Show PRISONERS WELL CARED FOR I CRONJES MEN HAVING A GOOD TIME AT ST HELENA GeU Cronjo is Practically the Steady Guest of the Governor Boer Officers cers Do as They Please New York Sept 3The British steamship Masconomo which has just arrived from South Africa touched at St Helena for repairs Captain Cap-tain Mann was permitted to visit the Boer prisoners on the Island He rode up the fivemile winding road to the top of Rupert Hill In deadwood plain where he found tho prison pen of Gen Conjes 2000 menThe men-The Doer captives are confined within a barbed wire Inclosure l quarter I quar-ter of a mile square Twelve feet from I I the fence on all sides is l second trocha like tho first I is death for a Boer private to cross tho line of the Inner pen One Boer was shot by sentinel for doing this The British soldier was then tried and acquitted by n court martial While the British soldiers sleep thirteen thir-teen men in l tent said Capt Mann the Boers sleep only ten men to a tent In order to afford them all the room possible tine British have allowed the Boers to cut bamboos for shacks These bamboo frames the Boers have Ingeniously covered with canvass and with slabs of tin The tin they obtained ob-tained Jn a curious way There were em the Island n great many parafflne cans which the Boers carefully flattened flat-tened out for tin sides and roofs for their shacks Some of tho prisoners arc permitted to work for the farmers on the island and thereby earn f little money There were many men 70 years old and just as many others 15 1C and l 1 The officers with whom I conversed speak both Dutch and English The privates seemed rather a stupid lot They have the same fare as the British soldiers I conversed with Col Schlel the German officer who fought with the Boers He was very cantankerous still Commandant Roose the Boer officer offi-cer who captured Winston Churchill told me that he thought the game was up and his people ought to stop fight IngThe The Boer officers are allowed to do pretty much as they please and their names aro posted at the St Helena club The Brltlah officers entertain them nt afternoon teas and Gen Conje is practically the steady guest of the Governor A cable now runs to the island from South Africa and the bulletins from the scat of war are frequently struck oft and sold to the prisoners at a penny penJ apiece A Dutch ship anchored while I was there hut was requested to leave und did so The British were afraid some of the Boers would get away on their cousinss ship |