Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-07-22
SOLDIER BOYS TRIP.
Interesting Letter from Lieut.. Mclean
Descriptive of the Soldiers Trip
to Honolulu.
A Good Deal of Sickness on Board,
But a Pleasant and Enjoyable Sea
Trip Nevertheless.
Appropriate Fourth of July Exercises
Warm Reception at Honolulu by
the Hawaiians.
STEAMER Valencia.

Gate city to Honolulu would be OF in
terest to a great portion of TRIBUNE
readers, will endeavor to relate them as
they appeared to me.
Our stay in San Francisco was a con.
tinuons scene of gayety and festivity.
Nothing was too good for those who
wore the blue and can say with all can
dor that not a man in our regiment will
say that he passed a lonesome hour,
when fortunate enough to get down
town.
We were camped just north of the
Odd Fellows cemetery and while it was
not the most desirable place in the
world-being very sandy-but as San
Francisco is situated on a large bed of
sand, of course we could not raise too
serious an objection, and then too, we
got considerable ''sand" in our rations,
and while not the most pleasant thing
in the world on a soldiers molars, it
will be very material in the showing our
boys make when they meet the GREASY"
Spanlards in Manila.
While in Frisco several old Bismarck
ers called on Company A, among them
Dan Eisenburg, who is now located at
Los Angeles, Tom Campbell and sisters,
Jim Quinlivan, who is in the insurance
business, and who was very instru-
mental in seeing that the boys from
Bismarck were made to enjoy them
selves. "Scout" Allison, we'll known 10
all old timers called on mo while here.
He was n of the scouts who trailed
Sitting Bull to Canada and accompanied
the soldiers to Yates when they brought
Sitting Bull and his warriors down the
Missouri in the early SOS. He is try
ing to 60 to Manila as chief of scouts
for General Merritt. He inquired If all
old timers-McLean and Macnider, John
Dunn, Alex Mckenzie. Mike Slattery
and others. He looks we'll and claims
to be just as rugged as he ever a
Billy Coleman's brother called to see
us while here. He is in the mercantile
business at Oakland, just across the bay
from Frisco, is very we'll to do and a
number of us were royalty entertained
by him at his home in Oakland.
Met Tom Gleason and wife in Frisco,
Tom has abandoned pugilism and is now
in the show business, looks we'll, and
says he is doing first rate.
One of the most intere sting sights in
Frisco is Chinatown, and it is certainly
a sight to behold. About $1,000 of the
heathens are quartered there and they
are without doubt the filthiest, lowest
specimens of humanity that ever ex-
listed and the sooner Uncle Sam chases
every bloody Chinaman from his do.
mains the better it will be for civiliza-
ton generally.
Another interesting historical scene
is Emmanuel church, where Durrant
murdered Blanche Lamont for which he
was executed here last February. The
United States mint here is a large brown
stone building and is one of the largest
of its kind in the world. San Francisco
has also the finest bathing resort in the
world in the Suthro baths. It is right
on the sea shore and on Sunday the
street cars are crowded all day long
going and coming from the baths.
Golden Gate Park is simply sublime,
and one can hardly believe when old
timers say that twenty-five years ago,
! where the park now is was nothing but
a bed of sand. 1t contains all kinds of
animals from the festive cayote to the
king of beasts, and from the entrance to
the exit, one is in a glorious wonder
land. It is simply impossible for me to
attempt to describe the beautiful and
wonderful foliage that thrives on the
moist sand of an apparently waste
desert. In hot houses all tropical plants
flourish to such a degree that it is sim
ply amazing.
After giving all these luxuries a
thorough consideration the writer took
the breath away from several San Fran
%ciscoites by saying that he would a
great deal rather live in Bismarck,
North Dakota than any place he had
seen in the west, and he meant it. The
residents of California--the women es.
pecially-are the most hospitable set
that would be possible to find any
where, and the ladies of the Red Gross
in particular, will be cherished forever
in the memory of every soldier boy from
North Dakota. There was nothing too
good for US, and when they bid us fare
we'll when our ship left Frisco, several
Of the ladies remarked: "That of all
the regiments from different parts of
the United States that had partaken of
their hospitality, none showed their ap.
%preciationss and gentlemanliness, that
was exhibited by the boys from North
Dakota.
Onthe morning OF June 9th we broke
camp and proceeded on our way to the