, 1899-01-14
A MANILA LETTER
HOW THE WYOMING BOYS SPENT
THANKSGIVING DAY ON
THE ISLAND.
Enjoyed Excellent Dinners-Wyoming
Ball Team Defeated the Astor Bat
tery-Consul Williams Held a Re-
ception-Health of Wyoming Boys
Is Good.

A c~orresondent of the Cheyenne Tri-
bune writes his paper from Manila as
follows:
Manila, Th. l., Dec. 1888.
Thanksgiving DAY has come and gone
ard to those who passed the day in
Manila it will always be a bright spot
in their lives. Despite the fact that
about 5000 miles separated us from
home and friends, the soldiers deter
mined to observe the day with as much
spirit as possible and join with those
at home in offering up THANKSGIVING
to the Almighty for the happy termi-
nation of the war and to thank God
for His most priceless gift, good health.
Members of the college fratemities
joined together and went to school
once mor around the festive board
and in some cases whole companies
dined with those of their regiments,
The day was all that could be desired;
all drills ere suspended and only such
work done as was necessary. Through
the kindness of Major Foote all were
excused until 5 O'Clock. The boys spent
the time in visiting friends in other
regiments or took a trip out in the bay.
The members of Company G had an
exceptionally fine dinner, which was
partaken of by Captain Wrighter and
L~ieutenants Howe and Morgarridge
Corporal Paul Spehr and Chief Geo.
Akin cooked the first halt Of the menu,
which was as follows:
Soup, roast chicken and dressing;
hamburger, roasted with brown gravy;
mashed potatoes, sweet baked pota-
toes; green peas and tomatoes; choco-
late and ice tea.
Sergeant Guyer and Oliver Welch
tickled the boys palates with peaches,
pumpkin and peach pie and plum duff,
with champagne sauce. After dinner
we all enioye 3a gesd cigar, the COM
pliments of Captain Wrighter.
Company G boys are happy in the
fact that we have only one man in the
hospital. A few are sick in quarters
but all will be well shortly. We have
been the subject of compliments from
the inspecting officer, and the officers
and men are proud of their record in
this respect.
The O notable event of the day
was the banquet rendered by the
American consul, Mr.. o. F. Williams,
to Admiral Dewey and other high per-
sonages of the army and. navy. Sew
eral foreign consuIs were present and
after Mr.. Williams made a speech a
toast to Great Britain was responded
to by British Consul H. A. Ramsden.
The festivities were held at the home
of the Swiss consul, Mr.. Holman, and
the music for the occasIUn was fur
nished by the band from, the Baltimore.
The Wyoming battalion meets the
famous Astor battery on h field and
after a short decisive struggle, COM
pels them to surrender. On Sunday
afternoon New York's famous one
hundred suffered defeat in seven inn
ings from Wyoming's three hundred"
Had it MOI been ror two errors they
would not have had the pleasure to
measure the distance from third to
home. 1t all happened in the first
inning when a mutf by the short stop
and a wild throw by the third baseman
allowed them to two men. After
this it was all off as far as the Astors
were concerned. Lieutenant Coburn,
and had the range down so fine that
five men in succession laid down the
stick and wondered what they had run
up against. Our battery was excellent
and Geo. Aiken, an old-time player, as
catcher, surprised eve the natives.
The first half of the seventh the bat
terry boys came to the bat and after
three of them had knocked immense
holes in the gentle sea breeze, con
cluded that further resistance was use
less, laid down their bats and called for
quarter. With a score of s to 2 in our
favor they were allowed to depart un-
der the promise that they would never
say again that they knew how to play
ball. The features of the game We're
the absence of any quarrels OF dis
putes, an exceptionally big umpire,
whom no one dared to dispute, and
even the rooters kept silence so far as
he was concerned; the absence Of
Aston money and the large amount of
Wyoming coin that was floating around
at good odds with no takers. The
rooters, under the leadership of big
Jim Morrison, deserve praise o the
way they played their part Of the game.
Just to show that they were good fell
lows, the Astors on departing, gave
our team thre cheers. Not to be out
done Leader Club Of the band, got his
band men together that evening and
went down to discourse sweet strains
of music as a balm to their wounded
feelings. A large crowd listened to
the music, and Judging from the ap-