Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-08-15
SOLDERING IN LUZON
Described by Corporal Hunt Of the goth
Kansas.
Character Of the Insurgents Pretty
Anxious to he Home.
pecial Correspondence Of The Evening Star.

Special Correspondence OF The Evening star.
INDEPENDENCE, Kan, August II. 1899.
A letter from Corp. Alexander R. Hunt Of
Company G. Goth Kansas. gives some very
interesting Information regarding the Phil
ippine campaign. Company G was re-
cruited at this place. and has seen some
hard fighting losing more men than any
other company in the famous Kansas regi-
ment The letter is written from the bar
racks at Manila, where the majority of the
sick Kansans are and is written to Hunts
parents in Fredonia near here. The letter
is dated June 1, and reads as follows:
I am back at the barracks in Manila on
sick list. The regiment is still at San Fer
nando and still on the firing line, making
125 days for them on the firing line without
relief. Manila is crowded with regulars,
but still the 10Th Kansas is not relieved.
The boys are in a bad shape, $50 of them
being on the sick list. 1t takes all day for
the doctors to examine the men. About
thirty-three men from Company G are ex-
cused from duty each morning. For thirty
five days our regiment was on canned beef
and hard tack, and fighting all the time.
fighting is over for while. Hereafter
what fighting is done will be bushwhack-
ing.
San Fernando n Pretty Place.
San Fernando is a beautiful town, and
lies in valley that raises sugar cane ex-
distant, is great mountain, an extinct
volcano, and away off on the left is beau
tiful mountain range. Down through this
valley runs the railroad. The insurgents
are In Tarloc, a town up the railroad about
thirty miles from San Fernando and at
Bacolor about twenty miles to our left. l
think that putting the insurgent army at
o,co0 men would be big estimate. If they
could be made to fight two regiments could
whip them, but they won't get into an open
fight.
If the anti-expansionists could see this
beautiful country and its fine city of Ma
Mia, besides the lovely inland Cities and
associate with the better class of citizens
there would be fewer of them. 1t is simply
ludicrous to read some of the descriptions
and articles in The papers we receive
from home. From far-away America comes
the wonderful information that the insur-
gent army Is a band of wild men, half
naked. with feathers and bows and arrows
roaming around and bushwhacking The
fact is that the insurgent army is clad in
neat uniforms with large sombreros and
shoes-which they have discarded since the
kansans have been chasing them They
are armed with rifles far superior to ours
ana nave plenty of smokeless ammunition.
They are drilled under American tactics
and retreated from Calumpit in a way that
would do any army credit They moved off
In big V shape. with the apex on the rail-
road They were a mile away, but in plain
sight OF our regiment. They had out flank
ers and rear guard, and as they moved
the wounded. AS they came upon the track
formed in column of tours and disap-
Peared around a curve, it was great sight.
They are brave, too. AT Santa Thomas the
insurgents lay out before our regiment
which was on the railroad, and were not
over 200 yards away on level ground, and
When we charged them several of them
were bayoneted Their trenches are con-
structed as well any could be, even if
they We're built under the supervision of
civil engineers.
Two Americans came in from the insur-
gents lines yesterday and reported that
Aguinaldos army was broken up, and that
1t consisted of guerrilla bands, held togeth-
er by the desire to pillage and because of
the vino that is issued to them This is
a terrible intoxicant that excites the dull
brains OF the natives to do most anything
Ihey also reported that a Filipino was shot
that day because 10 cents in American
money was found in his possession
Last evening went over to the Luneta to
hear a band concert 1t very good.
One can sit and watch the crowd and see
persons from nearly every part of the
earth. There were the natives, the well to
do, in fine turnouts drawn by elegant little
horses; the ladies dressed in pima cloth of
very bright colors and the in white
You can imagine what fine picture they
make under the electric light. The English
We're there in swell carriages Our naval
and infantry officers make fine showing
with their wives and daughters. The Span
| ISM SenOfitaS dressed IN black with black
hair and eyes and beautiful olive complex
| ion, make striking contrast to the Ameri-
can ladies in white, with pink cheeks. The
| rich Chinese ladies were there too, dressed
| in rich native attire, with l will call them
trousers, and a kind OF shirt that they had
evidently forgotten to tuck in. They are
not what 1 would call pretty. The Japs
We're present and were very pretty. Some
| French mesdames added color to the white
] dressed crowd. Many Germans drove
around in their slow manner firing of the
1 ur6 ..,rtI1 10 hot,
| beach and watch the breakers come in or
admire the big battleships that threw their
| long slim beams OF light out over the wa
ter, or the great transports on which we
| hope to soon be homeward bound The
| breeze is fine on the Luneta, and it is the
! chief attraction here, but about s o'clock
| the crowd disperses as everything is closed
at $3.50 on account of the revolt. 1t Is very
| hot in the interior now, but here in Manila
1t Is cool, In fact, very cool in the shade
1t rains nearly every afternoon, but it does
| not seem to be disagreeable like it does in
| the states, as it dries in the streets right
| away.