Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-08-02
WELCOMING COM
MITTEE NOT ON HAND.
REGIMENT ARRIVED YESTERDAY
SOLDIERS FAILED TO GET THEIR
FLOWERS AND DAINTIEs.
Colonel Hawkins. Commander of the
Regiment, Died on the Voyage
From ManiIa-IIl Through
out the Philippines
Conflict.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 1.-The United
States transport Senator arrived tonight
from Manila with her flag at half-mast,
on account of the death of Colonel Alexan-
der Hawkins, commander of the Tenth
Pennsylvania regiment. United States Vol
unteers.
The Senator sailed from Manila on July
with thirty-eight officers and 721 enlisted
men. The transport was at Nagasaki on
July l5, when Colonel Hawkins was taken
i'll with cancer of the bowels. from which
he had been a sufferer during the greater
part of his campaign in the Philippines,
and for which he had undergone treatment
in the military hospital at Manila. His ill
ness continued during the following day
July 16J, when the Senator was at Yoko-
hama, and two days later he passed away
at sea.
OF the 159 officers and men whom Colonel
Barnett brought to San Francisco, three
are priVates in the Sixth artillery United
states army, and one Is a member of the
Nebraska regiment, who was left behind at
Yokohama when his companions sailed for
this port on the Hancock. dozen stow
aways were also concealed in the hold and
were soon brought to light after the Sena-
tor left Yokohama.
The Senator had a good trip from Japan.
With the exception of the illness and death
of the regimental commander, there was no
sickness on board, barring few cases of
sea sickness and half a dozen cases of
dysentery.
Colonel Hawkins illness dated from the
battle of Malolos, when he exposed himself
almost recklessly in the disease-breeding
climate. He was respected and loved by
every man of his command and his death
is deeply mourned by the troops. His body
was placed in a hermetically sealed cas-
ket. and, on the Sunday following his
death, impressive funeral services were
conducted by the chaplain of the regiment,
all of his men being in attendance.
The remains were placed in the stern of
the vessel and lay in state, tended day and
night by guard of honor, during the re-
mainder of the voyage.
After the death of Colonel Hawkins tine
command of the regiment was vested in
Lieutenant Colonel Barnett, who, like the
dead commander. is popular among the
enlisted men, and made a good record in
the war
At sight of land all the invalids were able
to leave their hunks and line UP on the
main deck except one poor chap who has
developed symptoms of appendicitis. and
who will be operated upon in the hospital
here.
When the Tenth Pennsylvania sailed from
San Francisco for the Philippines last year,
the muster comprised $50 men. Twenty
four were killed in battle or died in the
Manila hospital, and the rest of the sick
and wounded, to the number of seven are
on the hospital ship Relief, which will
probably arrive here within the next few
days.
The quarantine officer boarded the Sena-
"A hnl z n md lft af.,I
Spection passed crew and passengers. The
transport had dropped anchor Off the Fol-
som street wharf. and it was decided that
the regiment should not be landed until to-
morrow.
Under cover of darkness, however, two
privates SLIPPED off in a tug, dropping
down by rope which had been used TO
maui up two sacks of mail matter sent out
by the postmaster to the regiment. The
privates who thus absented themselves
without leave announced their intention of
seeing the town tonight and of rejoining
the ranks when the regiment is lined up
on the dock tomorrow.
AS the official committee on reception to
the regiment will not arrive here from
Philadelphia until tomorrow evening. the
substitute committee appointed informally
undertook that duty. tug had been
ton that the Senator would not arrive to-
night, and arrangements made to go out
TO meet the transport with a band, stacks
of flowers and tons of dainties for the SOL
diers.
The premature appearance of the trans
port this evening, however, did not permit
the carrying out of all these plans, but
the committee, comprising John Barclay,
| of Greensburg, Pa, who has come out in
| advance of the regular committee. of
which he is member, to meet his badly
wounded brother, of the Tenth, who is
on the Relief; John NJ. Beall, agent here
of the Piedmont Air Line, formerly of
| the Philadelphia: Alexander Coulter.
| Greensburg, Pa; NJ. NJ Ogden, of Gov
ornor Cages staff. formerly a Pittsburg
newspaper man; NJ. NJ. Lear, of Denver,
| Col. formerly of Greensburg, whose
| brother, w. a. Lear, is captain of the
Tenth: Colonel Henry Hall. of the Pitts
burg Times a member of Governor Stone S
staff; James A. Campbell. of the Phla-
delphia Times, hastily embarked and were
soon alongside the Senator, extending a
warm greeting to their fellow Pennsylvan-
ians and welcoming the brave lads back to
their native land.
Out of respect to the dead regimental
commander there was little cheering or
other noisy demonstrations, but the men
quietly expressed their delight at the first
glimpse of the Golden gate. Like the Ore
gon and Nebraska regiments, the Pennsyl-
vania troops, prior to sailing from Manila,
voted in favor of being mustered out in San
Francisco.