ryan, ding In re 9343, ad plication Of the Di for istration ordered thi xiven t us" of admin- ekley, it ts ch that notice is hereby to all #tbers concerned on Friday, the 4th day Kk am., to show cause should not be granted. This fn the Washington Law Star once fn each of three ¢ return day therefu plication to be not less ¢ said return das. By the court st: LOUIS SR. ARCHER, mb24-law3t OFFICIAL NOTICES. NSION OF HIG Fy rst pl HE DISTRICT y Commission, 1%0.—To whom It 2 of . enti. rlet of « A trom 1 iumbia th 5 highways for the south and east of the Anacostia Interested parties are invited to examine the river. map on exhibition in 1 49 of the District bulld- ing. The comuise consiler any suggestions and protests, to be submitted in writing on or be- fure May 5, 1900, snd addressed to the chief of em sineers, US. A, War Department, Washington, B"S""-ruc comminsion will mect on May tee feet yelock a in the of @ of the Secretary those who desire to thelr written oMjections. ELIHU ROL, cretary of War: B. A. HITCHCOCK, Secretary of Tut JOHN M. WIS Culet of ‘En- ineers. siselon. 3, 111,12 via Boulogne + Parls of Lond, . Statendam and ass, $6) and upward; steamers carry one clase passengers only; $42.50 and up. t Holland. America Line, 3 Broadway. to E. F. Droop & 25 Penn. ave., Moss, 1327 F st., Wash., D. C. s.6m tug rate, A W. Mi EK SERVICE N. BREMEN. +--April 21 LTApetl 28 Departure 11 A.M. PURICHS & CO. NO. 5 F » E. B. DROOF Compagnie Generale Transatlantique oT LINE TO HAVRE—PARIS (France), ¥ at 10 a.m. r, foot Motion St. z May 3 Satling every Th 42. retaghe he Paris Exposition, 3 for United States und Canada, 82 w York. RESS SERVICE, s HAMPTON—LONDON. WESTBOUND AT CHERBOURG. ing Wednesdays at 10 A.M. April 18 New York. s-April 25 | St. Pant May 2 | St. Louts. Red Star Line. NEW YORK. Every Wednesday at 12 noon. uiwark...JAprtl 1 | Kem ulamd.-April 18 | Neordland. NATIONAL N &15.N ‘3 Broadway, New York. Mee, $05-30T Walnut IN OFFICE. 1306 F a Agent, at Sanders & Stayman’: Ww. OF G MOSS 1: F st. aw. 327 ‘se2T Results of an Accident. } Mrs. L. S. Bacon of 1423 N street north- [west 1 her two children, four and eight rears old, respectively, were thrown from a pCarriage at With and U streets about 6 o'clock yesterday afternoon and painfully [injured. “John Mahoney, the colored driver, } was also hurt. The accident was the result of a Capital Traction car striking the * carriage. The vehicle, which is the property of Charles Schae*et, was badly @amaged.” HYOMEI PACKING MULES ON THE PORT STEPHENS. SPTESPDOHT ED ESESOEODD ON PANAY ISLAND A POSITIVE CURE For Catarrh, Graphic Picture of a Little-Known Part of the Philippines, Bronchitis, ____ BUT TP IS AS BIG AS CONNECTICUT Consumption. ee eT Full of Agricultural Riches, Though ee REPOKE It Raises Bandits, Too. Ito Fusther Procol Neceeaty-| , caan with ous HUGHES Within the past few months han- dreds of members of the medical pro- fession have stated that no further Proof is necessary to show that Hyo- mei is a positive cure for Catarrh, Consumption, and all diseanen of the respiratory organs. The evidence is overwhelming. This means that they have seen with their own eyes and been convinced by their own experiments that thia new germicide is a cure for these terrible scourges, and if any further evidence is required. it comes with astounding force from the greatest authority in the country—The United States Health Reports, who for the first time in its existence stated editorially on Jan- uary Sth that the death rate from C tarrh, Bronchitis and Consumption decreased over 30 per cent. during 1899, and that this reduction was duc entirely to the use of HYOMEI; t NO OTHER REMEDY OR TREATMENT had any influence whatever in bring- ing about this result. With auch evidence it would seem that nothing but ignorance and care- lessness on the part of the public could prevent the early and complete eradication of these dineases. That HYOMEI and HYOMEI alone of all the treatments and remedies used should be the only one to ever re- (Copyrighted, 1900, by Frank G. Carpenter.) On board the transport Port Stephens in the harbor of Ilotlo, February 17, 1900. I am at my first stopping place after leaving Manila on a tour of the southern parts of