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THE SUNDAY OBEGONIAN, PORTLAND, MAECH 18, 1900. 31 BUSYMANILA WOMEN MERCHANTS Queer Buying and Selling and Curious Things Observed by Cor- respondent Carpenter in Luzon's Capital. K H copyright, low, by Frame u. uarpenter.j ow cents in silver. Potatoes are worth ' morning, in auuuion to ui, c ju yuu et iuiu iu ocb .. ic vuv- MANILA. Feb. 5. Come with me this 5 cents a pound; young onions, 9 cents a a "Dutch wife," one of which goes with covered mattresses they make you wish Jtnornlnxr and take a look at one of the bis bun"C and peppers, 9 cents a dozen. Egg every bedroom and Is supplied with every they were parses and you one of the morning ? ,f , , Plants eell for S cents a dozen, tomatoes bed. Don't be horrified! It Is nothing but corpses within them. markets of Manila. There are many scat- for 1Q centg nnd """jTj ' a TOUnd pillow about four feet In length I The hotel has electric lights and .electric tered throughout the city, but the largest cents a pound. ( and as hard as a log. It Is merely used bells, but the bells seldom ring when you Is over the river In Tondo. It was formerly There Is no paper used for wrapping up for you to raise your feet off the bed , touch th-em, and the boy Is always corn held in a big building, but this was burned things in-the market, and no string, al- In order that there may be a circulation ; lng In and asking you If you rang when uihUU1.uulb, . though this Is a land of rnnn Vow nnd ! under you during the hot night. As for you have not. The dining-room Is on the down, and the government Is now adver- thSiSpSta a banana me, I hrow my leg and arm over the j third floor. The waiters are Chinese boys tlslmj for proposals for a new steel mar- leaf or more often into oaekets or In trays pillow in order to relieve my hip from the dressed in white gowns with pigtails ket-house. The temporary market consists such things as are tied are bound up with strain of my weight bearing down upon J -which narrowly escape being flirted Into or perhaps 10 acres of rude sheds maae oi a framework of poles covered with straw . . . t. j matting or corrugated iron. These sheds are arranged like a little city, with a wide street through the center and numerous j alleys running this way and that. It Is noisy city, a busv eltv and a city In which the chief business Is done by worn-'. en. The most of the sellers are women. j They protest and protest until the pur Let us enter the cloth bazaar. We walk chase is made, when they ston and. like through a long aisle of sheds filled with low platforms made of bamboo, upon which women squat, with fancy calicoes and cottons piled up about them. Each merchant sits on her counter, the most of her goods being so near her that she can reach them without moving. Some have mantles and shawls nung up on poles above their heads so that they can pull them down as their customers demand. All of the women merchants are in their bare feet, and all are bareheaded. Their sleeves, as big around at the end as a warn basin, come only to the elbow, and tha necks of their jackets are cut so low that as they handle the goods a bare shoulder -.now and then slips out and you fear the whole may come off. Qnentlon of Bargralninfr. There is a woman who Is selling some cloth to a couple of young girls who are dressed In Filipino costume. The cloth is black; it looks like a shawl. See, one of the girls Is taking it and Is wrapping It tightly about her waist so that it falls to Just below the knee. That Is one of- the garments worn by the Filipino women, and she is trying it on. She evidently likes it, for she is scowling and protesting at the price which the merchant asks for tne foods. Buying and telling Is here to a largo extent a matter of bargain, and the two may dicker a long time before the sale can be made. At the next counter a man Is buying a bright piece of calico, and farther on other women are turning over the calicoes as rapidly as our women handle the goods on a bargain counter. As we go on down the aisle we meet women peddlers. They have baskets as big around as an umbrella and about an Inch deep filled with all sorts of notions. They carry them about upon their heads, taking them down when they meet a possible customer. Wo go out of this aisle Into another, "where we find nothing but shoes. The most of the shoes have wooden soles, with merely a strip of leather on top to fasten the toe. There are some