The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 16, 1898, Page 1

to be taken from the Library.**** OLUMHE LX) PRICE FIVE CENTS. SOLDIERS GO TO WAR 0000000000000 00050000000060600666800000¢ San Francisco Turhs Out to See the Volunteers Off and ¢ the Bay Is Once More as Animated as When the California » L4 : Troops Sailed. 00'000000000000000600000000000000000009 California Bids Farewell to Troops of States. A Noisy Demonstration as the| . Soldier-Laden Vessels Start for Manila. BY ALICE RIX. R A HE second Manila expedition is : gone to the front. The China, 3 Colon, Zealandla and Senator ride the high seas to-day. Utah, Colo- : ‘rado and Nebraska have followed California to the Spanish port. Five thousand more of our men are out to help Dewey, to help defend the flag, to _ help remember the Mal - At half-past one o’'clock © afterncon the transports sailed. snorning was sultry. The sun burne behind a milky haze. The bay, in Vv ne. ‘soft ghadow, looked like a smoked pearl. Over it pleamed the colors of the mosquito fleet. The big st swung at anchor w * layed. Tugs rocke docks waiting on the sa fry flitted over the water waiting rothing. The crowd plers waiting for ar fluttered with natic . ors.. Men and women Wc pinned to waved the bands on and “The “Yankee Doodle’ Msrching Throu gathered on ng ig: gnal col- flags h Georgia.” A girl's on: the water. China heard and the g that made us free!” The sound floated back faint and sad the Colon \a lay off Howard street Zenlandia by the Potrero, the close to the the Sen in trouble, roadw. Her coal bad crowd more important cargo and a ¥ tons of it went ashore again Iz s voice picked up the chorus | { The Ukiah, ladén to the water’s edge, i ARD SAILED T Her Sister | The last of her supplies lingered until | this morning and she was loading up to | noon. At the eleventh hour, before | departure, the cork helmets, for which | her troops had waited, looked and | longed, arrived in packing boxes three feet square, and with a cargo bulging over the hatches, she could not take them aboard. It lain that if cork helmets went to.Manila they must g0 on the heads of the m: There was a quick smashing of cases on shore, a distribution of helmets aboard and the | Jator's men came up under them like | a crop of mushrooms on her decks. Flying the Red Cross flag the Gracle Barton ar ald carried the ing angels of the camp on their sits to the troops. They went from the China to the Zealandia and | then to the Colon, but the Senator's breast lines, stretched taut by the eager tide, shut her out. From the double decks of stern-wheelers rose the plain- | tive chorus, altered to fit the hour's need. CO0O000000000O0000O00COOODH00000 soldiers! soldiers! Goo , soldiers! We're going to leave you now!” “Good-by!” shouted the men cheer- - falling on the last lunch token. | d-by. Three cheers for the Red Crc d heavily up and down the/| am. Smart little private launches | stipped across her bows, light skiffs and wherries shot alohg her sides. Tugs | | cast their lines and fussed out into the stream. The bay took on a frivolous regatta gavety which belled the heart beating beneath. A band played on everything afloat. There were songs, | shouts, cheers, the hiss of steam, the | scream of whistles, the rush of waters | g after moving craft. And the| clo &S .09000000009900099000009900909000000090 The China, Zealandia, Senator and Colon Are Now on the § L4 * A FROM AMONG chorus rose throbbing to the skies, swept acrops the city, in among the marts of men, stirring the unimportant civillan at his unheroic labors of the day. The heroes of the hour, the men who were golng out to do or dle, or, it may | be, both, were impatient of delay. | They swarmed on the deciks of the transports and ate thelr lunch against | the guard rail, tco eager to Ko be- low. They were hysterically cheerful, wildly gay, mad to be gone, vet moved Ly the parting, filled with that tender conthuslasm which overflowed in love of all their kind and made their race their kindred for that hour. They leaned over the ships’ sides to the friends who came to wish them heart and courage | and glory on the field—new friends won in the little space thelr tents1 will ale defending it!” And “We will were pitched beside the Western wnter} answer our country’s ecall with our —and gave them fondest greeting. They | 1tves!” And “It is a glorious thing te inclined tenderly even to strangers. | dle for the right!” And “What more They cut the buttons from their coats, can a man give to a cause than his tore the erossguns from their caps, and | life’s blood?” And a hundred others dung them to the girls in the little| as flne as these and all et do- dancing boats below. They cheered the | ing and dying. flag, they cheered the cause, they| The cards went over the sides cheered the older heroes they have gone | wrapped in bits of paper welghted to meet. They wrote their neblest sen- with little lumps of coal and timents, or what seemed to them the fell into uplifted hands. They noblest sentiments of other heroes, on | were read hurriedly yesterday and then cards, thelr military cards, with a flag | thrust into the pockats of coats and the and “Remember the Malne” on one | bosoms of frocks with a nod or a smile corner, their company’s letter and | for answer. There was not time for Regiment number on the other. Such | more, for several boats pressed close fine, brave words as these: ‘It 1s base | in the ghadow of the big ones and a to live when duty calls to die!” and | “We will live to honor our flag and we | Continued on Eighth Page. PORTO RICO ANXIOUS TO Un BE ADOPTED BY UNCLE SAM der Sentiments of Hate and Terror for Spain on the Part of Residents Is Said to Be a Warm Friendship for the United Caracas are very active giving information to the the legation of the United the Junta said to me this spired by Spanish rule, g annexed.” 