the Philippine Islands. I am on a mule transport, which is bound for all of the out of the way ports to take wagons, mules, horses and supplies for our garri- sons. We shall travel more than 2,000 miles before we return to Manila and shall go to many places which have not been open to trade or travelers. We shall spend several days at each place, landing cargo, and in our tour will not only visit the Sulu Is- lands, where the sultan lives with his wives and slaves, but will also coast clear around the great Island of Mindanao, which is practically unknown to the world. It has naked savages, wild Moros and sultans even More powerful than the one with whom General Bates made his treaty of friendship and peace. On a Male Transport. Our ship 1s like nothing you see on the Atlantic. It is a vessel as long as a city block and so wide that it would fill the or- dinary street from one side to the other. it has three stories devoted to mule stalls ceive the endorsement of regular | and a vast hold below this in which hun- physicians and the United States | dreds of tons of hay, oats and other cargo Health Reports is not surprising | are stored. The ship is so high indeed that if it stood in a city street its upper deck would be about even with the fifth-story flats, and when the mules are taken out to exercise upon {t they are almost twice as high up In the air as the roof of a two-story house. When I came on the ship I was told that I should have to rough it, and was urged by the captain not to go. I was told that there were plenty of comforts for the mules, but none for passengers, and that when the truth about it is known. Catarrh and Consumption are local erm diseas¢s only, and cannot be reached excepting through the air we breathe, and as there is but one wermicide which may be carried into the respiratory organs in this way, no other treatment or medicine but HYOMEI can be used with any possi- bility of its reaching the diseased parts. 1 should have to sleep on the deck. I re- If you are suffering from Coughs, | Plicd that as this was my only way of Catarrh, Bronchitis and Consumption | Teaching the posts I would risk it. So I have bought a cot and an army blanket, and rolled up in {t I sicep out under the stars as the mules stamp and bray beneath me. It fs not at all bad, I assure you. I eat with the captain, have my bath from a bucket of salt water on deck and write on a table which I have fixed up at the stern of the ship. The Port Stephens ts essentially and pure- ly a mule ship. Its guests are these long- eared animals, each of which has a stall or room three feet wide to himscif. The stalls are arranged in long lines, a double row on each story, and the animals face one another, with their talls turned toward the sea. There are inclined planes or stairs by which they are led up to the exercise deck, and by which they are taken from story to story. They are, in fact, treated with as much care as the men. They are fed regularly and given a foot and leg bath -REMEMBER THESE FACTS. HYOMEI is the only germicide which ean be inhaled tn ‘the air you breathe, the only possible way of reaching the diseased parts. HYOMEL the only treatment for which your money is refanded in case ft fallin. ; “Hyome!” tx sold by all druggiats or sent by mall, Complete Outfits, $1.00. Trial Outfits, 25c. Five Days’ Treutment Free to all sufferers. THE R. T. BOOTH CO., Ithaca, N.Y. THE COURTS, a every morning. After their bath they are Equity Court No. 1—Justice Hagner. brought upstairs for thelr constitutional and Mason agt. Mason; Harriet Mason ap-| then tied there for a time with their faces pointed guardian ad litem. Johnson agt.