Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-09-30
DELAYED.
Small Strike stops the Progress
of the Thirtieth.


ed Letter From Band Master Mes
trezat -Scenes and Incidents in San
Francisco-Do Dorsey is Universally
Popular With the Men.
SAN Francisco, CAL, Sept. -,
1899-This regiment the Both was due
to leave here on the 10th but the
strike of the boiler makers has detain-
ed us till this time. They were re-
ceiving six dollars per day but know
ing how badly the transports were
needed thought it good time to de-
mand more money. But they reckoned
without their host and the other
transports have been ordered to Port
land and Seattle for repairs. Our
freight was loaded on the Sherman to-
day and we will leave camp in the
morning having orders to be on board
in time for dinner. The boys have
certainly enjoyed themselves here, the
only drawback being the cold nights,
all the tents however have stoves with
sscoal to burn
Have secured three good musicians
here for our band. We give daily
concerts at the Presidio and have
army people. The sacred concert Civ
en- Sunday TO an audience of about
four thousand people was highly prais-
! cd 6y the Monday paper. We gave
our last concert this afternoon and
closed it with ssDixie" The applause
and cheering that followed reminded
me of happy days in Georgia with the
1st w. Va, band. There were about
a hundred w Va, boys here with the
9th and 3lst regiments. As they
were our neighbors | miss them very
much now they have gone. The 9th
left for Manila yesterday on two trans
ports. The 31st has been sent to the
Angel Island and placed in quaran-
tine on account of small pox.EQ
San Francisco raised SO much mon
ey to welcome home the First Cali
fornia Regiment they could not spend
! it all and are now using the fund 70
! welcome the soldiers returning to 9th
er states. While attending the fune-
raj of two California men shot in the
| battle of Manila, met the lady who
nursed Bell of the lst W. Va, band
when he was sick at Columbus, her
sister with about fifty other nurses
will sail for Manila this week. The
hospital ship Relief being consider
ed unsafe at this time Of year they
will go on the transports. Dorsey
wants to get enough cork to fill his
drum says he intends to use it for a
life preseryer. He keeps the band in
good humor and is about the best
known man in the regiment.
The city claims to have the hand
somest women in the country. This
means of course they have not been to
Morgantown. ] could mention at
least three young ladies of the modern
Athens who could discount any Frisco
belle, and they would not have to
paint and make up as they do here to
do it either. Chinatown is point of
great interest to most people, a guide
takes eighteen through for fifty cents.
! There is only one place worse than
Chinatown and that is Hades, but the
moral atmosphere there will be bet
ter. Slavery still exists in Chinatown.
A suit now pending in court involves
the ownership of slave that some
christian women were trying to send
to her home in China.
The fog horns down the bay are
giving us an idea Of what we may ex-
pect when Gabral blows his trombone
on the last day. 1t will be poor
night to sleep, but tomorrow night
we will be rocked in the cradle of the
deep and | might add feeding the
fishes. | can use few more men in
the band and il there are any young
men in West Virginia who can handle
the music they can enlist at any re-
cruiting office and be sent to Manila
free of charge. But they must write
to ME first and state what they can
do, must be sober and reliable and be-
tween eighteen and thirty-tive years
of age Prefer young men OF Il years.
! Most of the fine buildings here be-
long to Claus Spreckles the sugar
king. His daughter married a poor
man some time ago, this so incensed
the old man he disowned her. She
got on her dignity and returned two
million dollars in securities he had
given her but retained enough prop
erty to bring her ia sixty thousand
dollars year, so l think she will be
able to live through the winter.
Spreckles practically owns the entire
street car system of the city, on which
you can go anywhere for nickle as
the conductor gives transfer when
ever requested Will write you from
Honolulu and Japan. Yours truly,
w. A. MEsTREzAT.