The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 7, 1899, Page 21

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b THE SAN FRANCISCO 1899. CALL, SUNDAY. MAY 7, S [CormIDoR 0 F me ken of enteen wom nd went to home can take care st nurse our own T war Is no place ¢ m stay me. Tt at h 1 any m f the soldi stayed and irage out for mon: month, and y Aid not g« much. It was and it certainly they signed their , Miss Annie Kimball, t week She was not able climate when Major v she could not recover in Philippine environment he ordered to return to San Francisco. She is ring her strength fast, but still has Philippine complexion. She lost a d deal of her Boston calm though she was talking about her experi- s at the front. This is her stor; I do not like to talk about it. I only my duty where men were dying ail mnd me. I am only one of the rank and belong in the background. ave stayed as long as one boys were in need of care. I did ttle. You know I was only on duty a month. But, as you say, there are of mothers and fathers and the boys who wish to know WARD 7° RIPESERVE HosPITAL 21 “T say emphatically that everything was done for the boys that could be in the als at Manila. I did not expect to much done for the sick men, nor all the facflities to do much that turnished us. have were ‘I expected to encounter all kinds of hardships and 1 knew I would have to take what came. I had read and heard so many tales, doubtiess some true but many were not, that I carried out blan- Kets, pillows, towels, soap; even a oase of cine I did not need a of them I had only to ask for anything I required have it, and the other nurses were sup- p iberally as I wa were about 1200 men sick when rrived. They were in the First Divi- Hospital in Manila, at the Corregidor nd, about thirty miles away, and at "'l never knew our American men till T knew them in the Philippines. I am proud of them-—-regulars or volunteers, or offic or men—and T am glad I could help them a little. Nearly all of us were detafled for duty at the First Division Hospital the one in Manila, because there was where the sickest men were. We thought the well soldiers had given us welcome enough to pay a dozen times for anything we could do, but when we went through the long rows of cots the men seemed to think we could heal them at once. I was thankful that I was a nurse and could re- spond to the pathetic appeal in every eye, though not one had any complaint to make. One boy, he was 21, said to me; ‘I'm better already. Don't bother to do anything for me, but if yowll just come along and say something to me once in a while I'll be all right.” 1 was carrying a basin of water, and while I was talking to him I set it down on a table at the foot of the next cot and shook up his pillows and got the wrinkles and crumbs out of his sheets. I took up my basin to go on, for we were working in another part of the ward, when I saw a boy’'s lip quiver and the tears start in his eyes. He brushed them away and pulled the sheet over his face, but I pulled it down and asked him what was the matter. ‘Don’t mind; this fever has made & baby of me. I thought when you put the basin on my table that ycu were going to give me a bath. I haven't had one since I was sick. And he could scarcely keep the tears back or speak for the lump in his throat. “He was very sick with typhold fever and his temperature had been away up They very don’t write home when k When they are 1 finished with him he emergencies and were accustdmed to the operating | had all clean linen and his hair combed *“The that night had not been and he crossed his hands and lay there severe, days whi followed for the next two days, fairly beaming and was so trying, after they had fought the - reveling in his cleanlines brought us all we could do. A good many //f “For weeks the hospital for the sick of th ] was all we had to look after. Then the sick or to speak to us, and they al- trouble came. We had been listening to Wways told us good-by It 1s usually H every signal for days, expecting the call With a joke, but they all knew it might //0)/’/7/94 | to arms about 9:30 o'clock at be that only their bodies would come AL | night on r Only part of the back or they would be ari|-v'-\"ri‘riv:‘(0\'ln;‘r ) ¥ { yovs went out at e listened to th ey a ys told us not forg p L/A/V/L/f e B e et ot o ara: ho e s % { lets came inte the hospital. With the easy as we could if we were left to do the B e e first call the doctors and ambulances and Wwriting. When the battle wx for at its height we as fast as men nurses went out to the fighting line. The men were excited and anxious to get could not care the boys into the thick of it. We women stayed they were brought in. The men went out at home and got everything ready. We to the firing lines and picked up the heard the encmy crying inana, Ma- wounded, for it boiling hot. Tt was for davs. T put my basin back on his table nd less than a m away We during these days when the Hospitai and told him I guessed I could fix him knew ‘Manar Manila meant the Corps forgot they were tired or that they right away looting of the town, but forgot all about ht be shot. They were shot often. ““He was a boy from Minneapolis and had thing, even the firing, when the am- arried water and bandages out to never been away from home before, and, bulances began to come in with the and worked like heros at the oh, how homesick he was. 1 asked him wounded. They brought four in an am- the trenches. In the hospital if his people knew he w 0 sick, and he bulance at a time and other wounded h the wounds of the men, sald: ‘I can’t say I am well exactly, but came strs dong by themselves, ¢ stimulants or morphine, and get what's the use of telling them I'm sick? Some e carried in the arms and on m ready for the doctors Every doctor It would only make them worry, and so the backs of others was busy operating of the I won't anything until I'm better.’ ~ “Then our tralning stood us in good were assisting were I found nearly every soldier did that. stead, for we were all used to meeting so brave and every one thought more of QOoOCLO0QO00Q00000CO0COLCOQ0OCO0O00COO0OT00OC0COCR0CR00000 CATCHING !SPEAKER REED {PROFITS OF PICKPOCKETS? AND ° MONTE CARLO = { JUDGE WALLACE] _— ories are told as to how: + JT 1S computed that now. at the sckets come to grief at ;i 5 3 height of the scason, the bank is mak- Justice Field's firs s 5 il L times, with all thelr cleverness,o TRetlce, TEHTs Aot foe reminde hes | g on an average of $0.000 a day. Its bit. ‘ths ‘f?].l:*,\\l'(‘“g‘ Btory, the s 5 whion @ young imar: eiNo reRed 1 yearly income is $,000.000; but out of writer believes, is new. ® Galitariia: /Tt s at -4 AlNe-teitin this it pays the Prince of Monaco A gentleman going through a leading th a subsldy of $400,000 yearly. street in Liverpool stopped to look at 3 ities meet here All national- but there is always a Shoreham ; Kerens of St. Hotel by Louis. Mr. Richard The writer was in-. some pletures displayed in one of the shopé (TR " By Metsy TG U RS T [{ preponderance of and the grear windows. He had not .~mot} l'g\v_r? T-;;i’wuu associated with the California press,| demi-mondaines of Paris bring the rich- seconds before he became aware Oi asked: “Is old Judge Wallace alive yet?'®est Russian and French noblemen in close proximity of one of the nimble- ARair Seratn. Now and then a table has to be replen- shed- when some well-known punter is and then related the following good s fingered gentry. The gentleman watchea$ 57€ L1em TeInted tae fo//e mgu,;:“r}arfun him for a little \‘\hlh then took out his® is an old story, but in this connection will purse and looked into it, as though count-¢ % B &L CEM, playing in luck; but in the end it is al- ing if he had sufficient to make & Pir-o, I was a school ‘teacher when I con-{ways the bank that wins; and at night, chase, then put the purse in the Insldey cyqeq to study law. After months of!when the rooms close, it is an interest- pocket of his overcoat, making much adofy, 4 sudy 1 appeared fearfully before®ing and instructive sight to watch the as though pushing it into & corner; on¥ugge Wallace for my ' examination. % officials packing up their rolls of notes which he turned to look through the Win-% 3, ;¢ any preliminaries whatever, or acand gold. dow again, seemingly loth to give up “‘;@ single word by way of preface, he in-, At each table there is a group of eight bargain. The light-fingered one sl‘:]ppe"qulrrd suddenly: ‘Young man, is the legal! or ten men gathered around the fron- up behind him, and, before you could 4V, tender act constitutional?’ "I promptly$bound oak box, all alert and keen to de- JackBolindon, [ ind Mis DANCAD A0 S hvllen sy ealatn: tect an attempt to rob the authorities or pacious pocket. The s?"';‘;mfi“ m“s":"c, 5 ' ‘Then you're admitted to the bar ®cheat. Four officials lock the box with up !;‘isdcna( A0 procspledion s m?fi?sam he. ‘A young man who was here just¢ their own keys and seal it with their 'UI‘] ‘dfl ';1‘"‘ I e ? before you (the Sheriff of Tuolumne Coun-¢ special seals; but they are in their turn e e o man with his hand inJ ty) said that it was not. I admitted him{ watched by defectives who scethem Rl 4also. Always glad to admit young men? deposit the treasure i’ a cellar below, N : & to the bar who can answer great constitu- §0d 8re present wh R Never mind him,” said the gentleman.$ i ¥ handm e the counting of the gains by clerks next This occurred several times, and in each ¢ tional questions off-hand. ? day. case he oo the same reply. When the laugh had subsided Mr. Reed9 All round is brightnessy a blaze of light, Presently lhe{ came to a police sta-/continued: “How well I remember the¢ a brilliancy of jewels; ‘and it is rarely. tion. e gentleman entered, made his] first fee I received. Twenty-five dollarse Verv rarely, you see any sign that people statement, and then asked one of the®in coin; and how proud I was as T fln_.'?re playing in deadly earnest, not for Bled it in my pocket. T recelved it todcounters, but for life and death. A lady officers to' help to take his overcoat oft, 3 Es : as e man cou not otherwise get s @one evening staked a coin on a number, hand loose. For, besides a quaniity of®defending a Mexican charged with mur-{and burst Into tears when It was Swent fishhooks, there was a medium-sized rat-¢ der. away. There is a rumor that one night trap in his pocket, into which he had in-) “I think, as I look back on that day®a woman committed suicide, and recently serted a hool wheén the man thought he{ when 1 jingled that gold money in my{it was a man who died by his own hand. was hiding his purse, and into which the# pocket, my very own money, and the? but all these things are carefully hushed would-be pickpocket had thrust his!flest that [ ever earned at law, that It was®up. There Js a conspiracy of silence, hand, drawing down the spring, and thus] the proudest and happiest moment of my ¢ Even those who play for five-franc pleces making himself prisoner. 4 lite.” ! seem ashamed to confess when they lose, Our Sick Soldiers HAre Oreated in 77/an1’/a wwnBY a Returned Nurse, Who Served in the Army Hospitals........ up the wounded, £ during these days they were tired or carried water and LOOO0O00O0 some one at home who they did of their own they knew they were ¢ “Almost always they sank into uncon- sclousness and passed away without pain and with everything done for them which loved ones at home could have don “The officers’ wives and worked, too. worked just as hard as any of us sewed and cooked food and washed and did what was hardest of all-wrote letters home to tell that the soldier had died who had been a husband, or son, or would suffer than pain, even when ing. daughters General Miller's daughters and brother. So many of the boys had run away, and these letters were the first news. I was moved to Corregldor Island soon after the first battle, and with one other woman was In charge of the convales cents there. Corregidor is a beautiful place, and the hospital is all tents under the palm trees and having a cool, bracing sea breeze. It is a much more healthy place than Manila. Manila itself is vast- ly Improved since the Americans have been there. They have cleaned up the place. It would be better to notice what has been done than to criticize what has not. We had all the milk and eggs we wanted, and Ice, too, though the officers did not fare so well. “At Corregidor the boys were all con- valescing and some got well fast. They talked a great deal about the injustice of fighting the Filipinos. They did not like it. They sald they went out to fight Spaniards and not Filipinos. There was a ge of the Filipinos near us. They had 1 very friendly, but all around the tives were joining the insurgent we did not know how soon the near-hy village would go too. There was a gus placed below us, and we kept .our ears open for the signal which would tell us to get the men up to the top of the hill and out of the way of the Filipinos. But the order did not come. I was taken very ill again” Major Fitzgerald said I could not get well, and I knew they had enough to do without taking care of me, so 1 came home. . re are now about forty women nursing at Manila. They are the only white women left, for the officers’ wives e been sent home. A man ‘eannot fight and be at the front and look after his men and worry about his wife, who is left in a dangerous place. None of the older warriors took thelr wives out. It was only the were newly married. . ounger men and those who * e Miss Annie Garcia was one of the sev- enteen nurses left at Honolulu. to nu the soldiers when the epidemic of typhoid fever broke out there. About 500 men were ill and Major Wood, in charge of the hospital, realized that the regular hospital staff could not n the fever patients. He made the first re quest for women nurses, and asked for thirty. M Garcia said: “I have had all th Government nursing I want management of the office I used to hate to go on duty in the mo, ing, -because I knew 1 coul enough food for the boys to eat. fever was of a virulent type and the tem- peratures ran. higher than I have ecver known before. Before we airived there by 00000000000000000000000CO000 When the batt'e was at its height we could not @ care for the boys as fast as they were brought in. The men went out to the firing Ines and picked or it was boiling hot. It was when the Hospital Corps forgot t at they might be shot. They bandages out to the lines. 00002000 00000000000 0000000C00C0000000, had been six and seven funerals a Jay All the rest of the time about tko a month. We only lost six men. “The sick men were so glad to see us d ful for anything we did 1t s and we had worked over them till it as if th were our own children, to have no proper nourishment to keep up their strength. Often we had nothing but beans to give to a convales- cent typhoid case, and beans would m a certain relapse. “Dr. O'Malley did everything he could for the boys and bought a great many delicacies out of his own pocket. You see the boys had not been paid and few of them had any money “The officers’ table was always well supplied, and we nurses would go to their kitchen and take what we co 1 get. Oh, I learned to steal anything for the boys 1 could lay my hands on. r a time I w amp. It w in charge of the about a quarter of a mile from the hospital and everything had to be carried that distance. Of course the hot drinks were cold drinks hy the time they reached the men. ‘The Fanks of the Wabash,' as the camp was called, was on the steep side of the creek, and when It rained, as it did most of the time, I watched to see that the tents, pa- tients and everything else did not float away. “All the boys but one got well of the measles, and I think he might have been saved, too. here was no reason why we could not have had plenty of milk and eg; for they were in the market; but M Wood said they were too expensive. stayed till the fever was ®ver and then, as there was nothing more to do, we were sent home."” el Chinese elaborate wed- ceremon s with presents . reports of s, observes meas er in the Lon The par- correspond. The girl's father and child”— for descr! and weak in ness gent processi must make wajy house and is for which e S to a mandarin > bridegroom’s er the threshold. 1 the Chinese; but the autiful ches procession of the bridegroom and ends to the bride’s home, where the and his c secure her and turnso t of drums. Arab seven days. husba face after seremony 18 It is then proper t its love- Bible, “the bridegroom, who standeth heareth him Tejoicing greatly be- cause of the bridegroom’s voice”’—the people outside the tent raise an answer- g ery. light his fi 3 over. for him to cry out in delight and then, as in the of the ———— About elght million tons of coal are ane nually consumed in London.

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