The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 27, 1898, Page 8

S & HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1898. DEAD MARCH HEARD OFT' AS BUGLE CALL Sad the Conditions at Manila. INROADS OF DREAD DISEASE DEATHS AVERAGE THREE IN NUMBER A DAY. Jil and Homesick Soldi plain That They Receive No Reading Matter From the States. — | / CORPORAL FRED A, HEALY.I 1 appears t from more T spitable climes s in its eve be! idden danger, in | 1 there will be found ¢ [ on every hand. It the sun-kissed flower nd; it avens in v the pet entire 1 from the starry b t hang, betwe to of r way to join together of bay, fr which drawn and sold heat of the | mi- | with | r is all that | y every morning i that have answered bly the night e, for it is ire the darkest and for that di , and e one elf on the fact the spread of the the excellent work iplished by Dr. A. has been checked. i connection with the > who died from the ef- vil is that every one of vaccinated but a short y contracted the illness in their death, and in ccination took effect manner. This e medical fraternity at gue about. h are most here—fever rature and s terrible in their smallpox, yet are become a problem consideration of > hospitals, as I owded to their ut- smal curious fa deaths of fects of them had bee time before t - th attendant a mz for the me befor ile hundreds out- are il and unfit their quarte e | erage about thre eve hours, and yet the sick e of the s part of s that danger of ed the patient does not recuperate a would in his own cli- mate. He gets to a certain stage of convalescen where he i whe the world death has ) his pon to une for this city), and with the fear ev, many loafing od for nothing ve described ere as fine n manhood 11 of men, with as their strength to their own climate them on their feet € re many more who, I much fear, will feel for the balanc of their lives the effects of their Manils illn cannot be as- lack of attention on part the medical authori- ties down They are doing all in | r power to alleviate distress, but the {llness is in the very atmosphere we breathe, and in the power of man can divert i The medical men among us complain of the lack of suffi-, cient supplies. Whether these com- plaints are or are not well founded I am unable to but from what I have seen I im: e that the Govern- ment at home beenf@gbout as tardy n the matter of drugs aS it has been in yth - . is beginning to fill up with ricans of all sorts, and not a women of the best class, offi- cers’ wives for the most part, have already arrived, bringing news of many more to come in the near future. Though we of the rank and fille are de- barred for the most part from the so- clety of these gooG women, vet even to see them on the streets and to know that they are about is something of a satisfaction. The Red Cross ladies, un- der the Yeadership of Mr. Schlott, have got to work and are doing an immense amount of good. There are two nurses who have been with the California boys from the start, whose labors have been unceasing, and who have made o, few | almost_a who is in charge of all the| A | al themselves simply invaluable. They are Messrs. Lewis and Waage. They worked day and night; day in and day | out they kept it up, until the strength of one, Mr. Lewis, entirely gave out and he was forced to return home in | order to save. his own lif! Waage Is He works all day and un- ght, and seems to be possessed of an iron constitution which nothing n break. Father Doherty, | the Paulist priest who accompanied the troops down here, has also been forced !to return to the States, his health hav- ing entirely given out. The work done | by both h f d Father McKinnon 2 ) E adid, and by con- ith some of the other regimental n tand out prominently. | still with us. | til far into the has be | < has been too arduous for | them to take hold of and they will start on 1 of comfort and mer- | ey at mid other hour, nor do they care whether it s them into the headquarters of a r the hospital of the leper or Dr. McCarty’s ho?‘- e allpox patient al for the hoys hed fact out on a plea seashore in the district ita, where the salty, strength- N L blow all day and 1ccommodations pro- m and the good atten- y are sure to receive wiil do r them that can be done in this The hospital is large and ortable and already all the sick in e been gathered together sut there. The Scandia is in | 1d is being put in order to re- ceive patients, as she is to be used as | a hospi The boys are all figur- ing on return home though I a will be disappointed y things look down here. dure is slow and the 1to months but be- ore again. | goes merrily | and when the | fal repor fatalities is re- ceived at home peans of victory which are now resounding throughout the 1 be changed to dirges and | the v of Columbia will be heard | mourning for her children and refusing | to be comforted because they are not. is one thing which no one to have thought of. the want of much felt down here that it to a necessity. That | ding matter. Almost every | \gazine or a novel or | house. These couid | her and sent down would be valued at old. If «ny one starts ient Jet him be sure h a way that they ach the regiment. ted men are con- nd w seerr which is is good one