The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 23, 1898, Page 8

THE SAD FRANCISCO bALL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1898 WITH THE B OF THE 0YS FIRST BEFORE MANILA In Rain-Soaked Uniforms Califor- nians Awaited the Word to At tack. Eager to Avenge What They Believed Was to Santi a Reverse Special Correspondence of The Call. BY PRIVATE FRED A. HEALY. CAMP DEWEY, July 26.—The Peking is scheduled to start on her homeward trip to-morrow, and consequently every man in camp who has a moment to himself is busied in compiling close- ly written and much-soiled manuseript which will serve to cheer and comfort | the folks at home. There may be lots to say which will interest and amuse friends and rela- tives, but the monotony here has be- come so deadly that little. or nothing >ecurs that would hold public attention for a second’s time. Everything is so constant and recurs with such regu- laity that it is hard to imagine it could possibly interest any one. Rain con- tinues day and night with such per- sistence that a clear sky would be to the American army before Manila as great a marvel as was the moon to the crusaders before Ascalon. We go to bed in wet clothes, we get up and dress in the morning in clothes still damp. They become still more damp as we stand in line for roll-call. Drill makes them wringing wet, in which condition they continue until we retire to the ele- | gant privacy of our shelter tents. In regard tc same tents I must these y are indeed a great conveni- »rt to troops in the field. They are light to pack and as a rule | they are dr iceabie. The only nd with them is that | 1l. If they were about | longer and had an ad- | width of say two feet they | ely more comtortable sy to carry. | the sergeant major took a nen to row it (for be it non. com., be he al or :ant, never under any 1stances does anything in the| nual labor, in which respect | m his regular brother, who | the men what to do but| 1 how to do it. Possibly most | coms. have an excellent | not tollowing this example in th nd particular) and started off to Cavite to call for the mail which | »y the Newport. With com- and characteristic judgment inche; 1teen gitional nd the on. for arrived ind. He is not popular in day. ckling rifle fire which goes on continually in the trenches and S the world like a huge port has obtained circulation to the ef- fect that General Merritt will await the | arrival of the fourth expedition before commencing active cperations. The ing depression among the rank and file is great indeed. The news of the terrible slaughter which red out to our gallant name Pirst Regulars, before the defenses Santiago has been received here, but | the effect is hardly what would have been antic There was both | admiration among | for vengeance | was so strong when the story was first | told that I don’t believe there w a| man in the whole regiment who would | not have been willing to attempt the | storming of Manila with a single | platoon. However, if the mills of God grind slowly they likewise grind surely, | and I suppose our chance will come sooner or later. When it does come I| am sure the whole regiment will say, | “Let us do as did our boys on the other | side of the world, and, whatever the | end, we will have done well.” This is an exceedingly peculiar war in | gome respects. Here we are within easy range of the Spanish cannon. The | situation of our camp is easy to de- | termine, notwithstanding the trees which surround it, and still it is not shelled. Why this is thus I am unable ital at Cavite. He was a grad College in San Francisco. He was well liked, not on by the men of H Company, of which he w mem- ber, but by the whole regiment in which he was a universal favorite. His Qur Arms at ago.- to say. Common report has it that Dewey has forbidden the Spanish to commence any such action under pen- al of suffering a bombardment them- selvi If this is so it is the first time 1 ever knew of one command: telling another to be good or be spanked. Another thing which excites con erable comment is the method to gather wood for cooking purp There are plenty ef deserted hou hereabouts and miles on miles of dry € fences which would be xcellent for kindling purposes. Yet we are not al- lowed to touch them for fear we may displease a few cut-throat natives who would sack the whole country if tk had half a chance. The consequence that the boys often go hungry to bed while tons upon tons of provisions are lying around