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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.
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