| toward the sea, in order that they may Danenhower; receivers authorized to pay |see the wild ocean as It rolls. They are interest. Taylor agt. Imrie; Timothy D. | carefully inspected every morning, and Daly appointed guardian ad litem. their temperature is taken four times a day by the mule doctor. If they are not just Ctreult Court No. 1 Chief Justice Bing-| right they get a dose of medicine at once, am. and are more carefully fed. As a result the mules are today in better condition than when they left Seattle three monihs ago. They have weathered some of the most terrible of ocean storms, have been sea sick and battered about, and still only five have been lost in the cargo of five hundred and nine. $200,000 Worth of Males. The cargo of one of these transports 1s a valuable one. A mule by the time It gets to the Philippines costs Uncle Sam at least $400, and the number on board the Port. Stephens is worth at least $200,000. Some of them have come from Porto Rico, having been sent from San Juan and Ponce to Washington and thence forwarded clear across the continent to Seattle, so that they have traveled something like 15,000 miles in coming to Manila. Others came direct from Kentucky and Missour!, but all have cost so much tha! it pays to take care of them. The captain quartermaster who has charge of them had much to do with carry- ing the horses and mules for our armies in Cuba and Porto Rico. He is Capt. Joseph C. Byron. who was wounded while in the army in Porto Rico, and afterward assigned to the quartermaster’s department. He transported more than 5,000 animals to and from the West Indies, and lost only five, and he ix today one of the experts in this branch of the department. This ship has been fitted up according to Capt. Byron's directions. It has ventilating fans, which draw In fresh alr to the stables, and at the came time the foul air is taken Lisner agt. Hecht; demurrer to declara- tion overruled and leave to plead in twenty days. Bradley agt. Clark Bros. Lime and Cement Co.; do in ten days. Banks agt. Devine; leave to file amended declaration and defendant given thirty days to plead. Farmers and Mechanics’, Bank agt. Dugan et al.; judgment by default. Go'den agt. Rosenbusch et al.; do. Hughes agt. Call; motlon to withdraw plea and tender grant- ed and judgment for plaintiff on motion. Circuit Court No. 2—-Justice Bradley. Pope agt. Washington Post Co.; order for commission to issue. Bancroft agt. City and Suburban Railway; motion for bill of particulars granted. O'Rourke agt. Mc- Carthy; motion for new trial filed. Criminal Court No. 2—Justice Cole. Weedon agt. Sonderson; writ of certiorart sustained, proceedings before justice of the peace quashed and leave to withdraw lease granted. Criminal Court No. 1—Justice Clabaugh. United States agt. Jeremiah FE. Kane, larceny; nolle pros. United States agt. Perey Green, housebreaking and larceny: defendant arralgned; plea not gullty. United States agt. James Johnson, house- breaking; do. United States agt. Wm. W. Sheed, larceny and embezzlement; do. United States agt. John Conly, highway robbery; do. United States agt. Dudley A. Richardson, larceny; do. United States agt. Mary. Mann, false pretenses; do. Vnited States agt. T. Edw. Stockstill, housebreaking; do. United States agt. Jay G. Holland, libel; do. United States agt. Wm. H. Chase, forgery; defendant ar- raigned; plea guilty; sentence West Vir- ginia penitentiary for three years. United States agt. Perry Green, second offense petit larceny; do.; sentence West Virginia penitentiary for two years and six months, United States agt. Wm. Newman, second offense petit larceny; do.; do. United states agt. Thomas Brooks, embezzlement; defendant arraigned; plea guilty, and sen. tence West Virginta penitentiary for two years and six months. Probate Court—Justice Cole. ate of George H. Elliott; petliion for e of will filed. Estate of Washington oath of sureties fled. In re James H. Bessling, guardian; statement for ac- count filed. Estate of Amanda Vauter; do., 1 proof of publication. In re John’ Mc. be et al.; additional statement for ac- count filed. Estate of Peter Dill; summons issued and returned not found. Estate of Henrietta Speler; oath of sureties filed. Es- tate of Martin H. Schlosser; do. Estate of John I. Lindsley; account ‘passed. Estate w. J. Gilday; do. Estate of John P. order setting June 4, 1980, for trial . Estate of Henry Bush; will dated 2), 1804, filed, with petition for pro- of will filed.” Estate of Serena L. Weightman; receipts filed. f Estate of John J. Lindsley; proof of pub- lication filed. Estate of Wm. Wurdemann; watver of citation filed. Estate of Chas. H. Childs; recetpt filed. Estate of Phineas A. Read; letters Issued. Estate of Elizabeth A. Falle oath of sureties filed. Estate of Wm. Van Decklen: proof