The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-23
HOTEL GOSSIP.

Inc knutsford office partook of the ma
ture of man O. war last night Home
ward bound navy officers turned it into a
quarterback and kept a sort of dog watch
while they scanned the horizon in hopes
that the ever delayed eastbound train
would eventually heave into sight. Chief
Gunner II. j. Wallace of the cruiser Baltf-
more was there and trained his rapid-fire
ana man battery guns on General Otis.
ne gave MIN couple of broadSides. and
snot ms reputation as military genius
Iua OF holes. Then he reloaded aud gave
the autocratic finapceers of the commits
s say department. generous drubbing.
MT. Wallace was appointed from civil life
and has worked his way from the foi castle
70 the after deck He now ranks as en-
sign, which is equivalent to second lieu
tenant IN the army. Two days before the
battle of Manila bay he was transferred
from the Petrol to the Baltimore, and had
charge OF the men behind the guns on
that eventful May day in 1898. Speaking
said.
rection will be quelled. One thing certain:
General Otis will never be able to do it,
he is too much occupied with details. and
the staff officers too much engaged in the
ne6t-feathering business. Some of the
natives are friendly to the Americans,
but that is probably due to the fact that
they are engaged in trying to exterminate
one another. There are tribes and dialects
certain territory. and when one invades
another territory, "a sort of Donnybrook
fair time is sure to take place.
THE island of Cebu is rich in agricul-
tural lands, and there are plenty of OPP
portunitieS for placer gold mining in Mi
nandoa-at least there will be when there
is nothing left of the tribes except the
memory that once upon a time they exist
ed"
william Boone of Maryland, connected
with the U. S. navy in the capacity of
ship carpenter on the Miantonomah. was
at the Knutsford last night. Mr.. Boone
was known on shipboard as "ChipS"-the
usual term of endearment applied to
marine northumberland is loaded to the
muzzle with heartrending yarns. He is
Jolly young sea dog, and when told last
night that a person could sit in the water
and smoke a cigar out at Saltair. he
unused while and then remarked:
That's nothing. Out in the Philippines
whisky"
Mr.. Boone sawed wood on the Miantono-
nah in Manila bay, and when the wood
became scarce he went forth in search of
his ship and got stranded in a buggy,
seven miles inland. A cloud of dust APP
peared in the road three cable lengths
ahead of him, and out of it emerged
twenty Filipinos, armed with the kind of
poicemen's clubs they use in Luzon Mr..
Boone's heart took an upward flight and
lOuEeu IN MS throat. lie WlSneQ Indt ne
had been better boy, and hadn't forgot
ten his prayers, as bloodthirsty natives
surrounded his two-wheeled craft. They
surveyed Chips" awhile; saw he had
hard attack of palsy and a brace of pis-
tolls, and they disappeared whence they
came. Chips confined his land navigat-
ing to the streets of Manila thereafter
Mr.. Boone paid many compliments to the
Utah batteries. and said, they were by far
the best artillerists in the Philippines.
81 see that brother Abner is in town.
said guest at the Knutsford yesterday
Il know a yarn about him that illustrates
the old saying that even great men are
not exempt from faults-though, of
course, Abner's greatness is only a re-
fected virtue-it is too good to keep quiet
Last June President Mckinley and his
party, including brother Abner attended
the commencement exercises of Smith
college at Northampton. Mass. While in
town they were entertained by Captain
and Mrs. Harry Williams in their beauti-
full home on South street. OF course. the
town was turned topsy-turvy, and all the