just waiting for a chance to jump into the kettl The whole proposition seems to be that we must carry on a war, but un- der no circumstances must we offend any one. These natives here are not the people we were led to imagine they They are a small, undersized, erous and penurious people, givi to dirt and ugliness. They profe: greatest friendship for whom they look upon as a peculiar sort of manna which has been blown upon their shores from acr¢ the ocean; aud the soldiers are to them beings the rob- g of whom is to the islander an al- eligious obligation. It is hars ary to say they never allow ation to go unfulfilled, with almost the fervor of their hat of the Spanish and if the day comes, it probably will, when we have to teach them a lesson it will be one they will | forget. | geant Dan Nicolls, who fell down tch of the Peking and seriou injured his spine, died last night as death, the first and only one which k thus far occurred in the regiment, i be attributed directly to the criminal negligence of the people on the Peking and should be thoroughly investigated when the news reaches home. It is| to Their Feet. HEARTY FIRST AMERICAN OFFICERS UNDER FIRE OF THE SPANISH AT MANILA. In the Right Distance Is the Reservoir That Supplies the City of Manila With Water. The Firing From the Siege Gun to the Left Is Directed Against Lieutenant E. W. Clark, U. S. A. (the Officer Using the Field Glass), Lieutenant Bryan, Oregon Volunteers, to His Left, a Native Guide Next the Filtering Houseand Ray Greene of Portland, Or., Official Interpreter and Private. cers Who Came Under Fire From the Land Batteries of Manila. Range and the Firing became Too Hot the Americans Retired to the Protection of the Filtering Station and the Tree on the Left, Where They Waited Until the Fire Slackened and Then Made a Rush for it to the Brush. The Officers Did Not Retire Until the Steel Pellets Plowed the Road at These Were the First American Offi- When the Spaniards Found the From a Sketch by Boeringer. GREETING TO MERRITT AND GREENE AT CAVITE ARSENAL ‘Gun Crew of the Fighting Olympia the First to Cheer the New Governor of the merely the natural outcome of the in- |, difference and negligence with which | the troops were treated while under the | tender care of Uncle Collis and his ad- | viser and abettor, the saturnine | Schwerin. ! The boat is waiting for the mail so | for the present au revoir to the mothers | of San Francisco from their sons at the front. PRINCE ESTERHAZY DEAD. Rumored a Year Ago That He Had Married Lily Langtry. VIENNA, Aug. 22.—The death is an- nounced of Prince Paul Esterhazy, one of | the richest sportsmen in Hu: % Prince Paul Esterhazy alantha, Count of Edelstettin and Farchtensteing, was born March 21, 1843, and w the time of his dez of the most illustrious houses of Europe was very wealthy, and it was asserted about a year ago that he had married Mrs. Lily Langtry, who had a short time before obtained a divorce band in California. - Engineer Menocal Retired. WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.—The Navy Department announces the retirement of Civil Engineer A. G. Menocal, to date from September 1, under th 3 sion of the law. - Avenging Husband Mee.s His Death. WILBUR, Wash.,, Aug. 22.—Yesterda: Dave Speagle shot and killed Bob Pen Speagle is said to have been too intimate | arted out shot dead. in the Penix family. Penix to kill Speagle, but was himse! Miles’ Departure Delayed. PONCE, Porto Rico, Aug. 22.—The de- parture of General Miles, who was to sail last night for New Orleans, has been de- | layed. | quieting £z from her hus- | BY SOL N. SHERIDAN. CAVITE ARSENAL, July 17.—The second expedition has come into port. It straggled in after somewhat dis- hion and greatly to the re- gret of every man in camp the Monte- rey did not show her grim front along with the rest. The air here is full of the most disquieting rumors about the | coming of a Spanish fleet by way of Suez to relieve Manila, and even the | naval men, heroes though they are, | would feel much more comfortable if | the great guns of the formidable moni- | tor were in position to be trained upon | the batteries of the Junetta, The Mon- | terey was left at,Honolulu to be towed s to Guam by the Brutus, we are | and she is expected here not later | than July 28—but Manila may have fal- | len by that time if the spanish fleet | | does not get here in the meantime, and anyway the Monterey in tow of the Brutus will be something like the blind leading the