The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-09-28

Charles S. Odell, in a letter to his
parents here, writes that Red Cross
supplies We're sold to the soldiers in
Manila. He writes:
OLD MANILA, Aug rs, 1S9S-Dear NIother
and Father: Well, | have not heard from
you IN a very long while. If you know how
l look forward for a letter from home YOU
would write often
The Thirteenth is the city police. 1 VIII
s Sema you picture of myself in white uni
around it.
The wall is about forty feet through, sixty
feet high, and the next wall is not SO high
Between the two walls there is a big di Oh
fl. led with water.
If you stand on the corner or anywhere
smoke and wait for YOU TO light it, That
means friendship. Every woman and child
smokes here on the streets. 1t looks so funny
TO see little boys and girls with great big
cigar IN their mouths. The little ones hers
don wear any clothes at all. Everything is
carried or the head, even to bottles of wine
\ gu can buy white suit here for 81 in
spanish money or ST OF United States money
thing at home
All the boys who were hurt in the battle
and the sick are coming home on the CITY
OF Para The new town is outside of the
Mall Man, over the river and is quite a nice
lights and good waterworks.
Ihey nave just turned on the water in the
last SIs rev days as the insurgents had the
long, for We went right out and took them
without firing a shot
We will have little trouble with them
put when wo go out we are going to get
them. They are very much afraid of us
and our long tom guns.
We heard today that there were 100, 900
troops recalled from the front and | hone We
will be home very soon.
Now l will tell you something All the
Red Cross things that were given us were
t sGlu h TO US at very high prices, and you tell
the boys that are going to enlist if you
Know any, not to, as it is no picnic The
Durham tobacco for us was sold to us. l
did not have a cent when we got here as I
spent it on the boat, and I was 10 0CO miles
from home broke.
For $50 gold piece we get $42 Spanish
none Spanish dollar buys much
mere as one at home. Now l have got to
stop, as l ann going over in the new town.
Be sure and write. l weigh 169 pounds.
Give Give my love to all the folks and to Theo
viii the Fifteenth ever leave st. Paul.
Did the Twelfth and Fourteenth go to Cuba I?
IN; mere are I4.9l2 Spanish soldiers here that
Ialo GOWN their arms. am going to try and
go to Hong Kong l have so much stuff that
oon Know how to carry 1t.
Charles S. Odell
MANILA. Aug. 17.-Well, we have taken
the Philippines. They ran the white flag
up after one and half hours hard fighting.
We left camp at O'Clock Saturday morn
ing, the 18Th Of course It had to be on the
18th. " VII inc
Our company ordered off to the left
OF the road and got separated from the rest
OF the boys, but the Spaniards had been
driven out and we got back to the road again,
ana you can bet the lead was going through
the air IN great shape. We had to duck our
heads all the way up the line
never want to be in another rain of lead
like that again. At half past we were be-
hind the Entertainments, eating big bananas
and the bullets going over our heads
Ihere were six killed and thirty-seven
wounded, so you see we were not so bad off
On. but we did pump the lead into these
oeVls. NOW II they had mede a good stand
In II. w.
The first wall is twenty feet high and forty
feet thick. The second wall is not as bad.
/ ana between the walls is deep ditch and on
the walls are cannons, about four feet apart.
at the gates the bridges over this ditch are
Well, peace has been declared, and I sup
pose we will be coming home soon 1t can't
come too soon Goodbye. I am we'll and
feel fine. Charles OdeI1