which are almost stilts, the toe and heel of the sole extend ing two Inches below the Instep. Those shoes are much like the rain shoes of Japan, and they are intended for use In wet weather. The ordinary Filipino shoe is little more than a slipper, and none of the shoes confine the heeL They are held on by the toe, and, as but few people wear stockings, their bare heels go bobbing up and down whenever they walk. See tnose two girls coming this way. Notice how they throw their feet out as they push their way along on their heelless clogs. They swing their arms to and fro as they go and throw their stomachs out, stand ing so straight that they almost lean back ward. The girls of Japan are pigeon-toed. The Filipinos maidens are Just the reverse. Drink Ginger Tea. In another part of the market we find scores of women selling- vegetables of all kinds. They have sweet potatoes and squashes, lettuce and onions, and man? vegetables strange to our eyes. Here Is one squatting with a basket of white roots "beside her. I wonder what they are, and Dick up a root and bite Into It. It makes my tongue smart, and 1 find It Is ginger. It Is dug In the woods, where It grows Trtld, but so far almost none Is exported. e It is sold to the native, who make n weak tea of it. which they drink with their rice and fish. But what are those queer-looking nule which wo see in the tray on the other side of the singer? They look like our butter nuts or white walnuts. There Is a little pile of wet lime near them, -with home palm leaves beside It. A woman has stopped and is handling the nuts. She picks up one and bites it. As she opens her mouth I notice hei gums seem to be bleeding. Her tongue Is red and her teeth seem to drip blood. Now and then she stops and chews a bit between her sentences. She seems to have a quid Inside of her cheek. See. she spits blood. She Is chewing betel nuts, a sup ply of which she Is about to buy. The betel nut comes from the areca palm. It Is ground or cut up. and when chewed n bit of lime Is mixed with It- The effect is somewhat like that z tobacco. Chevv- lng the betel is common among both men and women here. There are hundreds of shops in Manila where the nuts and lime ore sold. Every other women we meet In the market shows adjms of betel juice on lier teeth and her lips, and we are told that the custom Is common among the lower classes throughout Luzon. The habit may come from the Malajs, who entered the Island centuries ago and Intermarried with the aborigines, forming the race of Filipinos as we know them. Among the Malays about Singapore and in farther India every one chews the betel, the Bur mese having a saying that "any dog can have white teeth, but only those who are able to afford the betel nut can have beau tiful black ones." Prices of Food. Here is a woman selling eggs, and fur ther on is a man with chickens and ducks. On asking the prices we are told they have doubled and trebled since the Amer icans came. We find that chickens range ln value from 50 cents to $1 20 each, and that eggs are 22 cents per dozen. All the prices are given ln silver, and they must be divided by two to reduce them to gold. Bananas ccst 10 cents silver per dozen, cocoanuts are 5 cents apiece, and beef Is SO cents per pound. In parts of Luzon the finest kind of cattle can be raised. I am told there are vast regions covered with pasture ln the northern part of the island, and that our horses which are there In charge of the soldiers grow fat upon it. Still, beef costs more than twice as much ln this Manila market as It does In Wash ington City, and pork sells for 40 cents, Mexican. Pork Is the chief meat of the people. Every family out in the country has its pigs. They are the scavengers, the vul tures, the buzzards of the country, living on food so vile that I cannot describe it. In some of the camps the soldiers have been forbidden to eat native pork, and no soldier who has any respect for his stom ach would think of disobeying this rule. The natives, however, use this meat In all sorts of ways, a favorite method of cook ing It being roasting a pig whole on a spit over the lire. The spit Is a pole, which is thrust lengthwise through the pig, the animal being turned round and round In order that it may be evenly cooked. A curious part of the market Is that in wh'ch many Chinese sell vegetables. The "Chinos," as the Chinese are called, are the chief vegetable gardeners of Manila. They also sell most of the