The Sisters of the Assumption have erected a handsome building which serves as a rest house and a girls’ school.  The sisters known as the “Belgian Canonist Missionaries” are erecting a building which will afford them a place to come for recuperation when wearied by strenuous work in the lowlands, and will make it possible for them to open a school for Igorot girls, which they are planning to do.

Bishop Brent has established an excellent school for American boys, situated on a sunny hilltop.  The instruction is very good, the food excellent, and a healthier, heartier-looking lot of youngsters than those who enjoy the privileges of this institution cannot be found anywhere.  There is abundant opportunity for them to play basket-ball, tennis and golf.  Some of them indulge in polo, playing on Filipino ponies.

Bishop Brent also has a mission school for Igorot girls, and plans to open a boarding school for American girls in the near future.

The Belgian missionary priests, locally known as the “Missionary Priests of the Church of San Patricio,” have their headquarters at Baguio, where the chief of their order resides and where they come occasionally for rest and recuperation.  Archbishop Harry has a modest home on one of the numerous hilltops.

The building of a school for constabulary officers, to which young men arriving from the United States are sent before entering upon active service, crowns another hill and commands a magnificent view of the surrounding country.

Several business concerns, such as the Compania General de Tabacos de Filipinas, have erected rest houses for their officers and employees, while the number of attractive private homes increases as rapidly as the supply of building materials will permit.  Filipino residents of Manila have recently invested more than a hundred thousand dollars in Baguio homes.

But this is not all.  No description would be anything like complete without mention of a unique structure which is certain to become famous the world over.  It has been built under the immediate supervision of Major-General Bell, who has given freely of his time and thought to make it the extraordinary success which it is.  I refer to the wonderful amphitheatre which stands at the side of the official residence of the major-general commanding the Division of the Philippines.  Advantage has been taken of the existence of a natural amphitheatre with remarkable acoustic properties.  Man has added what Nature left undone, and the result is an imposing and beautiful auditorium capable of seating four thousand people, throughout which a whisper can be heard.  It is utilized for religious services, concerts, lectures, theatrical performances and other public entertainments.  No charge is exacted for its use, but if an admission fee is collected, a liberal percentage of the proceeds must go to some worthy charity.  It has been terraced in stone by Igorot labourers; the trees originally standing in it have been protected, and tree ferns, shrubs and flowering plants have been added.  The result beggars description, and photographs do it scant justice.