Sunday, November 09, 2008
MANILA'S LEGENDARY MAYOR: ARSENIO H. LACSON
Coming home to Manila after a long absence, I felt like one of those old-time Manileños who resented finding Plaza Goiti gone. I also began to dislike the man whose name replaced it -- Arsenio H. Lacson.But then, only a couple of years later, after immersing myself in Manila's colorful and multi-faceted culture, the loathing turned into profound admiration, especially after learning about the man's fearless, trenchant, and no-nonesense style of city governance.
Nicknamed the "Arsenic" because of the poison pen that he brandished, his accomplishments -- including being the first in Manila to be reelected to a third term as mayor -- made me reconsider; that perhaps, Lacson himself, would have not approved the idea of renaming Plaza Goiti after him, as well as having that imposing statue erected in his honor.
A flamboyant and feisty Visayan, Lacson was a militant journalist and radio program host turned politico. His initial entry into public service was in 1949, when as a member of the Nacionalista Party, he ran for and won a seat in the House of Representatives; thus, becoming Congressman of the 2nd District of Manila. Two years later, for his excellence as a fiscalizer and lawmaker, he was cited as one of the "Ten Most Useful Congressmen" by the media group assigned to cover Congress.
His journey towards a phenomenal true leadership came to a crossroad in 1951, a time when Manila held its first mayoralty elections. Lacson chose to run the path against the Palace candidate Manuel de la Fuente (whose name later replaced Trabajo Street in Sampaloc).
Lacson's ensuing landslide victory was primarily attributed to the voters' aversion to then President Elpidio Quirino, which spilled to de la Fuente; not to mention that old-time Manileños' were known to harbor a penchant for anything opposition; thus, they voted all-out Nacionalista, sweeping in Lacson and almost the entire opposition ticket. Only one Liberal managed to win a council seat: Salvador Mariño.
Lacson's popularity continued to surge while in office, for he personified an exhilarating gust of wind in an otherwise stifling political arena. With his trademark aviator sunglasses, gaudy shirts and stunning loud barks with equally debilitating bites, Lacson exuded an air of toughness, forcefulness and vigor; qualities that bode well with the post-war Manileños. Indeed, Lacson was not one of those statesmen from the elite class of privileged gentility -- like Quezon, who seemed vaguely jaded, though elegant and eloquent in every measure.
Born in Talisay, Negros Occidental on December 26, 1911, Arsenio H. Lacson obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree at the Ateneo de Manila University. While an undergraduate, he pursued his love for boxing; becoming an adept amateur with a broken nose to show for it, which became a prominent feature of his profile.
At the University of Santo Tomas, he studied law, and passed the bar in 1937. After which he joined the law office of future Senator Vicente Francisco. He subsequently worked at the Department of Justice as an assistant attorney.
Before the outbreak of World War II, Lacson worked as a sportswriter. And when the Japanese forces occupied the country, he joined the Free Philippines underground movement; acting as a lead scout during the Battle for Manila. He also fought in the battle to liberate Baguio City in 1945. For his gallant wartime services, Lacson received citations from the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Sixth United States Army. Years later, when asked by the visiting Japanese Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi if he had learned Japanese during the war, Lacson responded, "I was too busy shooting the Japanese to learn any."
Lacson showed no respect for partisan politics; neither was he inhibited when expressing his sentiments against the Americans who, in turn, likened his brashness with that of Fiorello La Guardia. And like the rambunctious Italian-American New York City mayor, Lacson cleaned up a corrupt administration and a wide-open city by firing 600 incompetent job holders.
A Time article illustrated how Mayor Lacson conducted nightly patrols in a black police car; returning from time to time to a corner table at the lounges of Bay View or Filipinas hotels, where he listened to complaints and requests, or talked profusely on a plugged-in telephone -- "punctuating his conversations with shots of whisky and four-letter expletives." On Sundays, Manileños got to hear their gutsy mayor on a half-hour radio program, pre-recorded with expletives deleted.
