The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1898-09-22
Ed Patch Tells the Interesting Story
OF Ship Life.
NOTES or A VOLUNTEER
One Of the weiser Boys Writes Of the Tediout
Voyage to Manila.


Sunday July 10, 1s9s-We have
left Honolulu, got started yesterday.
or rather we got our second start
then. We made our Hrst start Friday
morning, and as il to prove that Fri,
day is an unldcky day, the Indianat
machinery (the engine think broke
down and she had to he towed back,
we all went back and anchored out
side the harbor, except the Newport
which had General Merritt and tue
batteries on board, and US the New;
port is the fastest boat, she will no
doubt reach Manila sometime before
we do.
Monday--All the boats In sight
this morning, they are strung out
four or five miles and hold about the
same positions. it is pretty warm but
there is good breeze most OF the
time. There has been no sickness u
speak OF on this ship 80 far, o few
cases OF measles, and one case OF TO-
yer. The latter patient was left "
Honolulu.
Tues day The water is littlA
rougher than usual this morning, but
d little wind is very acceptable,
The boats are all in sight, with the
Morgan city in the FEAR. We are max,
ing better time on this end OF the
route than we did from FRISCO, but /
don't think we will reach Manila Ia
, much less than 25 days from Homo.
lulu. There will at least be one advan,
q tage in slow trip, we will miss that
much OF the hot weather for til il sea-
son.
Wednesday. One more day, aud
/, and some three hundred miles nearer
O Manila. There is good deal OF UNI
!, certainty connected with our part OF
the present war, unless We. speak
. some ship from China(and that is un-
/, likely as the east bound route is diff.
ferent from the west bound) we will
- be at least one month and probably
a more without word from anywhere,
and great many things may happen
: in that time. If the Spanish feet, +,
winch was at Port Said when We left
a Frisco, started for Manila about the
N same time we did, they should reach
~ there little sooner than we; but
:, no doubt our feet there will look
out for them, and while. there is q
possibility that some Spanish pri-
vateer may interview US, we are moi
TX uneasy about it,
.IIgg Frday-This is my first week will
ty only six days We crossed the 1901
w degree of longitude this morning a
all four o'clock. The Indiana. is flynn
'a eu her flag at half mast this morning
of They are signaling as l write, so W
Ia will learn who it is that has reaches
nd his last harbor and will sleep beneat
no the boundIess waves of the might
IL Pacific, his tomb not made by man
I'll But who can tell the beauty Of hi
sepulchre and who will say his slee
will be less sweet or his awakenin
mr.. M less grand than though he reste
SUI among the flowers in green fields.
! in in learn that the deceased was one {
cry the California regulars. He va
~" buried at eleven o'clock.
Saturday-We are now about ha
way on our journey and have bee
he fourteen days under way, 80 II '
-, -. have no bad luck we should reat
ore Manila in about two weeks. ! don
uh, h think there is man aboard Who vi
t be be sorry to see the end of the tri
,HH sW We have had exceptionally good lut
d in SO far, but ideness breeds disco
0er' tent, and among 800 active your
men corralled on one boat, it is n
O. strange that many of them are,
ally Chapman says, ''sick There is n
cous ao,i comfortable place below the de-
and there is Just about standing roc
D v" for all hands on deck. The VOL
time is at night The officers YOU
not let us sleep on, deck, until Il
q tbeir IL week and there. is. not ROOM for
200 s'sS anyway, but probably one-half sle
,'i;,se ,cioss above, and that makes It better
fCentipued I'd fosstA beft}