vegetables In the markets, many of them Importing cab bages and potatoes from Hong Kong. .Cabbages are sold In whole heads, halves or quarters to order. They are exceeding ly high, a fine head bringing as much as wisps or grass or a thin strip of bamboo. , All heavy loads are carried home on the i head. e"a- Qucer ,,,. n . ' . E through the market! Women and men ttIC eu'ns ana screecning ai one anouier their offera to buy and refusals to sell. as not, laugh and chat with each other. The crowd is a strange one, one which you will not see outside of the Philippine Isl ands. There are men and women wearing all sorts of hats. Women with hats of straw as big as umbrellas and hundreds of women with no hats at all. There are. scores of girls with their long, black hair flying loose in the breeze. In most cases it Is thick and glossy, and it often readier to below their waists. There are men, women and children In slippers, crowds iu 1. "Women ntrect peddlers. 2. Hoiv tli vi-onic ii mercliants. 4. Street in the their bare feet, and hundreds trotting about upon clogs. There are Chinese in curious costumes, from the half-naked coolie to the rich merchant ln silk. j What a kaleidoscope of colors rattles its i changes be'fore our eyes. There are reds, ' blacks and browns, pinks, greens and yel lows moving in and out through the white, which Is the most common dress of the people. What a lot of queer women there are. and what queer th.ngs they are doing! Here comes one with a cigar ln her mouth. and there Is another who Is chewing tho m a. it Mifc w ill )VMLjF hmmjmmrmwmi pmii. im inw.itomiif 1 - Httf lfffi fwl j r&mi s i ur7?hJSW Thcrc arc "beds ln the halla and-In many Mil fJImfM fl&H'A & I W- iVFbSj! X cases, three beds In one room. The other 1 v rjsrr u mx u m i , v im ' s fi fj VVi 6) l uSml vi Vil c -wVO vfirri boarding-houses which have been eetab- r ft & 4 V 1 1 JV lrJri- t'li-' i'i "Wf - - llshed here and there by Americans are - I ' M 2J JJft K$yJ " 23r cCJ full. Many of cur government officials ( jfl XJ: 1-' ".. ' ,' have private houses, but such are scarce M- J.Jw . ' and the rents are excessive. - m ' Tl- - - FRANK G. CARPENTER. betel. There are women eating at the cook In the house! It was merely a ledge of stands, women bearing great burdens on bricks and mortar running along one side their heads, women peddling, women buy- of the room. On the top of the ledge, hol ing, women selling, women with babies , lowed out of it, as It were, were four holes, astride of their hips, old women squatting ( each about the size and shape of a tin and smoking, young women going along wash basin. Upon each a black bowl of hand In hand, women everywhere. I clay rested over some little sticks, each During my walks through Manila I have about the size of your finger. These were entered many of the homes of the common alight, and the petty fires were cooking tne people that I might tell you how they live, dinner for the family. There was no out They are satisfied with living, and without , let for the smoke, but a hole In the wall they materially change they will never be high above the stove, and everything about great consumers of American goods. There i the kitchen was blackened with soot. The are nouses here in which whole families live ln one room, huddling together on the floor or on a platform of bamboo splints, which here takes the nlace of a bed. There are small morrhnnla tx'hn hnvn Iwn or three rooms In their homes, and thou- sands who !Ive on the outskirts of the city in matched huts upon poles. MIddle-Clns Home. One of the homes which I visited today was mat. or a seller of plna cloth, the beautiful stuff which the ladles of the Army and Navy are buying in such quan tities that they have doubled the prices. The man probably considers himself well to do and comfortably situation as to his home. The wall of the nouse was flu.sh with the street, but upon enterins the door I found myself net in a room, but in a garden about 10 feet wide and 20 feet long, roored with thatch, through which I anu some cia oowis. great banana trees had grown, extending j - wasWng of clothes is done ln cold their broad leaves about and mak- 'w'ater ana kettles or boilers of large size lng a dense shade over it and are unknown. No washboards are used, keeping the garden co'ol. There an( tne washtub Is a round wooden affair were seats on each side of the waik ' aDout half the diameter of our common through this garden into the