Appearing more brawny than brainy, Lacson was forthcoming with his predilection to antagonize; challenging Ferdinand Marcos to a boxing match which the latter didn't accept, and branding a twenty-something city councilor named Ernesto Maceda, with a damning catchphrase, “so young yet so corrupt.”
There was also his feud with President Elpidio Quirino which resulted to Lacson's suspension as Manila's mayor. And years before, in 1947, President Manuel Roxas, whom he nicknamed "Manny the Weep," ordered his suspension from the airwaves. The incident attracted much international attention: with the former United States Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes applauding the President's action, while the popular American radio commentator Walter Winchell lambasting the Interior Secretary for it.
Auspiciously for Lacson, in his seemingly endless battles, the popular public opinion remained vociferously on his side.
During his second mayoral term, a group of American mayors cited Manila as one of the ten best-administered cities in the world -- the only city deemed as such in Asia. And during his third term, his intention to run for the presidency became apparent. Unfortunately, he died in mid-term on April 15, 1962. The ten years he served as Manila's mayor were filled with sterling accomplishments, foremost of which was the liquidation of a 21-million peso City Hall debt incurred by the previous nine administrations.
When the second elective mayor, Antonio Villegas, took over the city's helm, he admirably completed Lacson's unfinished projects -- such as a city hospital (Ospital ng Maynila), a city university (Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila), a city compost plant to recycle garbage, and a city reclamation of the Tondo offshore.
The Manila Zoo and the Quiapo underpass were the other Lacson projects widely cherished by Manileños. Villegas, upon taking office, immediately decreed that the latter was to bear the name of Arsenio H. Lacson.
Hence, with the issue of Plaza Goiti having been renamed Plaza Lacson, I've taken comfort to what Conrado de Quiros, in his column What's in the name?, had said: "I personally do not mind that Azcarraga gave way to Claro M. Recto and Forbes to Arsenio Lacson. Recto and Lacson were more than politicians, or they showed the best that politicians could be."
Statue of Mayor Arsenio H. Lacson on Baywalkcreated by Julie Lluch
Top Photo:
Plaza Lacson (formerly Plaza Goiti) before it was reopened to
vehicular traffic as ordered by incoming mayor elect
Alfredo S. Lim.
Notable quote:
"When people say for instance that our corruption will never be banished, just remember that Arsenio Lacson as Mayor of Manila and Ramon Magsaysay as President brought a clean government." - F. Sionil Jose - Why the Philippines is Standing Still
Special mention:
The father of our fellow blogger, Pete Lacson (Noypetes), is a cousin of Arsenio H. Lacson. Although only a little tyke at that time, Pete remembers the mayoral election that ushered his uncle into City Hall. Pete also remembers visiting the mayor's house with his father on M. Earnshaw Street near the corner of Gov. Forbes Avenue and España.
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Thursday, November 06, 2008
THE NAME GAME
While the Yuchengcos had successfully petitioned the Atienza administration to replace a historic street name with theirs, The Tys (founders of Metrobank), on the other hand, are patiently waiting for the Lim administration to have not one but two street names -- Condesa and Oriente -- to be changed to theirs. This may be the era of brazen glorification of our city's taipans.
Conrado de Quiros makes his sentiments known about the naming of our streets after politicians (as the excerpt below suggests), but I wonder how he'd react to this shameless trend of renaming our city streets after business tycoons?
The following is an excerpt from his article "What’s in a name?":
But I agree wholeheartedly with not renaming streets after politicians -- most assuredly not the worst of them. That is adding insult to injury. The point of naming streets is to remind us of this nation’s accomplishments, not to oppress us with our rulers’ villainy. Why on earth should any road, least of all the most expensive one in the world per square inch, be named Diosdado Macapagal Avenue? To this day, we still have all sorts of avenues, boulevards, and streets named after Ferdinand and Imelda. I agree they should not be forgotten, but I argue they should not be extolled. Having infrastructure named after them is extolling them -- and persecuting us.
