Show man IN MANILA lia sept I 1 we are at manila last sit out our stomachs are full and att ati rire gre full our pockets alone are re empty it has been said that journeys your 0 nays end in welcome to the Y and in the akse case of the utah wry ry recruits this has been verified fullest I 1 voyage from america to this and out of the way place was i all ah one series of outrages oom com si before we broke ca camp ernp in san ban boo and aad letting up only upon I 1 i lulng hag with the main arain batteries at yaa we ar are sick and tired of and an finding alac fault but atter our st experience we would not be able IM to 0 enjoy life as we should did we not make one more object objection ioa we sang doxologies and hymns had divine service on Sund sundays lays talked of 0 home and mother and listened to the strains of the star spangled banner every evening at retreat still from americas golden gate to manila blazes a blue path of blood curdling profanity a monument to the mulish ignorance and unpardonable brutality of those in charge the only break in this mile chain of hairsplitting hair splitting curses was at honolulu where uncles ers were treated as men who could feel and love and appreciate by people from whom they had no reason to ex hect so much it was at honolulu that I 1 for a brief time the patriotism and love of principle that inspired husbands and sweethearts to sign away their liberties and place their very lives on the altar of their country until the insolent foe had been punished rekindled and gave forth a generous blaze until men forgot the indignities heaped upon them by officers whose swords and stripes were as gold hinges on barn doors of course some of the commissioned officers on the rio de janeiro were happy exceptions to the rule and they have the full gratitude of us all for doing what was in their power to make our extremely tiresome and monotonous passage as pleasant as possible but unfortunately for the enlisted men the rank of such officers was lower than that of colonel frost ot of south dakota who was directly responsible for more misery than was ever before ca contained on a united states transport to many of us the subject of america fast fading in the distance was a sad enough experience for it was unreasonable to expect that all would return it was felt that for some of us that was the last sight we would ever have of a land above all others dear the birth place and cradle of sweet liberty and we watched it sink below the horizon with strange feelings and an empty stomach in a word wo we were sad but wan when it was af afterwards tey discovered that we were doomed to live on half rations and even less and that nothing but the coarsest vilest and most poorly cooked food was to be given us we felt that we were being autra outraged ed and as the days rolled on and the fare got worse the beef became put putrid id and the Pota potatoes rotten and owing to a lack of facilities for oking cooking co the bread was half dough and when we fully realized that all the fresh water allowed us had to be drank from two and at times one tin cup and that most of the time that water was hot just from the condenser our patriotism began to cool off and when the he fourteen wash vash basins that were furnished a thousand men to wash in rusted away till but three and then two wo remained when we fully awakened to the utterly senseless proposition of making closets for fourteen answer chef the neds of i j thousand men and of placing closets and kitchen within th handshaking hand land shaking stance distance di diat anre of each other of rc reserving serving more space for fifty officers than for a thousand soldiers and then when lieutenant poster foster a south dakota lunatic asylum keeper took from us our american right to kick and threatened thren those who offered any complaint with a term in the guardi house I 1 for one and the there r e were others wished those in charge in h 1 ten th thou thour 10 u r sand fathoms deep the picture cannot be overdrawn mem volunteers in the hour of their count rys need treated na as were animals until they become lucli ready keidy to eaverly eat the lea vines vinzo from ta i nf of the chinese crew crew har halt vegetables in the swill from fram the db cers kitchen were ravenously seized 1 and eaten by half starved soldiers wajo K stood about the officers kitchen in 10 swarms and it is naught but truth to say that from wi time we were feasted on honolulu charity until our arrival in manila ma three weeks later four fifths of the en listed men were hungry and utterly r unable to get half the amount of food their systems required at n no 0 time did we get more than half rations and as a general thing they were so poorly cooked so coarse and to tn quality as to be uneatable yes they who had money could buy food on board ship but fancy paying ti a chinaman twenty five cents to steal a 1 five cent pie for you many did but many more wont went without boid soncie a did their own stealing and I 1 am sorry to say from the red cross society supplies had they been they would have been made examples ecamp i 1 of for noti notwithstanding wIthstanding the hungry condition of the enlisted animals the red cross stuff was sacred to most of them and were hect the dear old red cross crass as any ona could be but we are