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EL PASO DAILY TIMES, THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1899
BUSINESS IN MANILA.
tUZA ARCHARD CONNER ON THE
COMMERCIAL CONDITIONS.
»n*l DlgndvnntnKC* of
Ac Philippine* a* a Field of In-
mtmrnl and Indnulr,—Some He-
•oma Thai Are deeded.
[Special Correspondence.]
Manila, June 5.—No more Arueri-
Mn beer saloons are needed in Manila.
That is the first observation I am
aoved to make in connection with the
•abject of business openings in this
town. A swarm of American saloon
keepers came over with the Mayflower,
ao to speak, to the Philippines, and
they have been arriving ever since.
Beer and whisky shops, American style,
areas plentiful here as in New York
«r San Francisco
If laziness be the ideal state, then
the old style Manila merchant led a
sufficiently pleasant existence. In this
hot climate it is best to be abroad early
in the morning. Shops and stores open
by 7 o’clock. That was too early for
the old time Spanish merchant, how-
ever, so lie left the morning work to
his menials and subordinates. He
reached his place of business at 9 or
half past. By half past 10 began wbat
re here called “cocktail time.” Then
the merchant lets up on his arduous
labors of the morning. The heat of the
day begins to be felt by that time. I do
not know how many cocktails are ac-
NAT1VB RESTAURANT IN MANILA.
totally drunk, but something must have
started the name. At 12 the custom
has been to close business houses abso-
lutely until 2. Whether this will con-
tinue when Americans get hold re-
mains to be seen.
The old time Manila merchant had
for his motto, “Never do anything that
you can make anybody else do.” If he
m much as desired to wash an ink stain
from his finger, lie would probably have
clapped his hands like an “Arabian
Nights” pasha and had a base menial
bring him the basin of water and towel.
At 6 o’clock his carriage called for him,
and he, with his interesting family,
■went to drive and listen to the rnnsic
on the Lnneta. Pictnresque enough he
looked in his shining white suits, of
which at least a dozen were necessary,
a fresh one every day. His very shoes
were white, of cool canvas, carefully
done over with pipeclay daily to pre-
aerve their immaculate appearance.
The pipeclaying of his master’s vari-
ous pairs of white shoes is part of the
morning work of the Tagalo house serv-
ant.
Everything new and convenient and
American is wanted here, from prompt
and correct business methods to door
loeks that will fasten and neat little
keys that will fit them. When, sooner
or later, matters are settled here, there
will be as lino opportunities for Ameri-
can merchants and the investment of
capital as at any spot of the globe.
Between, on the one hand, the onerous
duties, which remain precisely as they
were under Spanish rule, and, on the
other, the competition of the United
States commissary department the civil-
ian merchant jnst now has small margin
•f profit. The Spanish tariff is higher
than that of the United States ever
was, amounting frequently to three or
four times the cost of the goods. It is
enforced still. The duties are collected
by American soldiers for our govern-
ment. Commissary goods for the Unit-
ed States 1 army are admitted free of
duty, to be bought by sc ldiers. But it
is natural for a man to oblige his
friends. The salesman for the United
States srmy sees no harm in letting liis
civilian chums who are merchants have
goods at army rates. There is nothing
in the Ten Commandments against it.
The two friends whack up together.
But the civilian merchant who is not
the commissary sergeant’s chum and
who has lmncsily paid the high Span-
ish tariff on his wares finds them spoil-
ing on his shelves in this hot climate
while the conimissary ’afriend offers the
public goods at lowest Ban Francisco
prices. You can follow the result out
for yonrself. and you do not need paper
and pencil to work tho problem either.
Honest retail merchants have absolute-
ly ceased to import certain lines of ar-
ticles under these conditions. Thus not
ouly the merchants outside the riug,
but also the government suffers many
thousand dollars loss annually. This is
a matter the government should attend
to at once and either abolish altogether
duties on goods coming from the States
of straighten out its commissary de-
partment here.
Heavy losses, too, are entailed on
American merchants in Manila by the
actual and constant theft of goods they
import from the States. I know one
dealer who has. in plain words, been in
the past fonr months robbed of wares
worth $10,000. They were shipped and
invoiced at San Francisco. In some in-
stances whole packages disappeared
bodily -, in others packages were broken
epen and part of the contents taken
and then fastened up again.
Whether the robberies are committed
on shipboard, whether by the Cbineaa
freight handlers at Hongkong or in the
custom bouses here at Manila, nobody
knows. The things simply disappear.
