The Women's Monastery to the name of the Holy Mother of Viad. imir held a sale of ladies' handiwork, which was attended by foras well as Russian ladies. The sale boasted" a large number of Mr. D. A. Berinoy of the Ameri-coan "Steel " Corporation, fell ill in Hongkong while on business in that city. Latest news is that he is on the way to recovery. The Very Rev. Michael Erokhin, who was trans ferred from Dairen to Manila, has been invited to head the Russian church in Santa Rose, near San Francisco, and 4s at present en route to California, Manila Conditions 'Travelling through Shanghai, V. N. Leontovitch, mining engineer, and the manager' of one of the mining concerns in the Philippines, has recounted in an interview. with the Russian press that he found himself in Manila four years ago during the 2935 gold boom. At that time 800 gold "mibing companies were formed; of these only 30 remain today. At that time, also, Russians not only left for the'Philippines on their own Initiative, but were often invited there as. special~ ists in the mining industry. At present unemployed Russians are slowly leaving the islands, lessening, the ranks of the jobless' there—although Russians who found them= selves without work in Manila after the gold boom, were helped by. the Russian colony of that city, which fs closely united. Mr. Leontoviteh says. that it is impossible to work in the Philippines in a "free profession" like medicine, law and engineering, without first passing a Tather stiff "examination, Of all Russians in the. islands, only Mr.
Konkoy passed these examinations—and he probably because he received his diploma as an engineer in the United States. But those Russiar: s who arrived in the Philippine: with Admiral Stark's squadron in 1623 have found very satisfactory employment, On the whole life in the Philippines is not easy, as the cost of living is high and "even these who receive high salaries must reckon with the fact that! many concerns do not work the whole year around, "and collected money must be spent during periods of enforced inactivity. 'The climate is not of the best kind for Russians, but -emigres have an enviable talent for adaption, and those who have, firmly established themselves in the' islands have no complaints to make! of their life,
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