of publication file Estate of Catherine R. Frisby; do. Estate of James R. Gibson; will admitted to probate and letters of ‘administration granted t6 Margaret A. Gibson; bond, $1,000. Estate of Margare: . Lybrand? crder-on examiners to render account. Estate of Chas. W. Taylor; oath of surety fled. Hs- tate of Michael Shea; affidavits filed. Es- tate of Wm. H. Doherty; do. Estate of Chas. W. Taylor; will admitted to pro- bate and letters testamentary granted to Ella Adams; bond, $30. Estate of Nathan A. Poole; waiver of service of notice. Es- tate of Katharine H. Taylor; exemplified copy of will filed. Estate of Thomas 0. Jones; petition fled. In re F. A. Ferry, minor; eccount passed. out. The elr of the hold of the steamer is thus kept as fresh as that of the deck, and with the washing and cleaning of the stalls with the hose every morning. there ts no more sinell about the steamer than in a Dutch kitchen, More Mules Needed. A mule {s worth more than a soldier over here in the Philippines at present. There are no adequate means of transpor- tation of men or baggage, and pack trains and carts are in demand at all of the posts. The only available animal is the, water buffalo, which can make only about one mile an hour with any kind of a load and which is of little use in the hills. The horses of the country are so smail that one of the army mules could swallow a Filipino steed of the average size without much distending Its stomach—so small that | HOW THEY FARM IN PANAY, goods are to be here one of the mule drivers took one up in his arms the other day to show his contempt of its size. Many parts of these islands are mountainous, and-every section of the army that goes into the interior should have its pack train, with experienced pack- ers to handie the mules. We have one gang of packers on board who now and then pack the mules on the deck of the steamer for practice. At present there are about 3.000 mules and horses in the Philippines, but some of the best of the army: officers tell me that three times this number could be used to advantage. The Island of Mindoro. We left Manila» at night and awoke to find our steamer coasting along the great Island of Mindoro. We kept it in sight the most of the day, its blue smoky mountains rising in places almost straight from the water's cdge, and rolling one over the other until they lost themselves in the clouds. We were not near’enough to distinguish the character of the land or its vegetation, but could tell that the mountams are heavily wooded, ‘and ft is said that the forests are full of mahogany, teak and other valuable trees. The island-is one of the largest of the Philippines and as yet is practically unexplored. It is bigger than the state of Connecticut and has a population of about 100,000, almost all of whom are savages. There is one town which has about 5,000 people, but the most of the inhabitants live in the wilds, go entirely naked and subsist upon roots, frult and such fish and game as they can catch. Dean Worcester, who visited the island, describes it as unhealthy in the extreme, but his explorations did not extend very far inland, and both agricul- turally and minerally the land is unpros- pected. It is so notwithstanding it lies within only a few miles of the Island of Luzon and so that it can be reached by boat in a very few hours. On the Island of Panay. I am more and more surprised every day at the little the Spanish knew about the different parts of their Philippine posses- season.”’ 9b For 75c Quality. Wash Silks. ing. The buyer says: “They are at 59¢ yard.” Black (5° For $1 Quality. | Wool Suitings. yard here for the popular $1 Fa: BOC yer bere tes, the popolar $1 Fancy sions. They seldom penetrated the interior, AG emotes “Note the extra width—54 and some of the bast parts of the country are in as virgin a state as when Ferdinand $1.50 sara tor superior Engitsh Broad- cloths, in all the staple and new Pastel shades. ‘Prices have ralsed; this quality 1s generally retalling at §1.75 yard. $ 1 68 yard for the usual $2 Bareges, 44 S inches wide. These are the aris- tocrats of the “clinging”? family of dress goods. Magellan landed on the Island of Mindanao on the 2ist of March, 1521, only twenty- nine years after