The military authorities here do not
hold themselves responsible for goods
stored in the customs warehouses or
“go downs, ’’ as storage rooms are called
in the orient. The heaviest losses are
on eatables and drinkables.
Commissary merchandising and the
loss of goods in transit from the States
to Manila are rapidly assuming the
proportions of a scandal. Whether any
stealing occurs in the custom house or
not, that institution gets the credit of
it, and for its own sake the United
States government onght to have a
grand clearing up time in these depart-
ments without saying a word about
it, and this even more for the sake of
the innocent than of the guilty, if there
are any of the latter.
Another condition works as a hard-
ship against the business man and the
capitalist at present. When we occu-
pied the city, the civil courts were
abolished. They have never been re-
established. So far as civil law goes,
Manila is in a state of anarchy. There
iH no way of collecting a bill by legal
measures and no way of enforcing a
contract. Sufferers who appeal to the
military authorities are told to wait
till the courts are set up again. They
have waited for months and are wait-
ing still. Able American lawyers who
understand the Spanish language are
also here waiting for the civil courts
to reopen, but the order for it is not
given. The insurrection must be put
down before military attention can oe
turned to "tivil matters, probably. Nev-
ertheless it is irksome in the extreme
to the civilian who wants to go to
work.
I am not writing this letter to enter-
tain or amuse my readers, but simply
to give information to persons to whom
it will be useful. Whenever your dear
friend comes to you with any particu-
larly disagreeable and unwelcome piece
of newe, he always prefaces it w'ith the
remark that he tells you “because you
ought to know it.” Hundreds of good,
energetic men at home and capitalists
of moderate means are hoping and ex-
pecting to come to Manila, here to reap
the reward of industry and ability.
Their judgment is not at fault either.
On this round earth today there is no
fairer, richer corner than these same
Philippine Islands, no place where en-
ergy, shrewdness and legitimate enter-
prise in every shape and form are more
needed or are surer of abundant result.
Nature did everything for the Philip-
pines. For this reason fate had a grudge
at them apparently and cursed them
with the Spaniard.
To the importer, capitalist and gen-
eral business man who is looking to-
ward Manila, therefore, the message
must be: “Wait awhile. Wait till our
great and good government straightens
out this tariff tangle and clears away
the other impediments mentioned.
Then come in with all your blessed
Yankee vim and power and all the cap-
ital you can spare. Come in and con-
quer. You can do it.”
With the mechanical trades and cer-
tain branches of small retail business
the case is different. Any one who is a
master of his trade can land in Manila
with only money enough to keep him-
self for a few months and build up a
prosperous business A journeyman
painter reached here from Australia a
short time ago. He understood his oc-
cupation and set himself np as a mas-
ter painter, hiring others to work for
him—natives and Chinese. There ure
plenty of mechanics in all the indus-
trial occupations among the natives
and Chinese, but they have no heads to
conduct business. With his white man’s
quickness and drive the Australian
painter forced his brown and yellow
employees to do their work on time and
do it right. He now has more orders
than be can accept, and all his time is
mortgaged weeks ahead.
What this man did in his branch any
other white man can do in any other
department of skilled labor. A thorough
knowledge of one’s trade, with the
ability to command and get the most
and the best out of other workmen, is
the requisite for complete success.
Every occupation devoted to supplying
the needs of ordinary life will find full
scope for itself here. An American
dressmaker would become rich, and
cabinet maker, butcher, baker, caudle-
ALONG TUB CANAL IN MANILA.
stick maker, telegraph and telephone
lineman, expressman, laundryman,
printer and stonemason can do well
now that the Americans are beginning
to shake these islands from their Rip
Van Winkle sleep of centuries. The
clean retail grocery, delivering goods
promptly at houses, American style,
would be a small gold mine. A buyer
must now hire Chinese to carry his
goods home.
They say the fruits and vegetables
were better before the war. It is to he
hoped so. Food, abundant and delicious,
is to be had here for the raising.
With proper civilized conveniences
and development Manila and these
islands could he made an earthly para-
dise. I have sometimes thought it
would be the best thing that conld hap-
pen for the whole old town to bum
down, as Chicago did, so we Ameri-
cans conld begin over again and build
it up exactly right. 1 would almost be
glad to live 50 years longer to see what
the Americans will make of this won-
derful and beantifnl land.
Eliza Aucharo Conner.
ALL AMERICA’S FAIR.
