The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-11-06
Garonne's Officers See the Cavite
Engagement.
Good 1T Fertilization Construction-
Expert Trench DiGEers-Bulldog
Tenacity-Capt. Conradfs Splen-
did Management Of the Transport
by the Acting Quartermaster.

MANY interesting incidents OF the voyage
ard what they saw after their arrival az
Manila are reci,ed by Capt Conradi and
his officers OF the transport GaroDne.
which returned Saturday night from the
Philippines as told in Sundays Post-Ia-
teiiigencer.
He and his crew stood on their ship a.
anchor of Cayite and were witnesses TO
the rare spectacle of a land battle between
the United States soldiers and the Fflipi-
nos. The engagement took place within
two and a half miles OF Cavite-
To my notion. the war will last some
time" Capt. Conradi said The soldiers
tell me the F1iipsnos are fighters II Is
true. they hide in the bush and run away.
but when they do fight IL Is viciousiy. they
are experts In throwing up earihworAs,
fortiaCations and trenches And they fight
ard hold the trenches 70 the very last
ditch
The engagement We saw off Cayite Was
so close that the marines were landed IN
the forenoon, and they were out on the
firing line at the noon hour engaged in
battle"
succeafuI Voyage.
Discussing khe voyage more or less in
detail, Capt. Conradi continued:
We left here Angus; 10. and our first
port was Dutch haroor. where We landed
our horses and gave them a hHs days
rest Crossing Merin sea. we kept on the
extreme northern route 10 Kobe there dis
charging again for an eight days rest Al
Kobe the Japanese government officials
showed every courtesy.
Reaching Manila. October g we sailed
five days later on the return. The horses
were In such good condition that $50 OF
them were sent 10 the front within twenty
four hours, and within forty-eisht hours
We received word back from the firing line
that eleven OF the cavalTymen who had
crossed with us were wounded.
The transport City of Pue5ia left Ma
Indiana
the Tennessee volunteers within few
hours of Us. We left the Indiana In Maya
sakf From the latter point we sailed Oc-
tober Il, and came straight across. hold
Ing the northern route. passing within sixty
miles of Dutch harbor.
We struck rough weather week ago
today and nad 10 turn around for twelve
hours and put the ships head 10 it,
Send Back Testimonial.
First Lieut.. G NJ Suplee, of the Third
cavalry. went on til. Garonre In the ca
pacity Of quartermaster. On reaching Ma
Mia Lieut.. Sup!ee testified to his apprsci-
alton Of the splendid treatment received
by his men and their horses in q report 20
Capt. ". w Robinson, tr.. assistant quar-
termaster In this city. In part as follows:
II have the honor to inform you that the
Garonne lsnded $50 OF her horses In good
condition today And the good condition
OF the horses Is greatly due 10 the great
interest taken BY Capt. conradi and crew.
Capt. Conrad displayed as great an inter-
est and zeal in the horses care and com
fort as II they were his private property"
Capt. Conradi has holo or sword SOU
venir of his voyage to the Philippines, II
is indeed a wicked-iooking weapon, with a
long thin. wiry steel blade. with which the
oioodthirsty Tagalos endesvor TO NOW
down American soldiers when in hand-io-
hand conflict, as has not infrequently hap
pened. The blade which Is fully three feet
in length Is sheathed in a wooden scao-
bard
Visitors Ia the Garonne yesterday she
lay on the south side OF the Arlington
COCK. II II sale 10 say. ran into the thou
sands. Her decks were tnrorgNd from
sunrise until darkness set in. She is the
first transport to return 10 this city direct
from the Philippines. An added interest
obtained In the Port stephens, another
government transport. lined up on she
north side OF the wharf. taking on cargo
fnr Manila