Columbus discovered America. That island contains from 30,000 to 40,000 square miles. It 1s p>rhaps the richest part ofthe whole archipelago, and it is populated almost entirely by savages. They are less priced and in 200 pieces to arrive Monday morn- heavily corded Silks made to retail Monday’s Coming Sale. SILKS N The Palais Royal. Fresh news of fresh Silks. The writer hasn will only quote the “buyer,” il first thing Monday morni better variety than 7,500 Yards Twilled Foulard Silks. Oe For $1 Quality. All the prettiest effects of the sea- son, on grounds of violets, rose, tan, greens, blues and the scarce pastel shades. ful effects in black and white. ARC Silks at Surprise the Taffeta Silks and Japanese Silks are so rarely offered at less than cur- rent prices that any reduction is a surprise. And so 59c for 75c qual- ity and 75c for $1 quality are price surprises. Black Fabrics. $1.50 $2r0 for Mohair and Wool and os ik aud Wool Crepons. You may compare them with the best elsewhere at $2_and $2.25 yard. Only ten pleces, each different. 75C, $1 and $1.35 yard for Cheviots and ‘9 Camel's Hair Suitings that are better than usual at the prices. $1.25, $1.5, $2, and $2.50 tor four bs 9*‘specials’’ in Broadcloths. superior English cloths that WM not spot and always retain their blackness. who has just arrived from New York: Also exclusive and beauti- are to be here, including all white and white and yellow, now the rage in New York. § : $ $ + $ $ 0 + * ’t even seen them and “The ng per Adams Express. any lots yet offered this 59c Quality. All the scarce and wanted colors SOS le Prices. He For 75c Quality. Best Linings. 3Oc yard for “'Suratine,” usnaliy Sie. And 39° for Moreen Skirting f Which you are generally asked #5c yan DSc Et8 for the wearce “Mer Sateens. And only 20e yard for Shrunk Haircloth for which @5e Is the pre vailing price, yard for Superior Silk-fintsh Perca- 19¢ i only 1 ines, usually 25e. And yard for 2e Hatreloth. The us ings are to be bere Monday yard. All on second floor. Ie The Island of Panay, where I am now writing, was practically unknown to the rest of the world until thirty years ago, and today it is impossible to get accurate data conc>rning it. It has mountainous districts through which white ‘men have never gone, and our soldiers. who recently crossed it from south to north found naked savages living in the woods. And still the island 1s exceedingly rich and its lowlands have now a considerable population. It is haif again as larg? as Porto Rito, and has a vast deal moré cultivabléqand I have learned some- thing of tt from the’ old English residents of Nolo and ftom the Filipinos, and have also the results of? the investigations of Lizutenant Vati-Deman, the topographical engineer on the staff of General Hughes. Lieutenant Van Deman, is a close observer, He has been on at of the expeditions our soldiers hav3 madé throughout the island, and is now making maps of it for the use of the War Department. He has kindly sketched a map of the {sland for this letter. Rich Plains and Unexplored Mountains From the map it will be seen that Panay is of the shape of an equilateral triangle. It looks small on our maps of the Philip- pines, but each side of it is almost 100 miles long and altogether it has more than half as much land as the state of Massa- chusetts. It is a land of mountains and valleys. Low ranges cut it up into three Sreat parts, represented by its three prov- inces, Antique at the west, Capiz at the north and Hioilo at the south, with its dis- trict Concepcion adjoining it on the east. All of these provinces ar? much the same in character, being rolling hills, mountains and valley plains. The mountains have some wood, but not the fine timber of Min- danao, Mindoro and parts of Luzon. ‘The pialns are the ohly parts much cultivated, and many of them are unused. The war has ruined many of the farms, and you see burned sugar mills here and there. ‘Tne country is still filled with bandits and Suerriilas, and neither life nor property is safe from them. The Tagalos who came season’s m ent patterns, season. 