If we are going to rename streets at all -- and certainly if we are going to name new ones -- I earnestly suggest we name them after artists, scientists and philosophers, such as we have produced philosophers. There is something deeply wrong with a country that values its public officials more than its artists and scientists. Artists and scientists enrich a country’s spiritual life and leave lasting legacies, politicians only impoverish a country’s physical life and leave lasting legacies of destruction and desolation. The only place they deserve to have their names affixed to is the toilet, preferably on the flush of the bowl.
By Conrado de Quiros
Inquirer
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posted by Señor Enrique at 7:40 AM
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Wednesday, October 15, 2008
A PUBLIC HEARING ON PROPOSED STREET NAME CHANGES
This was the scene yesterday at Manila City Hall's Plenary Session Hall as a public hearing was conducted by the Committee on Arts & Culture, presided by its chairman, Councilor John Marvin Nieto, more popularly known by his screen name Yul Servo.
This public hearing was in relation to the draft ordinances to rename two streets in Binondo: Condesa to Norberto Ty Street and Oriente to Victoria Ty Tan Street. The intention is to 'honor' the ancestors of the family that founded the now largest banking conglomerate in the Philippines, Metrobank.
In a nutshell, the Metrobank group at yesterday's hearing stressed that the city's concession to rename these two streets -- Condesa and Oriente -- to honor their founder's ancestors would be a mere token of appreciation by the City of Manila for the jobs Metrobank had created, including the millions of pesos of charity money and grants that Metrobank had doled out through the years.
Ms. Gemma Cruz-Araneta, who headed the group representing the Heritage Conservation Society and the Manila Heritage and Historical Commission, reminded the committee that 'stories' give life and color to the city.
As an example, she cited the Sampaloc streets that were named after the virtues -- Trabajo (Work), Industria (Industry), Pureza (Purity), Honradez (Honor) -- because back during the 1920s-'30s, this part of Sampaloc was comprised of working class folks who treasured these basic human values. However, this 'story' has now been broken by the change of Trabajo into M. de la Fuente to honor a certain mayor of Manila.
Oriente street in Binondo, Ms. Gemma argued, commemorates the famous hotel in Rizal's time where Rizal himself stayed when he came back from his travels in Europe in 1892. Other names are whimsical and funny. For instance, Hormiga (Ant) in Binondo is called such because it is small and narrow. She then asked why can't we have a city full of romance, virtues and humor rather than one which honors mainly business tycoons and politicians?
And if indeed the goal is to honor a businessman or politician, will changing the name of a street really inspire people to remember him/her? Granting that Oriente is changed to Ty, how many people will know who the person is and why that person is being commemorated? Only a handful, she lamented.
She then asked what guarantee is there that after 20 years, the name of the street will not be changed again? In the 1950s, she pointed out, the main street in Ermita was Isaac Peral after the Spanish inventor of the submarine. Then in the 1970s, it was changed to United Nations. Now in the 2000s, there is pressure from the Romulo clan to change it to Carlos P. Romulo.
Finally, Ms. Gemma offered some suggestions like affixing a commemorative ceramic plaque to the wall of a street where so-and-so used to pass during his/her lifetime? The plaque should be beautifully made and should summarize the achievements of, say, the Tys. If a portrait in bas-relief is included, so much the better, she said, for the public can have a clear picture of who is being honored.
At the same time, she suggested that there should be a law stipulating that the ceramic plaque must remain in that given area even if the building to which it is affixed is torn down. The new building that will arise should carry the ceramic plaque. Such ceramic plaques, if well done, can in fact make our streets more attractive and more colorful. They will necessarily be bigger than the ceramic street signs from the Spanish period.