half blind. The monitor is | the faster craft of the two, as witness | the fact that she was first into Honolu- | 1u harbor. She will be doubly welcome | for the delay when she does come, and | once in the harbor Spain may send her | | whole remaining fieet to the Philippines | if it suits her purpose to lose the ships acro. tolc she h I do not suppose, if Schley and Sampson have dene what was ex- pected of them, there are many left by | this time Th .t came straggling in, as I| | have said, the China arriving first. She | | dropped her anchor over against Sang- ley Point at a little before sunset last | | night, and there was much speculation LT i :511’9:','3‘:’:: i 1 fif A S5 ] WS - LT Ty e il il it i, ittt 'whf"u? PRESIDENT DOLE TRANSFERRING HIS AUTHORITY OVER HAWAIlI TO MINlS'I;ER SEWALL, THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE UNITED STATES. (From a Pholograph.) Philippines. concerning the fate of the balance of the ships until it became known that the second expedition had come as a kind of go as you please affair, the China reaching port first because of superior speed. This morning the Zea- landia, Colon and Senator, escorted by the Boston, which met them at Cape Angana, came in and then it was the | delay to the Monterey cast gloom over the camp. The boys on board the ships were in good health for the most part, although | there had been four deaths on the fleet en route. Lieutenant Lazelle of the Eighteenth Infantry died July 12 from measles, two days after leaving Hono- lulu. He had been ill all the way out and when he contracted measles did not have sufficient strength to rally. The body was embalmed and buried this afternoon at San Roque—the first American soldier to rest in the soil of Luzon. He had been on board the Colon. the Nebraska volunteers, died on the China July 5. Private Elmer B. Mat- tox of the Eighteenth died on the Colon July 9, and there was another death, that of a private, G. L. Geddis of Com- pany C, Nebraska, on the Senator. All these were buried at sea. But if the fleet did not include the Monterey, there was on boardthe China what, to the soldier boys, was infinitely | better than a score of monitors. There was a mail from home! Every boy in camp had a letter from some one who loved him, and it is pleasant, 8000 miles from home, to feel you are not forgot- ten. There was something, also, not quite so dear perhaps as a letter from home, something putting the lads in touch with the world they had left be- hind them. Here The Call scored. If you had known how the First Califor- nia and the Second Oregon would have rushed for these papers, how they would almost have mobbed me in good- natured scramble for the news as I made my way with an orderly through the men’s quarters, how the themselves would have reached out eagerly for news, you would have sent me ten times as many papers as you did for distribution. The Call was the | first San Francisco newspaper in camp. The Call reaches one-tnird of the way around the world to score against its rivals. The China brought down, besides the mail, a postmaster and two clerks, who will follow the army. You know all that, naturally, better than we do. What you do not and cannot know is the great boon this will confer upon the boys who are fighting for their coun- try so far from home. There has been more heavy firing from out Manila way this morning, as there is every Sunday, but I do not think it portends anything furtherthan you have already learned from my cables. At all avents, I will go to the front to-morrow and see whether Malate has fallen into insurgent hands. I have notion, by the way, that we will all go to the front before many days. ‘When we do the doom of Spain will be written. The disembarkation of the troops will be commenced to-morrow. Where they will be quartered is as yet 'an open question, but most of them will prob- ably go into the quarters lately vacated by the Spanish prisoners, and the bal- ance in the town of Cavite. Anderson, who yesterday made a per- sonal reconnoissance of Malibon, has not yet given orders for the placing of the soldiers, but will do so the first thing to-morrow morning. The officers who came on the China complain most bitterly of the treatment received at the hands of the Pacific Mail officlals—and as for the soldiers brought through the tropics like Chi- nese coolles in the hold of the big steamer, their curses are loud and deep. Lieutenant Schwerin wanted to collect $3 50 a day for table