The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-09-05

from one Of the monitors searchlights;
another would throw a white cone out
into the darkness and these two great
luminous eyes would v1brate X the
white metal in a founders cupola'
Then she looked every inch the monster
Of the deep n is. Ii was easy 10
imagine the terror she could strike 10
the hearts of the simple Guamites oy
steaming toward their little island with
her lights playing and her steam siren
tearing the air with that horrld morse
which sounds as IL some mammoth
were seeking for her young and would
not be comforted because they were
not.
our entry into Guam was. however.
a very peaceable one. as the Charles
ton had preceded US and carried away
the governor and the few soldiers thai
had been pm the island. The erect OF
the Charleston's short visit was sucn
that when the second expedlt1on-on
the China, Colon, Senator and Zealan-
dia-passed by the island and looked IN
without stopping, almos every man.
woman and child, II is said, took TO the
woods.
Guam with its IL, 900 native chamorros
was an agreeable surprise. These DIS
cult colored, not impossible citizens OF
the United states. are a comely, cleahly
lot. and, as far as could he learned are
3 unusually NUN al lpI uNtllfiS - -
ical island. friendly and honest, thong
for years they have been handicapped
by the name "ladrones'' given them by
some early navigator. All Of them APP
peared to be eager for the arrival OF
the American governor.
From Punta Pitt, the landing place in
the harbor Of San Luis d'Apra, where
both vessels anchored, to Agana, the
principal town (about 5000 inhaoi-
tants) Of the island. there is a road
leading through a wonderously oeautl-
full tropical world. where grow tall'
straight cocoanut trees, with their
passing plumes on high and at their
feet a carpet of vines, two or three Ieet
thick, above which the underbrush runs
riot. Many queer looking travellers on
foot and on cowback, in bullock carts
and on bullocks, were seen on that
drive, from the wee dogcart or caIeche'
in which the writer bumpeG along
drawn by q little native pony about rs
big as a minute and driven by a
youngster one-fourth as large. Here
would be a native carrying water In q
long hollow bamboo pole held upright
there a woman pounding maize our IN
dian oorn) with a wooden pounder Ioul
feet long: fine, well-built fellows IRON
the Caroline islands. with nothing or
hut a breechclout; natives undel
oad-brimmed panama hats, IN theI
white trousers and white shirt uncon'
fined. one family party of three was
mounted on a fat bullock, n the SINAI
boy of this party, whose seat was art
grasped firmly in his left hand the oul
locks tail, so there was no danger ina
the land craft would be run upon
rock or shoal. or improperly hazarded,
steered both from onward and All
Every native passed touched his ma
or took It off. and the spirit of friend
illness was everywhere marked.
In olden times Guam was a grea
; stopping place for Spanish galleon
bound from Acapulco to Manila, an
r later became a rendezvous for Amer
, can whnlers. When the ports OF Japa'
t were opened Guam was abandoned, bu
to-day many natives OF the Island ar
doing duty on board whalers of h
= Pacific. Two thousand chamorro
] from this hitherto almost unknown is
T land are said 10 be scattered around ]
;, the United states.
1t will probably he many a long da
before the Monterey. once such a ia
! miliar sight there, will be again see
70 on the Pacific coast. Whatever dispC
% sition may be made OF the Philippine
- the monitor will doubtless remain O
the Asiatic station for some time
n come, and when she reaches the Unite
States again 1t will in all prObabilit
y be after a trip by the way of the SUI
r. canal and the straits of Gibraltar. ]
= the Orient she will be n novel sigh
e even for the officers of other navie
o for no fighting machine like her h;
70 ever before been seen in these waters.