PREPARATIONS FOR THE GREAT EX-
POSiriON AT BUFFALO.
An Ethnological Exhibit to Form
One o t the Notable Feat or..—Trans-
portation Company Organized For
the Accommodation of Tourists.
(Special Correspondence ]
Buffalo, July 17.—This city ia
bestirring itself vigorously in the prep-
arations for the Pan-American expo-
sition which will be held here during
1901. This will be the first interna-
tional exposition ever given exclusively
by American nations, and there is every
reason for believing that it will be a
GEORGE RLEISTEIN.
[Chairman of the committee on publicity of
the Pan-American exposition.]
gigantic success. There is certainly no
lack of local pride and enthusiasm.
The Pan-American, which was pro-
posed as a private enterprise a few
years ago and was originally to be held
in 1900, has grown to be international
in its scope, and will be participated
in by nil the nations of this hemis-
phere.
Already $5,800,000 has been secured
for the enterprise, the citizens of Buf-
falo individually subscribing $2,’500,-
000, the, city itself issuing bonds for
$2,500,000 more, the [Tnited States
giving $500,000 and the state of New
York adding $300,000 for a building
and exhibit. Formal invitations will
soon be sent by President McKinley, as
directed by a special act of congress, to
Mexico, the South and Central Ameri-
can republics and the Dominion of
Canada to participate in the exposi-
tion, which, it is believed, will be of
great commercial advantage to all con-
cerned, and ourselves in particular.
From time to time there have been
various efforts to bring about closer
commercial relations among the mem-
bers of the great family of nations on
this hemisphere. But nothing hitherto
attempted in this direction seems to
have had so many elements of success
as this proposition to bring together in
a grand exhibit the products of the in-
dustry and commerce of this half of
the globe. As the name implies, the
fair will be distinctively American,
and the indications now are that it
will comprehend all America. Nearly
all of the Sonth and Central American
states have made the preliminary ar-
rangements for representation, many
of them upon an extensive scale.
One of the notable features of the
exposition in which Sonth and Central
America will largely contribute will be I
an ethnological exhibit. It promises to |
be materially different from anything
hitherto attempted, embodying a repre-
sentation of all the native races of the
three Americas. Various types of the
North American Indian will, of course,
be represented, while it is expected
that each of the Sonth and Central
American republics will bring at least
one typical village of its aborigines,
with dwellings and inhabitants com-
plete, showing their methods of living,
costumes, industries, modes of warfare,
religious rites and social customs. The
occupants of these villages will build
their own bouses on the exposition
grounds, bring their own utensils and
live their accustomed lives as nearly as
may be. Thus there will be presented
for the instruction of the studious and
the entertainment of the sightseer a
great ethnological exhibit, represent-
ing every phase of aboriginal life from
Tima del Fuego northward through
Mexico, and even to British Columbia
and Alaska.
Taking time by the forelock, there
has already been organized under the
authorization of the exposition direc-
tors a transportation company to facili-
tate the handling of the expected
crowds. This is the Pan-American
Travel company, its purpose being to
bring tourists from all parts of the
world to the exposition, provide hotel
accommodations, arrange side trips and
excursions and look after the comfort
of tourists generally. The men at the
head of the enterprise have spent the
best part of their lives in the transpor-
tation business, and therefore are capa-
ble of handling successfully large pas-
senger traffic. F. P. Gordon, formerly
assistant general manager of the North-
ern Steamship company, is president of
tho company; T. P. Carpenter, form-
erly general passenger agent of the
Northern Steamship company and at
one time in charge of the passenger
business of the American and Red Star
Ocean steamship lines, is vice presi-
dent and treasurer, and W. J. Stewart,
now connected with the traffic depart-
ment of the Great Lakes Steamship
company, is the secretary.
The press bureau has already been
organized, and is now actively at work.
George Bleistein, formerly proprietor
of the Buffalo Courier, is the chairman
of the committee on publicity, and it
is assured that the world will be kept
thoroughly informed as to the progress
and developments of the coining Pan-
American exposition.
John R. Webster.
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Our •'‘Extra Pale” Lager Beer has been the favorite of El Paso for 17 years past. It r.ever was
better than now.
WILLIAM J. LEMP BREWING CO.
HOUCK & DIETER, Local Agent
EVERY SATURDAY
THE EL PASO AND NORTHEASTERN will
sell tickets from El Paso to A A
Toboggan and return for^DNl/V
good returning the following Monday. This is a chance to go to Cloudcroft and
spend Sunday.