00000000000 000C00C000CO CARACAS, Venezuela, June 15.—Cuban and Porto Rican residents of here in the interests of *“‘Cuba Libre’’ and have been very useful in the way of news that certain Spaniards here are planning to tion, which caused the Venezuelan Government to set a strong guard there. Yesterday the Cubans tell the Minister they desired to present him with an engrossed memorial for President McKinley and a handsome silk flag for the legation. Mr. Loomis declined a public presentation of the flag, would tend to unduly inflame the Spaniards and make more onerous the task of the Venezuelan Government in preserving order. The memorial will be pre- sented privately to-night and forwarded to the Washington Minister. The natives of Porto Rico have sent a petition to Washington through “We want the Government of the United States to realize fully that if it desires the island of Porto Rico it wiil find the people of Porto Rico more than willing to be under the protection of the great republic. I have recently come trom Porto Rico; I know that under the sentiments of hate and terror, in- there exists everywhere outside Spanish circles warm friendship for the United Staies and the hope that the States. and very numerous. They publish a strong paper F. B. Loomis. They brought the attack the American lega- American Minister, sent a committee to the United States legation to on the ground that such an incident States here which is very important. The leader of evening: isiand will be 000000000000 00N00 0000000000000 00000 0000000000000(}(‘0000000000000000 miral Dewey. FEW weeks ago San Franclsco sent forth upon the Pacific her own soldier boys. It was my privilege to see them go, and to pay perhaps some measure of tribute to them and to an occasion 80 august. Their farewell had been mag- nificent, nobody expected there would ever be another like it. There were tears then as well as cheers, and it seemed that the heart of the city had been profoundly moved not alone by patriotic ardor, but by the sorrow of sundered ties. Yesterday there was another time of good-by. Once more the bay was alive with darting craft, with the well-be- loved colors; whistles shrilled an adieu, flags dipped gracefully, over the still waters of the bay there floated the sound of music, the voices of women; again there were flowers, the exchange of tokens, and after it all four great ships sailed through the Golden Gate, and the second expedition for Manila was on the sea. There was only one difference. Peo- ple have become accustomed to the thought of war. Yesterday there was as marked s heartiness fn the greeting and the parting, but the tone of sad- ness was not to be observea. The sol- diers laughed gaily and their visitors laughed back. They tossed compliments and bouquets, but none was seen to weep. The common bond was the flag and its honor. These men, going to dis- tant lands, were strangers but a brief span ago. Now each has become a | friend. Theysforegathered from Colo- rado, from Pennsylvania, from Nebras- | ka, but since their feet first pressed California soil it has been a delight to | honor them, and to the last, until the smoke of the --'~s bearing them away | had changed to a cloud in the west, and | ¢ Padiflo Carrying Neatly Four Thousand Men to the Ald of ¢ & 9088698980394 8099809838888888808880600 FRIENDS As Royal a Farewell as the California Boys in Blue Received. Gayly Dressed Bay Craft Escorted the Big Troopships Out to Sea. BY HENRY JAMES. a fog had barred the Golden Gate be= hind them, this was the spirit which ministered to them. The appreciated it. Did they not shout their gratitude? Did not they hurrah for the Red Cross? Who missed a view of the scene can learn little of its majesty and its sweet- ness by any written description. As a whole 4t was impressive. In detail it was full of little incidents, each one a story. I was glad to observe the re- gard in which The Call seemed to be held by the soldiers, and that their de- votion to Alice Rix was almost worship. Whenever the staff tug drew near to one of the liners there would be a very shower of good will, taking the material form of cards decorated with national emblems, buttons, badges, anything that could be adapted to the sudden emergency. One boy fro.. Colorado—I wish I knew his name—could not find a moderate way in which to show his sentiments. Perhaps his supply of but- tons had been exhausted. He took from his vest a gold watch, and saying it was for Alice Rix, dropped it into the tug. There could have been no refusal, as just then the tug was cast off. For the remainder of the trip Mrs. Rix wore suspended in plain view one certain hunting case watch, distinctly mascu- line as to size, and her pride in it was considered justifiable. I wish to thank the soldier for her and to tell him that his gift shall be treasured until such happy day as he may call for it. Through the night and ths morning the ships had rested in the stream, all of them but the Senator. The last was at the dock until a few moments before starting on its long voyage. From 10 o'clock the “Blue Peter” had been fly- ing at the prow of the China. The flag- ship was ready to haul up anchor. Far up the bay the Zealandia waited, the smokestacks showing that it was ready