The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-27
THE BOYS IN HONOLULU
THEY ARE HoMESICK, BUT GET
TING ALONG WELL.
A Mascot Left Behind-The Native
Women Wear Mother Hubbards"
Everywhere and All the Time.
lsnecial Corresnondence.l

Honolulu, Feb. 15.-The City of Picking.
from the Orient came into Honolulu har-
Dor this morning thre days late on ac-
count of collision with a Japanese war
ship. She viii take mail to San Fran
cisco. The Australia from the states is
due today. Her arrival is expected with
more than the usual impatience. Nearly
every man IN Company K of the Engin-
eer battalion has applied for a discharge
from the army. and today's mail is ex-
pected 10 bring welcome news of pros
pective liberty and pursuit of happiness.
1t is unfortunate for Company X. that
it, is recruited from different states. If
It were a purely Utah organization, like
the cavalry ana artillery, then the same
efforts would no doubt be made for its re-
call that have been made in behalf of the
other troops. As il is. each man has 10
work for his own liberation, which at
this distance. Is a fruitless task unless
there are friends al home who take the
matter up. 1t must be said to the credit
of Utahs congressman and senator's that
they have taken more lively interest in
the soldiers than their colleagues have in
Montana, Idaho and Nevada, and have
secured the discharge of several men
from Utah.
When the transport, carrying the Tween
tieth United States infantry to Manila
pulled out of Honolulu harbor the mas
cot of the regiment was not on board. The
mascot is Il boy of seventeen and his
name is Savage. and he is nephew of
Photographer Savage of Salt Lake. He
happened to be uptown when the steamer
left and the only thing for him TO do
was TO come TO Camp Mckinley, where he
received all the attention due his position
He has since sailed to Manila on another
transport. Il went TO Cuba with the Third
Kansas, said he. We coaled at Havana
and then went to Santiago. See where I
was hit" and he showed a scar on his
wrist. The bullet did not go through,
and | pulled it out and tied handker-
chief around il and went on lighting.
Say. it was nice TO watch Dewey shoot
at the Spaniards from his ships You
mean Sampson. don't you NO. / mean
Dewey. Sampson was shooting from the
other side Of the harbor.' | said no more
for he was there and 1 was not
The Oregon came in on Feb. 4. and is
now receiving her coal supply from two
golfers. She lies just outside. the harbor.
She came. looking dark and stern in her
war paint. but she is putting on white
coat of peace
According to information gathered on
this island. there IS supposed to he a rainy
season here. Nothing like II has so far
been experienced by us. We. at home
would call this a pleasant summer. not
too hot. There occurred one hard rain
during this month. and / am glad saw il.
] know now what q tropical rain is. 1t is
a shower bath extending over many
square miles. and lasting many hours.
but don't see WHY. The native women
do wear Mother Hubbards. which are
their bathing suits. They are also their
street dresses. also their party dresses.
They wear them at home and at the |
theatre. at weddings and at funerals, and |
at their births, whenever and /
wherever on foot and on horseback; on |
sarth-and in heaven. too. I suppose.
The health of the engineer troop is !
steadily improving Many are returning /
from the hospitals and but few are sent |
there.
A small post hospital. to accommodate |
about twenty-five patients, will be erected |
at Camp Mckinley.
Harry Sherman of Salt Lake was a |
visitor at the camp yesterday.