For further information regarding railroad or Cloudcroft, apply to
H. ALEXANDER.
Assistant G. F. & P. A.
A. S. GREIG,
General Supt. F. &jP. A.
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Delinquent Tax List.
(Continued From Fifth Page.)
Name. ' Tax
1200 ................................. 8 60
White. Lucy, 11 to 18 bl 17 Cotton ad. vul
*100.................... 1
Cotton, Coyt, et ah, 545 acres............ .080 00
more or less. Burdett sur-
vey No. 2, known as Cotton
addition, except the follow-
ing:
1 to 5 hi 6 Cotton ad.........
26 to 30 hi 17 Cotton ad..........
pt bl 29 Cotton ail
" 3. 4 and 5 bl 25 Cotton ad. .. .
“ 6 to 12, 21 to 27 bl 21 Cotton ad
" ’■ 17 to 20 and H) bl 5 Cotton ad
" 1# and 20 bl 29 Cotton.........
1 and 2 1)1 t e
fraet 18 to 20 hi 10 Cotton ad
15 and '6, and 11 to 13 bl 5
Cotton ad...
UNBLOCKED LANDS IN CITY.
Hart. S„ Heirs of, 67 1-2 acres more or
less and 27 acres more or less, abstract
No. 43, val *3,20) ........................... 57 60
/.Impleman et al.. 140 Acres n ore or less
Fisher survey No. 893. val *1,200............ 81 60
Cameron & Bassett, estate, 320 aeres,
Burdett. No. 1. 32,(00............................... 576 00
Meyers. Mrs. M. 30f of 19 to-20 Iieg 80f e of
s w cor l>l 231 Campbell ad, val *400 7 20
Wilson, R. A.. 47 l-2f e of and adj alley In
s half of bl 213 Campbell ad, val *1,000
18 00
1899, having lieen examined, corrected where
necessary, and approved by the city council
of said city, are hereby certified to as correct
and ordered published. In some newspaper
published In said city of El Paso, for three
consecutive weeks.
JOSEPH MAGOFFIN,
[Attest]* Mayor of the City of El Paso.
B. 8. Catlin, City Clerk.
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FAST TRAIN CA9 ft
^-WABASH
/Cf-—' -,/.//Lvo. St. Louts..............9:10a.m. 8:10 p.m
CIHD/ilHui t Arr. Detroit .........8:30p. m. 10:80 a.In
“ Niagara Falls. 4:00a.m. 6:10 p. life
“ Buffalo.................5:00a.m. 7:10 p.K
“ New York............3:30 p.m. 7:80 a.
“ Boston..................5:30 p.m. 10.80 a.M
The Wabash Is the only line running Double Dally Through Sleepers between St. Lou
nd Niagara Falls and Boston, and with a solid train between St. Louis and New York.
THREE TRAINS DAILY BETWEEN ST. LOUIS AND CHICAGO
ONLY 8 HOURS RUN. EQUIPMENT THE FINEST ON EARTH.
Mineral Wells, Texas.
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Texas & Pacific Excursions.
Everywhere—T. & P. all-summer
round trip excursion tickets to eastern
points and famous health and summer
resorts are now on sale.
To the usual comforts extended its
patrons by the T. & P. has been added
free through reclining chair car servioe.
To St. Louis, Mo —Account Mer-
chants’ association. One and one-fifth
fare for the round trip. Tickets on
sale July, August and September.
To Galveston: Account Great Coun
cil of Texas Red Men, August 810-
1899. $22 50 for the round trip. Tickets
on sale August 7th, only.
To Chicago, 111.—Account Merchants’
association. One and one fifth fare for
the ronnd trip. Tickets on sale Angnst
and September.
B. F. Darbyshire,
S W. F. & P. Agent.
R. W. Curtis, T, F.& P. A..
El Paso, Texas.
Use Pillsbnry's Vitop, the ideal whea
food. For sale at the El Paso Grocery
company.
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WHY SMITH LEFT HOME....
Bcoause he could live better, cheaper, with better health and less annoyance than-
be could at home. “Within one day’s ride of El Paso," he read In the daily paper—
the next day found him at Mineral Wells, the famous Health and Summer Resort
appy environs. A11 sum
nd they follow Mr. Smith.
For descriptive namphlet or any further information call on or address
B. F. DARBYSHIRE. 8. W.*P. A., El Paso. R. W. CURTIS, T. P. A., El Pa
E. P. TURN EK, A. P„ Dallas.
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