house proper ' tUDS and aDOUt- six Inches deep. The tub and on the right there was a gamecock ' ,s nut on tne Sound when the washing is tied to one of the banana trees. Passing i done and tne d,ri Js scrubbed out by rub Into the house, I went through a narrow 1 b,ng tne clothes against the tub, slapping hallway with one little room on each side them upon stones or beating them with into the living room, which was also tho dining-room.. This room was about 12 feet square. It was celled and walled, with boards, which were blackened with smoke. The floor was of square, red bricks, and the only windows were holes ln the wall at the back. On one side of the room was a table-like ledge, on which a 2-year-old bay and a naked baby were sprawling, and on the other, close up against the wall, a table, with a long bench before It. the eating place of the family. 'There were one or two chairs, and a wicker lounge, which was hung up to the celling to be kept out of the way until needed. At the front of this room on each side of the door were tiled step leading to the narrow bedrooms along the hallway by which I entered. At the Invitation of the mistress of the house I walked In and looked at them. Each room was just wide enough to hold a narrow bed. consisting of a framework of bamboo poles with strips of bamboo something like the half of a flsnlng-rod nailed across the framework so that the rods lay lengthwise. It Is upnn such beds that many Filipinos sleep. Others sleep upon board?, and the best bed, such, for instance, as we have at my hotel. Is a great four-poster, with a cover of cane made of little threads of bamboo, wh'ch are woven together across It in the form of a mattress. Just exnetly like eome of the cane-Feated chairs which we have In our country. Upon this hard foundation thin mat of woven straw Is laid, and this, and this only, forms the bed upon which the best of the Filipinos sleep. Some lew have sheets, but the majority go with- i out- "DTitch AVive." My allotment at the hotel whene I am J paying about $1, silver, a day. Is one sheet 'a week, i have a Filipino piiiow. a little I "undroii stuffed with something which d3 ltsel UP M hard as arlck and TO large that it gives me a stiff neck every me nara ceo. But to return to the.home of the Filipino merchant. Leaving the bedrooms, we ent QOWn though the aIningrcom and out Into the kitchen. This consisted of .a shed opening Into a little yard about e,ght feet ,n whIch a coupie 0f SCENES IN THE - roast pork In Manila. 3. Filipino Manila market. ducks were paddling about in the slop from a low Filipino washtub. As- I looked at them I heard the vehement crowing ol a rooster at my right, and 'turned around to see that there was a gamecock tied under the kitchen table. The table ItEelf was much like a crate of bamboo Plats, su wide apart at the top that the scraps fell through, and thus fed the chickens below. At the right of the table was the cook- stove. And such a stove for a family of .10, the number the woman told me lived bowls contained rice, fish arid a stew of pork and vegetables. One pot had boll.ng beans and fish In it. the two articles being cooked up together. I am told that the beans and the fish are well mashed, and mixed together after they are cooked, and that they are eaten with salt. Method of Cooking:. Fish Is also "boiled with ginger root, but In this case It Is served whole. Rice Is cooked In all sorts of wavs. It l paten with fruit, is made Into bread and cakes and is eaten as we eat it, steamed. A favorite dish among the children Is rice flour sweetened in short bamboo tubes, which are plugged up at the ends and then thrown Into boiling water. Atfer a short time they are taken out and served hot. The only cooking utensils ln this house were a wlre gridiron, two cocoanut ladles sticks. The public washwomen do their work ln the canals and at the river or at any stray puddle they can find. They dry their clothes on the nearest available fence or on the grass. There Is a disease here called the dobe Itch, which nearly all the Americans. civilians and soldiers, officers and nri- 1 V- W&&M WIS " V vates, have had, which Is said to be caught ! nnne for the "yellow" book and some from their freshly washed clothes. It Is ! times very yellow, at that ln their re belleved to be caused by a microbe In the , spectlve towns, and faintly try to copy, water, and once caught. It spreads over the j or, like a monkey, Imitate the doings and