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Leptember 10, 1899.1
and employers, and "all classes of plotured the romantically inclined as meeting on comp ground, but this is rather more picturesque than real, Besides the sus- pension of a few daily papers and the fairly general closing of stores and shops the day passed as all others. Over in the Walled City the City Hall was as bustling and busy as it is on Sundays and nearly every other day in the your.
GEBÜS' GOLD FIELDS,
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CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
So shall we with joy remember That Pollock in the hot September Passed the law which made men healthy, Killed the sickness dark and stealthy Please, good PollockTM delaying Listen to this prayer we're praying. One prayer is ours, nor light, nor vague, Your Ordinance must stop the plague. 1899
VI.V.R.C.
BY SFA,
ARRIVAL OF ▲ U.S. TANSPORT.
(Contributed.)
Two days ago a trio of adventurous prospec- THE TRANSPORT OF U.S. SOLDIERS tors returned to Manila after having spent several weekin turning over rock on the island of Cebu. They report the location of several rich claims and their stories are backed up by some excellent specimens. The metal is comparatively free and is not difficult to work, and as soon as the country is somewhat pacified the lucky discoverers intend to develope their find. They say that the natives were not hostile to them and that there was no fighting in the vicinity, but the country is very unsafe.
NEW CARGO BOATS FEOM HONGKONG.
The first of the twelve cargo junks recently purchased in Hongkong has arrived in Manila in good shape. It came over in tow of the Tailee, and though the trip was not very calm, no very serions inconvenience was suffered. When all twelve of these big cargo carriers are here the present congested state of the freight work will be greatly relieved. The Govern ment has rented and seined or captured so many Casons (as the Manila junks are called) that the present supply is very inadequate, and the con- stantly increasing shipping suffers no end of trouble and loss of time.
OESERVATORY TIME CHANGED,
The Manila Observatory, which has for so many years set the time of the islands, marking noon as the sun passed the meridian, is to alter and change all its clocks, The time ball will not drop when the sun stands at exact Philippine noon, but at noon of the standard time. This makes a difference of nearly four minutes. For some times the Government has been discussing the change and finally orders have reached Colonel Thompson, the chief signal officer, who will announce the noon hour to-day.
TRANSPORT “OHIO" TO RELIEVE THE
WRECKED MORGAN UITY.”
This afternoon the Ohio will depart for the Inland Sea to take off the troops arrived by the wrecked U.B. transport Morgan City. When the news of the disaster first reached Manila it created the greatest anxiety, but later advices show that there were no casualties. The Mor. gon City is on the rocks and at the present writing the extent of the damage has not been definitely determined.
The carrying capacity of the transport is about one thousand men and the vessel has been in the Philippine service since the early part of the Spanish War.
1HE MISSING ** SANITARY ORDINANCE.”
TO OUR VERY OWN ATTORNEY-GENERAL.
I.
Gentle Pollock, kind and true, I would have a word with you. Do you know by any chance, Where's the " Missing Ordinance.” Dealing with our crowded city! To delay it is a pity. Hence I write this simple ditty.
II,
Can this rumour be denied, That with red tape fastly tied, Docketed on the outside,
In your despatch box 'tis lying, While poor Chinese folk are dying Of the plague ? T is useless sighing, What we need is work and trying.
Hasten please, its folds untying, Fleet unto Sir Henry flying, Fores him to take action feetly,
- Explain to him each clause completely,
Deftly do the work and neatly, ⠀
- Then the Council summon round him, ¿Eet not landlord i
confound him
* Pam the law with bri böld blanker aust
Brush away obale
Considerable excitement was caused in Hong- kong on the 6th inst. by the arrival of the U.S. transport Sardine Box with troops from Manila for San Francisco.
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The war-worn veterans who have undergone much exposure on field service in the Philip| pines seem to have been returned to America in almost princely fashion, judging by their accommodation on board the transport Sardine Box. When the vessel was signalled at the Peak the message ran “U.S. ship densely packed with human beings in sight. Wear that a shipwreck of a transport has occurred and the troops from two separate ships have taken refuge on the single vessel. Such a message caused much interest and on very point of vantage crowds of people as- sembled to see the transport vessel come into the harbour. Gradually she steamed through the Lyemoon Pass and entered the anchorage.
