The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-12-24
PERIENCE IN THE PHILIPPINES.
He is Now Acting Assistant Surgeon in
the Regular Army-Honorable Men

the Regular Army-Honorable Men
ton From General Fred Grant.
Dr. John J. Gihuley, formerly of Wa
| terbury, but now acting assistant sur.
geon in the Thirty-fifth regiment, Uni
! ted States infantry, Is in Waterbury
visiting old friends. Dr. Gilhuley has
been located on the island of Luzon, In
the Philippines. since October /, 1899
and arrived in San Francisco on De-
cember last. He left Manila on the
return on November 2, just before the
presidential election, the army and
navy being greatly interested in the
outcome, as nearly everyone knows.
| Sailing by the United States army
| transport Thomas, with about four
| hundred convalescents, the trip, under
| the homeward bound pennant, was
made without event.
The Waterbury American says:
"Bronzed like tar, after a most in
| teresting experience in the very heart
of the Philippine campaigning, DR.. Gill
huley returns to his native state for a,
much needed rest. He is on leave of
| absence until January 1, 1901, when he
will report to the surgeon general Of
the United States army, George NJ
Sternberg, at Washington, d. c.
Whether he will return to the Philip
pines is matter that only the future
can decide.
While he Is not over anxious to re-
turn to the islands that have cost I'm
Gle Sam so many lives and so great a
III, ,Io, J,,tx
sign him. He has already spent TWEEN
ty-three months in foreign service, ten
months in Puerto Rico and thirteen
months In the Philippines. This, by all
army precedent, practically entities him
to an assignment within the confines of
the United States.
While stationed on the island of Lu-
ION, DR.. Gilhuley was a participant in
thirty-th engagements with the
brigade of General Frederick Dent
Grant. General Grant, by the way,
gave the young Connecticut doctor
honorable mention for services rendered
at Mount Arayat, where five American
prisoners were cruelty shot and DO
loed" DR.. Gilhuley describes this in
human slaughter of American prisoners
of war as one of the most barbarous in
cidents in the campaign. At the time
it provoked feeling Of profound hor-
ror In the army. The five prisoners
were abandoned by the Filipinos after
being fearfully maltreated. Two died
in DR. Gllhuley's arms, sending pathet-
ic farewells to the old folks at home.
One was a Massachusetts boy, a
STRIPPING, who begged DR.. Gilhuley to
tell a mother at home that he had died
like a soldier. Singularly, the other
victim, Pennsylvania boy, begged the
doctor to tell the father in the keystone
state that the son had died like a SOL
der. Two of the prisoners recovered
by reason of DR.. Gilhuley's efforts
For this, General Grant gave him hon.
orable mention. The doctor was fire.
quently General Grants guide on
marching expeditions lasting several
days
Asked by an American reporter when
the war would be over DR.. Gilhuley
said laconically:
when Aguinaldo is captured"
when will that be?" said the repor-
ter.
III llOL pIOpHet, Sdlu AV III 1Spiy'
but strenuous efforts already made
have proved futile. Aguinaldo is hid
den away in the mountain Businesses,
presumably al Blac-na-Batue, about
sixty miles as the crow flies from Mani
la. Generals Grant and Funston in
June last, with their brigades in their
famous attempt to recapture Captain
Charles A. Roberts Of the Thirty-fifth
United States volunteer infantry, met
with i'll success. They had four thou
sand men and incidentally Aguinaldo
was an object of their search. Inabili- /
ty to mobilize their brigade in short or
der and the fact that Aguinaldo became |
possessed of valuable information re-
garding our movements, made the at
tempt to capture him an ill-starred |
venture Captain Roberts. happily. |
was afterward paroled. With Aguinal-