The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-08-13
New York Cotton Market.
ADMIRAL sEYMoUR's ADVANCE
The First Move AEninst PeISfn De-
scPibed by q British MILDLY.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Aug 13.-The
following letter has just been received in
this city from a midshipman on board H.
NJ, 5. Orlando, and tells of the first at
tempt TO get through TO Pekin. Although
the young officer is hardly more than boy,
he commands TWO rapidfire guns on an
attack
The letter is TO a relative. well known
newspaper man of Philadelphia, and saws:
I'm train on the railway between TteD-
tsin and Pekin, June IL. 9:15 p. m.
AT last my chance has come for active
service, I am glad to say. When we ar
rived at Wei-hai-wei was Immediately left
again for Taku. and was unable TO write
from there, as We were very busy and no
mail was leaving. There were a number
of foreign ships there, but as I have to
take charge Of patrol at 10 a. ~, and it
is now quarter past 9. I shall not trcu-
BILE to tell you their names.
I'VE landed our marines almost imme-
diate1y after arrival and the nex- night
sixty-two seamen-the marines TO go as
a guard to Pekin, and the s0sime1 for Tier
tsin, both of these places being threatened
by the Boxers All the foreign ships land
ed about the same number Of men also.
ION June 9, at 1880 at nigat, | was
turned out and told that there was a sig
nal to the effect .hat the next lot of men
standing by in each ship were to land
Lieutenant Garforth is the officer in charge
of my company, with Littletsale and Du-
maresq as the other mids- We are no all
told
We arrived at Tong-ku, midway batween
Talzu and Tientsin, about 4:30 o'clock on
l. fEnr y,
en- for Tientsin. We were informed that
we, together with some of the Endymion S
men, and a lot OF Russians. French. Ger
mans Italians, and japanese, were TO go to
Pekin. Presently We picked up another
train, carrying our admiral and flag cap
tain, and a lot more men of all natiunali-
ties They had had to stop owing to some
of the rails being torn up. We had a gar g
of coolies mending the line. BY this time
yet third train had come up and yester-
day a fourth. We are now all told about
1900 strong in the trains There are 500
in Pekin. and about the same number il
Tientsin.
Yesterday we were stopped 10 water,
when we heard firing from the first train.
We Immediately steames On to them, ard
threw out skirmishers. NY post on "a at
tack is in charge of two Nordenfel6t sars
in a truck, belonging to, and wcrk.4 iY
our men. None of our skirmishers succeed-
ed in getting into action. but the first train
had a sharp brush. and it was yesterday
discovered that they ha9 killed an wound
ed thirty or more Nearly all OF the Chi
narnen were hit about three times, and
one had nine wounds. and yet is expected
to live. Of this mans hits all the bullets
except one went right through him. We
stopped where We were for the night, but
had no alarms.
June 49, a. NJ
q had to knock off writing last night, as
I was sent away in charge Of some of our
men to bring up sterts from one OF The
other trains to the admiFal ard Sc I got
excused the patrol. However. / was work
ing until lilo, caEnot tell you when
I SHAH be ebIe to write again; when we get
to Pekin I expect.