body, especially attacking the toes, j fads of the "400," whose Income a day Is the armpits and other places where the ' more than the codfish, plnheaded, so-called perspiration Is greatest. It sometimes , society swells will ever accumulate In sends the patient to the hospital, but or- , thelr natural lifetime. In a small town dlnarll; not, nnd in minor cases by they may be looked upon by some Ignorant washing the body with Hsterlne it can hs I fools as kings and queens for a brief pe cured In a short time. I have so far i rlod, but, in most cases, in a crowded escaped it. but mm In terror every time I city they would be passed by "unhonored I put on a clean shirt. The prices of ' unwept, unsung." washing, like everything else, have jumped , The number of dreamers there are In "L3l"llh.e, Americans came. They are the world is something marvelous. There S 71e6 tOi30 v8,!ver d0!LarB P,er hun" ! "e People who plan, hope, and build cas- shou nTafresh 2ft ? llnen d T ? A thClr ,ma?nlnP day iuu ul mien cery have become facts. There are people who About tho irnoi fancy they are rich in this world's goods ,. . . , ""i-1- i when they aro poor as church mice. There There is a chance for a good hotel or two are people who fancy themselves highly ln Manila. Those which are here are ex- educated and cultured, when they are su ccedlngly poor, high priced nnd uncom- premely Ignorant and ridiculous ln man fortable to an extreme. The Orlente, J ner. There are people who have fantastic where I am stopping. Is the blrreest and ' ideas about -rcttlne on in the worM -rohn j supposedly the best hotel in the Philip- imitu. iia cnarges are irom 6 silver aol- j lars and upwards a day, and It Is cot so good as the average country hofel of the United States, whose dally charges are $1 50 gold. The rooms are large, with cell- lngs 14 feet high, and without glass or any- thing In the window frames to keep out i tne oust, USoSSSiS SZ hIc RobI ? found ,n the sand The beds-, wlth their mosquito nets about them. look not unlike hearses, and until the soup. The waiters do not speak Eng lish, and you order your meal by the num bers upon the bill of fare. The cooking Is poor, and there Is little variety. There are no chambermaids; Filipino boys take their places, but do not fill them. . Still the hotel Is filled to overflowing. PHILIPPINES. hotels are doing almost as well, and the , PEN AND PENCIL. One of the most useless of all things Is to take a deal of trouble ln providing against dangers that never come. How many lay up riches which they never en Joy; to provide for exigencies that never happen; to prevent troubles that never come, sacrificing present comfort and en joyment, in guarding against the wants of a period that they may never live to see. A pin, small as It Is, Is an emblem of what man ought to be. First of all, a man should be straight, like the familiar tiny bar, which is a nuisance when crook ed. Like a pin, a man or woman whoso moral nature Is awry disturbs the peace and harmony of the world. Gossips, slan derers, swindlers and defaulters are the bent pins of society. Then pins are pol ished, and eo ought people to be; pointed, and everything we do ought to have a definite point and object. A good pin is not too pliant or readily bent, and men ought to have firmness and backbone ln all cases where duty is concerned. It amuses to see some editors squirm in an attempt to offend nobody. The newt paper that can be published Ina way to npt offend any one is a jewel, and the editor is entitled to a pair of golden wings. Human nature is so constituted that some like scandal, while others don't; some like to see others "ripped up the back." others don't; some like fakes exposed, others don't; some like to have the truth told about them, others don't; some like to take a paper six or eight years, never missing an issue and not paying a cent, and get mad and stop their paper when they get a statement of their account, oth ers don't. It is not in tho province of a newspaper to please every one, and the ' editor can extract consolation from the fact that the Lard himself failed to please everybody when on earth. The defacement of rural scenery by ugly advertisements on fences, rocks and barns Is an old story, but ln spite of fervent and vlgbrous protests, the evil custom seems to continue. This Is largely because many i farmers have not a keen appreciation of the artistic offense of such advertisements. They are a good