has hey ar The o word by letter of 3 orts and articles of wearing apparel which have been sent. Yet tb often fall to arrive at.thelr @estination. The sold prey for ev are m ms to be legitimate and comforts which for loved ones at the front | often o stomachs still bilious | ® A was posted in front of | @ the Sr newspaper office last | ® night g the public that the @ United ates had decided to return the ands to the dom of Spain. | © Great was the P jour g the methods of some of its and copyin trans-Pacific contemporaries. I am not a moralist—far from it—but | there is one thing 1 would advise mot is to keep thel to do in the future, and that ir sons, if under 20 years | of age, at home until war reaches such proportions that it becomes imperative | for all to go. Army life, while it will do much toward making a man out of some young fellows, proves the utter ruination of many specially is this true in the cas boys who are too @ @® @ ® ® ® @ ® FATHER McKINNON'S GOOD WORK AS Educational System for the Filipinos Which the Califorpia Chaplain SUPERINTENDENT OF MANILA SCHOOLS Is Taking Steps to Faithfully Carry Out, BY CORPORAL T. A. HEALY. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE CALL, one assistant, to each school. Schools for boys and girls are run separate- ly, the one being presided over by male and the other by female teachers. These teachers are for the most part mestizos, that is, they are of half- blood between the island aborigine and some other race. The second half may be anything from Chinese to Esquimaux. They are all fairly well educated in both Spanish and native and not a few of them are highly polished, havi received the finishing touches to their educations in the best colleges and convents of Paris and Madrid. It is nothing unusual to drop into the home of one of the better class mestizo families and be en- tertained by excellently sung French, Spanish and Italian operas, the fair singer playing with excellent skill and technique her ~own accompani- ment on the piano, reserving her accomplishments on harp or guitar for a later hour, when the moon lends its enchantment to songs of a less diffi- cult, yet more pleasing nature. These teachers take kindly to the new order of things. and it will be only a short time before the First California Volunteers can point with pride to an excellent school system, of which the energy and executive ability of their chaplain have made them able to boast. Father McKinnon is greatly assisted in this department of his work by Private Figuero, whose services as an interpreter are well-nigh invalu- able. Private Figuero hails from San Jose and is an old student of Santa Clara College, at which institution, by the way, Colonel Smith and Father MANILA, Oct. 21.—The above photograph is one recently taken in Manila, showing Rev. Father McKinnon, chaplain of the California Vol- unteers, in his new position of superintendent of the municipal schools of this city. surrounded by the able staff of men and women he has gath- ered under his authority, and whose business it is to preside over the dif- ferent schools and teach th> young Filipinos. The school system-as it exists at present in Manila does not provide for the teaching of English nor have any other innovations in the order of things prevailing before the investment of the city been as tempted. The schools have merely been rescued from the state of chaos into which everything, both public and private, was thrown by the recent war, and have again been started on about the same lines upon which they were run in the days when the Spaniard and not the American was the master. The teachers’ salaries are paid by the United States Govern- ment, as is also the rent of the buildings in which the schools are situated. The furniture, etc., is that formerly used by the Spanish authorities. Fducation has not yet arrived at that point where school attendance Iis compulsory, but it will eventually have to be enforced if anything is to be accomplished, as the laziness of the young Filipino is only exceeded by the indifference of his parents, the two traits together making a com- bination at which a Hypatia could play and lose. The entire number of schools in Manila is about thirty, situated in the different districts into | OO ONOROROORORORORORONOROROROROROROROXO) | he had a two hou DARK PICTURE 1S DRAWN BY BUTLER Havana Described as a Pesthole. FILTH, SQUALOR, DESTITUTION POORER CLASSES WHO MUST RE- CEIVE AID. The Evacuation Commission Thinks All Spanish 'froops Will Have Departed Before the Date Fixed in Agreement. Spdelal Dispatch to The Call. WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.