board, to begin with, although he abated the price to $1 50 upon being pressed. Then the ice machine broke down, and so of- ficers and men drank warm water for most of the voyage—and complained so much of the excessive rate for board General Greene was compelled to call a board of inquiry at last to in- vestigate the matter. The board de- cided In favor of the $1 50 rate, not wishing to hold the ship’s officers re- sponsible for Lieutenant ‘Schwerin's . the beseiged city for a week or more, | ever before. officers | General | sins. Nevertheless the officers refused, four days out of Manila. to pay the charge, tendering $1 instead—and have not paid it yet. The men on the Senator suffered great hardships, having lived c. grain for ten days before reaching port. The expedition stopped at Wake Isl- and, a deserted rock in the raised the American flag. Then the ships dropped down to Gaum, but not { Dewey’s fleet, came on without enter- | Ing the harbor. MERRITT’S ARRIVAL WAS UNEXPECTED MANILA, P. I, July 26.—Major Gen- eral Wesley Merritt, the first Military JGovernur of the Philippines under the American administration, arrived here | Wilcox Wise, member of the band of | yesterday on board the transport New- | port, and at once assumed command of the forces under Brigadier Generals Anderson and Greene. so quiet and unostentatious that but for the salute from the flagship Olympia in his honor, after he had paid | his first official visit to Rear Admiral Dewey, it might have escaped notice of many of his subordinates. From the fleet in Manila harbor, off | Cavite, the smoke of the Newport was seen hours before she passed Corregi- dor Island, and all sorts of conjectures were made as to her identity. At 11 o’clock a. m. she steamed into the har- bor, and was met by the Concord, which was dispatched to interview the stranger. A few minutes later she came within signaling distance, when it was discovered who and what she was. Immediately preparations were made to give her and her distinguished pas- senger a fitting reception by the fleet, and as she slowly passed the Olympia the latter's crew roared out three hear- ty cheers for the Governor, which were returned with a will by the troops on board the Newport, and echoed by the crew of the Charleston, alongside of which vessel she anchored at noon. Major-General Merritt immediately visited the flagship, where he remained for over an hour, discussing the situa- tion with Rear-Admiral Dewey. As he returned to the Newport in the Ad- miral's barge, his authority was offi- cially recognized by the firing of a sa- lute of thirteen guns from the flagship, and almost before the echo of the last American forces knew the man for whom they had been waiting had ar- rived. Owing to the rain, which poured in- cessantly ‘all afternoon, no attempt was made to‘land the troops from the New- port; but this will undoubtedly be done as soon as the weather clears suffi- ciently: to admit of transferring the men to their new quarters ashore. Except for a few cases of sickness, none of which were serious, the troops on board the Newport arrived in splen- did condition, their trip across the Pa- cific having been an ideal one, so far as the weather conditions are concerned. The condition of the troops already encamped at Paranaje, a few miles south of Manila, is anything but an en- viable one. For the past three days it | has rained torrents, almost incessantly, ;nnd the men have been compelled to | erect bamboo platforms beneath their | shelter tents, in order to avoid sleeping upon the wet ground. caution, however, does not ensure them against the moisture of the atmos- phere, which dampens everything under cover almost as effectually as the rain does in the open. As the natural se- quence of this state of affairs, the sick lists of the various regiments are grad- ually increasing every day; and unless the weather abates, or the troops are returned to the barracks at Cavite, the medical corps will assuredly have its hands full in the near future. Outside of the few acres of untilled land upon which the camp is situated nila is in such a water-logged state move troops over it in the direction of . Pacific, | | where General Green went ashore and | finding the expected escort there from | His arrival was | gun had died away every man in the| Even this pre- | the country between Paranaje and Ma- | that it will be utterly impossible to | even though the rain ceases, the roads being literal seas of mud, between