at manila manil a now n long sea journey is at ah end WB have joined the boys that preceded us a and are commanded com co m m by the officers offid eTs b f our own state we are with friends we see familiar faces all around us i and we listen in rapt attention to fa voices as they relate the story Y of manilas fall our only regret nw noir is that we cabie too late aate to take paa pa t in that work wherein the utah boys haf bravely distinguished themselves at n was a glorious victory for but sat utah it was immense halt half who goes therea t A utah ar artilleryman 1 atries pass on utah is all right sentries are everywhere here and no password pass word ward is 11 so effective as the simple S im statement that you belong to the U utah Q A battery and though we recruits were unable to take part in winning thia fame for our loved state it is never Z gratifying to know the fame has been won and to be able to enjoy k its fruits the boys are all ajl well with i z 5 one or two exceptions the sick and wounded I 1 am told of the Amerie Amerle ao aft army in the philippines does not eat is s aeed two per cent this of chur cournea ay iy most remarkable all things poor chris wagner of the near sf recruits Is down with rheu mad and has been thanks to the doctors on the rio de janeiro ever since leaving san francisco Pran cisco at Is now in the hospital and jt it Is stood he will be sent home the 1 att I opportunity port unity among our etab there has been some slight biese ot W dysentery and fever but have thus to far proven fatal nor aret faey at t before sailing for paris par i s greene sent the fo lowing self seif atory letter to be read before the utah light artillery headquarters 2 brigade 2 8 corps calle oral gral de 16 ariy 2 1898 in compliance with orders from the war department the undersigner undersigned under signed A hereby relinquishes command of thin f brigade a in taking fairing leave of the troops manned th trenches in front af spanish defenses and who ed the ass vance into manila the undersigner undersigned under signed a k V sires to thank them for the hear 01 A uncomplaining response which V H roade made to every demand imi upon th enli 4 to express his I 1 of t the 6 h 4 soldierly qualities which ater they 4 he dw i played during the siege in th or ack and in maintaining order in iii manila since the occupation oc U pation ate the i ay of ground around and of food to aich gewere subjected have never en surpassed in any work which JA ican soldiers el diera have been called up wi 66 to perform and for two weeks were coreed to remain quiet under a con gaim and deadly fire from the enemy datil the plans for a joint land and naval i were perfected these difficulties ware er emot met in a spirit not only free from aam complaint plaint but of generous and hearty enthusiasm we have our reward in lithe capture of this fortified city with light loss you have thus forever as Law ablated HB your names with one of the afloat important events in american his noary and have won the gratitude and esteem of all your countrymen F V i Arl gadler general commanding sr tomorrow I 1 wil visit the trenches or as the boys call them the drenches jud in my next letter I 1 will teal the i Wawa readers how utah did ald herself 1 proud I at alt manila where the stars and 10 atelle tripas replaced and we hope forever stained flag of spain NOD libil lii Il sept 8 manila is a quaint act 44 aty mo mother ther and bare legs narrow crooked streets and in smells granc grand I 1 old churches I 1 aid td cached ta ched huts buts fruits and flowers ani aba and sores and morals all out of repair and quite useless are some distinguishing ashing features in a gyorfy gyor fl manila is ia a part of the orient j Sama acus cairo bairo bombay hongtong Hong kong and cd manila though entirely diff different erent i i the sume same impressions on the Eft stern traveler they are clean and luw beautiful and ugly poverty I 1 1 At stricken ricken and wealthy grand men and miserable all at the same time and in any of them one with only halt half an I 1 imagination can live way back in the egea first geeve gave birth to history and what a wonderful experience it I 1 as is to ta leave the noise and bustle and energy of the nineteenth nineteen th century elwest and drop down into the dawn of Orea tion east prom from newspapers steam and electricity from colleges bathtubs bath tubs and sunday evening con aba tabs with your best girl to a land of primeval rottenness rott eness and simplicity here shirt tails and rice seem to b be lifes great incentive what a study la is here for the young americans who compose uncle sams volunteer army jn in the philippines and how haw gratifY gratifying I ng lav ia to know that among the thousands oaf of blue coats in this righteous rig war there are many many hundreds from all quarters of our great union of gestates gS Pi tates whose minds are turned intellectually ly and who are reaching out fo a every direction for the information and ad experience thus placed within their i Teach Fe ach soldier life is not conducive to or the reason tt it permits men t to be sid d indolent and lazy that as a rule they lose sight of their former ambitions forget they ever had ener es and soon have interest in noth as but pay day the bugle awakens them tells them when to eat