West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1899-05-18
Philippine Islands.
An interesting Letter from An Old
kinguood Roy Now In tho Far
East Fighting the filipinos.
ILoito, ISLAND or PANAY,
NlNpAN M.ren % tcno

SUNDAY, March i2, 1899.
My DEAR DRowN:--
was delighted 60 receive your letter
day or SO ago. l had begun TO thinl,
you had forsaken me. suppose that
10y this time you have received my let.
ter l wrote just before the breaking
out OF trouble.
Well, / am in fine shape, never felt
better in my life, never weighed more,
and have averaged 1875 pounds ever
since leaving San Francisco. While
there ran about so much that could
not fattcn much. Army rat'ons n q
no; so terribly mean ON me. notwith-
standing the diversity of tales you
have been hearing.
For my part the rations issued by the
Government are good There is an
abundance of every thing The trouble
is with the quartermasters
Tuesday evening, llth-Well have
just returned from the Bay, where n
crowd OF us have been in bathing. We
have the prettiest place ever saw to
6athe in. IL can't be improved upon.
crowd OF us go down every evening.
or ms often as we can. The beach is
pure sand with water any depth.
L have been building an oven for our
companyi expect we will move as soon
as we get IL ready for cooking pur-
poses--it is always the case no sooner
fixed mp than we have TO leave. You
you would be somewhat surprised w,rs
TO drop In on us about mess-time when
we have time TO prepare meal. Since
coming down here we have done fine,
OF course when we first landed we
were not so well off for grub. We
simply couldn't expect TO jump off the
ship TO sighting carrying with us all
the delicdcies of civilized life.
The first night we came In some oi
us ran hog down and had roast ham.
Our usual fare for day is, breakfast,
steak (AustraliaR) very fine, coffee
light bread. Dinner, we have roast
with potatoes, onions and bread
Supper we baye hash Of tho roast beef
potatoes, onions, biscuits, coffee, syrup
and fruit We have pork Is fol
variety, canned salmon of course
Some times we don't fare so well from
| circumstances are forced TO have tc
| put up with canned beef and salmon
Sometimes we have more. Sine,
coming here we have had all we could
ca Of fish, chickens, pigs, calvesi
A few Of MS 10y going across small
river back of the barracks can in I
few moments catch from so TO 10 lbs o.
the finest kind of fsh--enough 90 Civ,
every man In the company as much a.
he can cat
And cocoanuts, you ought TO SEQ u,
climbing those tall trees pulling tn,
| green nuts for the water in them a
hundred and fifty yards OF here, W,
can see carloads OF nuts, and banana
galore. The bananas are better her,
than at Manila.
But talking about chickens, you cam
get within hundred yards Of one now
If they see blue shirt coming thei
take 10 the wing and are away. If ",
get chicken now. we have TO sliJ
up on him. ltis strictly against orderi
now TO kill chickens, but then some
times they get sassy and are quit,
dangerous ~ and we must protect
| ourselves
have souvenirs galore. Have more
than ] know how to manage. have =
box full at Manila, one since coming
here have collected box full thai
intrinsically, is not worth 80 much
but II can manage 20 get IL on the
vessel when j return I'll be mighty
glad. j have some very rare books
some Latin printed from 1929 on up
Then have some very fine Spanish
boOks' By the way, II / had "A little
/ time | could learn great deal OF
Spanish. ] find IL not so hard.
mailed you some old Spanish and
English papers Some of them are
rather rare-those printed at Jaro
| (haro). j have no Tagala. or Filipino
papers here; have some at Manila.
Also great number OF photographs
taken at Honolulu, San francisco and
manila You can get some very good
pictures IN the late magazines say for
November, December and January.
u o'HN F" pigNuiB Ol my LeUL-tunfne .
II was good Am now preparing nv.
sell for the finest photograph Of my
life.
/ am delighted 10 know Kingwood
IS doing 80 well. Would like % walk
in and sec hor q few moments.
Ine article ] send is unsatisfactory,
indeed, when / begin - write. so many
thiaRs come 20 my mind that try 10
treat all Of them and in so doing get
rather mixed up, and were il not for
your request j never would have
written. You can cut it in sections on
doses rs yOu like.
Wen, ] must close With my very
best wishes for yOnr SUCCESS and wei.
tare. Also 20 any Of my friends who
may care % hear from me- J am your
sincere friend JABPEH n CALvEFr.
Go "a u. $. v. isr TENN. RIOT.
MANILA. PmLrPfNE IsLANps
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