The Philippines: Past and Present (Volume 1 of 2) eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 594 pages of information about The Philippines.

The Philippines: Past and Present (Volume 1 of 2) eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 594 pages of information about The Philippines.

VOL.  I

Chapter
I. View Point and Subject-Matter
II.  Was Independence Promised? 
III.  Insurgent “Cooeperation”
IV.  The Premeditated Insurgent Attack
V. Insurgent Rule and the Wilcox-Sargent Report
VI.  Insurgent Rule in the Cagayan Valley
VII.  Insurgent Rule in the Visayas and Elsewhere
VIII.  Did We Destroy a Republic? 
IX.  The Conduct of the War
X. Mr. Bryan and Independence
XI.  The First Philippine Commission
XII.  The Establishment of Civil Government
XIII.  The Philippine Civil Service
XIV.  The Constabulary and Public Order
XV.  The Administration of Justice
XVI.  Health Conditions
XVII.  Baguio and the Benguet Road
XVIII.  The Cooerdination of Scientific Work

List of Illustrations

VOL.  I

Peace and Prosperity
Fort San Antonio Abad, showing the Effect of the Fire from Dewey’s
Fleet
Felipe Buencamino
The San Juan Bridge
Insurgent Prisoners
Typical Insurgent Trenches
Inside View of Insurgent Trenches at the Bagbag River
General Henry W. Lawton
Feeding Filipino Refugees
The First Philippine Commission
The Second Philippine Commission
The Return of Mr. Taft
Governor-general James F. Smith with a Bontoc Igorot Escort
Governor-general Forbes in the Wild Man’s Country
The Philippine Supreme Court
An Unsanitary Well
A Flowing Artesian Well
An Unimproved Street in the Filipino Quarter of Manila
An Improved Street in the Filipino Quarter of Manila
Disinfecting by the Acre
An Old-style Provincial Jail
Retreat at Bilibid Prison, Manila
Bilibid Prison Hospital
Modern Contagious Disease Ward, San Lazaro Hospital
Filipina Trained Nurses
Staff of the Bontoc Hospital
A Victim of Yaws before and after Treatment with Salvarsan
The Culion Leper Colony
Building the Benguet Road
Freight Autos on the Benguet Road
The Famous Zig-zag on the Benguet Road
A Typical Baguio Road
One of the First Benguet Government Cottages
Typical Cottages at Baguio
A Baguio Home
The Baguio Hospital
Government Centre at Baguio
A Scene in the Baguio Teachers’ Camp
The Baguio Country Club
The Bureau of Science Building, Manila
The Philippine General Hospital
The College of Medicine and Surgery, Manila
An Old-style Schoolhouse, with Teachers and Pupils
A Modern Primary School Building
Old-style Central School Building
Modern Central School Building
Typical Scene in a Trade School
An Embroidery Class
Philippine Embroidery
Filipino Trained Nurses
A School Athletic Team
Filipina Girls playing Basket-ball
University Hall, Manila
Bakidan
In Hostile Country
Travel under Difficulties
Dangerous Navigation

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