The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-07-29

his hands without any friend to help
US or pun US from under his fire We
have overhauled English and French
steamers and gotten London and Paris
(mostly vulgar papers, but our latest
news is June H.
MY interest in the operations at
Santiago IS most earnest, as il seems
to me that the fall of that place must
mean the end of the war, and our re-
turn home,
The behavior of the men under FIRE
was perfect.
You have no idea how busy we are
kept on a man-of-war in time of war
in the first place. we are called for ac
ton at all hours of the day and night
often on false alarms, but at the mo-
ment they are as serious as any 9th
ers. Then the usual watches and drills
(only many more than in time of peace
and constantly working TO raise the
crew TO greater efficiency. OF course l
have forgotten many things, naval and
military; many others have changed,
and I do some studying every day on
my duties. Then the mems mess was
awful, and I undertook to get their
navy rations into shape that they would
be edible and sufficient. A month
work has produced very gratifying re-
suits, and / feel sure that l have made
the lot of these two hundred and fifty
emergency sailors much more endur-
able.
Il took charge of the. Fourth of July
celebration, and, in spite of the fact
that we have not seen a piece of fruit
except a little taken from the small
price, an egg, a lemon or a piece OF
ice, fresh meat or fresh vegetables Tor
two weeks. / with, of course, the CO.
operation and help of alb, kept every
ones mind SO engaged that a days
Ill -
in front of the enemy'S guns and so
near that a boat cannot be lowered
without danger of an attack. In the
afternoon we had target shooting, box
ing, wrestling, elephant race, rope
climbing, jumping, potato race (sand
bags for potatoes), shot putting, sack
races and tugs of war. The prizes We're
cigars ard warm beer, with a plum
pudding for the entire division (of
which there are siX), furnishing the
successful crew in the tug of war.
This was a work of art. built for so
men, and rich as could be. The pay
masters stores are very low, and l
could get no cloth large enough to
make bag to boil the pudding in,
so had to buy a pair of knit drawers
and cut off the legs for the bags. In
the division that won the pudding were
only 80 odd men, and it was considered
the thing of the day In commenting.
however, upon the delights of the pud-
ding, one of the men said: But there
was not enough for 60 men," Upon my
expressing disappointed surprise, he
added: Well, you see, it is a little diff
ferent when every man makes his en-
tire dinner off it,
THE evening was spent with songs
and dances in the moonlight, commenc-
irg with the Star Spangled Banner
and ending w with America
THE army arrived and were landed
near Santiago the day before we left
Guantanamo-40 miles from there-and
we are al most anxious to hear what
has happened there since.
In the past two months we have
been at Hampton Roads, Key West,
the Hava.a blockade, the Santiago
blockade. the landing of the marines
at Guantanamo. prize-hunting off ia
maica, at Kingston, back at Santiago
and Guantanamo, and now, two weeks,
nearly, here. 1 have had enough Of
war. 1 know all about the singing OF
shells. and 1 want to go home just as
soon as Spain will have the sense to
acknowledge herself licked