The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-04-10

place had bill for each of US that would
have about tapped all of our monthly
money had we paid it. We kicked, OF
course The proprietor said we'd have 10
paw the bills as he rendered them or De
handed over to the police. l was the oloest
man in our party, and 1 was pretty not. l
went over to one of the French petty OF
ficers sitting at a table and he let me
glance over his bill. The items on his bill
were one-fifth the amounts marked on
ours. Then told the proprietor in the pig
con Spanish that l knew that Ia see MIN
hanged before any man wearing the uni
form I wore would submit to that sort OF
imposition. / paid each mans reckoning,
taking four-fffths off of every bill, and we
walked out. The proprietor rushed TO the
door. yelling for the gendarmes. -Four or
five of them were posing out on the street,
but they made no move toward u.s. seeing
that we were pretty strong in numbers.
"A couple of days later another batch
of men from my ship went on the beach.
They hadn't enough caution to remain to-
gether, and three of them happened TO
pass by the restaurant where the pro-
prietor had tried to put it on us. The
proprietor saw them and.he made his yell
for the police again. Six of the gendarmes
made for our men with clubs and small
swords. The three bluejackets hadn
done awning out Oh lnC way anu NhCS
couldn't understand what they were being
tackled for. SO they gave the six gem
darmes plenty of fight. They were over
powered, of course. and scandalously beat
en- and cut up. They were beaten and
shamefully abused, even after they were
secured in cells. Each of them had to pay
the equivalent of $25 in our money the
next day to get loose. They were charged
with swindliug an innkeeper, drunkenness,
fighting, and resisting peace officers. A
hh1eiecket has a hard time to square him.
self when he returns to his ship beaten
No. our skipper listened to their stories,
but he took it for granted that the men
had been drunk and disorderly, and he
nunished them by putting their names on
the had conduct list Those three men are
all in the navy yet and you can gamble
they'll enjoy getting a crack at Spain If
The chance comes.
"While serving on another ship cruising
on the West coast in IS, party of thirty
of us decided to run up from the coast md
have a look at the Lima Cathedral. There
wasn't what you could call an out-and-cut
drinking man IN the gang. Most of US
were Roman Catholics, too, so we knew
how 10 conduct ourselves in church OF
the faith we were born in. We spread
many a good American dollar around
among the slews of beggars that are ~
erywhere in Lima before we reached the
Cathedral. The guide who offered to show
us around the Cathedral was young dude
OF a Spaniard, and he collected his fee IN
advance, knowing. probably. that he'd lind
some way 10 trip us before he got through
with us. l afterward found out that this
guide chap was one of the leaders of q
oure-Spanish organization IN Lima. Well
he showed Us around the Cathedral, and
when we reached the main door on our
way out. there being a draught. most Of
us nut on our caps just a second before
stepping out into the air. You ought e