10c to s: Chant and Inserting: Exquisite $2.25 yard. pa’ : Desirable bargains because d 4 § $ | | | | ) and fancy effects. to be filled with them on Monday (See Page 7 of Sunday's Post.) Pala SDPO OPOFHOHOHOHAD OO ‘ ‘ 75C to $15 yard for 18 to 22-1nch Allover Laces, in 150 differ- Worth $1 to $20 yard. 13°for 19° Ribbons. pure silk, full 3!4 inches wide and in all the new spring shades, plain A monster table is Royal, Trimmings, Ribbons, Laces and Embroideries. Dress Trimmings are in vogue again. instead of 75¢ yard. 4-inch Colored Silk with lace edge, is this yard. The gems of the new embroidery, some of fusertings. 50 yard for Black Silk illy Serpentine Galloons 8, 1 to 5 inches w! tterns. Worth 25¢ to tablefal of them read; all A. Lisner, The wanted Taffeta Applique, 3 inches wide, is here ‘ Fringe is 57c instead of 75¢ yard. Ost aristocratic dress trimming—here up to 4 inches wide, 42c to $3.50 Q8c 8% for $1.50 to $3 Allover 22 inches wide. lace insertings, some of tucks and 2Ac yard for best of best Cam- bric Skirt Fi tively worth 40c to 68‘ for 98° Ribbons. G & 11th Sts. at 59c¢ Renaissance, a silk gimp Some of all embroldery and PSPSPS OS 9S OS SOSH louncings; posi- Te yard. A Ig. near elevator. Best of Imported Taffeta Silk Rib- bons, with improved soft finish. 8 inches wide. shades, pinks, blues, ete. hat trimming. All the new pastel yellow, lavender, Ideal ribbons for white, (See Page 7 of Sunday's Post.) here have united with the lawless among the Visayans, and they go over tae island in bands of anywhere from half a dozen to several hundreds, burning and stealing and committing al! rts of unmentionable out- rages. It will, I am told, take a large force to preserve order, and the entire settlement of the Island will probably not be secured for months to come. A Land of Cocoanuts and Rice. The character of Panay makes it a hard country for campaigning. The country is well watered, being cut up by streams as many as the veins of a leaf. These streams in the wet season flood the lowlands and turn them into a vest lake, above which, when the rain ceases, the little green walls of the rice fields appear. It is impossti to ride over the fields at this time, and, in- deed, almost impossible to do so with an American horse or mule at any time. When the fields dry with the dry season they do so only on top, so that what seems solid ground is only a crust. This crust will sup- port a little Filipino pony, but a mule will break through it, and before you know it you will find that _he has sunken up to his ears In the mud. ‘The only animals that can be used to work such lands are the water buffaloes, who wallow along, half swimming through the mud as they drag the rude bamboo harrows or plows prepar- ing the fields for rice planting. Even the military road which the Spanish built is Uttle more than a érust. Where it is broken there are unfathomable mudholes making it impassable for ee. The rice is planted in the water and ft Tecelves little cultiva- tion. r I went with Ljeut. Van Deman for a ride into the couatry today, and he showed me lands which wéfe, bé said, typical of all the lowlands of Panay. Th2y were little patches of black mud in which rice was growing and abgyt which there were groves of cocoanut trée’. Ninong the trees were thatched huts upon piles, and in the fields here and there womem, were working. “That,” said Mr. Van Deman, “is a sam- ple of the greater part of this isiand. It ‘s made up of rice and ¢ocoanuts, with sugar plantations scattered here and there through it. The soil is exceedingly rich, and it pro- duces enormously.” Coffee and Fruits. “How about fruits, Neutenant?” said I. “I believe almost any kind of tropical fruit will grow, but none are cultivated. We have bananas which grow wild, and a fruit which the people call the naranga, but which is not an orange. It is of the shape and color of the orange, but is about twice as large as the grape fruit or shaddock which we have in our home markets. We have also bread fruit, but no oranges so far as I know. There are coffee plantations in Antique, but they do not raise enough to make coffee figure largely as one of the ex- ports from the island. Before the war about $1,500,000 worth of stuff was exported from lloilo annually. The province of Capiz pro- duced half this amount, and Antique still less. There is considerable tobacco raised and