paddy flelds entirely under water. So far, the artillery has not made an ef- fort to move to the front, owing to the lack of means of transportation. The few undersized ponies, scarcely larger than Shetlands, which, however, are only used for light traffic, either under saddle or in light two-wheeled vehi- cles, called caramettas. All draft work is done by buffalo, which are none too plentiful just now. It has been suggested that the roads to Manila be corduroyed with bamboo, but this would entail an enormous amount of labor and material. Meanwhile the bare-footed natives plod to and from the trenches between the camp and the enemy, and continue their farcical warfare, day after day, with undampened ardor, and an evi- dent desire to let the Spaniards know | that they, at least, are at war with Spain. Except for the occasional ex- changes of compliments between the Spanish and insurgent forces in the trenches, it would be difficult to believe that a state of war existed here, for | the American soldiers stroll within range of the Spanish riflemen almost every day, and only one, a Coloradan, who was accidentally shot in the leg by a spent bullet, has, so far, received a scratch. So far as the forts are con- | only horses, outside of Manila, are a | ADVERTISEMENTS. 404040404040+ 0+0+04+04+040+ THE COMPOSITE IS THE BEST. cerned the gunboats Concord, McCul- loch and Callao steam within range | every day upon various missions, yet not a single shot has been fired in their direction. The American outposts, on the con- trary, seldom miss an opportunity for a shot at the Spaniards whenever they are within range. VICTORY FOR THE RED CROSS AT CAVITE Causes the Release of Four Spanish Doctors Because of Their Profession. BY SOL N. SHERIDAN. The composite shoe for ladies, manu- factured by Governor Pingree, com- bines all the best features of modern shoe making; style, durability, com- fort, neatness and elegance, and only skilied workmen are employed. Soft, durable Viei Kid is used in the uppers, and the soles are welt stitched and made damp proof. new Coin Toes We are the sole agents They are made with Kid and Tips: $3 00 Viel noiseless; Nurses' Kid Lace Shoes, sewed, & reduced to. Waiters’ Kangaroo Calf Lace Shoes, easy on the feet; reduced to.....83 00 CAMP DEWEY, HEADQUARTERS SECOND BRIGADE, AMERICAN LX- PEDITIONARY FORCES, BEFORE MANILA, July 29.—The Red Cross has scored its first victory in the war in the East. When the Charleston took the island of Guam the health officer of the port of San Luis d’Apra was taken away to Cavite as one of the Spanish Government officials. The doc- | tor did not, at that time, claim the | protection of the Red Cross. The doc- ful whether, as was the case with the Tagallo surgeons, who all put on the | emblem of Geneva, with certain bar- | baric modifications 0 soon as they saw the American surgeons so tricked out, ! he had ever given the Geneva conven- tion one moment’s consideration. Span- | jards may be learned, some of them. | They are almost never merciful. The doctor from Guari, when he | reached Cavite, did claim the privilege | of his profession and, after three more Spanish doctors were taken, it was granted him and he was released yes- terday and sent into Manila. The doctors who returned were Jose | Romera Aguilar from Guam, Antonio Harricado, Antonio Rocha and Cypri- ano de Porte. The Governor of Guam has not been returned to Manila and will not be. He has forfeited his life to the law of Spain because he gave up his post without firing a shot, and as he long ago, by | his cruelty as Governor of Cavite, gave mortal offense to the Tagallos, he does not feel exactly safe even in the middle of an army of Yankees. His heart's desire, he says, is to go to the United States and transform himself into a good American. To go back to the doctor. I am re- | minded that Dr. Farrell “of ours” be- | came the most popular man in camp | at once upon the arrival of the New- | | port_with General Merritt on board. | Dr. Farrell was a popular officer before that, of course, and will continue popu- | lar. " His sudden excess of popularity was due to a matter entirely apart from regimental dut. was due, in fact, to the thoughtfulness of his friends of the Cosmos Club, who sent him the files of all the illustrated papers, together with a complete file of The Call from | May 27 to June 29. You cannot, getting your papers every day, even faintly picture to. yourself the eagerness with which every man in camp