The record-union., 1899-08-24
The First Regiment of Infantry and
The Heavy Artillery
Arrived on the Sherman Outside Golden
Gate Late Last Night.
The Steamer Will Enter the Bay
About Noon To-Day, When the
Big Naval Reception Will Take
FIace-Californian Have an
Enjoyable Trip Home.

SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 23.-The
United States transport Sherman, bear
ing the First California Regiment of
Volunteers, was sighted four miles out
side Golden Gate a few minutes before
o'clock this evening. No one living
anywhere within the boundaries of San
Francisco was long in ignorance of the
arrival of the transport. Steam whis-
ties shrieked, sirens screamed, bells
rang and the streets were soon filled
with shouting, cheering throngs.
In the expectation that the Sherman
would arrive tomorrow, tug convey
ing customs officials had gone out to
the Farallone Islands and boarded the
incoming transport two hours before
she was sighted by the lookout at Point
Reyes The task of the inspectors was
speedily accomplished. and then the
Federal quarantine officer examined the
soldiers and sailors, giving the Sherman
a clean bill of health.
No obstacle then intervened to pre-
vent the docking of the transport to-
night, but as this would mar the plans
of the Citizens Committee, which for
the past month has been planning suit
able reception to the returning SOL
commanding the Department of the
Pacific, ordered that the Sherman must
remain outside all night. She is now
anchored a mile beyond the heads, but
will come in about noon tomorrow.
The premature arrival of the Sher-
man has disaranged civic plans to a
certain extent. but it has been decided
that tomorrow morning there will be
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transport sails in through the Golden
Gate. She will have a marine escort,
comprising all the yachts of the hay
with a score of tugboats, all handsome
~ decorated. A salute in honor of the
Sherman will be fired from the various
forts around the bay and from the bat
tleship Iowa, now in stream. A dozen
large bay steamers and ferry boats
have been chartered for the occasion.
and many thousands will view the re-
turn of the California regiment from
the decks of these craft.
The Sherman is twenty-nne days
from Manila via Nagasak and Yoko-
hama, and brings the First California
Volunteer Infantry and Batteries A and
d of the First California Volunteer
Heavy Artillery, a total of / 500 officers
rious regiments now serving in the
Philippines and seventeen civilian pas
sengers.
Three deaths occurred on board early
in the trip, the victims being Infantry
Privates John Bowman Company c.
(dysentery), and Luther H. Dinsmore,
Company B (typhoid). and Sergeant
Ernest Koenig, Battery A, Artillery
0yphoid).
With these three exceptions, every
one who left Manila on July 26th ar
rived here safely and in good form
The trip was ideal, fair weather and
smooth seas being the rule from port
to port. The cool, bracing air encoun-
tered as the Sherman steamed north
ward on the great circle route effectual-
~ dispelled the malaria absorbed in the
Philippines, and despite the sudden
ness of the change from heat to cold,
the troops picked up wonderfully. A
weeks junketing in Japan added mate
rally to the pleasure of the homeward
voyage, and helped the troops to for
get the hardships and unpleasantness
they had encountered for the past year.
After leaving the Mikados territory,
little else than its wonders and pleas
ureS was discussed until the FalleroneS
Were sighted. and then thoughts of the
home coming in store for them monop-
olized the anticipatory thoughts of the
returning soldiers.
The First California Volunteer In
fantry Regiment, an almost exclusively
San Francisco organization, left San
Francisco on May -. 1898 on board
the City of Peking, arriving at Cavite
with the first expedition in July, 1898,
and was the first to establish Camp
Dewey at Paranacue. After partici-
pating in the various engagements of
the Spanish-American war and a num-
ber of the most important of the Fill
pino engagements, it was sent down to
the Southern Island of Negros, which
it garrisoned and kept in order until
relieved by the Sixth United States In
fantry in July last
on July 10th the Sherman sailed
from Bacolod, via roilo for Manila,
where the California Heavy Artillery
men boarded the transport a few days
later. At midnight of July Goth the