—General M. C. Butler of Scuth Carolina, a member of the Cuban Evacuation Commission, arrived to-day from Havana in re- sponse to a telegraphic summons from President McKinley, and this afternoon ' consultation with the President at the White House. General Butler gave it as his opinion that all the Spanish troops will have departed ten days before the date fixed in the agreement. He says the Spa iards have met the American Co sioners with reasonable fairn that there has been little friction. £ of the claims they have made for com- pensation for Spanish propert been ridiculous and they will, be abandoned in the end. Ge ler denies all the reports of di among the members of the Ame Commission. General Butler is of the opinion that the military government must be con- tinued for some time, but that it should only be as rigorous as may be nece: sary to preserve order. He thinks the Cubans are ambitious for self-govern- ment and anxious to avoid friction with the American authorities. If military control is exercised with discretion he believes there will be little trouble. One of the most troublesome features of the situation is the criminal class, and the difficulty of determining.in the case of prisoners who are incarcerated for political offenses and who for crime. There has existed in Havana in the past an oath-bound organization on the order of the Italian Marfa, known as the Nenigo, which was a source of ter- ror to the inhabitants. One of the few commendable acts of Weyler was the deportation of about 700 of the members of this organization to the penal colony of Ceuro. But fears are expressed that these criminals may return or that the order may be revived by some of those who were not deporte General Butler describes the sanitary condition of Havana now as a pesthole, filled with unmentionable filth, squalor and destitution. The Spanish authori- ties have, however, agreed to inaugur- ate the work of putting the city in sanitary condition, with the aid of the municipal authorities, and work to this end is to begin at once. General Butler paints a dark picture of the destitution among the poorer classes, and says it will probably be necessary for us to furnish some aid to the starving wretches. » birth his 1 gol Nimes, ace, erect a monument to Alphonse Younpdfe uaye B I which the city is divided, the average being two teachers, a principal and McKinnon also.supped from the chalice of learning. pation at home and who in garrison ® | and 1s raising part of the money in a foreign land are loosed from th loXorololololoxoxclooXooJoXoJoXoXoXoXoXoXe IR XOROROROROXOROXOROROROORORORORORORORORORORONOJOROROXCRONOROYONOROROROXOROROYO B BT EERGI A I I £ TEN ding strings for the first time. Th are few good women of their own race e in the land whe they are stationed, | ADVE! EMENT! |and even these few are so far removed | DYEDTIEREN S in- | from an e ted man that their fluence is 1t; there are no even half-way decent places of amusement to which they can go; the language | they hear about them is that of a for- | eign tongue, thus preventing anything | | in social way with the natives of the there is no reading material to | ; there are no games sich as rs, dominoes, etc., and the few | packs of cards to be found in garrison sed exclusively for gambling pur- | In fact, the only places open to them for recreation and relief from the | terrible monotony of the barracks are | | the In every army there are many “hard | loons and the brothels. | cases” whom nothing can spoil, and it's a dollar to a dime that the young boys | fresh from a good home will pick out | one of these fellows for a chum instead | of one of the better m in whose com- pany he would at least learn to di pate with discretion, if nothing more. Th oung fellow gets the idea that to be a soldier he must be a bad man, and | the more he ‘drinks, carjuses, curses | | and gambles the more of a man he is. | The consequence that by the time | his term of enlistment has expired he | has become a rough of the first water, | and in many s a_confirmed drunk- | ard in the barg: I don’t intend this | for a lecture on morality, for I have | not been much of a Sunday school teacher myself. and penance rather ! than preaching should be in my line. | But I do dislike to see young fellow ome of whom I knew at home, who have yvet two or thre ars to go be- thrfrefrolrshrclenienirefrefrcirehrnle - | fore gettine out cf their teens, becom- | ing not even fast gentlem n, but com- | and whose lives are | ruined ere they have | Don’t let thosé who | article misunderstand me. | r even the majo is going to the demni- Most of the fellows are minded and pure-mo n be got together in the | s recruited. are drunks mon gin i nstance: | aled men as c: way a regim | Numerous mtinually ans | arriving here and looking around | for good apartments on the ground | floor. The fecundity of th islands is surely something surpassing be- | | et their treasures | to s s of the ag- riculiu and the prom- ise a commerce throw- ing a golden halo over all. It is | a country where, taking the climate into consideration, the chances for the | | prosperity of the posterity of the orig- | | inal settlers a:> excellent. How much | this statement please those con- | templating becoming original settlers 14‘ |am unable to say. | Prosperity or no prosperity the boys to a man want to get home. Better | fty years of San Francisco than a | evele of Cathay HORSETHIEF CONVICTED. | Jury Out Just Eight Minutes in James Kerrick’s Case. PHOENIX, Ariz.. No James Ker- rick was found guilty uy in the Dis- { triet Court of grand larceny, he having | | with Willlam Cameron run off a small | | band of horses belonging to settlers at ! Agua Caliente. The jury was out just, eight minutes. 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