Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1898-07-08
United States Army Officer Surprised at
Municipal Conditions.
Compares The Order Of City 10 That Of Wash
iDston = Notes About Other Nj
lltary Visitors.

Honolulu. While marching nr
town for the first time, I could moi
help noticing that this was a we'll
groomed city. There was such an
air of good order and management
along the ST. eets, that l iDtuitively
concluded that this city was under
good government.
Seeing 80 many cities in the
United States managed in bad
fashion by municipal rulers, it was
a We y tg, eeable surprise to tiud
Honolulu in 40 much app aarance
M del city. 1t is to be compared
in this respect to Wash,ngt ~,
which i. ruled st ictly as a district
Ivy appointed commissioners.
They are a body of artist lcrats,
but they keep things straight AMI
iu good order.
This halting of the expeditions
here is a great thing for the
troops. A very large proportion
ut them are mere boys, who have
never been away from their mo-
hers before. They are just hav
ing their eyeteeth cut. For these
boys this is a haven of rest, an
oasis III the watery desert.
Their rest here and the Won
derfully bind treatment received
from your people will do them
good. They will start on tue
longer leg of the voyage across
the Pacific much the better for
their pause here. This brrak will
indeed prove half the battle for
hem, of resistance to the fatigue
and Little privations of sea voya
lug, to which most of them have
until now been entire strangers"
NOTES.
Colonel ID. d. Van Valzah, 18th
United States Infantry, is one of
he most popular of the visiting
officers. He has been fairly doted
On by the officers of the Hawaiian,
National Guard, and always the
central figure of a group at the
Officers Club. His quiet socisbili.
ty jpin,d with a model suldieri,
bearing is the secret.
Captain Frank Il. Corriston 18th
Minnesota Volunteers, who's vor a
rforIs have proved so enter raining.
gave up for the war the position
of one of the official court report
ers of Hennepin county.
First Lieutenant j. A. Berg, the
quartermaster and commissary in
the VtleDcis, showed in converse
ton that he has a good heart for
the boys. He takes in good part,
and not without sympathy, The
kicking inevitable from lads who
have suddenly been transferred
from home tables, with the affec-
,ionate tending of mothers aud
sisters, to army rations served on
rafting trains and rolling
steamers.
Lieutenant Colonel Charles L.
Potter. Chief Engineer Officer on
General Merrilt's staff, is a verita
BILE son of Auak. He looms up
high and broad, yet his vast bulk
is in model proportion. A mos
genial countenance surmouuted by
a Web-terian Uranium completes
This fit model for a statue of Apol
10. CO.. Potter said laughingly
last night he considered him eli
h biggest man in the United
States army.
Lieutenant Colonel Henry Lip
pincoit, Chief Surgeon on General
MeIritt's staff, WAS boru in NV
Gla- gov, Nova Scotia, the town
whore the city editor of the Bull
LETIN learned the printing bust
uess and began writing for the
p eSs.
WIN. +. Lewis of st. Paul aud
M. l.. Hanft of Minneapolis, prI-
Yates in the 18th Minnesota, arr
commercial travellers. " ,th the
instincts of the drummer they
almost unconsciously sought ho-
tel immediately on landing. They
registered at the Hawaiian and,
cooking their heels up on the yer
anda railing, INDUCED in day
dreams of waiting for the store
keepers to come around and look
over their samples. Hugo o.
Hanft is an attorney and a com
rade of his brother in the Mime.
sofas just left for Manila.
A Joke of "Scottyr MiIIar can