some indigo, as well as cacao, or choco- late, and hemp. I believe the land to be exceedingly rich, and dotbt not it could be made to yield many times as much as it does.”” In the Moanta! of Panay. “How about the mountains?” “We passed through them on our march across the island. They are generally wood- ed, and are supposed to be uninhabited, on account of the malaria, except by naked nomadic savages. The mountains are gen- erally about 2,000 or 3,000 feet high, though in places they rise to 4,000 and 5,000 feet. Mt. Bacloy is said to be 5.675 feet in | altitude, and the mountain Nangtud ¢ feet, or higher than Mount Washington. “Do you hear of any gold belng discov- ered in the mountains?” I asked. “Yes, I hear of it, but I really have no positive knowledge about it,” was the reply. “There is black sand in every stream you cross, and’the Spaniards claimed that there was gold in the sands of the Cababaya in the province of Capiz. It is said there ure quicksilver deposits in the same province, and that copper exists in Antique. These matters will have to be settled by the pros. pector and by the government geologists. Just now we have our hands full in trying to keep the people quiet. I can only say that the land looks remarkably rich, and that it can be cultivated high up in the mountains. The climate is, as far as I have 1 seen, not unhealthful, but the people are semi-civilized and hard to control.” The District of the Visayans. This military district {s that of the V1 sayan Islands. It embraces the larger | ands of the middle of the archipelago lying between Luzon on the north and the Mo- hammedan Islands of Mindanao and Sulu on the south. It embraces some of the rich- est and most thickly populated parts of the Philippines, and a number of large isi- ands.which are noted for their products of sugar, hemp and for their possibilities in aia = troops. They are not as agressive as the Tagalos, but are quite as vicious in many of their ways and are of about the same grade of intelligence and civilization, both of which I should say are decidedly low. Both people are naturally untrustworthy, and the greatest care has to be taken to Suard against surprises. The islands, while there are no large armles upon them, are everywhere overrun with brigands | and banditti, and there are parts of them which have not yet been subdued. Garrisons will have to be furnished for the chief towns and the principal roads should be patrolled by mounted cavalry to allow the people to work their fields and to make them feel comparatively safe. Plotting of the Natives. General R. P. Hughes, who s in charge of the Visayans, is well fitted for the po- sition. He had a good chance to study the Fillpino character when he was provost marshal of the city of Manila. He took that place as soon as the eity was occu- Bied by our troops, and it was due to his vigilance that the insurgents were pre- vented from uprising and burning the Phil- ippine capital. For months after the oc- cupation he slept in his clothes. There were rumors of uprisings a!most every day, but to most of them General Hughes paid no attention. He merely kept his eyes open and said nothing. At last one day he doubled his guards and ordered that the troops be kept In readiness for trouble. He had noticed that the Filipinos were taking their women and children out of Manila. They were leaving at the rate of hundreds a day and their departure was to be fol- lowed by an uprising and the attempted massacre of the foreigners. The increase ot force, however, prevented the insurrec- tion and thus saved the city. When General Hughes came here the na- tives burned the town upon leaving ft. They said that the most of the bulldings in it belonged to Chinese and the English, and that their destruction would not huri the . who live chiefly in the suburban ges of Molo and Harrow. They. thery fore, soaked the principal houses with coal oil_and lighted them. They burned all of the best buildings, including the industrial school and other public structures, so that today Tloflo is largely made up of ruins. After the general teok possesston there were more rumors of insurrections and the murder of foreigners. He paid no at- tentien, but one day his native