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‘MAIN STREET, MANILA Escolta, 1898.
The Treaty of Paris ending the Spanish-American War was signed on Dec. 10, 1898 seven months after Admiral
George Dewey won the Battle of Manila Bay the preceding first of May. That was when journalist
Margherita Arlina Hamm came our way.
It took 30 days to reach Manila from New York by train to San Francisco and by boat to Manila and 35 days to return. Visas were issued by the Spanish Consul in Hong Kong, where travelers were cautioned against smuggling and told what they could bring in by way of clothes, equipment, literature, and money. Written material that was heretical, revolutionary, anarchistic, or critical of government would be confiscated and the bearer fined, imprisoned, and deported.