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MANILA
Manila possesses many educational and charitable institutions, among others the Royal and Pontifical University of St. Thomas, which is managed and maintained by the Dominican Fathers. In this there are schools of theology and church law, jurisprudence, notarial law, medicine, and pharmacy. The College of St. Thomas, which belongs to the Univer- sity, maintains forty free scholarships for Spanish boys, who may pursue both primary and advanced studies. The College of San Juan de Letran, also under the Dominicans, devotes itself to the education of natives, and this college, as well as the other, is provided with an abundance of select scientific materials and with good physical and chemical outfits and exhibits and museums of natural history and fine arts. The College of San José (St. Joseph) gives instruction in medicine and pharmacy. The Orphan Asylum of Cambobong, founded by the Ladies' Union at Manila in 1882, is in charge of the Augustinians and imparts elementary and advanced instruction and qualities boys for clerical situations both in public and business offices. The Hospicio de San José, likewise under the care of the Augustinians and of the sisters of that order, gives to its inmates elementary instruction and teaches them household duties and other accomplishments suited to their sex. The St. Joseph's Home, founded in 1810, gives shelter to poor and demented children. The Hospital of San Juan de Dios, founded by the Brotherhood of Misericordia in 1595, and the Government civil hospital cares for whatever invalids present themselves. Another hospital was opened in -1905 by the sisters of St Paul and is known as the Hospital of St. Paul The Hospital of San Lazaro, founded in 1578 by the Franciscan order, is for the care of leprous patients. The Manila Monté de Piedad and Savings Bank, organised in 1880, has several branches. There are four banks in Manila, the Banco Español Filipino, the Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, the Hong- kong and Shanghai Bank, which has also a branch in Iloilo and the International Banking Corporation of New York. There are numerous social societies, American and Spanish, and two Theatres.
DIRECTORY
CIVIL GOVERNMENT
Governor General-JAMES F. SMITH
Secretary of Interior-JAMES F. SMITH (acting)
Secretary of Commerce and Police-W. CAMERON FORBes Secretary of Finance and Justice-JAMES F. SMITH (acting) Secretary of Public Instruction—W. MORgan Schuster Executive Secretary—A. W. Fergusson
PHILIPPINE COMMISSION
President-The Governor General, James
F. Smith
Private Secretary to the Governor-Genl.
John E. Enright
Commissioner-Dean C. Worcester Private Secretary to Commissioner Wor-
cester-A. O. Zinn
Commissioner-W. Cameron Forbes Private Secretary to Commissioner Forbes
-Conrad P. Hatheway Commissioner-W. Morgan Schuster Private Secretary-Vernor H. Petre Commissioner T. H. Pardo de Tavera
Do. -Benito Legarda Do. -José R. Luzurriaga Private Secretary to Commissioner Tavera
-Bernardo del Mundo
Private Secretary to Commissioner Luzur- ¡
riage-Antonio Gimenaz
Private Secretary to Commissioner Le-
garda-Fermin Zacarias
Secretary of the Commis. — Wm. H.
Donovan
EXECUTIVE Bureau
A. W. Fergusson, executive secretary F. W. Carpenter,
do.
asst.
Claude W. Calvin, second Asst. do. Major Shields, Purchasing Agent Wm. H. Donovan, secretary to the Philip-
pine Commission
Thomas Cary Welch, chief of Law Division Harry E. Laughlin, chief, and Clifford C. Mitchell, asst. chief of the Administration
Division
Rupert D. Fergusson, chief of Translating
Division
Ed Wettre, chief of Records Division Manuel de Iriarte, chief of Division of Archives, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks
PURCHASING BUREAU E. G. Shields, purchasing agent
WEATHER BUREAU
| Chief-Rev. Father Algué
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