clerk asked for an afternoon off, that he might take his family out of the city. The general thought that might mean business, and he houses and that ther had planned to unite with a band of Tagalos, whe were to op- erat? from the outside, and at a concerted signal to rise. set the city on fire and mur- der the foreigners. The discovery of the plot prevented its being carried ovt, and shortly after this the way of coal and other minerals. Cebu, for instance, is a great hemp-raising region. Samar produces sugar, rice and coffee, Negros, which I can see from Iloilo, has some of the best sugar plantations, and the Island of Bohol is noted for its pearl fisher- jes. These.islands are populated by a dif- ferent people from the Tagalos, who are the rebels of Luzon, known as the Visayans. /They have a different language and cus- toms, but in most of the islands they have wnited with the Tagalos to oppose our General Hughes attacked 1,400.0f the Ta- gaios outside the town and defeated them. He has now cleared the island of organized resistance, but he tells me it will be months befor> the banditt! can be cleared they wil! probably take to the mountains. They Believe in Bryan. In talking of the situation, General Hughes said: a: “I believe a great deal of harm is being wait had the town searched for conceal>d weapons. He found that the natives had hundreds of knives concealed in their | done by the people of the United Stats discussing the advisability of leaving the ; islands. All such reports are published over here. and they have led the people to believe that the Americans will eventu- ally give up the struggie. assured that Congress, as soon as it me! would stop the war and withdraw the troops, and have been told that Mr. Bry, had advised that this should be done. You will be surprised to know that some ot them can quot Bryan's speeches and ‘Ss of! in = Bryan has been pictured as ‘alse yeni to the President in power. been given only one side of th> case, and this as come from the Filipino newspapers, army of the Americans’? oY °Tsble of the Unt for Citizen “What do you think of the people her. general, as possible American citisens?* | asked. “They may make Americans some day, j Dut It will be a long time before they will {| be able te govern themselves according ts j 0Ur ideas of citizenship. We shall have t., put our best licks on the next generation, and by education and exampie we mas j teach them American ideas and personal and political morality and honor. As it 13 their training has been in the policy of the Spaniard as to such matters. They believe it right and proper for officials to receive ! bribes, and they expect to pay them. 1 have just had trouble with a notary whom I appointed. He has charged the lish bank here $50 for protesting a note. ‘Thes have reported ft and [ have cut his charge | down to $15, which is less than allowed by the Spanish law. It is so with every clase of business. All the officials have been ac- customed to making all they could out of j their offices, and I don’t sce how the atruses * can be remedied. If we had some American officials, young men and honest men, who could come out here prepared to remain for twenty years or so on the assurance that . they would be retained in office might | be able to do something in the way of re- form by and by, but it is the situation is rather discouragin FRANK G. CARPENTER. —_———_— APPOINTED GENERAL MANAGID Mr. Schoepf Given Strect Ratiwa Mr. W. Kesh been appointed general manuger of the Con- solidaied Ratlway Company, which ix now « j operating over 150 miles of street railways in Pittsburg. Pa. and will enter upon his factive duties Monday. He will have-cntire charge of the whole street railway system of Pittsburg. which includes ever 300 nities of tracks, as all the lines are now being consolidated, and in « short. time the sys tem will be known as the Union Traction Company. Mr. Schoepf has Leen identified with out. 88 | street railway affairs in the District for many years, his most recent work being the construction of the City and Suburban roed, which is regarded as the finest elec- trie Toad in exitence. ‘He ictt at hoon to-. it) is family for Atlantic City, and Proceed to Pittsburg tomorrow. -