crowded to the doctor’s tent, awaiting his chance at the papers and they were the more | eager because my file of papers was looted by some thief in the Colorado regiment, who, having the fear of neither man nor the devil before his | | eyes, left me but about six of the whole | | bundle to go to a hungry regiment. As | | to the Oregon lads, they got no papers | at all, being in Cavite and not on the ) field. Dr. Daywalt of San Francisco is here with the Astor Battery and the Third Artillery. Let not San Francisco | suppose, however, that the doctor is | with the Astors from choice, though he speaks highly of them. A good soldier | goes where he is sent 'and Dr. Daywalt | is a good soldier. | The health of the boys in the field continues good and the sick in the | brigade hospital at Cavite are all im- proving. Young Perkins, who seemed to be dying with pneumonia a week ago, has so far recovered that he is anxious to be about and will be in a back. CENTRAL PACIFIC MAKE A PROPOSITION NEW YORK, Aug. 22.—A special to the | Sun from Washington, says: The Central | Pacific Rallway Company is preparing to submit to the commission consisting of Attorney General Griggs and Secretaries Gage and Bliss, a proposition for the re- | funding of the Government debt in ac- cordance with the terms of the provision in the general deficiency bill authorizing the commsslon to act. The law and fls- cal officers of the company are now at work on the proposition and as soon as it is complete it will be submitted to the | A!tornery General and his colleagues. In | View of Attorney General Griggs' state- | | ment that he was at work on the com- | laint to befiled by the Government for he foreclosure of its mortgage and that | as soon as it was finished he would begin | proceedings, it will be interesting to note which gets its work in first, the rallroad company or the Government. - Garcia’s Resignation Accepted. NEW YORK, Aug. 22—A cablegram to the Sun from Havana says: Calixto Gar- cia, the insurgent leader, who had trouble with General Shafter at Santiago and ten- | dered his resignation, has tendered his | resignation for the second time and it has been accepted. General Luque was pre- paring to attack Gibara when tne news of peace arrived. Rl LR Boiler Explosion at Carson. CARSON, Nev., Aug. 22.—The bursting | of a boiler in the engine room of the | American Steam Laundry caused the | plant to be destroyed this afternoon, to- ether with the residence of H. B. Mil- ard, the proprietor. 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Real estate owned by company. $209,325 00 ans on bonds and mortgage: 1,090,859 00 Cash market value of all stocks and vonds owned by cOmpany..a....... 1,965,756 00 Amount of loans secured by pledge of bonds, stocks and other market- able securities as collateral Cash in company’s office. Cash in bai Premiums in tion .. Bills recef , for fire and marine risks. Total assets. LIABILITIES. Losses adjusted and unpaid $31.607 28 Losees in process of adjus in suspen 92.750 53 Losses resisted, 18,221 51 Gross premiums on fire risks runni; one year or less, $1,105,475 81; re- insurance, 50 per cent.. .. BERT3T o1 Gross premiums on fire risks running more than one year, 31,705,798 54; re- insurance pro rata.. 851,991 72 Total Nabilitles $1,575,309 53 INCOME. Net cash actually received for fire remiums . 81,674, Rloerved for intercat on bonds apd i ¢ mortgages 50,510 41 Recelved for interest and dfvidends on bonds, stocks, loans and from all other sources. Total incom EXPENDITURES. Net amount pald for fire losses (in- cluding $117,543 85, losses of pre- vious years| Ie T Dividends to stockholders. ‘fi%%% Pald or allowed for commission or 2 brokerage ... 305,790 43 Pald for salaries, fees and other charges for officers, clerks, ete..... 134,760 78 Paid for State, national and local taxes 41,991 30 All other 125,539 57 1,510,868 15 Ire. Losses tncurred during the year. ssti.08i 75 Risks and Premiums. |Fire Risks.|Premiums. Total’ expenditures .... Net amountof _risks yrit- ten during the year.... Net amount of risks ex- pired during the year. Net amount in force De. cember 31, 1897, $155,122,989$1,913,533 43 145,440,893| 1,855,379 79 225,665,049] 2,811,269 35 J. D. BROWNE, President. CHARLES R. BURT, Secretary. Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 19th day of January, 1895 JOHN H. THACHER, Notary Public. BENJAMIN J.SMITH, Manager Pacific Department. COLIN M. BOYD, Agent for San Francisco, 411 CALIFORNIA ST.