The San Francisco call., 1898-12-21

of it's moneys worth. A good pro ! gramme had been arranged, but vari- ouS causes combined to upset it Com- pletely. To commence with two of the principal men were missing, owing to death-MCMurry of the Colorados hay ing been drowned while swimming in the Pasig and Cook of the Californias having died from dysentery. Jones was substituted for Cook and Richards took McMurry's place. The preliminaries did not amount to a row of pins, saving in the case of Porter, a former member of the Manhattan Athletic Club, who is a very clever man and would have put 1 up good scrap if he had been let alone.
 When the first event was called Mona hans second appeared and announced that his man refused to go on until he received his money. He was told that the purse was in the hands of an EX- aminer representative, whereupon he became more steadfast than ever in his determination not to fight unless paid. The event was then declared off. Mona han has attended baseball games at home
 The second event was started and promised to be lively. The provost marshal saw this and at once had it stopped. He did not want the soldiers brutaliZed by the sight of blood.
 
 splendidly when one man clasped his stomach and claimed foul la Shark ey. The fight was at once stopped and the decisicn given to Cavanagh. the man accused of having committed the foul. This finished the first great sport ing event in Manila and the spectators -Spaniards and Americans, Filipinos and Chinese, soldiers and civilians, pri- yates and non-coms, line and staff off, cers-filed out in trance, grasping for the large Mexican silver dollars that had formerly rested in the pockets of their jeans
 But to turn from tales of carnage to the more alluring delights of domestic ity. The boys are now, for the first time since their departure, comfortably quartered, well-clothed and-weIl, I'll say nothing of the food. They oc- cupy the barracks on the east side of the river near the suspension bridge, which in ante -bellum days were used to house the Infantaria Marina, Spain's crack infantry regiment. The quarters are large, airy and comfortable. Each man has a bed Something to be ap- preciated when one has been for months sleeping in mud or on anything from a cobble stone to a bamboo) and a mosquito net. The latter article is well nigh indispensable in this country, where the number of assorted species of bugs and insects is only excelled by the number of different species of chill dren. Connected with the barracks is a bathing house containing seventeen showers and four immense tubs. This is perfect godsend, as we have more than felt the want of proper bathing facilities ever since We first landed in Cavite The boys fairly revel in the showers, so much so that there is hard ly fellow in the regiment who takes not, at least, two or more baths day.
 The people at home have heard of the patience, courage, constancy and other soldierly qualities of the regiment which they sent forth to uphold the honor of their nation and their State There is another side to the regiment equally replete with honor to the people 1t represents. The estimation in which regiment is held can be largely judged from the position which is assigned to it, everything else being equal. There are nearly 14,OO0 troops now in garrison here. Some regiments are represented in one department of this semi civil government, some in another. The Cal ifornia boys are everywhere.
 Their colonel, at present acting as commander of the First Brigade, is the president of the military commission created for trying the most important cases against the United States Gov ernment, such as sedition, treason, con- spiracy, etc. Two other officers of the regiment sit with him on the commits sion.
 The general court martial to which come all the cases of our division. has sitting in judgment six First California officers, with ,- president in the person of Lieutenant Colonel Duboce. at pres ent acting as colonel of the regiment
 The postoffice is under the charge of Lieutenant Seeley, who marches under the banner of the bear With him are several more Californians.
 The entire school and cemetery de- partments are taken care of by our chaplain, Father McKinnon.
 The sanitary department, whose work can be noticed from day to day in the improved condition of the streets and cleanliness, which is extending on all sides and which employs about 1000 men and makes use of a hundred carts and half as many barges, is superin- tended by Lieutenant Tobin. formerly of the San Francisco health office. Law Is represented bv I,ial1tena pt