This public hearing on the draft ordinances to rename Condesa to Norberto Ty Street and Oriente to Victoria Ty Tan Street, conducted by the City of Manila's Committee on Arts & Culture, will continue. The committee plans to invite representatives from the National Historical Institute on its next session.
Related link:
Old Manila streets lose names to politicians - PDI - Augusto de Viana
Old Manila streets lose names to politicians - PDI - Augusto de Viana
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Friday, August 22, 2008
AZCARRAGA, HEADING EAST TO LEGARDA
Azacarraga was renamed Recto
on February 17, 1961 under Ordinance No. 4377
Ordinance No. 4441 was amended by Ordinance No. 4377,
relative to the renaming of Azcarraga Street as Claro M. Recto Street,
by changing the classification of street to avenue on October 2, 1961.
on February 17, 1961 under Ordinance No. 4377
Ordinance No. 4441 was amended by Ordinance No. 4377,
relative to the renaming of Azcarraga Street as Claro M. Recto Street,
by changing the classification of street to avenue on October 2, 1961.
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"Among the arguments put forward for renaming Azcarraga was that the street was named after a Spaniard. Actually, Azcarraga was the name of two brothers, Marcelo and Manuel, who were born of Spanish parents in the Philippines which, by definition, made them Filipino. Of the two brothers, Marcelo distinguished himself in Spain, rising to become minister of war and twice prime minister. Filipinos should be proud of Azcarraga because he was a native of the Philippines who held one of the highest offices in Spain."
Augusto de Viana - "Old Manila streets lose names to politicians"
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Originally named Paseo de Felipe, after Philip II of Spain, this street was divided into five portions with different names such as Paseo de Azcarraga by the bay, General Izquierdo, Paz, and at its Sampaloc end, Iris.
The Americans gave it a single name, Calle Azcarraga, in 1910, while in 1961, it was renamed to honor Senator Claro Mayo Recto.
The Americans gave it a single name, Calle Azcarraga, in 1910, while in 1961, it was renamed to honor Senator Claro Mayo Recto.
Along its entire stretch, there's the Tutuban Railroad Station, Divisoria Market Complex, Tutuban Center Mall, Arranque Market, University of the East (UE), Odeon Theater (which is now a mini mall), Ever Gotesco and other cinema houses, jewelry merchants, schools, eateries and offices.
Andres Bonifacio was born on Nov. 30, 1863 in a small nipa hut in Tutuban, a swamp-like part in Tondo (which means a place where they make tuba, an alcoholic drink made from coconuts).
On July 7, 1892, Bonifacio met secretly with his friends in a house on Recto Street in Tondo. Together with his two friends Ladislao Diwa and Teodoro Plata, he formed the first triangle of a secret society called Kataastaasan Kagalanggalang na Katipunan ng mga Anak ng Bayan, or Katipunan, for short.
In 1886, the Manila Railway Company pursued its plans to build a railroad line from Manila to Dagupan, Pangasinan. The Fleming Company was commissioned to help build the railroad. With the new railroad tracks cutting across Tondo, the Fleming Company had to buy several houses that were subsequently demolished to make way for the railroad. Among which was the Bonifacio house in Tutuban.
Another notable personality associated with Azcarraga is one of the Philippines' important artists, Fernando Amorsolo. Although he was born in Paco, Manila, and grew up in the carefree setting of the province, Amorsolo lived a simple life and raised his family in an apartment on Azcarraga.
During his early years as an artist, in his effort to put food on his family’s table, as well as earn enough money to afford the materials he needed to pursue his passion for painting, Amorsolo took on other jobs, including that as a commercial illustrator. As a commercial artist, his most popular creation was the Marca Demonio label, which is pasted on the bottles of Ginebra San Miguel gin to this day.
Had it not been for his wife’s constant prodding during the later part of his life to buy their own house and lot, he would have been contented enough to live the rest of his life in their rented apartment on Azcarraga.
