The Newtown bee., 1898-10-07
LitChheId County
WASHINGTON.

member of Company g., lst United
States volunteer engineers, having been
advanced to the rank of sergeant.
the courtesy of Mr. and Mrs
Fulois THE BEE gives some parts OF his
letters. Under date of August Is he
writes as follows:
| am in Porto Rico at last, and great
place it s,Uoo. We left PeeKskiIl The 4th
VI August, went to New York and board
ed the Chester at 6 O'Clock the next morn
ing. Well, we were pretty well disap-
pointed in the Chester, but we took
everything as 1t came. We were on board |
three days before we started. Wednes-
day morning at 80 we pulled up anchor |
and when the boys woke up in the morn |
ing and found themselves out at sea,
we'll, they were wild! We had been led |
to believe that we weren't going at all,
so iG was glad surprise. was sea-sick
nearly all the way down, until the day |
We sighted land and | think that did
more toward making me we'll than any
ching else. The first land that we sighted
was an uninhabiCed island. We all
thought we had reached Porto Rico, but
as we kept going away from 1t, we made
up our minds il was not our destination.
Later on in the day we sighted Porto
Rico, where we are now camped. We
were kept on board nearly two days be-
fore we we're allowed to land because of
the armistice between the United States
and Spain and no troops are supposed to
land until it Ia ended. Anyhow, we got
ashore. Well, we had no sooner landed
when we were surrounded by a crowd OF
grinning natives selling their fruit and
such stuff. We had been told what TO
eat and we had to be careful about some
of it. Well, we lined up and marched to
the place where we were to camp. AS
we marched through the town the people
all came out to cheer US. We reached
camp and as all our tents we're still on
board we had to roll up In our blankets
with the sky for q tent. We got along
very well even at that. The next day we
managed to get some tents up and we
mad our part Of the camp in working
order before any other company. We
landed here Just at the commencement of
the rainy season and have had but little
sunshine since. This morning l was or
dered down to the dock, to see about
some of our cOmpany's stuff and as it
hasn't arrived from the ships, / have
managed to get this paper and am using
the time in writing, and picnic l am
having of it too. There are about 200
natives and as many soldiers running
here and there and 1t ia none too quiet.
just across the street from where | am
sitting is a house in which Gen Miles has
his headquarters. Yesterday, | was
talking to two young fellows, who were
with the first troops that landed. They
landed at 8 town about 10 miles up the
coast and took it with rush. The Span
iards were nearly all mounted and they
would fire their guns and then run away.
There was no one killed on either side,
hut they had an engagement, the Satur-
! day before we landed, in which about so
OF our men were killed and about 800
Spaniards killed and 100 captured. Ii
we had started at the time we expected
to we would have been right IN it. We
expect to move our camp in day or two
up to Ponce, about four miles from here,
where there are several regiments en-
camped. 1t Is lots Of fun listening to the
natives trying to express themselves in
regard to the United States and Spain.
They fairly hate Spain and the way they
draw their hands across their threats ia
very expressive. / have got so | can
make myself understood in Spanish. 1t
is not a very hard language to learn.
We had a great deal of fun in regard to
the money. Here the money is on the
silver basis, and you go into a store to
get anything, you give them an Ameri-
can coin and you get nearly twice as
much in return, that is in Spanish coin.
One has to have a bag to carry it in.
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nut, palms, banana trees, lemon trees.
and all kinds of tropical plants. Wen
never starve down here as long as the
fruit lasts,
Under date of August 81, Mr. Fuloie
writes from Ponce, as follows: | just
got the letter that you wrote the day We
left New York and was glad to hear
from home. There was lot of mail and
nearly every man in our company got q
letter or paper. Well, we have moved
up to Ponce and the first night we were
in we had big storm and there was six
inches of water in our tents in no time
happened to be on guard that night, sc
l didn't do thing but get wet. Some
parts of the camp were under foot OF
water and it happened that they were
just the places where l had to march
through with the guard. Well, we die
not mind it after we had got soaked
through. We have got the camp IL
pretty good condition now, have the
streets all drained and tents all up. Well
/ am vet, now. We had a fight with
some guerillas on the 10th. We were
sent up into the mountains with thG
9th Massachusetts and after marching
for nearly 10 miles, we ran into about
200 guerillas and things were pretty
lively for awhile. They were lodged il
canyon and they nearly had us in 6
tray, but we charged them and drove
them farther up into the canyon. l tel
you what, the bullets flew around pretty
lively for awhile, but they finally retreat
ed. We have got them cooped up in ths
canyon now. but they are in a place
a where we will have hard time to gel
them out. Several of our men were hurt
but no one killed. We managed to Kill
about 10 of their men, there may have
been more of them, but that was all wG
found. After we got them cooped up
: several companies were ordered back tt
get supplies and three companies of en-
} gineers, including ours, were sent back
too. We NAV go back there and WI
may not. hope that we 60 back, as
would like TO see those fellows routed
because they burned a small town ant
killed quite a number of people neal
where we ran into them.
RESULT OF MONDAYS VOTE.
Assessor, Powell G. Seeley r, 40
Sherman d. Morehouse d, 100.
Town treasurer, William A. Watts d
147: William j. Ford r, 142.
Treasurer town deposit fund, William
j. Ford r, 161; William A. Watts d, 40
Agent town deposit fund, Charles q
, Ford r, 154; Cortland ID. Cole d, 1872.
Selectmen, Charles G. Ford r, 1888; Ed
ward q. Spefrv r. I69; Cortland ID. COLI
d, 154; John W. Collins d, ll3.
Constablee, Dallas J.. Wyapt r, 1853
; Edward M. TAYLOR r, 1859; Dwight R
, Wilson d, 40; John Fl. Ferris d. 118.
Board OF relief, Charles s. Hollister r
III; George RI. Wheaton r. 1859; E'iads
N. Moore d, 121 Edward Hart d, 119.
Grand Jurors, Henry Fulois r, III
! Edwin @. Whitehead r, I'll; Sherman
Cogswell r, 1859; Richard Bacon d, 121
PsuI N. Gage d, 40; Julius N. Snow d
121.