breakfast when to have their names entered an the sick call when to drill when reat 0 diat dingier when to eat supper when y Q go to their quarters and when to blaw out their candles and go to sleep an fn in a short time they are as so many machines and it makes but little if any y difference to them where they ore axe if they have enough to eat and wear heavier burdens than to smoke qu hurse rathe the government and dream away the years epars of course there are many t bright exceptions in my short a ince in the ranks I 1 have known who thought noth nothing ilig of exerting pelves elves physically and mentally W cald flud ad time between re band LW UA axed nd top 40 jw a button on take a bath or polish their shoes some I 1 of ef them atheni even read and iti Kema to me that I 1 once heard beard of a who during the hundreds of hours of oc leisure time actually studied and partly mastered a foreign language I 1 may be mistaken in this thi however and after reflecting on my own experience a since in c e the war broke out I 1 am inclined to think it must have been some other cother person than a soldier soldiers have been known to go sightseeing sight seeing and hard bard work most any ny afternoon a walk through manild manila would discover dozens or rather hundreds of them poking their noses into all kinds of nooks and corners and in their quest for cigarettes and information making all kinds of grotesque I 1 movements with their hands and feet much to the amusement of native venders benders ven ders A walk through this old city at night or to be more correct a tumble through it for the streets are dark and chriatian ly paved Is worth to more re than full rations for a week I 1 have had several ot of them the last one just the other evening I 1 turned f from rom contemplating a grand old specimen dimen of spanish cathe brals here in the east just as its beau 1 ticul chimes announced the hour of eight and strolled down a little street no broader than boome folks religious views you could hop across that street without wilt hout much effort and it had as great if not a greater variety of smells as old jerusalem it was principally a chinese street hop lip sing long slim pat fat you hung hang haing and other animals of the same brood had their stalls on it and sold everything from a stuffed rat to a pound of opium or an elastic conscience and it was straight or as much so BO as the commissary department of the united states army which is a compliment to streets in this part of the world at places the eves 0 of f the musty and moss cov ered houses met in an arch where smoke and disease find fl nd a harbor at other parts one could catch glimpses of a moonlit moon lit itt heaven with here and there a star here indeed was a most oriental part of the orient its scabs and ulcers and physical deformities deforms ties its slik silk and gaudy jewelry and raiment I 1 on only y partly reve reveal alved ved by scores of little oil bowls in which floated lighted wicks I 1 they called these things lamps and one of the boys bloys concluded the street was suffering with campers it would not have been much of a feat to have hid den its whole light under a bushel and then I 1 doubt if the bushel would have been half fiffi almed ed the bulk of the streets business was cent centered tred in its little dingy restaurants where nearly all things vile and un uneatable ea table are were displayed in open windows half dressed queues blinked and grinned and smoked in dark corners women with baby feet encased in wooden shoes shuffled over the ithe uneven pavement naked children rolled and fought and bawled and laughed in the filth under foot with flea bitten curs dogs that scratch and snap and scratch till they are one mass of corces and every f few lw L w paces a blue crated sentinel stood with bayonet fixed and with disgust written on every line of his sun face wishing for payday pay day and hla his disi charge I 1 went into an opium den a little 12 by 1 room so filled with fumes of the vile drug that I 1 had to carve my way eight and two filipinos reclined tm long couch arrangements and puffed their way into other worlds at 5 cents a smoke some of them were already off and as they thay lay there rolled in a knot barely haaf clad with their clumsy opium pipes clasped tightly in their bony fingers their mouths open and filled up and in that foul avo am ohe ko ailed room lighted only by the tiny aylott tempa wed used bt the orao smokers k ar 8 in preparing their opium they e a picture so hi hideous cLeous as to not uba t ao forgotten IS if their smoke indic induced were a a sweet w beet bi bliss ISS n ad t to bo be e had in inn other way the expressions on their wk and saffron faces were no at the fact an artist drawing the in of hells hella darkest corner could not a more suggestive model t than kaa opium den in a corner behind a I ath work and reveal revealed led by one flickering light sat the proprietor e a crafty devil weighing out the drui drug to his customer cus tomeo his teeth were decayed and his yellow body was nude from the waist up file woodwork ot of the place was black wm wih smoke the stone floor seemed danse and foul in fact filth seema to baths ba the chief characteristic of an all and evory body about I senor 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