Given the colorful and diverse history of this street, if changing its name from Azcarraga was of absolute necessity, they could have renamed it after Andres Bonifacio or Fernando Amorsolo; not after Claro M. Recto, a career politician, though gifted with a brilliant mind, was hindered with an appeal limited to the intellectual elite and the nationalist minority of his time.
As Manuel L. Quezon III once wrote:
"Recto's leadership was the curious kind that only finds fulfillment from being at the periphery of power, and not from being its fulcrum. It was the best occupation suited to the satirist that he was. His success at the polls would be limited, his ability to mold the minds of his contemporaries was only excelled by Rizal's...But he was admired for his intellect and his dogged determination to never let the opposition be bereft of a champion, still his opposition was flawed. For it was one that never bothered to transform itself into an opposition capable of taking power."
Andres Bonifacio was born on Nov. 30, 1863 in a small nipa hut in Tutuban, a swamp-like part in Tondo (which means a place where they make tuba, an alcoholic drink made from coconuts).
On July 7, 1892, Bonifacio met secretly with his friends in a house on Recto Street in Tondo. Together with his two friends Ladislao Diwa and Teodoro Plata, he formed the first triangle of a secret society called Kataastaasan Kagalanggalang na Katipunan ng mga Anak ng Bayan, or Katipunan, for short.
In 1886, the Manila Railway Company pursued its plans to build a railroad line from Manila to Dagupan, Pangasinan. The Fleming Company was commissioned to help build the railroad. With the new railroad tracks cutting across Tondo, the Fleming Company had to buy several houses that were subsequently demolished to make way for the railroad. Among which was the Bonifacio house in Tutuban.
Another notable personality associated with Azcarraga is one of the Philippines' important artists, Fernando Amorsolo. Although he was born in Paco, Manila, and grew up in the carefree setting of the province, Amorsolo lived a simple life and raised his family in an apartment on Azcarraga.
During his early years as an artist, in his effort to put food on his family’s table, as well as earn enough money to afford the materials he needed to pursue his passion for painting, Amorsolo took on other jobs, including that as a commercial illustrator. As a commercial artist, his most popular creation was the Marca Demonio label, which is pasted on the bottles of Ginebra San Miguel gin to this day.
Had it not been for his wife’s constant prodding during the later part of his life to buy their own house and lot, he would have been contented enough to live the rest of his life in their rented apartment on Azcarraga.
Given the colorful and diverse history of this street, if changing its name from Azcarraga was of absolute necessity, they could have renamed it after Andres Bonifacio or Fernando Amorsolo; not after Claro M. Recto, a career politician, though gifted with a brilliant mind, was hindered with an appeal limited to the intellectual elite and the nationalist minority of his time.
As Manuel L. Quezon III once wrote:
"Recto's leadership was the curious kind that only finds fulfillment from being at the periphery of power, and not from being its fulcrum. It was the best occupation suited to the satirist that he was. His success at the polls would be limited, his ability to mold the minds of his contemporaries was only excelled by Rizal's...But he was admired for his intellect and his dogged determination to never let the opposition be bereft of a champion, still his opposition was flawed. For it was one that never bothered to transform itself into an opposition capable of taking power."
Odeon Terminal Mall, formerly the site of Odeon Theater* * *
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RELATED LINKS:
Nueva Street in Binondo
From Oriente to Ty Street
Formerly Isaac Peral
Hidalgo East of Quezon Boulevard
Hidalgo Street Revisited
On Palanca Street
General Carriedo and Fr. Felix Huertas
Manila's Plaza Goiti
Old Street Names of Manila - Traveler on Foot
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posted by Señor Enrique at 3:40 AM
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Monday, August 18, 2008
FROM ORIENTE TO TY STREET
The name of the street between the two buildings -- Metrobank and First Metro -- in the above photo may soon change from Oriente to Ty Street; that is, to honor the founder of Metrobank, George Ty, whose net worth amounts to nearly a billion US dollars, ranking him as among the 40 richest men in the Philippines, according to Forbes.