illustration of the old adage that familiarity breeds contempt. They have spent their whole lives amid the beauties ot nature, with the result that their eyes aro blinded to those beau ties. In this respect they are no worse than city people, who, for the same rea son, are almost wholly indifferent to ex crescences that may mar the beauty of the city streets and buildings. Some people have an Idea that they are built on a higher plan and on an entirely different model than the common, ordinary man or woman on the earth. In most every small town nowadays as well as In large cities a few of the think-I-am-bet-ter-than-you people get together and make a "blue book," which Is only a : never have got on ln anything, and never will. I He Is the" man with oil and smut on his palms, and perhaps a touch of It on his nose: tho man who never rides first-class; but always rides first a class all by hlm- sei. ift when starting out on a railway journey, you have any thoughts or prayers not Immediately required for your own jtm tjjj Although FZSgSfiiFgS ters Serais, Bishops, actors and other noted pp plus llbcral spoonful o the very cream of society, nevertheless the man with the grease and coaldust on him is far and away the most Important fel low on board. When I sink back Into the soft embrace of a seat in a coach and see tho platform of tho station swim away, I never fail to think of and wish the greasy engineer good luck on his trip; for whether we turn In to the larg-e depot at Portland, or Into the big ger one of Eternity, depends largely upon him. Sober he will be. May be he hearty, clear-eyed, cool and steady! For In the hollow of his greasy hand he holds us all. VIC. 1 a i MILLIONS FOR TRANSIT. BIsfSest Contract Ever A-wnrdcd by Country's Metropolis The largest contract ever awarded In New Tork city Is that to John B. Mc Donald, for $35,000,000, for the building of the great underground rapid-transit ays tem which will connect the Battery with the upper end of Manhattan Island. It Involves the construction of more than 20 miles of underground and elevated rail way, and It Is estimated that the work will be completed and train services es tablished within the next three years. Subcontracts will be let to other con tractors and work will be started without delay, and In 40 places at once, If neces sary, to hasten the work. John B. McDonald, to whom this work has been awarded, has been a contractor of reputation for years. He Is now build ing the big reservoir on the site of 'Je rome Park race track, near New York. The Baltimore tunnel was dug by this firm, and this and other contracts of sim ilar Importance have given him much ex perience. In 1SS0 he finished a contract In the harbor of San Francisco, for which he was paid 518.OO0.OCO. He has built rail roads In Canada and South America. He built a water tunnel In Chicago and a railroad tunnel In Ontario. With asso ciates he built an elevated railroad ln Chicago and a railroad bridge in Quebec and his minor contracts have been many. Mr. McDonald says that he will em ploy an army of 10.000 men on the New York rapid transit undertaking, and that, after the road Is built, another army will be required to operate It. In 50 years the tunnel and the road will revert to the city, without any outlay. The contractor has agreed, ln addition to paying 3' per cent interest on 535,000.000 In bonds, to pay 1 per cent Interest as a sinking fund for the retirement of the bonds when they fall due. The railroad to be operated through the system will be electric. The tunnel will be 109,570 feet, or nearly 21 miles, long. The ordinary dumpcart used by contractors on work of this kind carries one cubic yard of earth. It will take nearly 2,000,000 dumpcart loads to carry away the earth excavated in making the tunnel. The rock taken out, much of which will be used in masonry and making concrete, amounts to more than 1,250,003 cubic yards. More than 65.000 tons of steel beams will bo used. Almost 8000 tons of cast Iron will go Into the construction of tubular tun nels and stations. There will be 48 sta tions built, of which 43 will be local ami live express. Ten station elevators will be necessary to carry passengers from the surface to tho platforms below. It will be necessary for the contractor to relay nearly 13 miles of sewer, which ho will find it necessary to take up when tunneling. The shock and strain of beinjr fired from a cannon daily through a circus season, would seem to be extraor dinary. But it is not nearly so wearing upon the average woman's nerv ous system, as the strain and drain of the ev ery day life of the married woman, It Is not great shock of which wears the the "continual So in woman's the great, de her energy her out, but the the storm stone but dropping." life it is not mauds upon which wear interminable leakage of her strength through the diseases that affect the deli cate womanly organs. 