The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-26
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GL|MPSES OF SOLDIER LIFE
INTERESTING LETTERS WRIT
TEN BEFORE. MANILA.
Volunteer George B. Wardlow's OBJ
servations-Some Amusing Hap
Penings Among Natives.

Mrs George B. Wardlow received
long communication from her husband,
written at odd moments en- route from
San Francisco to Manila and while IN
camp about Manila The letter bears
date OF July &c, and was written at
Camp Dewey. Extracts are as follows:
l will write you few lines, so that
they VIII go by the next steamer,
which leaves tomorrow. l am well ana
hone this will find you the same we
are in Camp about two ana halI
miles from Manila. There are about
IL 600 men in camp and we expect TO
march on Manila next week ana eA-
nect to have some fighting to do, put
not much. The natives ana Soanlafus
are fighting nearly every day, but IL
will not be much. The Spanish drove
the natives into our lines. The infantry
was called out and the Spaniards re-
treated.
1t rains night and day here now L
have made me a bed out of bamboos,
about two feet off the ground, so that
l manage TO keep dry. The natives
here are a low class and very dirty.
The women come into camp with large
baskets of fruit. carrying them on their
heads, without using their hands. Ihey
live in small hutS made out OF PAIN
leaves and bamboo. There is lots OF
smallpox among them.
20 @ g
Fred Bluth had an operation per-
formed on him, but he is getting along
fine.
We got the first papers from home
yesterday. They were dated June 70.
We expect letters tomorrow.
@ @ g
The following are extracts from MI.
Wardlow's diary, which give interest
ing glimpses of soldier life:
Saturday, July 16.-Got up and fired
salute. Had inspection by General
Greene. We entered Manila bay, escort
ed by the warship McCulloch. The
mouth oe the bay is one and half
miles wide and has large fort, CaVlte,
on the south side. l don't see how on
earth Dewey ever entered the pay
without being blown to pieces, but ne
entered and has left his mark in the
shape of II Spanish ships sunk Seven
of them have their masts sticking out
of the water.
SUNDAY. July 17-Got up and had a
good bath. Went into hospital and saw
Fred Bluth and Sergeant Anderson;
then packed Fred's knapsack. The IN
surgents and SDaniards have been
fighting all the morning and snotS
have been falling in the water.
Wednesday. 2oth.-The Eighteenth
regiment will go ashore today. We
were given 20 rounds of revolver am
munition.
Thursday, 21st.-Stin on guard as
sergeant oe guard. Have got to so on
guard on the beach with nine men,
guarding ammunition. L have the
honor to be the first corporal to so on
guard all night in the Philippine
islands. Our camp is half a mile away.
Friday, 22nd.--Was relieved of guard
at am Went to camp. Had break
fast and then walked around the VII
lagos The natives here had never
seen false teeth and when they were
shown some they went wild. They
would go UP to every soldier they met
and want to look in his mouth. Ihey
thought we were all the same and now
/ can't 20 out of camp without one or
them pointing his finger at his mouth
and wanting me to take out my teeth.
Saturday, 23rd.-Got uD at .. Went
to insurgents hospital and saw the
wounded insurgents-quite number of
them. one with his left foot shot OH.
Got some relics from an old Catholic
church Came back to camp and laid
around till pm.
AN UNEVENTFUL PATH.
Sunday, oath, got up at 4:3O, had
breakfast, then had TO clean one tnree-
inch gun that we got from Dewey.
Walked around beach and laid around
camp until bed time. During the next
few days the diary shows routine camp
life and enlivened by a foraging eX-
petition after wood when some dis
putes arose with natives about cutting
down trees.
Regarding mail service Mr.. Wardlow
SAYS steamers leave San Francisco for
Manilaward every week, but leave Ma
Mia only about every month. Hence
letters should be written often, but an
swers not expected too frequently. His
diary from San Francisco over to Ma
Mia is full of interesting bits of de-
scription, and may form very read
able article some time in the future.