With all due respect to Mr. Ty's staggering success and wealth, perhaps, he should reconsider, and just leave the name of Oriente Street as it is, especially for its historical value.
Oriente Street was named after the first hotel built in the Philippines, Hotel de Oriente at Plaza de Calderon de la Barca in Binondo, which the Metrobank building now occupies.
The hotel was constructed in the 1850s as a two-story building; occupying the entire block from Oriente Street to Veronica Street. And across Oriente Street was where the old La Insular Cigarette and Cigar Factory once stood, which the First Metro building now occupies.
According to Ka Tony, Jose Rizal used to stay at Hotel de Oriente before he traveled to Europe and before he wrote "Noli Me Tangere. Furthermore, he added:
Rizal, looking out his hotel window, will have the view of the Plaza Calderon de la Barca, on his right is "calle Veronica" a corner block meeting "calle Anloague" (Juan Luna). The "bahay na bato" on this corner with a "tisa rojo" was the setting of Rizal's Noli. The back of this house is the "Estero de Reina" which Rizal mentioned on his Noli that "Kapitan Tiago" & his neighbors used the estero to wash their clothes, dishes, drink, bath, and etc.
On the other hand, according to the Filipinas Heritage Library, the La Insular Cigar and Cigarette Factory in Binondo was founded by Don Joaquin Santamarina with his associates, Don Luis Elizalde and Don Manuel Clemente. It was the first privately-owned cigar factory that was established after the government monopoly on tobacco was abolished in 1880. Its office and factory stood beautifully at Oriente Street in front of Plaza Calderon de la Barca.
Both Hotel de Oriente and La Insular were burned down during the Japanese Occupation.
Hence, for the sake of pride of place, perhaps, George Ty and his clan will abort their efforts to change the name of Oriente Street. And while we're at it, we might as well ask the Yuchengco clan to give back Yuchengco Street its old name -- Nueva.
Related link:
Old Manila streets lose names to politicians - Inquirer.net
Then & Now Pictures of Hotel de Oriente - Tanawin by BCS
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Old Manila streets lose names to politicians - Inquirer.net
Then & Now Pictures of Hotel de Oriente - Tanawin by BCS
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posted by Señor Enrique at 11:10 AM
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Monday, December 17, 2007
FORMERLY ISAAC PERAL
Isaac Peral was a Spanish scientist, inventor, and military man. He invented the submarine -- the first U-boat in naval history -- that was able to fire torpedoes under water while maintaining full propulsive power and control.
He was sent in mission to the Philippines in 1881, first as a geographer and later as an officer of a gunboat. During his stay in the Philippines, he received seven patents between 1887 and 1891 for his other inventions.
A street in Ermita, Manila was named after him, which unfortunately, was changed to United Nations Avenue.
Historian Gregorio Zaide once called the indiscriminate changing of our old street names as “bigoted nationalism and jingoism” -- merely advancing the interests of certain politicians and public officials whose names have been used as replacements. The adverse effect of which is the erasure of historical heritage from our national consciousness.
Perhaps, Mayor Lim ought to seriously consider restoring the old but historic names of our streets and boulevards. And as fellow blogger Urbano de la Cruz had once suggested, the mayor should just simply add a special name for certain major crossroads of Manila. For example, the name Claro M. Recto Plaza for the corner of Rizal Avenue and Claro M. Recto instead of completely renaming the entire stretch of Azcarraga to Claro M. Recto Avenue.
Anyway, I was in the old Isaac Peral the other day and took pictures of some structures along the street such as the Philam Life Building, Doctor's Hospital, the hotel that houses Casino Filipino (its original name was the Manila Hilton; changed to Holiday Inn; and now, Waterfront Hotels & Casino).
The last photograph is the quaint Jade Vine Hotel. Its restaurant serves the best kare-kare in town along with its delectable special bagoong.
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