St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-11-08
DIRECT FROM chill.
Interview With a Man Who
Thinks American Sailors
Need Thrashing.
His Observations on Gillian
Affairs, Customs and the
Country's Prospects.
Matters Political Discussed
Lightly by the Seventh
Earl of Aberdeen.
Divorce Day in the District
Court--General Local
News.

Minneapolis has within her borders a
young man who is fresh from the scene
of Balmaceda'S downfall and Pat Egan'S
mlstakes-ChiH. His name is Henry
Wendtlund. He is young Scandi-
nayian. who has been in Chill and other
South American countries for the past
three years. Now lie is Oh his way
back to Sweden to spend Christmas
with his family. Mr.. Wendt-
lund left Chill just before Bal
maceda killed himself, but he
has been following the newspaper re-
ports so closely that he is able to in
terpret the condition of affairs there
with more accuracy than a mSn who
has made The acquaintance of CHILEAN
affairs only through Chilli sauce. Mr..
Wendtlund is of the opinion that the
stories about the ChilianS being haters
of Americans are all wrong. lie lived
there nearly three years. and there were
plenty of Americans there then who
were thought as much of as any other
nationality. He also thinks the reports
of the attack upon the American sailors
have been overdrawn.
Il believe that the Americans were TO
blame if they were attacked he said yester
day. Il have seen the American sailors in
more ports than Valparaiso. and they are
always ready 10 get into trouble / have seen
them in st. Petersburg, in Havre and in
Stockholm. They are the most troublesome
sailors that cross the seas. They are not ali
Americans. The crews on the American
ships are of mixed nationality. and that NAV
make them worse. They are not such Ygood
class of men as Will be found in the navies of
other countries
This statement of MI Wendtlund can
scarcely be questioned, as it is nOtori-
Gus fact that the privateS in the United
States army and the common sailors in
the navy are not such class of men as
are found in the service of the European
nations, where the army and the navy
take precedence over everything.
L also believe, - continued Mr.. Wendtund,
"that Capt Schley, of the Baltimore. was
somewhat TO blame If his sailors were at
tackled. The reports say that he had given
I63 men permission to go on land The day
That the attack occurred. That is good
many men 10 set loose in foreign city that
Is in the condition Valparaiso was at that
time. The war mad just closed and business
was disOrdereG. The sailors got drunk
without doubt. l have seen u good
deal of sailors. and they never
go on shore except for the purpose of getting
drunk. That applies 10 the sailors of all
countries. There Is a natural affinity be
sailor is drunk he always wants TO create
some sort Of a disturbance. That Is why l
think Capt. Schley did wrong in letting so
many men go ashore at that time. The COM
manders of the British, or The 1erman, or the
Italian ships would not do anything of that
sort. At least they never did anything of the
kind while the country was in such dis
ordered state
Mr.. Wendtlund says that the Chilians
do not care anything about the Itata
4,1 81 In ut .f-tr
Egan. They think he was too pro-
nOuncedlv in favor of the dead Balma-
reda. Neither do they like the way the
United States government ignored the
Congressional party. He says that it is
q fact that the Baltimore was cruising
around in Chilian waters in suspicious
manner. as if spying upon the Con-
greSsiOnal partV'S vessels, and that false
information of the movements of the
Baltimore was seut to the Congressional
government by the American COM
mander.
Mr.. Wendtlund was at sea some of
the time during the late sQuabble in
Chill on a Congressional boat. He was
ON the AmaZOnas. transport ship that
piled between the Gillian ports and
Vancouver. What he says shows that
the British government was either help
ing the Congressional party openly, or
at least Winking at the fostering of the
Congressional cause by private parties.
The AmaZOnaS used to get loads of aims
and ammunition at Vancouver that
had come frOm England over the
Canadian Pacific railroad. The arms
were shipped by the famous Col. North,
the nitrate king, the friend of the
Prince of Wales and large owner in
the London Tines. North acted as the
agent of the COngressionalists in Eng
land. He has immense business inter
estf in Chilli, and is highly esteemed by
the people of that country.
Jorge MOntt, the new president of the
GILLIAN republic, is spoken of as a great
and good man by Wendtlund. This
gentleman used to work for Months
father. The new presidents grand
father was an Englishman.
Nearly all of the first families, he said
''are descendedfro Engiishmen or Germans
with an occasional frenchman. or course
tbe early settlers there were Spaniards. but
me most powerful families now are of more
recent European extraction and of Ger
manic blood. English IS fast becoming the
language Of the country. The natives talk
SnaniSh but all the business is carried on in
FDqlish The English-speaking population
Is Increasing fast Many look upon Chill as
r semi-cyilized sort OF country. That is not
So II is the most advanced OF any of the
south American countries. The people that
ie he MINER class. are well educated. Mosf
Of fbem 90 TO Europe for m education The
0fHcers of The army and the navy are ALWAYS
cont 10 Europe for three years or so to study
YES Chilli j q republic hut il is a repllb-
lie that has gentlemen. The class disiiuc-
tions are enforced strictly. In street cars in
theatels in the restaurants. the distinction is
marked The peOn cannot sit beside fba
gentleman. no matter if he has the money 70
nay ms way. He must flock by himself or
with those of his station There is no par
ficvlar prejudice against any nationality
with the possible ption &C the IRISH Tho
1risnmen that come there are usually EN-
Dloved as bosses on railroad work They con
moi he trusted They ike 10 pet FIJI n4
drink TOO we'll AS said before the Ame--
scans are not hated as 4 class. The No
STONED all trade and put & stop 10 the rail
road-buildiug. The Chllians think that II
would not have continued so long but for Tho
American support ana mat IS why they dis
Ukethe people of this country.
What KIND of a country Is il? The best in
tho world. There is no otherso good for q
voung man 10 go to. 1t is as easy to make g
there as it as 10 make 81 here. Clerks there
get from $50 10 $3.50, and from that up. Der
month ANY Young man who can speak En-
glish and read and write il well can get work
He Will not nave 10 look for II, but II viii be
Offered him. II IS 4 splendid country. and II
has but inst begun 10 develop.
Yes living is expensive. more so than
here But what difference does that make
when one is getting Llenty of money: Clothes
come high. An ordinary suit of clothes will
cost not less than $50 or so. The kind you
call q Prince Albert suit costs $50. stove
Tor his room and his board, but everything
else is sold on credit He can Get HIS cl6tE
aud bis shoes. and everything Of that soft on