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THROUGH PULLMAN AND TOURIST SLEEPERS. Water llres schedule, subject to change with out notice: OCEAN AN'D RIVER SCHEDULE. OCEAN DIVISION oteamahlpa a!l fr-m Alcrworth dock at 8:00 P. M. Leave Portland Columbia sails Saturday. March 3; Tuesday. March 13; Friday, March 23; Monday. April 2; Thursday. April 12. State of California sails Thursday. March 8: Sunday, Mnrch IS; Wed-ne.-daj-, March 28; Saturday. Ajirll 7. From San Francisco State of California sailA Saturday. March 4; Wednesday. March 14, Sat urday, March 24: Tuesday. .April 3; r rlday. April 13. Columbia salla Frldaj-. March 0. Mon day. March 10; Thursday. March 29; Sunda. April 8. COLUMBIA RIVER DIVISION. PORTLAND AND ASTOKIA. Steamer Hassalo leaves Portland dally, except Sundsy. at 8.00 P. M.. on Saturday at 10:0O P. M. Returning. leaves Astoria dally, except Sun day, at 7:00 A. M. WILLAMETTE RIVER DIVISION. PORTLAND AND CORVALLI3. OR. Steamer Ruth, for Salem. Albany. Corvallla and tvay point?. leaves Portland Tuesdays. Thurslajnand Saturday at 6 JO A. M. Return ing, leaves Corvallls Mondays. Wednesdajs ani Fridays at 6:00 A if. Steamer Modoc, fcr Salem. Independence and j way points. Ieaveo Portlarul Mondays."Wcdnes- dayt and Fridays at 6.C0 A. M. Returning. leaes Independence Tuc3das. Thursdays and Saturdays at ..30 A. M. YAMHILL RIVER ROUTE. PORTLAND AND DAYTON. OR. Steamer Elmore, for Dayton and way points, leaics Portland Tuesdas. Thursday and Sat urdays at 7 A. M. Returning. lea e Daj ton for Portland and way points Mondays. Wednesday and Frldajs at O A. M. SNAKE RIVER ROUTE. RIPARIA. WASH.. AND LDWISTON. IDAHO. Steamer Spokane or steamer Lcwtston leaves Rlparla daily at 1:20 A. M.. arriving at Lewliton at 12 o'clock noon. Returning, the Spokane or Lewlston leaves LewUton dally at 8.30 A. M.. arriving at Rlparla same evening. W. H. HURLBURT. General Paossrger Agent. V. A. SCHILLING. City Ticket Acent. Telephone Main 712. NewSteamstiipLme to the Orient CHINA AND JAPAN. FROM PORTLAND. In connection with THE OREGON RAlLP.OD & NAVIGATION CO. Schedule. 1000 (subject to change): Steamer. Due to Leac Portlind. "AUERGELDIE" March 23 "MONMOUTHSHIRE" April 11 "BItAEMAR" Ma 2 For rates, accommodation., etc.. apply to DODWELL & COMPANY. Limited. General AsenLs, Portland. Or. To principal points la Japan and China. THE FASTEST AND MOST DIRECT l!NE TO THE OCT AMftCnilTMCACT LHJ! HHUJUUSULA IS THE 0VtV The Direct Line to Denver, Omahi. Kansas City and St. Louii. Only 3K Days to Chicago, Oniy 4'A Days to New York and other Principal Eastern cities Tliroucli Pullman Palace Sleepers Tourist Sleepers Dining Car (meul u In carte), and Pree ltecliiiln;c Clinir Cnr Openttetl Dally on Faxt Mull Trulni Throush tickets, baggage checks and ileeplng car accommodations can be arranged a: CITY TICKET OFFICE 1 35 Third Strrsi Portland, Orea an J. II. LOTHROP. Gen'l Azent. GEORGE LANO. City Pais. & Tkt. Aft. FOR CAPE E Tho Magnificent Trans-Pacific Passenger SteamsWp TACOMA Registered tonnage, 2oll tons: capacity. 4000 tons; passenger accommodations. 100 first class, 900 second class. This steam ship has just been released from the gov ernment service as a troopship, and has every modern comfort and convenience and Is the largest steamship In tho Cape Nome trade. Will sail from Tacoma and Seattle on or about the 25th of May. For rates and full Information apply to DQDWELTj & CO., L.TD. Telephone. Main, DC. 252 Oak Street. Astoria & Columbia River Railroad Co. LEAVES UNION DEPOT. For May trer. Italnler. ARRIVES Clatskanle. Westport. UNION Clifton, storIa. Var- renton. Flavel. Ham-i DEPOT. mond. Fort Stevens. Gearhnrt Pnrk. Seaside Astoria and Seasboro Express. Dally. Astoria Express, Dally. 8:00 A. M. T.-00 P. M. 11:15 A. ii. 9:40 P. iX. Ticket office. 