Nothing could exceed the extraordinary sight which presented itself to the on-lookers. The transport ship, which is of moderate size, seemed to be one living seething mass of human beings. It resembled the branch of a tree on which a swarm of bees have settled, and the human crowd seemed as if it formed one great living agglomeration of fesh crushed and cramped and crowded together. A dozen men at least found refuge on the bowsprit, and on every yard and gaff swarms of men appeared to be living, and it seemed impossible that they could descend to the densely packed mass of their. comrades on the deck below. Out of each large of the eight boats there was a crowd of men ventilator peered at least four faces. In esch who seemed to have made the place their only home, and on every roof of the companions, on densely packed mass of human life existed. the capatan, and on the wheel-house, the same Three men struggled for a place on each of the many ports and through each port hole were thrust the heads of swarms of men who seemed gasping for air from the nauseous 'tween decks. Even each of the cabin scuttles, which formed a soldier, who seemed to rejoice in finding even but very small standing room, was occupied by
this small place to rest on and an escape from the deadly packing within the ship. Judging by the appearance of the ship all the on-lookers felt that a collision or shipwreck must have occurred between two troopships and that the vessel which escaped had taken on board the double allowance of men. When, therefore, the early visitors came alongside and endeavoured to enter the crowded vessel and enquire into the occurrence that had caused the overcrowding they were extremely surprised to find that nothing out of the common had occurred, but that the apparent frightful overcrowding was simply the normal condition of a United States war transport carrying troops in the burning tropical ses that extends between the shores of Luson, Honolulu, and San Francisco,
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that it means. A finer body the main they were but -one could not find ini sun of a tropical, falan rain and storm, the defective ing of war time, and anxiety which every on who go through it had
To think that such men diers should be so brutally packed together as to render misery, is lamentable: For hu finng into the crowded 'tween indiscriminate packing is mos sin not only against America, our common humanity. It refle the much quoted Anglo-Saxon is a disgrace to the wealthy Ama allow such a condition of responsible military permitted this ship to leave voyage should be called to, serious manner for their unpa We all here greatly resent
We have heard much of middle passage of the slave ning of this century ** The which in past days left Europe for America were, it is true," luxury or space; but for downright ing, dense and destructive packing souls in a moisture laden tropical e prise" for evercrowding must be allotted U:S. transport Sardine Box and mention only to the slave ship and packet.
We hear much of the expansion public, but expansion is needed more other in the war transports the republič to transport her interesting army. Pacifio. E pluribus unum is Hot lated as “many packed in the and if in the next few weeks we plague or smallpox or typhus or othe diseases which like Nemenis, follow crowding has broken out in the U.S. Sardine Bou we shall receive t with regret but absolutely with And this is the Great Republic, and fin dn siecle!
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stand overcrowding for a time
That man in perfect physical true, but what of the many, th ailing men for whom so little comfo and languid men that lay about The hospital brimming over with decks? What of these ? --- No. Ch travelling to Borneo or Singapore ed in such a manner as crowded Sardine Box calls in at Japanese port, as she must do crowding the prestige of the West toward America, she will lowe
drag down into the variest mad eminence, all that struggle for better o that the Western nations in their along the Asiatic Pacife shore have years endeavoured to build up.
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Gallant soldiers returning from experiences in that picturesque hausting tropical island to shores, your pale worn faces The thoughtfulness of your noted by all who meet you. loved mother, could never hav should suffer like this one and all who know overorowding feel thi ings will come
sonally, then certainly for who come after you into It is to attract sufferinge of Anglo-
VEM DAIL
Mosera, MoAlst received a tele Darius broken dow
When the visitors managed by main force to wedge themselves between the densely packed masses on the ship and interviewed the officers they found that this terrible overcrowding, this sickening slave-ship psoking of republican human souls, was quite the rule, and quite în accordance with American customs during this Pacific Ocean war. As the docks were packed night and day with men it was evidently im«. possible to thoroughly clean or police the decks effect and the appearance of the whole place was to Colombo say the least unsatisfactoryzad Silje bus galiman
The splendidly tall young men who formed the the passengers seemed thin and spare, and bore on ev their worn and often anxious facës visible svid. ance that they had undergone i Philippine interior exposure to
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