The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-24

| irs of memorable campaign.
First Sergeant Ed Hanlon of NJ COM
| pany is the picture of health and con-
4 tentment. Yes" said he, I'm as
! healthy, and I believe healthier, than
1 ever was before in my life. l was
sick scarcely week during all the
| time / was in the Philippines. ! have
! gained a great deal in weight since we
| came to San Francisco. Let me tell
you that those Californians know how
to entertain. 1 couldn't express in
words the feeling of high regard l feel
! for those people of San Francisco. Why,
we couldn't turn around without run
| ming into some sort of committee
whose sole object it was to entertain
| us and give us a good time during our
| stay in the California metropolis !
| shall never forget their Kindness, and
| I know that none of the other boys
WILL either. l think our present excel
lent health is due in great measure
| to the influence of San Francisco and
Oakland fare. We were given most
city and demonstration. General
Shafter and General Funston
spoke at the banquet, and the whole af
| fair was one grand ovation
I Austin O'Malley, the good natured
| josher of company X, was full Of
| words of praise for San Francisco and
Oakland people, He said the fine treat
ment the boys received ION the bay"
aided materially in restoring the men
of the gallant First Montana to health
and strength.
B. N. Kennedy of company NJ, who
used to see that errors didn't creep
into the columns of the Standard, is
enthusiastic about a most valuable
collection of photographs which he Sc
cured in the Philippines. II took a
lot of pictures in the Islands, said
Bart. I must have between $50 and
300 of the photographs, of which at
least 200 are good. believe the col
lection will be a most interesting and
| novel one. l have taken a good deal
Of care with the photographs, and l
| believe 1 will have some daisies. AS
| soon as get around to it I'll unpack
| them and show the people of Anaconda
| what Luzon is like" Bart is perhaps
! his bronzed skin and clear eyes and
| hard muscle are evidence of the fact
| that the loss of few pounds of flesh
| doesn't matter to him. Bart says he
is going to buckle down to business
| now and go to the Paris exposition
which trip he expects to be as prolific
| oil photographs as his trip to Luzon.
| II wouldn't have missed the war for
| a fortune says Corporal Shifman.
| IF ! had been a millionaire l would
have enlisted. The experience | have
| had and the profitable knowledge
have acquired during my soldering is
| worth the work l have done anG the
Inconvenience l have suffered The
| service was hard at times, it is true
| but that is to be expected if one en-
! lists in the army. I expected to see
hot times, and l saw them. l expected
to do hard service, and 1 did it, OF
| course. the food we had to eat was
| very often unfit for human beings, and
| ] think our troubles would have been
| lightened a hundred per cent if the Off
| GERS had given more care and atten-
| ton to the commissary. Nearly all of
the sickness we had was due to i'm
proper food and poor water But our
griefs are past now, and criticisms are
| not appropriate at this time"
Corporal Schiffman has also some rel
les of his campaigning. He brought
back with him two Remington rifles
which he took from Filipinos. He also
has bolo, with which a native at
tackled him, but which attempt ended
most disastrously for the native. The
boys on the train say that Corporal
! Schiffman is a great favorite with the
1 Filipinos of the higher class who are
non combatants and they also say that
the natives cried when Mr.. Schiffman
| went away. Corporal Schiffman says he
has a very high regard for the Fill
pinos, and believes they are fighting
| for what they consider their rights;
1 but, says he, no nation may take up
arms against this country and not suf-
fer for it. They must be subdued and
| then given an enlightened government
This he believes, is the solution of the
Filipino problem.
| Byron Griffin, formerly printer of
| Anaconda, who went away with COM
pany NJ, is about the only man who is
| the least bit out of clatter concerning
his health "Grif says he has put in
two months in the hospital at Manila
and that he is not very well yet. His
| trouble is of stomachic nature. BY
this it mustn't be construed that "Grif''
is sick man. Far from it. If looks
| go for anything, Griffin is as healthy
| as any of them.
Jack Onarheim is the same old Jack
He is as enthusiastic as of old. The
| war and the hardships and all the rest
| of it couldn't make Jack any less good
| natured than he always has been. He
| told the history of the campaign from
| beginning to end three or four times
yesterday to the committeeman who
| went to Dillon to welcome the boys
| home.
| Harry Handy is also in the push. He
says they have been using him all
right, and that he feels fine. He had
| a few Whskers on the point of his
| chin yesterday. but he promises to get
| shaved before the parade in Anaconda
| to-day.
/ SSotSS l|o"HiiE says liz newer
| spent is months of his life more prof
itably than those he spent in the SER
| vice of Uncle Sam as a fighting man.
And so they all talk. These express
sions are but few that fell from the
lips of 700 men or more who passed the
hours 1t took to make the run from
Dillon to Butte. Nearly every soldier
boy had an interested listener. Those
who met the fighting men at Dillon
passed from one seat to another, and
from car to car renewing their ac-
quaintances with some and forming
new ones with others. The talk of the
boys drifted into first enc thing and
then another. One man related an .in-
stance of what the soldiers had to eat
on some occasions. He said that en-
the Zealandia several cases of toma-
toes were brought up from the hold
The tomatoes, it turned out, were or
lglnally shipped to Santiago for use by.
General Skaters forces in Cuba The
vegetables evidently weren't wanted at
Santiago, so they We're shipped to San
| Francisco, thence to Manila and again