worse. When we grow wealthy we will own a horse and car- A"J 

 romata. As it is, we either walk (no one, but natives and low 

 white trash, walks in Manila) or loaf along until we can hail 

 an empty one. I certainly had a good attack of the blues shortly 

 after arrival but as I am endowed with a submissive spirit, I 

 succumb to the inevitable. Things have turned out just as I 

 expected but not as I hoped. The Government Laboratories 

 consist of a small building back of the city hospital. The 

 equipment is fair. But what discouraged me was to be informed 

 that routine work would be my chief occupation. So I am 

 engaged as I was during my senior year at Rush. However, I 

 intend to put in extra time. So far as I can see now, if emer- 

 gencies in the way of epidemics arise, Dr Woolley and I will 

 do the routine work while someone else will get the credit. 

 Well, here I am writing down my troubles instead of hunting 

 up a policeman. At any rate we will see and learn many new 

 things. Dr Hektoen's suggestion that on my return I give a 

 course in tropical diseases, has keyed me up to making the most 

 of two years. This morning Dr C F De Mey, a big, jolly, good- 

 looking Frenchman, who has charge of the lepers at San Lazaro 

 Hospital, took us out there and showed us many interesting 

 and horrible cases. He also lives at 1 8 3 but soon leaves to estab- 

 lish a colony for the Islands. He is very enthusiastic about a 

 method of treatment he has discovered. There has been no 

 cholera in the city since January fifteenth though many cases 

 occur daily in the provinces; and bubonic plague has almost 

 died out. The health department here is excellent. 



By February twelfth he was again on the eternal theme of 

 his finances: 



I am enclosing a postal money order, Martin, which you will 

 no doubt be glad to receive. . . . Manila is a great place. . . . 

 We have fallen into more or less routine which will last for a 

 month or two when Freer promises us plenty of opportunity 

 for research. . . . 



The reference was to the altogether remarkable Paul C 

 Freer. He had, in 1903, when just forty, been appointed the 

 "superintendent" of the Government laboratories. An M D 

 out of Rush at twenty, he had made himself a Ph D out of 

 Munich at twenty-five. After a season with the great Perkin 