253 Morrison st. and Union depot. J. C. MATO. Gen. Pass. Aet.. Astoria, Or. WHITE COLLAR LINE COLUMBIA RIVEP. K. PUOET SOUND NAVI GATION CO. PORTLAND AND ASTORIA. O7 5 BAILEY GATZERT (Alder-street dock) Leaves Portland dally eVery morning at 7 o'clock, except Sunday. Returning, leaves As toria every night at 7 o'clock, except Sunday. Oregon 'phone Main 351. Columbia 'phone 331. U. B. SCOTT. Presldent- CAPE NOME VIA DAWSON Alaska Steamship Company NEXT SAILING. THE DIRIGO. MARCH 14. The only company having through tratne ar rangements to AtUn and the Klondike. Weekly callings from Tacr.ma. For full Information ap ply to J. L. HARTMAN. Agent, Portland. Or., 3 Chamber of Commerce. Sw gglpo TIU.VELEIIS GUIDE. FAST vn m Leave pefot fjflf, aaj Streets Arrive OVERLAND EX PRESS TRAINS for Salem. Rose burg. Ashland. Sac ramento. O g d e n. San Francisco. Mc Js.ve. Los Argeleii. El Paso, New Or leans and the East At Woodburn (dally except Sun da), morning train connects with tram for Mt. Argel. SII verton, Urowns vlllc. Springfield and Natron, and enlng train fcr Mt. Angel and SI vertcn. Corvallle passenger Sheridan passenger 7:00 P. M. 3:30 A.M. 9:15 A. M. 7:C0 P. M. $7:30 A. M. J4:50 P. M. J5:C0 P. M. tS:25A. M. Daily. JDally except Sunday. Rebate tickets on sale between Portland. Sac ramento and San Francisco. Net rntes 17 first class and $11 second class-, including sleeper. Rates and tickcta to Eastern pomm and Eu rope. Also JAPAN. CHINA. HONOLULU and AUSTRALIA. Can be obtained from J. B. KIRKLAND. Ticket Agent. 140 Third st. YAMHILL DIVISION. Pa-ssenger Defot. foot of Jefferson Street. Leave for Os-nregtv daily at T 20. "0-4O A. M.; 12-30. 1:S5. 3.23. 5 IS. b.lVS. 3:05. 1I:.W P. M.: and 9.00 A. M. on Sup.najs or.Iy. Arrive at Fortland dallv at G:i:. b 30. ie 00 A. M.: 1 3.1. 3-ir. 4 30. C:20. 7 40. 10 CM) T M.; 12:40 A. M. dally, except Mommy. S.20 and 10.03 A. M. on Sunday only Leave for Dalles dally. ex?ept Sunday, at 4-30 P. M. Arrie at Portland at 0:'M A. M. Passsnser train leaves Dallas for Airlle Mop dajo. 'WednesdH'is and Frldavs at 2:43 T. M. Returns Tuesdays. Thursdaaand Saturdajs. Except Sunday. R. KOCHLER. C. H. MAP.KH.UI. Manager. Gen. Frt. & Pass. Agt. mz ElESTRIG LIGHTED LEKiTED. Between St. Paul and Chicago the "knowing ones" take the Bsdington's Chicago Limited ,thc ll electric-ngatcd tram." They take it because it is zs hozichke as their own ncmes a luxurious as z $to-a-2ay hotel. Geo. M. Pullman, pronounced it tne ' finest train that crer stood en wheels." It is. Leaves St. Paul 3.05 j" . rn. Arrives Chicago 9.Z5 a. m. All trans-continental trams con nect with it. AU ticke: agents sell tickets by it. Write for information. A. C. SHELDON, General Agt., 100 Third St., Portvmjd, Ore. Bi 1 in GO EAST VIA girtfZB Sp gQ 3 5iJl UJ5C- ON THE FAMOUS Chicago - Portland Special And Travel in Luxurious Comfort Dining Cnrs. Service a. In Carte. Llbrary-ItnJTet SmoUInK Cnrs. Palace and Ordinary McciiiiSKT Cars. Free Reclining Cliaii- Cars. The only ttaln ninnlng through solid from Portland to Chicago. No change of. cars. Eerj car Illuminated with Plntsch gas. Leave 8 P. M., Portland. Arrives 0:45 P. M. CITY TICKET OFFICE 124 Third St. Phone Main 569 W. E. COMAN. General Agent. J. R. NAGEL. City Ticket At. Ticket Ofllcc: 122 Third St. 'Phone O.SU LEAVE. No. 4 3U5 P. M. The Flyer, 5ally to an irmrw from St. Paul. Minns- " . apolls. Duluth. Chicago j . and aI points East. j t:00 A. M. Through Palace and Tourist Sleepers, Dining and Burfet Smoklng-Llbrary Cars. JAPAN - AMERICAN LINE STEAMSHIP IDZUMI MARU For Japan, China and al! Asiatic points will leave Seattle About March 28th. SEATTLE Yukon River Points Steamer OHIO (3500 tons) has been re leased by the United States Government after nearly two yeats' service as a trans port to' the Philippines, and will sail for CAPE NOME on or about MAY 24, 1S0O. For passage and freight ratea,. apply to any railroad acent or 3ub-agent of tho International Navigation Co.. or direct to EMPIRE TRANSPORTATION CO., GOT First avenue, Seattle. "Wash. Pacific Coasi 5team3hto Ca. FOR ALASKA THE COMPANTS elegant steamers. Cottage City, City of Topoka and Al - Kl Ipave TACOMA 11 A. M.. SEATTLE 0 P. M.. Mar. 11. 10. 21. 28. 31. Apr. 5. 10, 15. 20. 25. 30. May .". and every fifth day thereafter. For further Infor mation obtain company's folder. The company rewrvea the right to change steamers, sailing dates and houra of sailing, without previous notice. AGENTS N. POSTON. 20 -Washington tt.. Portland. Or.; F. W. CARLETON. N. P. R. R. dock. Tacoma; J. F. TROWBRIDGE. Pujet Sound SupU. Ocean dock. Seattle. COODALL. PERKINS & CO.. Geo. AU.. J. . siys aKfS$5it M$0 1 l3BMJREATN0KfflERNf